SEAL Vitus has precise on his mission and he never failed a mission. This time he has only one goal, rescue Congressman’s daughter Damascus. When rescue mission goes well he offers her two choices, go back to her dad or stay until kidnappers are caught. He never felt pull against any rescuers before. When Damascus decides to stay with him. It was weird to know she decides to stay with stranger but it explains bit later.
Two weeks they spent together was best for both. When Vitus proposes and she accepts right before she was heading back home. What both didn’t know is Damascus dad was not a typical dad nor politician. When she arrives at home, there is no warm welcome for her and when she reveals her engagement, he gives her an ultimatum that she couldn’t refuse. She wanted to protect him this time and she severed her engagement.
Three years later, they face each other when Vitus was receiving a medal at the Whitehouse. Damascus had all planed her life without her father, but her father had a different idea for his only daughter. He would do anything to further his career and his ultimate goal was to head to White House. Now she faces Vitus after three agonizing years apart from him and she wants to run to him but he is forbidden fruit she can’t touch or he will be danger again.
Vitus not thrill to see Damascus at his medal ceremony. But he couldn’t keep his hands off her when she saw her with shrew congressman Davis. When she faced Vitus, she couldn’t keep her head straight.
Damascus is trying to hide her plans from everyone but her father has different ideas for her and he couldn’t wait until she is off school. When she finds out Vitus was in danger from her father, she risks and makes a visit.
There are more eyes all around her. Vitus and Damascus are in danger once again.

Hero and heroine must have most strangest names ever. In the beginning storyline seems a bit chaotic and difficult to get into. There are so many characters to remember and multiple view points. But it picked up and it really kept the suspense up until the end. It seems some of the characters will continue on to the next book and it seems like it will be about his brother.
I would give 3 1/2 ⭐️...

Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin for my ARC in exchange for honest review.

I love action romances, and this is a good one. I liked that there's an actual story with the romance aspect. There is a bit too much filler, but overall, the story drew me in. Vitus is a Navy SEAL, who rescued Damascus from being held captive. Damascus' father is a power hungry politician with designs on the white house, and Damascus gets put in danger because of it. Vitus and Damascus fall in love, but her father won't have it. He threatens Vitus' life, so Damascus does what she thinks is best and breaks up with Vitus. Fast forward 3 years, and things are coming to a head. Damascus is in danger again, and Vitus becomes involved. There's lots of bad characters in this story, lots of secrets, and lots of sexy times. Loved the chemistry between Vitus and Damascus. I don't really get why Damascus felt she needed to completely let go of Vitus and keep him in the dark, but overall, I liked her and Vitus is terrific. I also loved the little bit of action in the story, and I always love a romance involving the military. I'd like to see how the other characters turn out, so I'm looking forward to the next book! Fun, entertaining story!

This book is about an elite special ops team and this ops is being led by Vitus Hale. He is to rescue Damascus Ryland daughter of a congressman. After the rescue she agrees to his plan of staying longer in order to catch more people coming to where she was being held. Of course during this time they fall for each other and by the time he takes her home and wants to marry her. Her father says he is not right for her and tells her to give back the ring or he will make some calls and his missions will be ones that he will make sure he will not return from. She gives back the ring and for the next three years they do not see each other until she is forced to go to an event at the White House and yes he is there, but so is the man her father who he wants her to marry to inline the two families for a run at the White House. She is not in agreement for many reasons. One she is still in love with Vitus and though she can’t be with him she won’t be with anyone else. It is a few days later when she is kidnapped again this time taken to New Orleans and though it takes her a little while she does escape. When she does Vitus and his team are there. This starts a whole other change of events of running and hiding and when you get to the end the book is full of surprises as to who it ends. Not a bad story. Very fast paced.

Dare You To Run in the second novel in the Unbroken Heroes series, and I was looking forward to reading it since I very much enjoyed the first book in the series, Dangerous to Know, but I found myself hard-pressed to give this novel more than 3 stars.

Since I read Dangerous to Know more than 11 months ago, it was jarring to be dropped into the end of a scene at the very beginning of this novel, as Vitus Hale, backed up by his brother and fellow Navy SEAL, Saxon, rescues debutante Damascus Ryland, daughter of Congressman Jeb Ryland, who has been captured by kidnappers and held captive in a concrete cylinder for a week. Really? Damascus and Vitus? While I don't usually comment on the names of the main characters, accepting those two names was quite a stretch. Accepting the insta-love that followed was also quite a stretch, as was Vitus asking Damascus to marry him after knowing her for only two weeks. Expecting that her powerful father would accept this union was an even bigger stretch.

When, as expected, Damascus tells her father about her upcoming nuptials, as expected, he blackmails her into returning the engagement ring and cutting off all contact. She's not happy and neither is Vitus, who did see this coming.

Fast forward to three years later, and Vitus is about to be awarded the Medal of Honor, and who better to present it than Damascus, the woman he rescued. Still thinking that she believes he's not good enough for her, when he finds out that's not the case, the chemistry is still there and they are hot and heavy again, yet he still doesn't fully trust her and all it does in enrage her father.

What Vitus doesn't know, is that 3 years earlier, Damascus sacrificed her own happiness to keep him safe, and she will keep on doing that throughout the novel, as it unfolds, and it unfolds with a very large cast of characters, some good, some bad, and so many schemes, plots and subplots, double-crosses and triple-crosses that it's difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys and keep them all straight. None of this is helped by the fact that a Presidential hopeful, Carl Davis, wants Damascus as his trophy wife and bargains with her father that if he makes it happen, Jeb will be his choice for Vice-President. As if things weren't bad enough, Jeb Ryland also wants to see the Hale brothers dead, and Damascus will risk herself and her future happiness to keep him safe. What is clearly evident in this novel is that the author is well aware of the secrets, conspiracies and backroom deals made by the powers that be in our nation's capital.

What I found lacking, however, was any sort of relationship-building between the main characters. There's sex, and plenty of it, much of it rather repetitive and unimaginative, but it seems to be the only way Damascus and Vitus communicate. While I enjoyed watching Damascus grow a backbone as the novel progressed, it was too little to late for this reader, especially since the the action and suspense aspects of this novel overshadowed any type of actual romance between the two lovers, and the overly long episodes of chases, escapes, and deals did more to slow the story down rather than enhance it.

All in all, it was an okay read, and I'll be interested to see how the author deals with Saxon Hale in the next novel in this series.

No. There are no redeeming qualities to this book.