Fighting For Amethyst (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha; Tarpley VFD #1) by Deanndra Hall-Review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 9, 2021.

Drowning in the demons of their past …

All first responder Jackson Frame wants is to lie low and forget his tortured, tumultuous past. After all, losing a wife and a child, followed by being held prisoner in Afghanistan, takes a toll on a man. Now, living in Texas, his only goal is to do his job and forget the horrors of his past.

Desperate and devoted to her unborn child, Amethyst Meadows heads for her father and stepmother’s house in Texas, hoping she won’t have to raise her child alone. But when she gets stranded on the side of the road, Jackson rescues her. He may be older than she is, but that doesn’t stop her desire for the handsome and generous man.

As Jackson and Amethyst navigate the waters of a new relationship, Amethyst’s past threatens to drown them. Can Jackson save Amethyst from danger or will his own demons destroy him first?

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REVIEW:FIGHTING FOR AMETHYST by Deanndra Hall is the first instalment in the multi-authored contemporary, adult Police and Fire: Operation Alpha: Tarple VFD romance series based on characters created by author Susan Stoker. This is forty three year old, volunteer fire fighter/ former US soldier turned rancher Jackson Frame, and twenty-one year old Amethyst Meadows’ story line.

Told from third person perspective FIGHTING FOR AMETHYST focuses on the building romance and relationship between forty-three year old, volunteer fire fighter/ former US soldier turned rancher Jackson Frame, and twenty-one year old Amethyst Meadows. Days after discovering she was pregnant, twenty-one year old, college student Amethyst Meadows found herself alone, struggling to make ends meet, and despondent about her lack of a future. Heading home with her proverbial tail between her legs, Amethyst would come face to face with her future in the guise of volunteer fire fighter/ former US soldier turned rancher Jackson Frame when her car ran out of gas. Within days of meeting, Amethyst would move in with our hero but Amethyst’s past was refusing to accept our heroine’s choice for the future, and was determined to end any and all connections to her past. What ensues is the rapidly building romance and relationship between Amethyst and Jackson, and the potential fall-out as Amethyst’s past is resolved to destroy our heroine’s life.

Jackson Frame is a former US soldier whose time spent in service left our hero a shell of his former self. Meeting Amethyst Meadows, the daughter of his friend and fellow volunteer fire fighter Gant Meadows, gave Jackson thoughts for a future, a future he never thought he would have again. Amethyst Meadows world was spiralling out of control. Her boyfriend of several years had been making her life miserable and with the announcement of her pregnancy, Amethyst found herself afraid and alone. With the only option of going home, Amethyst knew that to protect her baby, she would have to ensure a future for them both.

The relationship between Amethyst and Jackson is an age-gap, May-December, insta-love relationship wherein Jackson is determined to claim Amethyst and her unborn child as his own. Amethyst has only known and met Jackson Frame a handful of times but without hesitation, Amethyst is willing to move in , and start a new life with the man with whom she had instantly fallen in love. The limited $ex scenes are passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text but saying that I didn’t feel the palpable sexual attraction between our leading couple, and the insta lust-love was totally unbelievable under the circumstances. The relationship wreaked of desperation for both parties.

We are introduced to Amethyst’s father Gant and her wife Lorna, Amethyst’s sister Sapphire, and their step brother Tank; Jackson’s brother Wyman and his wife Chimlin, as well as several members of the volunteer fire fighters, and Amethyst’s ex boyfriend Craven Bradshaw.

FIGHTING FOR AMETHYST is a story of betrayal and vengeance, loss and grief, relationships, family and love. The premise is engaging but I had a difficult time enjoying a story that I found hard to believe. In fact, the writing does not ‘feel’ like any of the previous Deanndra Hall’s instalments in the multi-authored Police and Fire series-the heroine was childish and immature; the male/female sex oriented roles were classically defined, and our heroine’s ‘nickname’ for Jackson was …just…icky. FIGHTING FOR AMETHYST was a bit of a struggle for this reader-here’s hoping future instalments are more to my liking.

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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).

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