NEVER SURRENDER
Lindsay McKenna
Harlequin HQN
ISBN: 978-0373778829
July 2014
Contemporary Romance
In this seventh book in the Shadow Warriors series, McKenna
continues the story begun this past year in BREAKING POINT. Medic Bay
Thorn has gotten engaged to her Navy SEAL, Chief Gabe Griffin. When Bay
has to return to Afghanistan to fulfill her military commitment, Gabe is
nervous and worried back in San Diego. Readers learned in the first book that
Bay was a quietly tough, skilled and gentle healer, respected by her
colleagues.
When her deployment results in her capture by the Taliban,
her hostage status puts her in harms way over and over. Tortured and
assaulted by the brutal leader she holds on to the hope that Gabe and his SEAL
unit might rescue her. While wounded and broken she manages to escape and
is found by Gabe and his men.
The painfully realistic majority of this remarkable novel
involves Bay’s response to her trauma, her attempts to heal, her flashbacks and
PTSD. Throughout her recovery in the hills of Kentucky, Gabe is a
constant presence in her life. McKenna is especially skillful at giving
readers Bay’s story of surviving the horrors of captivity during a war but the
story is made even more poignant by the portrayal of Gabe’s struggle and pain
at watching the woman he loves move through recovery.
With this book Lindsay McKenna further distinguishes herself
as the leading contemporary author of military romances. It is
beautifully written with sensitivity and heartbreaking honesty. Some
readers might find this book painful and disturbing to read but honestly, I saw
it as a testimonial to all the soldiers, male and female, who go through war
and manage to survive and move on with life. It is also about their
families, truly an exceptional book that I thought about long after I
finished reading it. Bravo Ms. McKenna!
Reviewed by Jeri Neal
Rating: 5
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