Shelter for Tanna (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) by Deanndra Hall-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 6, 2020

Everyone else might give up, but he never will. Not until his last breath.

It was a simple accident cleanup, but when the tow truck driver turns to face him, firefighter Braden Nichols is lost in the greenest eyes he’s ever seen. His home is waiting for a family, and he realizes quickly that he’s found one in Tanna and her kids.

Being a tow truck driver isn’t easy for the widow. It’s only made harder by being in a man’s world, but it’s all Tanna’s found to feed her boys, teenager Daniel and eight-year-old Max, who’s special needs. The gorgeous firefighter who commits to her and her two kids is a love she never thought she’d find.

Then a simple tow from the side of the interstate puts her in the crosshairs of the wrong people. When the threats start, she keeps it all from Braden. He’s been too good to her and the kids, and he doesn’t deserve to be dragged into her problems.

But suddenly, she’s gone, and Braden’s world rapidly unravels. Knowing his lack of legal ties to the boys may mean he’ll never see them again, he knows he has to find their mother. They suffered enough when they lost their dad, and losing Tanna isn’t an option.

To Braden’s heart, it’s unthinkable. Unbearable. And unacceptable.

Just when they think their big break has come, the trail goes cold. The rain pours, the thunder rolls, and Braden’s heart breaks. He’s out of options and running out of time, and he fears the worst. But as dark as the night is, there’s something darker.

And it just might be their salvation.

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REVIEW:SHELTER FOR TANNA by Deanndra Hall is the latest instalment in the contemporary, adult, multi-authored POLICE AND FIRE: OPERATION ALPHA romance series focusing on characters first introduced in one of Susan Stoker’s fabulous series. This is thirty-seven year old firefighter Braden Nichols, and single mother / widow /tow truck operator Tanna Hilliard’s story line. SHELTER FOR TANNA can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the original series is revealed where necessary.

Told from several third person perspectives including Tanna and Braden SHELTER FOR TANNA follows the building romance and relationship between thirty-seven year old firefighter Braden Nichols, and single mother / widow /tow truck operator Tanna Hilliard. A call-out to the scene of an accident finds Braden Nichols face to face with our testy heroine, a single mother whose day was going from bad to worse. In an effort to get to know Tanna Hilliard, Braden begins a strategic seduction of our story line heroine by first getting to know her children at home but a random call to pick up an abandoned car finds Tanna the target of a drug-addled duo, two men who were desperate to locate their car and the thousands of dollars in stolen goods. What ensues is the quick building romance and relationship between Tanna and Braden, and the potential fall-out when Tanna becomes the intended victim in a game of desperation and revenge.

Braden Nichols knows Tanna Hilliard is the only woman he will ever want but Tanna is a single mother, struggling with a child with special needs, as well as a teenager who has taken on many of the responsibilities at home. Never expecting to fall in love, Tanna finds herself wanting forever with the man that is now buried deep in her heart.

The relationship between Tanna and Braden is one of immediate attraction but Tanna doesn’t have time for relationships or fun, and is hesitant to expose Braden to her family, especially her son who struggles to ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). As a single woman, raising her children on her own, our heroine is strong and independent but life and everything it has to offer is about to catch up with our Tanna Hilliard.Braden Nichols never waivered in the face of Tanna’s family situation having been raised to be accepting of those with special needs. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including several of Braden’s co-workers (Braden,Joe, Harley and Captain William Bartlett, and dog handler Dean); Braden’s sister Jessica, and his parents Jake and Marsha; Tanna’s sons Daniel and Max, as well as Tanna’s boss Charlie. The requisite evil has many faces.

SHELTER FOR TANNA is a story of family, friendships, relationships and love; of struggle and acceptance. The premise is promising and entertaining; the romance is seductive and hopeful; the characters are charismatic and compelling.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Deanndra Hall is a working author living in the far western end of the beautiful Bluegrass State with her husband of over 35 years and small menagerie of weird little dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s editing. When she’s doing neither of those two things, she’s having dinner with friends, spending time with family, kayaking, eating chocolate, drinking beer or moonshine, or looking for something that she put in the wrong place and can’t seem to find (which is pretty much everything she owns).