Trusting Cassidy (Silverstone 4) by Susan Stoker-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 16, 2021.

In this final installment of New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s Silverstone series, a battle-scarred assassin must rescue an old flame from ruthless drug lords.

What was supposed to be a short trip to Jamaica becomes a years-long nightmare as Cassidy Hewitt and her son fall into the grip of an infamous drug kingpin. Desperate for rescue, Cassidy risks everything to send secret letters to the FBI, hoping someone, anyone, will answer her call.

When secret operative Leo “Gramps” Zanardi sees Cassidy’s letters, he knows this isn’t just another covert mission. The two had electric chemistry back in high school, and Leo finds himself eager for a reunion—even if the circumstances aren’t exactly ideal.

After arriving back in Indiana, Leo and Cassidy think they’re free to start a new life together. But the kingpin’s goons won’t let go of Cassidy so easily: they follow her from Jamaica, leaving carnage in their wake. Before the pair can fully embrace the love they’ve been missing all these years, they’ll need the entire Silverstone team’s help to be victorious in the showdown of their lives.

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REVIEW: TRUSTING CASSIDY is the fourth and final instalment in Susan Stoker’s contemporary, adult SILVERSTONE erotic, military, romantic suspense series focusing on group of former US Special Forces soldiers, who own and operate Silverstone Towing. This is forty five year old Leo ‘Gramps’ Zanardi and forty-one year old, teacher/single mother Cassidy Hewitt’s story line. TRUSTING CASSIDY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. The SILVERSTONE series is a spin off from the author’s Mountain Mercenaries series but you do not have to have read the aforementioned series to understand or follow the current timeline.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual third person perspective (Leo and Cassidy) TRUSTING CASSIDY follows the building romance and relationship between forty five year old Leo ‘Gramps’ Zanardi, and forty one year old, teacher and single mother Cassidy Hewitt. Five years earlier, following a contentious divorce, Cassidy Hewitt applied to be a teacher in Kingston Jamaica but quickly discovered she and her son were virtual prisoners of a drug kingpin who would target Cassidy’s now eleven year old son Mario to become another drug runner. Fast forward to present day, desperate to escape her captor, and return home to the USA, Cassidy writes a series of letters to the FBI, wherein former US Special Forces solider and high school friend Leo Zanardi grabs the assignment to rescue our heroine. Along with his fellow Silverstone soldiers, Leo would go in undercover in an attempt to locate and save the woman with whom he would fall in love but all does not go well, and trouble would follow our couple back to the United States. What ensues is the rescue and building relationship between Cassidy and Leo, and the potential fall-out as Cassidy and Mario are targeted placing everyone at Silverstone in the direct line of fire.

Leo Zanardi has loved Cassidy Hewitt since meeting our heroine in high school but Leo struggled with their four year age difference, and in this, left behind the woman with whom he would fall in love, only to return to our heroine married and a mother. Embarking on one final assignment Leo was determined to rescue Cassidy and her son, and claim the woman for his own happily ever after. Cassidy Hewitt was getting desperate to escape the prison in which she and her son were struggling to survive. Threats to their lives began to take a more ominous turn, and Cassidy wondered if they would ever make it home, alive.

The relationship between Cassidy and Leo is a high school friends to lovers, military rescue of a woman and her child from a notorious drug lord. Leo had not seen Cassidy for close to twenty-five years, twenty-five year in which Leo never forgot about the woman that got away. 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 all of the previous story line couples. We are up close and personal as the next generation is born, looking five, ten, fifteen and twenty years into the future .

TRUSTING CASSIDY is a story of betrayal and abuse, search and rescue, friendships, relationships, acceptance and love. The premise is engaging, intriguing and emotional; the romance is seductive and captivating; the characters are energetic, charismatic and strong.

Previous reviews
Trusting Skylar
Trusting Taylor
Trusting Molly

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Reviewed by Sandy

New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Susan Stoker has a heart as big as the state of Texas where she lives, but this all-American girl has also spent the last fourteen years living in Missouri, California, Colorado, and Indiana. She’s married to a retired Army man who now gets to follow her around the country.

She debuted her first series in 2014 and quickly followed that up with the SEAL of Protection Series, which solidified her love of writing and creating stories readers can get lost in.

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