About the Book
Author: Jerusha Agen
Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense
Release Date: September 22, 2022
A K-9 protection team. An assassin. Only one can survive.
An assassin is on the loose in the Twin Cities, aiming to kill FBI witnesses the Phoenix K-9 Security and Detection Agency is hired to protect. Rogue CIA agent Amalia Pérez and her protection K-9 must get the edge on this deadly opponent before he kills her childhood best friend—the only man who knows her true identity.
Investigative journalist Michael Barrett can’t believe his eyes when the woman he’s spent years searching for walks back into his life. But he soon fears the woman he loved is lost forever beneath the secrets Amalia wears like armor.
As the assassin closes in, Amalia will risk anything to keep Michael safe—anything except believing in the God he trusts. When the layers of deception become as dangerous as bullets, can Amalia and Michael uncover the truth in time to stop the assassin from completing his lethal mission?
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My Review
This is an entertaining novel with a strong Christian message. While the plot revolves around keeping a witness safe, there is much about truth. The main characters struggle with the meaning of truth and when it is necessary. There is a great deal of character thought on this issue, even in the midst of suspenseful scenes. There is the rewarding result of coming honest with God but a difficult road getting there.
Sofia and Michael have a back story that figures prominently in their current relationship troubles. I frequently felt like I was missing essential information. We are given the background of Sofia's experience in Columbia years earlier in a prelude scene but the childhood experiences causing the rift between Sofia and Michael remained cloudy for me.
The plot contains quite a bit of dangerous suspense. Some of it was repetitive in that every time they got in a car to move to a new safe house, an attack happened.
This is a good novel for readers who like a combination of suspense and character thought as issues are worked through to freedom from the past. It is the second in a series but reads well on its own as the novels deal with different members of the K-9 team. There is another novel planned in this series and I'll be watching for it.
My rating: 4/5 stars.
You can read my review of the first book in this series, Hidden Danger.
About the Author
More from Jerusha
Covert Danger was especially fun and challenging to write because it was the first time I’ve written a book with a heroine who is two people. At least, that’s what it seems like when you start to read Covert Danger.
Amalia Pérez is a security specialist at the Phoenix K-9 Security and Detection Agency in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. She has two K-9 partners—Raksa, a German shepherd protection and search and rescue K-9, and Gaston, a Newfoundland water rescue dog.
Amalia doesn’t talk much about her past, even to her fellow co-workers at the Phoenix K-9 Agency. But her past comes crashing into her present in Covert Danger.
First, Michael Barrett shows up as a witness Amalia is assigned to protect. Trouble is, Michael is her former childhood best friend. And he knows she used to be someone else.
When an assassin arrives on the scene, gunning for Michael, another piece of Amalia’s secret past threatens to hijack her present. Because he’s an assassin that eluded her once before, on her last mission as a CIA operative.
So what is an author to do with a heroine who has two identities? A heroine who is determined her old self is gone forever?
Well, this author dug into the truth.
Thanks to years of running and years of deception before that, Amalia is buried in lies. As Michael points out to her, she doesn’t even know what the truth is anymore.
Sound familiar? Our culture is flooded with lies right now. Lies that grow more and more sinister as people abandon reason completely.
Rampant relativism—the “it’s true for me” mentality—has morphed into outright rejection of all real truth. Worse, it’s also turned into drastic efforts to pressure everyone to identify right as wrong and wrong as right.
Calling good evil and evil good is where we’ll all end up if we abandon the truth. Which is one reason why Amalia’s story—a search for truth and right amid deception and evil—is so important.
God taught me more about truth and deception as I took on the challenge of writing Amalia’s and Michael’s story. And He used this story to make my foundation in the truth stronger, strong enough to withstand the onslaught from our culture and from within.
Even as Covert Danger takes you on a thrilling ride of action and romance, I hope this story helps you find and hold onto the truth like never before.
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(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.)
4 comments:
The book sounds very intriguing.
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Thank You for the review.
Marilyn
This looks like a great novel. Thanks for hosting.
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