By Kelly Bridgewater
Welcome to the Blog Tour for Expired Return by Lisa Phillips, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
About the Book
Title: Expired Return
Series: Last Chance Fire and Rescue #1
Author: Lisa Phillips
Publisher: Sunrise Publishing
Release Date: January 31, 2023
Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense
He always knew she was the one.
Veterinary tech Pepper Miller lives a quiet life in Last Chance County. She’s
watching her niece until her sister shows up…if she ever does. When Victory’s
father demands he take over her care, Pepper knows something has gone wrong.
With a new drug in town, and her sister embroiled in a dangerous bargain, it’s
up to Pepper to protect the people she loves.
Even if it costs every secret she’s ever kept.
Fire Department liaison Allen Frees lives with the injuries he sustained as a
police officer in a raid gone wrong. He’s put his life back together but
getting the truck crew and engine squad to succeed might be his toughest
assignment yet. When Victory is nearly kidnapped at a community event, Allen
steps in to help Pepper keep her niece safe. The one thing he couldn’t fix was
the love he lost, but he isn’t going to let Pepper walk away this time.
No matter what walls he has to break down.
My Thoughts:
Expired Return
by Lisa Phillips is my third book that I have read by Phillips. She does have
the high-tension element of a suspense novel. Plenty of description. Nicely
handled. One of the things that I have found that have irritated me when I read
Phillips’s stories is when the heroine comes onto the page in the first
chapter, they have all been very negative characters. She walks into a room and
image that everyone hates her. Why? Phillips does not tell us. Of course, as
the story moves along, readers are told why she feels this way. Is it
justified? Personally, no. I know there are actual people that feel this way.
My mother is one of them. But I really do not want to read a story where the
heroine is a Debbie-downer. As the plot moves along, the heroine does show
their strengths and makes them more tolerable. As for the romance, in Expired
Return, the heroine and hero have to overcome issues from their pasts and
their past relationship. In order for that to happen, they have to learn to
trust each other by building down their separate walls. Overall, Expired
Return by Lisa Phillips is a little hard to dive into, but after getting
past the initial shock of the heroine’s attitude, the story moves into a
romantic suspense pattern. I believe fans of Colleen Coble, DiAnn Mills, and
Irene Hannon would enjoy this type of story.
I received a complimentary copy of Expired
Return by Lisa Phillips from Sunrise Publishing, but the opinions stated
are all my own.
My Rating: 4 out of
5 stars
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DeleteThank you for posting about Expired Return, this sounds like an exciting story and I am looking forward to reading it and to more stories from the series
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