"Overload of hot stuff in the next Bitter Creek story."
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted March 24, 2018
Romance Western
SURRENDER is an action packed drama that actually showcases
more than one story, each wondrously linked and well
written as is to be expected by Joan Johnston. Before we
even begin to talk about SURRENDER make sure to look for
all books in this Bitter Creek series. SURRENDER is
candidly eye popping crazy and amazing with each page
better than the last. Firefighters are a different breed, heading into the blaze
while everyone else is racing away. We can't help remember
the scenes of 911. These were the heroes and Joan Johnston
did her research well so that she could capture the essence
of what makes a firefighter. In the case of smoke jumpers, well I can't even fathom their
bravery and smarts. They know what they face and yet the
dangers are insurmountable but necessary. Raging forest
fires are beyond menacing. They are totally destructive.
One would wonder how someone could jump from a plane smack
dab in the middle of one of these infernos. Taylor Greyhawk, one of the King brats, is a pilot and
this current mission to drop off smoke jumpers has put her
and the spotter on board, none other than Brian Flynn,
one of those awful Flynn boys, in grave danger. An
unfortunate decision and move had them both falling right
smack into the middle of that raging beast. Now it seems that these two feuding families are faced with
working together (has hell frozen over?) to search for and
hopefully find their siblings. Hopefully alive, but surely
not in the best condition if, and it's a big if, Taylor and
Brian had actually survived the plunge into the inferno. As it turns out, the two who would be the front team are
Aidan Flynn and Leah Greyhawk. And their story is
mesmerizing and heartbreaking. This feud has caused all
sorts of problems for all the Flynn and Greyhawk children
who, now as adults, seem still sucked into the middle of a
fight without a winner in sights. Joan Johnston has done her homework. The details that
explain and describe the ordeal of making that jump and
finding a way to survive are extraordinarily outlined in
this adventure. Day to day, hour to hour, and week to week
trials are handled with great attention to detail. The
reader actually feels a part of the drama of Taylor and
Brian. Taylor, affectionately called Tag by Brian,
has a past with Brian. A teenage past nipped in the bud by
their
respective siblings who were continuing the horrible feud
of their fathers. Tag and Brian have kept their distance
for many years, but they are thrown together by their jobs
in smoke jumping. Both felt they had moved on from their
days together as teens. In reality, it had left both of them
in a sort of limbo with neither one even remotely looking
to reopen that chapter. The fight to survive is going to teach them a lot about
themselves and each other. They are very realistic in the
probability that either one or both of them might not get
out of this fix. They are both fighting any leftover
attraction. In truth, both Tag and Brian are very frightened
but determined to be as optimistic as feasible when all
odds are definitely not in their favor. It's easy to understand the enormity of research that an
author sometimes has to do in order to give credence to the
story line. Joan Johnston out did herself in this one.
SURRENDER is at times harsh and candidly scary. It's our
growing feelings for all these characters that keep us
invested page by page right through to the ending. Looking
for a great book that is impossible to put down, read SURRENDER
by Joan Johnston.
SUMMARY
When a sudden tornado of flame from a raging forest fire
snuffs out both engines of the Twin Otter being piloted
by Taylor Grayhawk, she locks eyes with the last man on
the plane: her longtime enemy and one-time lover, smoke
jumper Brian Flynn. Grayhawk and Flynn can’t agree on
anything—not even how to escape their desperate
situation. Once they’re on the ground, the only shelter
they can find leaves the adversaries trapped together—
with no way out. Injured and starving, Taylor and Brian struggle to
survive, yet somehow the threat of imminent death
reignites something deep and powerful between them.
Feelings they thought long dead rise from the ashes,
suddenly making them more than just allies in a life-or-
death struggle against nature’s fury. A still greater
challenge awaits when fate delivers them from harm and
puts their rekindled love to its ultimate test: Surrender
to each other, or part forever.
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