Sami A. Abrams: Impending Strike

 By Kelly Bridgewater

He loves her, but he can’t have her…

Elite Guardian Charlie Lee knows that there is no future with the woman he loves—fellow Guardian Lizzie Tremaine. And he gets it. Lizzie’s a single mom focused on protecting her daughter, and Charlie’s got his own baggage anyway. It’s easier, and safer, to keep things the way they are.

Then, the unthinkable happens. While Charlie is undercover, he’s seriously injured…and his memory of the past four years is gone. But maybe it’s the fresh start he didn’t know he longed for.

And now he’s getting too close…

Lizzie cares for Charlie, but she’s lost all the men she’s ever loved and can’t risk her heart again. Still, she’s determined to protect Charlie, and help him discover who attacked him—and why.

But in the process, she begins to discover an unburdened, impossible-to-resist version of the man she knows. And—along with the details of his attack—Charlie seems to have forgotten their reasons for keeping things platonic. Suddenly, all of their self-imposed rules are gone, and Lizzie needs things to get back to normal, stat.

It’s her heart…or his life.

Problem is, the closer Charlie gets to uncovering his memories, the closer he gets to trouble. What will protecting Charlie cost Lizzie?

Another edge-of-your-seat Elite Guardian thriller!

My Thoughts:

Impending Strike by Lynette Eason and Sami A. Abrams continues the Eason’s Elite Guardian series. In true Eason fashion, Abrams has crafted a novel that has plenty of twists and turns and surprise moments for the heroine and hero, which I LOVE in my suspense novels. I need plenty of action and moments where I believe the characters are going to have something bad happen to them. Being a romantic suspense novel, there is going to be some romance between the main character of Lizzie and Charlie. The romance does take a roller coaster ride through their budding emotions. Being one of the first novels that Abrams has written, this was a fabulous story to fit into the romantic suspense genre. One of my favorite aspects of a suspense novel is the background or what the characters bring to the table when the story starts. Abram does a wonderful job at crafting believable backgrounds for the characters and uses those hurts and flaws to deepen her characters. Abrams definitely had a fabulous mentor through Lynette Eason and Sunrise Publishing. Overall, Impending Strike by Sami A. Abrams is a suspenseful novel worthy of the challenge of the genre with characters with depth and an overarching love story willing to keep any romantic suspense fan happy.

I received a complimentary copy of Impending Strike by Lynette Eason and Sami A. Abrams by Sunrise Publishing through Sunrise Publishing, but the opinions stated are all my own.

My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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About the Author:

Sami Abrams grew up hating to read. It wasn’t until her 30’s that she found authors that captured her attention. Now, most evenings you can find her engrossed in a Romantic Suspense. In her opinion, a crime and a little romance is the recipe for a great story.

Sami has finaled 15 times in writing contests, including receiving first place in American Christian Fiction Writer’s Genesis Contest in 2019 and 2020, and Faith Hope and Love’s Touched By Love Awards in 2018.

She lives in Northern California, but she will always be a Kansas girl at heart. She has a love of sports, family, and travel. However, a cabin at Lake Tahoe writing her next story is definitely at the top of her list.

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