Casee‘s review of Last Chance (Last Chance Rescue, Book 6) by Christy Reece.

McKenna Sloan saved Lucas Kane’s life and then vanished. Lucas moved mountains trying to find her again, and finally McKenna relented—for one fleeting night. The truth is, McKenna’s life is all about the dark, deception-filled world of Last Chance Rescue, and for her, there’s no hope of love or Lucas. But fate, and Lucas’s determination, soon change everything. A kidnapped young woman, a lure to out a killer and the fierce need to bring a criminal to justice combine for one explosive event. For a woman who specializes in staying away from relationships and staying in the heart of danger, this is the most impossible mission of all. Because the odds are deadly, and the passion won’t die.

This is my favorite book of the series. Love, love, LOVE it.

McKenna Sloan was in No Chance. She was the operative that went undercover to save Skylar. McKenna was an intriguing character from the beginning. She was one of those shady operatives that would do anything (and I mean anything) to save an innocent person. She was instrumental in rescuing Lucas Kane from his abductors. McKenna couldn’t not save Lucas. Somewhat of a celebrity, McKenna has followed him in the news for years. She couldn’t leave him to die.

Since she rescued him, Lucas has been searching for McKenna. When he first starts looking for her, he doesn’t even know her name. All he knows is that he has to know the woman that fought for him so courageously. In a last attempt to locate her, he hires Last Chance Rescue, having no idea until he is sitting in front of Noah McCall that McKenna is one of LCR’s. When Noah promises to pass on the message, all Lucas can do is wait.

McKenna has isolated herself for so many years that she can’t resist Lucas. In a few meetings, Lucas and McKenna are hooked on each other, though McKenna still can’t stay. She has demons that will follow her to her grave; demons that she won’t allow to touch Lucas. Every time she leaves Lucas, she tells herself that it will be the last time she will see him, yet she can’t stay away.

Lucas isn’t without influence and makes the decision to solve McKenna’s problems for her. That was about the only thing Lucas did that made me want to smack him. Without consulting McKenna, he decided to take matters into his own hands and “fix” her problems. That way they could be together. The decision was made with arrogance first, then actually wanting to help McKenna. If that makes sense.

Damien is a man that made McKenna’s life into hell. Killing her family when she was just a teenager, Damien promised McKenna that they would always be together. Though he was thought to have died in a prison riot, McKenna knows that he is alive and well. For years she has stayed under the radar, always one step ahead of Damien. She knows that she will have to confront him some day. It isn’t until she meets Lucas that she thinks the confrontation will be sooner rather than later.

McKenna was such a fighter, but she wasn’t beyond asking for help. I loved seeing her realization at the fact that she has family. She has people that would go to the death to protect her. After everything McKenna has sacrificed, no one deserved it more than her.

4.5 out of 5.

This book is available from Ballantine. You can buy it here or here in e-format.

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Casee‘s review of Second Chance (Last Chance Rescue, Book 5) by Christy Reece.

Working for Last Chance Rescue, Cole Mathison has been to hell and back. But being responsible for the death of an innocent man is a hell like no other. Longing for redemption, Cole finds himself embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of Keeley Fairchild’s young children. Rescuing the children is his mission—but falling in love with the widow of the man he inadvertently killed was never in the plans. When Keeley’s life is threatened, Cole’s demons must take a backseat to the most important mission of his life. He might never know the heaven of Keeley’s arms, but he’ll never survive the hell of failing to save her.

Christy Reece is an author that gets better with each book. This is the second book in her latest trilogy, which continues the Last Chance Rescue series. Cole Mathison was last in Rescue Me. Everyone at LCR thought he was dead. He was really has been held captive for a year and had all cognitive thinking taken away from him by a crazy doctor. While drugged, Cole accidentally kills a man that he later learns was abducted much like him. Since he was rescued, Cole has made it his job to watch out for his widow and children.

Keeley has worked hard to get life back on track for her twin daughters after her husband was murdered. When her children are taken right in front of her, Keeley is understandably devastated. I thought that Reece did a phenomenal job of writing emotions from Keeley’s POV. As a parent, getting your child taken from you is one of your worst nightmares. It’s something that you don’t even contemplate. If I were to contemplate it, I imagine that I would have felt and reacted much of the way that Keeley did. I found myself literally hurting when thinking about what she must have went through. It made me forget (only for a moment) that she is a fictional character.

It was when Cole left his post as Keeley’s protector that Hailey and Hannah were taken. If the fact that he killed her husband didn’t create enough guilt, the fact that he wasn’t there when Keeley needed him most was something that he couldn’t forgive himself for. As soon as Noah McCall tells him what has happened, he takes the first plane out and lands on Keeley’s doorstep.

When Cole arrives, it’s been months since the kidnapping. Every day, Keeley feels a little less hope. Cole breathes hope into a situation that seems to have none, something that Keeley desperately needs. Cole had never seen Keeley before that, so he is shocked and uncomfortable with his attraction to her. When she comes to him for solace and comfort, he can’t turn her away even though he knows that she would hate him if she knew the truth about him.

Cole quickly zeroes in on the fact that the person that arranged for the twins to be taken is someone that hates Keeley and wants her to suffer. Everything bad that has happened to Keeley in the past several years is connected to someone that has intense hatred for her. The only person Keeley can think of is her mother-in-law, who has hated her from the day her husband brought her home.

Second Chance is about second chances. It’s about not being afraid to take another chance when it is handed to you. This book was very well written. I loved both Keeley and Cole. They were a couple that had both been through so much, I just wanted them to be as happy as possible.

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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