Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: In Safe Keeping
SERIES: Heroes & Babies #2
AUTHOR: Victoria Sue
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 199 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 3, 2019
BLURB:
He can’t save everyone…
Firefighter Lucas Attiker is mired in guilt by his inability to save his young son, who perished in a fire three years ago. When he rescues a troubled young man and his baby daughter from a Colorado forest fire, Lucas finally begins to forgive himself. But the wildfire is only the beginning of the dangers facing them.
Hell-bent on saving his daughter from his crime boss ex, Owen Michaels is on the run with the baby in tow—fleeing both the killers who are after him and the US Marshals Service deputies assigned to protect him. When his desperate flight lands them in the midst of an inferno, the man who saves them offers hope for more than just survival.
They might have escaped a blazing forest and a hail of bullets, but both men will need to risk their lives—and their hearts—to give a little girl a loving family… if they can make it out alive.
REVIEW:
What. A. Book. I couldn’t put it down. I needed to go to bed but I kept just thinking one more chapter. One more chapter. Soon I was done lol. It’s an incredible story. Sort of mob boss, boyfriend on the run from witnessing things, fires, being saved, betrayals, not knowing who to trust, on the run. It was just constant action. You never quite knew who was going to turn out to be the bad guy. Just when you thought they were good, it would turn in a whole new direction. I loved it.
Owen has been on the run for a few weeks, with his daughter Mia. But what he didn’t realize is he almost got caught in a fire that could have killed them. Thankfully, Lucas found them and got them tucked under emergency measures to save them in time, but Lucas knew something was up. They all had to go to the hospital to be checked out and Owen slipped out to run again. But as Lucas was going home, Owen found him and slumped in defeat. Lucas took him home and promised to try to help. The problem was, who could they trust? Owen knew a lot of cops from them coming in and out of his ex’s home and places. So he knew there weren’t many to trust. Lucas tried his friend Jacki, with all his family being cops, he figured he could trust them. But Marshalls and everyone including the ex and his henchmen are trying to find Owen and just when they thought they were saved, gunshots would ring out again. And on the run they would go again. Until they ended up at Lucas’s brother’s home, which was a bad situation as well. They worked it out but still. Once the snow cleared, they knew it was going to be time to leave again. They were just about to leave when they realized the person picking them up betrayed them. Especially Lucas. And it ended up being stalled enough the ex showed up. Now they have to figure out how to get out of this and alive. And right now, it looks hopeless.
I don’t know how Owen put up with his ex as long as he did. But when you’re with a psycho like that, it’s kind of hard to escape. It becomes a prison with no way out. And Damien made sure Owen knew he was his property and there was no way out. I felt so bad for Owen and what he had to endure. The things he had to see and hear about. And for Lucas, he was already feeling low about things from his past, but when he found out who betrayed him and the things he had done for this guy, like Owen, it was horrid what he had to endure. Owen’s life was a living hell. He did everything he could to protect Mia and that was upsetting in its own right because everyone was trying to shoot her to get to him. It was awful. But they kept hoping, maybe, finally, there would be someone they could trust and it would be over.
These guys are heroes in their own right. Sure, Lucas is a hero being a fireman but Owen was the hero to me in this book. For the crap he had to endure and for the way he protected Mia. Lucas too. It’s a damn good book and if you guys haven’t read it, you need to.
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