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As a clinical psychologist specializing in officer wellness, she dreams of opening a first responder retreat center in the beautiful Black Hills. The day she decides to begin her search for the perfect land she learns that her father is dying of cancer. With the hope of reconciliation, she rushes to his side, only to find a broken man unwilling to offer the words of fatherly love she craves. Then, among the remnants of her father’s glory days, Audrey finds evidence of corrupt deals while shady strangers show up desperate to see her dad before he dies.

The last person Cole Wilkins expects to see broken down on the side of the road is the woman who crushed his heart thirteen years ago. When he offered to help his neighbor in his final days, he thought Audrey was staying miles away. Once he learns the real reason she lied about being with his brother and fleeing in the middle of the night, Cole can’t help but forgive her. But forgiveness doesn’t mean he’s ready to trust her again.

As they work to uncover her father’s secret world, their old attraction is rekindled, and they can only hope what they find doesn’t cost their lives or tear them apart once again.

I loved Megan Kinney’s first two books and couldn’t wait to read her third. She writes romantic suspenseful women’s fiction (it’s not really romantic suspense, as it doesn’t fir the standard). You don’t have to read book two to follow book three, but you can tell the stories follow each other, and it’s great to see characters from book one return for this story.

Cole and Audrey both grew up in broken homes with quite a bit of trauma, which landed Cole in foster care and eventually inspired Audrey into becoming a therapist. While I’m not always a fan of second-chance romance, I love how Kinney set this story up in book one and gives the reader some closure here.

Like her first two books, the story very much involves the lives and help of police, first responders, dispatchers–Kinney’s background allows her to show these stories from a different angle than you might get on TV or in less-researched novels.

If you’re looking for not quite romance, not quite suspense, but a tribute to the men and women who serve and protect, I highly recommend this book.

Rated PG.

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For the rest of the series, check out:

Dakota Peace by Megan Kinney
Dakota Courage by Megan Kinney