High Ground (High Mountain Trackers 3) by Freya Barker-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 8, 2022

Not much has gone according to plan for mechanic, Pippa Freling, recently. With lots of bridges burned behind her, she decides to stick close to her sister and give Montana a try.

Things are looking up when she joins a local group of animal activists, buys an auto shop for a steal, and even tries her luck with the opposite sex. But it doesn’t take long before her hopeful new future is derailed once again.
This time permanently.

Maintaining tight control is the stronghold in Sully Eckhart’s life. It served him well during his years in special forces and has kept him out of trouble since. But his self-restraint stretches only so far whenever he finds himself faced with the one woman who has the ability to shake his determination. A woman he’s tried to avoid for months—since the first time she shook his resolve—but who now finds herself in the middle of a serial murder case.

However, when she not only ends up a person of interest to the FBI, but firmly in the crosshairs of a killer, he has no other option but to stick close. And give up all control.

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REVIEWHIGH GROUND is the third instalment in Freya Barker’s contemporary, adult HIGH MOUNTAIN TRACKERS, erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on a group of former US Special Forces soldiers who own and work for High Mountain Trackers in Libby, Montana. This is forty-four year old former Special Forces soldier Sullivan ‘Sully’ Eckhart, and forty year old, mechanic/environmentalist Fillippa ‘Pippa’ Freling’s story line. HIGH GROUND can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. Pippa is Nella Freling’s sister (High Stakes #2).

Told from dual first person perspectives (Sully and Pippa) HIGH GROUND follows months after a one-night stand between forty-four year old former Special Forces soldier Sullivan ‘Sully’ Eckhart, and forty year old, mechanic/environmentalist Fillippa ‘Pippa’ Freling, the morning after in which Sully ghosted our story line heroine. A number of bodies, each shot with a rifle, have been found in and around the area in which Pippa has parked her trailer, making Pippa the prime suspect for the murders as she is an active member with Fair Game Alliance. Someone is targeting our story line heroine, ensuring all clues and information point to Pippa F, and with it, Sully is determined to protect the woman with whom he is falling in love. All does not go according to plan when one of their own goes missing, and an emotional and tired Pippa is still considered the prime suspect. What ensues is the building relationship between Sully and Pippa, and the potential fall-out as a killer’s need for vengeance places suspicion on our story line heroine.

The relationship between Sully and Pippa begins as a one-night stand in which Sully keeps his distance in the following months. The fall-out forces Pippa to reconsider everything she does, including living too close to the man who ultimately broke her heart. Pippa had fallen hard for our story line hero but the heart wants something more than Sully is willing to give. As a Canadian citizen, Pippa is unable to work, and finds herself dependant upon others to help her out. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters include ranch and High Mountain Trackers owner Jonas Harvey and his wife Alexandra Hart; Fletch Boone and Nella Freling: Jonas’ teammates James Watike and his wife Ama, Bo, Sully Eckhart, as well as Jonas’ father Thomas Harvey, Sully’s twenty-one year old niece Sloane, and his sister Isobel; FBI Agents Power and Wolff, real-estate agent Marcie, mechanic Ira Nelson, conservationist Cade Jackson, and Sheriff Ewing. The requisite evil has many faces.Lucy and Bo’s story is next in HIGH IMPACT.

HIGH GROUND is a story of perceived betrayal and vengeance, obsession and murder, second chances and surprises, acceptance and love. The premise is dramatic, intriguing and engaging; the romance is impassioned; the characters are energetic, determined and dynamic.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
High Meadow
High Stakes

Copy supplied for review

Reviewed by Sandy

USA Today bestselling author Freya Barker loves writing about ordinary people with extraordinary stories.

Driven to make her books about ‘real’ people; she creates characters who are perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy, but just as deserving of romance, thrills and chills in their lives.

Recipient of the ReadFREE.ly 2019 Best Book We’ve Read All Year Award for “Covering Ollie, the 2015 RomCon “Reader’s Choice” Award for Best First Book, “Slim To None”, and Finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Award with “From Dust”, Freya continues to add to her rapidly growing collection of published novels as she spins story after story with an endless supply of bruised and dented characters, vying for attention!

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