Casee‘s review of Run to Me (Last Chase Rescue Trilogy, Book 3) by Christy Reece.
Driven by grief and fury, Shea Monroe, an operative for Last Chance Rescue, goes deep undercover, vowing vengeance against the man who killed her husband. Instead, she ends up a captive and the unwilling weapon of a vicious human trafficker. But then she is rescued from her den of terror and shame by her husband’s best friend, Ethan Bishop, a man Shea feels irrevocably drawn to, despite her having lost all memory of her life before she was captured.
Having saved Shea from a madman, Ethan will do anything to keep her safe, but he can’t allow the feelings he once had for her to resurface. While recovering from her ordeal and regaining her lost memory, Shea begins to fall for Ethan. But the treachery and tragedies of the past won’t leave either of them alone. And from Mexico, a monster has sent his foot soldiers to seize Shea–using a weapon beyond anyone’s worst nightmare.
It’s no secret that we’re not a fan of amnesia story lines here at Book Binge. For me, that doesn’t seem to matter; I still read them. I wouldn’t classify Run to Me as your “textbook” amnesia story. There was no traumatic accident that caused Shea’s amnesia. She’s not purposely repressing anything. So it definitely worked for me.
When Shea goes deep undercover to find the man responsible for killing her husband, she’s subsequently captured and drugged. The drug she’s given takes away her free will. She doesn’t know who she is, all she does know is that she will do anything the master tells her. What she thinks is a daily vitamin injection is actually a drug that completely removes her memory. It also removes her ability to think or make any decisions for herself.
When Shea is kidnapped from her master’s home, she knows it’s a test. The master has tested her before. She’ll do anything to return to the master. It’s basically what she’s programmed to do.
Ethan has loved Shea for years. He purposely pushed her away, into the arms of his best friend. When she disappeared after Cole was killed, like everything else, Ethan thought she went somewhere private to grieve. When he’s given intel that Shea is actually kidnapping women who are later released for ransom, he knows that she’s being held captive.
Going in to get Shea, Ethan figures that she’ll be happy to see him. What he finds instead is that Shea has no idea who he is. More than that, she is doing everything possible to get away from him, including trying to kill him. Getting her out of Mexico is his first priority. After that, he’ll figure out what exactly happened to Shea.
In the weeks after Shea is rescued, she’s only able to bring certain pieces of her disappearance to light. The drug she was given is so new that even LCR’s top doctors don’t exactly know what it is. Getting fractured memories here and there, Shea only knows that Ethan may be the only one she can trust.
Ethan wants to protect Shea and then let her go. He knows as soon as she remembers how they parted, she will never want to see him again. What he doesn’t count on is that the woman he fell in love with doesn’t give up so easily.
Shea was such a great heroine. She was light to Ethan’s darkness. I loved how she just accepted Ethan as he was. When she starts remembering the past, she has to reconcile the Ethan that she has gotten to know with the Ethan she remembers. You can’t help but admire Shea. This may be my favorite of the trilogy.
4.25 out of 5.
This book is available from Ballantine. You can buy it here or here in e-format.
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Thanks for the review. I had been looking at this series and wondering if it was any good.