Review: Great story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
Another great story by Margaret Daley.  Samantha (Sam) Prince is happy and content as the owner of a bookstore in New Orleans.  She is not the adventurous type like her brother Mark.  That is until she gets a call from Mark in Brazil.  He’s in big trouble and needs some money right away, but tells her that if anything happens, he hid something valuable at the Para Mission.  When he doesn’t pick up the money Samantha sends, she’s on a plane within 48 hours (totally out of character for her) and heads to Manaus, Brazil to find her brother.  Mark is no longer at the Grand Hotel (a dump by most standards) and she can’t communicate with the hotel clerk or anyone else since she doesn’t speak Portuguese and they don’t speak English.  In steps our hero, Brock Slader.  He helps interpret and spends one day trying to find Mark, but he keeps telling her he “doesn’t rescue damsels in distress.”  Famous last words.  As Sam and Brock go into the Amazon jungle of Brazil searching for Mark, or at least to find what he hid at the Para Mission, trouble is all they find.  Imagine a stay-at-home girl like Sam, who lives a very quiet life, learning how to deal with poisonous snakes, headhunters, and dangerous men with guns who want to kill them.  That doesn’t include the two situations where Brock has to save Sam’s life.  There is an almost-instant romantic connection between Brock and Samantha, but there is no sex in this story, just a few passionate kisses.  Brock is the kind of man any woman would love to fall in love with—adventuresome, strong, capable of handling any crisis, yet also gentle.  However, they want different things from life—Brock moves from place to place and doesn’t want to do the 9-5 job thing again.  Sam wants to live quietly, running her bookstore, although she does some changing through her jungle experiences.  See how our hero and heroine finally get together in the end.  I was given a copy of this book to read and review.  I would certainly recommend it to everyone.  I can hardly wait to read the next two books in this series.