Review: Another griping emotional read in the Seal Team series.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 31, 2013
Teresa has done it again. From the moment I read the first book in this series I knew I had found a very talented author that not only writes great military suspense but also compelling stories that just grip your heart and doesn't let go until the final page.***********************MAY BE SPOILERS**************************The author chose to write this book in two parts within the same book. For the first part we get the background on Harold "Flash" Carney and Samantha Cross. We go back to Iraq to those moments before the mission that went wrong that has been the catalyst for this series. We knew from the first book that Flash was approached by the FBI but never knew the reasons why. In the previous books we were lead to believe that he had a gambling problem and that had gotten him in trouble with the wrong people. That was so not the case.  Flash ends up having to go on the run from the FBI and NCIS after he is double crossed and who he assumes is the FBI trying to kill him. Running parallel to this is Samantha's story. We come into her story right after she has been beaten horribly by her husband with their 4 year old daughter in the next room.  While in the hospital recovering, Sam has finally reached her breaking point and takes the steps needed to get away from her monster of a husband.Part two of the story picks up seven months later. Flash is using an alias and opening up a branch security office in Nevada. It's here when he goes to rent a garage apartment that he meets Sam and her daughter Joy who now own the home since her grandmother passed away. Flash is still trying to gather all the information he can against the ones that framed him so he can clear his name and get back to him team. What he hadn't counted on was falling for his skittish landlord with the cute kid that still had a crazy ex stalking her.As Flash and Sam's two messed up lives start to converge we also have a secondary story of Captain James and his wife Marsha and there very young son who has a genetic defect and heart problems. I hope the author doesn't mind me saying this but after talking with her she felt that James needed some redeeming after the way he treated Brett (the hero from the second book).  James and his wife along with their child were held and tortured for days by a terrorist in the second book. This not only left physical scars but deeply emotional ones for them both that have affected their marriage. James makes a decision when he finds another of his men in trouble and his marriage on the verge of ending that this time he is going to do everything within his power to try and save both.Every time I read a book in this series I can see all the hard work that the author puts in to bring us such a compelling story. You are engrossed from the first page to the last and I savored every word and didn't want it to end.