High Stakes (High Mountain Trackers 2 ) by Freya Barker-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 18, 2022.

When her sister, Pippa, goes missing, Nella Freling tells her boss she’s taking time off from her job as a research librarian, hops in her sensible van, and heads south of the border to Montana. However, local police don’t seem too concerned about a missing woman living in her motorhome. So Nella will have to look for Pippa by herself, unless she can convince a highly recommended tracker to help her, but sadly the rude and angry cowboy won’t even listen to her at first.

But Nella can be persuasive.

The first time High Mountain Tracker, Fletch Boone, laid eyes on Nella, her ass was stuck in his grocery cart. The next time was at the ranch; she was wearing mud, head to toe. But when he catches sight of her a third time, hanging off a cliff, he can’t turn his back again. What Nella lacks in survival skills she makes up for in sheer determination. Unfortunately, neither of those is enough protection when bullets start flying.

Fletch has no choice but to jump in before the woman gets herself killed.

And that would be a damn shame.

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REVIEW:HIGH STAKES is the second instalment in Freya Barker’s contemporary, adult HIGH MOUNTAIN TRACKERS erotic, romantic suspenses series focusing on a group for former US Special Forces soldiers who own and work for High Mountain Trackers in Montana. This is forty-seven year old Fletch Boone, and forty-three year old researcher Nella Freling’s story line. HIGH STAKES can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Fletch and Nella) HIGH STAKES follows the search for missing Canadian hiker Pippa Freling. Nella Freling hasn’t heard from her sister in close to fourteen days, and with the advise of a friend, Nella arrives in Montana only to be greeted by a grumpy former warrior who wants nothing to do with our story line heroine but searching on her own means falling victim to the elements, and Fletch refuses to let another ‘hiker’ go missing on his watch. A sudden storm traps Nella and Fletch in a cave overnight but the discovery of tracks and some blood lead our couple to Nella’s missing but injured sister. As Nella struggles to make sense of what happened and why, our heroine begins an investigation of her own in the hopes of finding her sister’s RV, only to discover that all is not well in Libby, Montana. What ensues is the building relationship between Nella and Fletch, and the potential fall-out as the search for the truth places a target on our heroine’s back.

Fletch Boone doesn’t do relationships, and prefers to work on his own but a feisty woman with more energy than sense throws Fletch for a loop, and our hero knows that to leave Nella to her own devises could blow up in both of their faces. At every turn Nella is defying Fletch, and the local law enforcement, and in doing so finds herself risking her life to take down the people responsible.

The relationship between Fletch and Nella begins acrimoniously. Fletch doesn’t want anything to do with our story line heroine, or searching for a woman who is probably not lost but evidence begins to surface about the possibility of something much more dangerous going on, and Fletch refuses to let Nella go on her own. 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; Jonas’ teammates James Watike and his wife Ama, Bo, Sully Eckhart, as well as Jonas’ father Thomas Harvey. We are introduced to Nella’s sister Pippa. The requisite evil has many faces. Pippa and Sully’s story is next in HIGH GROUND.

HIGH STAKES is a story of family and friendships, love and desperation, betrayal and vengeance, acceptance and love. The premise is edgy, dramatic and entertaining; the romance is seductive and tender; the characters are sassy, energetic and determined.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one HIGH MEADOW

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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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