Fall Out by Carrie Stuart Parks

After a difficult childhood, Samantha Williams craves simplicity: jigsaw puzzles, lectures at the library, and the students she adores in her role as an elementary school art teacher in the dusty farming community of LaCrosse, Washington.

But when an SUV crashes into the building where she teaches, her entire world is upended. Samantha manages to keep the children safe, but her car isn’t so lucky. Oddly, her purse—with her driver’s license, credit cards, and other identification—is missing from the wreckage.

After authorities discover that the driver in the accident was shot seconds before the crash, Samantha quickly becomes entangled in increasingly strange events that have her constantly looking over her shoulder.

Samantha has long tried to forget the tragedy of her past, but the twisting connections she discovers between the murdered driver, a deadly secret government project, and an abandoned town can't be ignored. Those involved are determined to keep these secrets buried, and they’ll use any means necessary to stop Samantha’s search for truth.

My review.  This book kept me reading when I should have been going to bed.  It appears someone wants Samantha dead and she has no idea why.  As investigation gears up, it seems that other deaths have occurred and they all seem to be related to a government secret and her murdered parents.  It took me a bit to get all the characters straightened out.  But once I did, it fell into place.

I recommend this book to all who want an action filled book.

I was given this book by Thomas Nelson Publishing via NetGally in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.  

To Win a Prince by Tony Shiloh

Iris Blakely is best friends with queen of the African island country Oloro Ille and is starting a clothing line to help the citizens rise above poverty.  She finds out that Ekon Diallo has been assigned to be her business consultant by the elders of the country.  He's one of the ones who tried to dethrone the queen.

The story goes back and forth between Iris and Ekon describing their feelings. The storyline was good but I found myself skimming through parts of it because it seemed to be repeats of previous parts of the book.  There seemed to be more introspective conversation than actual story.  The actual story itself was good.  And of course they found love in the end.

I was given this book by Bethany House Publishers via Net Galley for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.

Honor Bound by Hallee Bridgeman

Dr. Cynthia Myers is a missionary medical doctor in a war-torn African country.  She is there because her fiancé publicly humiliated her.  What makes it worse is that her father is the newly appointed vice-president of the United States.  A band of terrorists invade the village she is at demanding she save the life of the mortally wounded war loads son.  In comes Army Special Forces Captain Rick Norton.  He has to use deadly force to save Cynthia's life.  She's a pacifist so she didn't appreciate his interference.  Rick demands that she leave with him because the rest of the terrorists after her because they know who she is.  This book is their journey to safety.  

The first part of the book is action packed with lots of twists and turns as Cynthia and Rick and his team try to get out of Africa.  Once they got to safety it seems like the action dwindled.  It was still a good book.  But I would like to have had action in all the book.  Cynthia and Rick are both strong willed people with strong opinions and aren't afraid to vocalize those opinions.  Of course in the end they come to respect each others point of views and fall in love.

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