Susan May Warren
Revell, 2020
368 pages
Amazon Description: Former Navy SEAL Hamilton Jones thought that the love of his life was dead. But when a girl claiming to be his daughter shows up with a dire message from his wife, Ham knows he will stop at nothing to find her and bring her home.
Kidnapped by rebels while serving as an interpreter in Ukraine, Signe Kincaid has spent the past decade secreting out valuable information about Russian assets in the US to her CIA handler. Fearing for her daughter after being discovered as an operative, Signe sends her to Ham for safekeeping. She’s ready to give her life for her country, and she can hardly expect Ham to rescue her after breaking his heart over and over.
When Ham discovers the reason Signe has kept her distance, he must choose between love for his wife and love for the nation he has vowed to protect. Will he save the many? Or the few?
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I always have my eye out for a new Susan May Warren book, and since she is pretty prolific, new releases come fairly often. I love the way she writes action/adventure romances that have plenty of chemistry between the characters but still stay nice and clean. Usually her stories have some nature-related disaster elements (the previous two books in this series pitted the characters against a snow storm and a hurricane) and in The Price of Valor the action is enhanced by a volcanic eruption.
Her books are faith-based, so the characters often struggle with how they relate to God. In The Price of Valor, a big theme is believing that God’s grace is enough and that you are worthy of that grace because He says you are, which is the journey that Signe is on. Ham, on the other hand, has to learn to relinquish control and trust God and other people.
One thing I really liked is that while there are plenty of romantic couples in this book, there is also a lot of emphasis on friendship. All the members of this search and rescue team support each other really well with encouragement and honesty, which I think is something we all hope for in our own friends. There is a high-level of trust present because of that, something that is essential for the kind of jobs they do.
I loved The Price of Valor, just like I do all of Susan May Warren’s books. She has several other series that have a similar feel, so if this one sounds up your alley then you can check out The Montana Marshalls and Montana Rescue series as well. In fact, she tends to drop characters from other books in for little cameos, so if you are familiar with her other books those are fun little surprises to watch out for.
Two thumbs up for The Price of Valor!