CRASH (Sinners & Saints 1) by Kathy Lockheart-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 14, 2025

Code blue in the ER. That’s how I end up in his hospital. In my brother’s best friend’s care.

Dr. Blake Morrison starred in every fantasy I’ve had since sixteen. Now he’s the only one who believes something’s truly wrong with me—the only one who can save me.

But with each passing day, each failed diagnosis, I see him changing. The brilliant, controlled doctor is becoming something else. Something darker. More possessive.

“These symptoms aren’t random,” he growls. “I think someone’s hurting you deliberately. And when I find them…” His fingers clench. “They’ll learn exactly how much damage a doctor can do.”

His touch sets my heart monitor racing, and what’s growing between us is more dangerous than any symptom. More forbidden than any diagnosis.

But as my mysterious illness worsens, will the man who’s saved countless lives lose the only one he can’t live without?

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REVIEW: CRASH is the first instalment in Kathy Lockheart’s contemporary, adult SINNERS AND SAINTS erotic, romantic suspense series.This is ER physician Dr. Blake Morrison, and thirty-three year old wedding planner Tessa Kincaid’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Blake and Tessa) including text messages between the members of the Sinners and Saint, CRASH follows in the wake of a medical crisis for our story line heroine. Having been brought into the ER, Tessa will come face to face with the man she has always loved but a man who broke her heart, without looking back. Two years earlier, Blake Morrison walked away from Tessa Kincaid, his best friend’s younger sister. Fast forward to present day, Tessa is struggling with a myriad of illnesses and symptoms, and doctors and specialist are unable to discover what is wrong. Determined to uncover the truth, Blake becomes guardian, protector and primary physician as he begins to dig deep into what is the matter but all is not as it appears to be, as Blake begins to unravel the possibilities, a new suspicion sets our hero on a different path.

The world building begins slowly; is complex and detailed as the reader is up close and personal with a barrage of medical terminology, tests, and possible diagnosis. The revelations about Blake’s past and inability to love, follows Tessa’s confessions about a betrayal that continues to linger and threaten.

The relationship between Blake and Tessa is a best friend’s sister relationship; a forbidden relationship predicated upon a threat and a promise but Tessa lost her heart to Blake years before, and Blake struggled to cross a line from whence he would never go back. The $ex scenes are intimate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are introduced to the members of Sinners and Saints, a group formed by childhood/college best friends, each with a speciality and a darkness that is required to save and protect the people they love: Tessa’s brother Ryker, Jace, and Knox who is currently ‘away’, as well as Tessa’s best friend Scarlett. The banter between Ryker, Jace and Blake is often humorous, entertaining and fun. The requisite evil has many faces.

CRASH is a story of betrayal and revenge, power and control, obsession and madness, family and friendships, relationships and love. The character driven premise is thought provoking, twisted, dramatic and edgy with some humor interspersed between darker moments. The romance is fated and seductive; the characters are desperate, determined and haunted.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Kathy Lockheart is an author of Romantic Suspense novels. Her books—which have a unique blend of emotional elements typically found in women’s fiction and the romance and danger elements found in romantic suspense—contain themes of dark romance, antiheroes, and forbidden romance. When she’s not writing, you can find her silently cursing the person who put fluorescent lights in dressing rooms.

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