November 25, 2019
Warren (You Don’t Know Me) kicks off her new Global Search and Rescue series with a heart-stopping tale. Orion Starr is still haunted by his deployment as a rescue paratrooper in Afghanistan, particularly an ambush that cost four soldiers their lives. Removing himself from his secluded Alaska home, he agrees to team up with Hamilton “Ham” Jones to climb Mount Huntington, and, along the way, Ham tries to recruit Orion to his search and rescue team. In a separate thread, Jenny Calhoun and her two friends are climbing Denali. Jenny, a former CIA psychiatrist, is also running from her biggest mistake—mistrusting an informant that led to the same ambush in Afghanistan. An avalanche and whiteout separate Jenny and friends from their guide and traps them on Denali. Orion and Ham hear of the avalanche and head over to help. But another whiteout blows in soon after they find the climbers, leaving two injured and everyone snowed in on the mountain. As Orion and Jenny battle the mountain, they also wrestle with their past, anger, and shame, and come to believe God didn’t bring them to the mountain to betray them, but perhaps to heal them. Warren lays the foundation of a promising faith-influenced series with this exciting outing.
December 15, 2019
The first in Warren's Global Search and Rescue series combines high-adrenaline thrills and a sweet romance. After an ambush left several dead and others wounded, undercover CIA profiler Jenny Calhoun left Afghanistan behind and returned to Minneapolis and private practice as a psychiatrist specializing in treating PTSD. Every year, Jenny and her best friends Sasha and Aria do an extreme challenge, and this year they are climbing Denali. Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr was one of those wounded in the attack. He has returned home to Alaska to recover from his injuries, heal his broken heart (he and Jenny have a past), and contemplate his next steps. His former teammate Hamilton Jones asks him to join his private search and rescue team, but while Orion is not anxious to return to that life, he does agree to go climbing with him. When Jenny and her team go missing, Orion joins the rescue mission. Can Orion and Jenny survive long enough to get a second chance at romance? Perfect for fans of Dee Henderson and Irene Hannon.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)