Hours to Kill by Susan Sleeman

Just as Homeland Security Agent Addison Leigh reaches the pinnacle of her cyber investigation into a firearms smuggling ring, she's attacked and left for dead. Her estranged husband, ICE Agent Mack Jordan, is notified that she's at the hospital in a coma. He may have let his past military trauma ruin their short marriage, but she never gave up on their relationship, and he remains her next of kin.

Mack rushes to her bedside, where he promises to hunt down the man who attacked her. Mack failed her once when he bailed on their marriage, and he's not about to let her down again. But when she wakes up in the hospital, she remembers neither the attack nor ever being married to Mack. And when a second attempt to take her life is made, it's clear something very sinister is going on, and Mack and Addison are in for the ride of their lives.

Another great book by Ms. Sleeman.  In this book we get Mack's story of why he and his wife are separated.  Plus a whole lot of suspense thrown in for good measure.  When Addison wakes up in the hospital from a car accident, she doesn't remember anything about the case she had been working on or that she had been married.  But there is Mack standing there claiming to be her husband.  They race against time to try to figure out what Addison was working on.  As bits of it come back to her, she realizes terrorists are about to attack.  

This is a fast paced, action packed book.  I highly recommend it.  I was given this book by Bethany House Publishing in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way. 

Braced for Love by Mary Connealy

Left with little back in Missouri, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half brother he never knew existed. Turns out, Kevin's supposedly dead father led a secret and scandalous life.

But danger seems to track Kevin along the way, and he wonders if his half brother, Wyatt, is behind the attacks. Finally arriving at the ranch, everyone is at each other's throats and the only one willing to stand in between is Winona Hawkins, a nearby schoolmarm.

Despite being a long-time friend to Wyatt, Winona can't help but be drawn to the earnest, kind Kevin--and that puts her in the cross hairs of somebody's dangerous plot. Will they all be able to put aside their differences long enough to keep anyone from getting truly hurt?

Another good book by Ms. Connealy.  This is the story of three brothers who didn't know each other existed.  It seems their father married three different women.  Then proceeded to either leave them or fake his death.  Then he actually did die and left a ranch to split between them.  But it seems to ranch had actually belonged to his wife.  Well it seems in the old days when a woman married, all her property became her husbands.  So here are three brothers inheriting property that Wyatt thinks is all his and his sisters.  While on the way to the ranch in Wyoming Kevin and his brother and sister are ambushed.  If not for his quick thinking, they would be dead.  As the story unfolds, more attempts on Kevin's life are made.  

I recommend this book because it is a light read with a little mystery, a little romance, and a little comedy all in one.  I was given this book by Bethany House Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.  

A Tapestry of Light by Kimberly Duffy

Ottilie Russell is adrift between two cultures, British and Indian, belonging to both and neither. In order to support her little brother, Thaddeus, and her grandmother, she relies upon her skills in beetle-wing embroidery that have been passed down to her through generations of Indian women.

When a stranger appears with the news that Thaddeus is now Baron Sunderson and must travel to England to take his place as a nobleman, Ottilie is shattered by the secrets that come to light. Despite her growing friendship with Everett Scott, friend to Ottilie's English grandmother and aunt, she refuses to give up her brother. Then tragedy strikes, and she is forced to make a decision that will take Thaddeus far from death and herself far from home.

But betrayal and loss lurk in England, too, and soon Ottilie must fight to ensure Thaddeus doesn't forget who he is, as well as find a way to stitch a place for herself in this foreign land.

The author seemed to do a good job of bringing the characters to life.  All of them seemed to have some sort of issue to work through.  The focus was mainly on Ottilie.  She was 3/4 English and 1/4 Indian. She looks like an Indian with not a trace of English blood in her.  Her little brother looks all English.  He's accepted into "polite" society.  She is shunned and looked down on.  Even her relatives don't want to acknowledge her.  They claim she is a servant.  Then there's Everett.  He has secrets of his own that he is trying to overcome.  He finds himself loving Ottilie but he must find a suitable wife.  

I found this to be an average book.  I enjoyed reading it.  I was given this book by Bethany House Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.

When Twilight Breaks by Sarah Sundin

Munich, 1938. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent as determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession as she is to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. To do so, she must walk a thin line. If she offends the government, she could be expelled from the country--or worse. If she fails to truthfully report on major stories, she'll never be able to give a voice to the oppressed--and wake up the folks back home.

In another part of the city, American graduate student Peter Lang is working on his PhD in German. Disillusioned with the chaos in the world due to the Great Depression, he is impressed with the prosperity and order of German society. But when the brutality of the regime hits close, he discovers a far better way to use his contacts within the Nazi party--to feed information to the shrewd reporter he can't get off his mind. 

Wow!! What a great book.  I found myself reading when I should have been doing other things.  I believe everyone should read this book to see what happened in Germany in the late 1930's.  It's quite the eyeopener to what is happening right now in the US.  Politics aside, Evelyn and Peter started out on opposite sides of the spectrum.  Evelyn has a hard being taken seriously because she is a woman.  Woman in the 1930's were thought to belong in the kitchen and no where else.  Here nickname is Firebrand and it is an apt name.  All Peter wants to do is finish his research for his doctorate.  Again, I say this is a great book.

I was given this book by Revell Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.