Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He may be living alone in Alaska now, but the pain of his failure–and his injuries–has followed him there from Afghanistan. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones’s elite rescue team, but he also can’t shirk his duty when the call comes in to rescue three lost climbers on Denali.
Former CIA profiler and psychiatrist Jenny Calhoun’s yearly extreme challenge with her best friends is her only escape from the guilt that has sunk its claws into her. As a consultant during a top-secret mission to root out the Taliban, she green-lighted an operation that ended in ambush and lives lost. When her cathartic climb on Denali turns deadly, she’ll be forced to trust her life and the lives of her friends to the most dangerous of heroes–the man she nearly killed.
Her skills and his experience are exactly what’s needed to prevent another tragedy–but in order to truly set Orion free from his painful past, Jenny will have to reveal hers. They’ll have to put their wounds behind them to survive, but at what cost?
Leap into action with this high-octane, breakneck new series from bestselling author Susan May Warren.
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Summary
The Way of the Brave by Susan May Warren. This is the first book in the series so there are a lot of characters to introduce. The main story is Jenny and Orian. Jenny was a CIA profiler that made a decision that caused a team to go into an ambush. Orian and his team were impacted by the ambush. Jenny and Orian were starting to develop a relationship.
The main story is Jenny and her two friends clinging a ridiculously hard mountain to prove that they were stronger than they thought they were. I had a hard time believe that Jenny would convince her friends to do something so dangerous after already feeling like she made a bad decision that resulted in people living their lives. I just could not relate to her in this regard. I felt it was reckless.
I also thought this storyline has been overdone recently. Maybe it is the books I am reading or publishers are asking for this storyline, I am not sure.
The author did create some moving scenes where people are faced with their fears and challenges with God. Overcoming or dealing with the fact that bad things happen to good people.
I would recommend reading this one from the library.
Sexual content - kissing, a makeout session that almost ends in physical scene, and the knowledge that there was a previous physical relationship Violence - prior military violence that everyone is dealing with, several characters have lost loved ones in different ways, possibly deaths as they are climbing the mountain Drinking - one of the characters appears to have survived a drinking problem,