There are so many great things I’ve written about Rachel Grant and her romantic suspense’s over the years that I feel like a broken record at times. Exciting paces, robust characters, compelling plots … all of those elements are present in her latest holiday novella, WINTER HAWK. Once again, I love the setup: Leah Ellis is the head coder for her military contracting firm, working on drones that have crossed over to the consumer marketplace. When she’s abruptly fired and walked out the door, she meets Nate Sifuentes, the driver hired by her firm to take her wherever she wants to go. Nate’s an operative with Raptor, a military contractor present in her Evidence series (and also my favorite Grant book, Incriminating Evidence), so you know the shit is about to hit the fan. It’s soon evident that Leah is being set up, and bad forces are interested in her work and snuffing her out. The bitch of it is that it all happens on the first night of Hanukah, on the first year of her mother’s passing. Morale is low to begin with, but Nate makes sure to get a menorah for Leah while they’re grabbing items on the go, and they in turn celebrate Christmas for him. I like this holiday story because the story would’ve happened with or without ‘holiday,’ so it wound up being a nice addition.

*Originally published with Frolic.Media: https://frolic.media/wrap-up-2019-with-these-must-read-romantic-suspenses/