Susan May Warren is one of my must-read authors; if she writes it, I'll read it! So I was very eager to get my hands on the first book in her new Sky King Ranch series, Sunrise.
Pilot Dodge Kingston has always been the heir to Sky King Ranch. But after a terrible family fight, he left to become a pararescue jumper. A decade later, he's headed home to the destiny that awaits him.
That's not all that's waiting for Dodge. His childhood best friend and former flame, Echo Yazzie, is a true Alaskan--a homesteader, dogsledder, and research guide for the DNR. Most of all, she's living a life Dodge knows could get her killed. One of these days she's going to get lost in the woods again, and his worst fear is that he won't be there to find her.
When one of Echo's fellow researchers goes missing, Echo sets out to find her, despite a blizzard, a rogue grizzly haunting the woods, and the biting cold. Plus, there's more than just the regular dangers of the Alaskan forests stalking her . . .
Will Dodge be able to find her in time? And if he does, is there still room for him in her heart?
Sunrise is the first explosive volume in a new nail-biting series from USA Today bestselling author Susan May Warren.
Sunrise is the second chance romance of Dodge Kingston and Echo Yazzie. High school sweethearts ripped apart by hurts and misunderstandings, the two reunite ten years later when Dodge returns to Copper Mountain. The unraveling of what went wrong in the past is spread throughout most of the novel, and it was their relationship that kept me turning through the pages.
There's a bit of a suspense thread in the novel, though it's not as strong as in several of Warren's other books. I do think the suspense will be ratcheted up in the rest of the series, as the Jane Doe minor character looks to feature more prominently, and the preview (billed as "What Comes Next") sheds some light onto Dodge's brothers Ranger and Colt, and their lives seem to be exciting, to say the least!
Though I felt like the beginning of the book was a little slow, the book also became more and more enjoyable the farther I got into it, leaving me incredibly eager to get my hands on book two, which releases in June! 4 stars.
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I thought the book started slow too and I wasn't sure I wanted to finish it. I did and enjoyed it and wasn't sure I would read anymore of the series...but then the cliffhanger!!!
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