Collateral Damage (Danger Never Sleeps)

Collateral Damage 

(Danger Never Sleeps #1) 

Paperback – ebook, audio, hardcover

January 7, 2020

by Lynette Eason (Author)

Paperback: 320 pages

• Publisher: Revell 
• ISBN-13: 978-0800729349

They thought they left the fight behind on the battlefield.
But their greatest struggles are just beginning.

Honorably discharged from the Army after an explosion nearly killed her, former military psychiatrist Brooke Adams has set up shop to help others--but her days of helping military personnel are over. She's got her own battles to fight from her time overseas, and she's not equipped to take on more. Former Army Special Ops Sergeant First Class Asher James could handle anything that war sent his way--terrorists, bombs, bullets. The only thing that scares him now is sleep. As the shadows close in, the nightmares begin.

Finally convinced that he needs help, Asher makes an appointment with a counselor, and Brooke is pressed by her boss to take him on. When he arrives at her office she isn't there--but a dead body is. Brooke is devastated when she walks in, and Asher is a conveniently strong shoulder to cry on. But she can't take him on as a client after sharing such an intimate and unprofessional moment, can she? And he's not sure he can handle sharing his deepest fears with such a beautiful woman.

When it becomes clear that Brooke was the real target of the attack--and that her secrets go even deeper than his own--Asher vows to protect her no matter what.

Bestselling author Lynette Eason is back with a new series that spans the globe and will have your heart working overtime.

My thoughts (LVH): COLLATERAL DAMAGE is the newest release by Lynette Eason and at first I thought it wasn't for me since it started on the battlefield, and then I thought it was rather disjointed, hopping from two different muslim countries to shallow graves in SC to a psychiatrists office... how did they all relate?  But I couldn't see the big picture. I just had to trust.

Soon the story began to make sense and I grew to care for the characters and wanted them to find peace. And justice. I did guess who the "bad guy" was but only minutes before it was revealed and there were some twists I never saw coming.

There is little to no sexual tension and I do wonder if Asher and Brooke will survive a long term relationship with their wounds. There is a faith message included.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE was a little creepy but not terribly, and should appeal to lovers of romantic suspense as well as military fiction. 

I was given a copy free. All opinions are my own.