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Present Danger
When Victoria Bradford got engaged, she told herself to give love a chance. Six months later, she’s on the run from her angry, abusive ex-fiancé with her four-year-old daughter and nowhere to go.
Seventy miles north of Dallas, the Iron River Ranch is pretty much nowhere. That’s what its new owner, Josh Cain, wanted when he came back from Afghanistan. Big skies, quiet nights, no trouble.
One look tells Josh the pretty redhead with the adorable little girl will give him trouble of the most personal kind. But he’s seen trouble before, and he doesn’t scare easy. Not when “accidents” start happening around the ranch. Not when Tory’s best friend back in Phoenix is abducted and brutalized. Not even when it looks like their current problems are only the tip of the iceberg.
But if he gets too close to fierce, determined Tory, Josh knows his nights are going to be anything but quiet. And that’s one possibility no amount of training can prepare him for . . .
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Sexual Content - 4/5
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Violence - 4/5
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Language - 3.5/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Beyond Control by Kat Martin Review. This is the third book in the Texas trilogy and very different. We learned of Josh in Linc’s book. Josh, a marine, had just returned home after being injured in Iraq. He is running the ranch. He has two military buddies helping him on the ranch and I thought they might get their own story.
Victoria is in an abusive relationship. The book opens revealing Victoria’s abusive relationship with her husband. She was trying to take her daughter and leave him. She wakes up in the hospital. She and her daughter are now on the run from him and she finds herself at Josh’s ranch. She begs him to keep her just three days to prove she can do the work. You have to admire her determination. Her daughter was adorable and added a sweetness to the story that was full of violence.
The villain is a lot more demented that I’m used to in a Kat Martin book. There was a lot of violence and the villain beat up his wife and several other women, and kidnapped, raped and tortured two additional women. In addition, there was violence on the ranch. I was not sure the reason behind adding the side story of someone killing the members of the service. It didn’t seem to support the main storyline.
Sexual content 4 several descriptive scenes
Violence – 4 as mentioned above there was a lot of violence
Language – f#ck –12 times, sh*t – 5 times, d@mn – 24. B*tch – 14 times
Drugs/alcohol – responsible drinking,