About the Book
Book: Rocky Mountain Revenge
Author: Rhonda Starnes
Genre: Inspirational Romantic Suspense
Release Date: July, 2020
To survive her deadly homecoming, she’ll need to trust a man from her past…
Temporarily home to help at her family’s vet clinic, Grace Porter has no intentions of staying—but someone’s determined she won’t live long enough to leave. With both Grace and her sister in the crosshairs, her ex-boyfriend, Police Chief Evan Bradshaw, must protect them. But can the single dad lawman uncover the truth about why a killer’s out for vengeance before time runs out?
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This novel of romantic suspense started off with a good dose of heart pounding action and remained relatively intense throughout. It is a good debut effort. The lead characters are crafted pretty well. One of my pet peeves is a character making a stupid move and then a great deal of suspense resulting. That happens with Grace, the heroine, when she goes back on a promise to Evan, the hero, makes a very wrong decision and, of course, much suspense results.
The romance aspect of the plot was good, reacquainting people who were previously in love. That allowed feelings to grow quickly in this short novel. The Christian witness is sufficient, making it an overall pleasant read for this genre.
My rating: 4/5 stars.
About the Author
Rhonda Starnes is a middle school language arts teacher who has dreamed of being a published author since she was in seventh grade. She lives in North Alabama with her husband, who she lovingly refers to as Mountain Man. They enjoy traveling and spending time with their children and grandchildren. Rhonda writes romantic suspense with rugged heroes and feisty heroines.
More from Rhonda
Probably the number one question any author receives is “How did you come up with the idea for the story?”
When the Love Inspired editors announced, in February 2019, they were hosting The Great Love Inspired Author Search, I knew I had to enter. After all I’d spent the last six years targeting the Harlequin Love Inspired lines. This would be my fourth time entering one of their pitch contests, my third pitching to Love Inspired Suspense. The only problem was I didn’t have anything new to enter. They’d already seen all of my manuscripts.
I follow the Love Inspired editors on social media, so I had read several posts on themes and settings they’d like to see. One editor had even mentioned Colorado as a setting she’d like to see in a book. This started my wheels turning because my husband and I lived in Colorado for a few months when we were first married. We loved our time there and have often talked about going back one day. I started researching parts of the state that we didn’t get to visit when we lived there, and then I created the fictional small town of Blackberry Falls.
I’d had an idea in the back of my head for while about a story that involved a heroine who wasn’t in law enforcement but who witnessed a crime while on video chat. That’s how I came up with Grace Porter, a veterinarian who had run away from her small-town roots. And what’s a homecoming story without a reunion romance? Enter, Police Chief Evan Bradshaw, the man Grace had left behind. Once I had the opening scene, main character, and setting in place, everything else just kind of evolved from there.
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I received a complimentary digital copy of this book through Celebrate Lit. My comments are an independent and honest review. The rest of the copy of this post was provided by Celebrate Lit.
(My star ratings: 5-I love it, 4-I like it, 3-It's OK, 2-I don't like it, 1-I hate it.)
8 comments:
Thank you for your review and for being the first stop on my Celebrate Lit blog tour!
I liked the review, thank you.
Wonderful review! Sounds like a must read. Thank you for sharing.
This sounds like an exciting story!
Thank you for sharing your review and the book and author details, this sounds like an excellent read, a must read for me.
Looks like a good one!
This sounds like a good page-turner.
Looks like an interesting book.
Thanks for the contest.
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