Review: ‘On His Watch’ by Katie Ruggle
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On His Watch
by Katie RuggleSeries: Search and Rescue #0.5
Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca on January 5, 2016
SubGenres: Romantic Suspense
Format: eBook
Pages: 100
Source: Purchased
Audience: 18+/Adult
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In the remote Rocky Mountains, lives depend on the Search & Rescue brotherhood. But in a place this far off the map, trust is hard to come by and secrets can be murder...
Ice rescue diver Derek Warner never meant to be a hero. But when two little girls go missing, he's the first in line to bring them home-even if that means scouring the wilderness with the woman he once loved and lost, Artemis Rey.
Artemis has never stopped wanting Derek. Now, racing to find the girls before it's too late, minutes turn to hours. Night falls. Old flames rekindle. And a danger grows in the darkest wilderness that may be more than even the Search and Rescue brotherhood can hope to face...
On His Watch is a prequel to Katie Ruggle’s Search and Rescue series. It’s a short, fast-paced novella told in the third person that didn’t take me long to read. It sets up what to expect in the series, introducing the main characters plus secondary characters that will most likely get their stories, too, and I enjoyed it. I’ve been meaning to read this series for a while now and finally making time for it.
Derek Warner is a diver on the Search and Rescue team. He’s been teamed up with the new recruit on the team to do a demonstration for a class of elementary kids. Unfortunately, during the demonstration, one boy falls into the icy water, and two girls go missing afterward. It is up to Derek and the rest of the Search and Rescue team to save the boy and the two girls.
Derek finds himself working alongside Artemis Ray, the teacher of the kids, with whom he had a relationship years ago before they broke up. Being close to each other again rekindles their feelings, but they must focus on the urgent task of rescuing the children first.
On His Watch was an enjoyable second-chance romance story between Derek and Artemis. Katie left me on the edge of my seat a few times if they would ever end up finding the girls. But, the characters were determined to find the two girls, even putting themselves at risk in the process. Overall, I give it 3.5-stars, and I can’t wait to read the rest of the series, especially with some of the other Search and Rescue characters being introduced. Overall, I give it 3.5-stars.
What to Expect:
✔️Second Chance
✔️Friends to Lovers
✔️First Responder Hero
✔️Teacher Heroine
About Katie Ruggle
When she’s not writing, Katie Ruggle rides horses, shoots guns, and travels to warm places where she can SCUBA dive. Graduating from the Police Academy, Katie received her ice-rescue certification and can attest that the reservoirs in the Colorado mountains really are that cold. While she still misses her off-grid, solar- and wind-powered house in the Rocky Mountains, she now lives in Rochester, Minnesota near her family.
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