When her past comes back to haunt her… result in the loss of her very life.
Can she let the one man who can protect her get close enough to do so?
Enter former Green Beret, deputy Trey Sawyer who offers to serve as her bodyguard. Trey has been in love with Eryn for a year, but she lost her husband several years ago and isn’t ready to open herself to the potential for pain again. She’s kept Trey at arm’s length and wants to do so now-after all, she can take care of herself. But she has a four-year-old daughter to protect, so Eryn reluctantly agrees to let Trey into her world. But when they’re thrown together in a race for her life, she has to combat both a vicious enemy-and the pain from her past. Is Trey trustworthy enough to let him into every area of her life, or is the risk too great?
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Eryn and Trey’s story was so fun to read! I loved their characters from the previous books, especially Eryn as she is mentioned in more of them. Trey is absolutely adorable with Eryn’s little girl. The mystery was definitely in the background for this story, and it worked super well for it.
Okay, I have been waiting for this book since I read Cold Terror. And confession, I actually read this one before the third book, and it was every bit as good as I thought it would be. Cold Case is about Eryn, the only girl and computer expert on the Blackwell team. Eryn is extremely guarded after the death of her husband, and it will take a lot of Trey’s charm and God’s work to soften her.
Fortunately, for Eryn he’ll have a lot of time to soften Eryn because there is a hacker after Eryn, and Trey has volunteered to look after her. I really liked all the characters in this book, but I especially loved meeting Eryn’s daughter Bekah. She was so adorable, and it was so cute to watch her with Trey. Of course the Blackwell team were as great as normal. Susan Sleeman has a real gift for making characters that seem so real and that make you fall in love with them.
The suspense in the book was amazing as always. I had no idea where the book was going half the time. Also, the epilogue was so good! I think that may have been one of my favorite parts in the book. Cold Case was a great book, very clean, and with some intense scenes, but nothing too bad. I would definitely recommend this book to adults and teens.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from the author. All views expressed are only my honest opinion.
Cold Case by Susan Sleeman
Cold Harbor Series Book Four
Eryn Calloway had loved and lost once. That was enough for her. Now, her life was her four-year-old daughter, Bekah. She’s spent the past year keeping a distance from one man that could tempt to her and now that she’s been threatened…that man is closer to her than she likes.
Deputy Trey Sawyer was injured while helping his friend Gage Blackwell. He’s been on desk duty since then. When an opportunity comes for him to protect the woman who’s owned his heart the past year…he jumps at it. Which makes life harder since she doesn’t want his heart.
The Blackwell Tactical team is a unit of six that works like a well-oiled machine. And now, one of their own is in trouble. Loved this story—and all of the series so far. Eryn is being attacked at the place she owns…the cyber world. Great suspense as to which villain is the one after her. Great twists, turns, and surprises.
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Susan Sleeman picks up steam and rolls forward with another powerful story in the Cold Harbor series. Former FBI agent and widowed single mother, Erin, finds herself the target of an elaborate ransomware, that doesn’t want money but her life! Trey, who you meet in book one, has been wanting Erin to notice him for several months; but now an injury makes him uncertain of his career, ability to take care of Erin and her family, and his future. Trey and the Blackwell Tactical teams does there best to protect Erin and her daughter, but the enemy has been planning revenge for a long time and has no intention of stopping until Erin is dead! Yes, I stayed up late to find out what happens at the end! Good story, great characters. Can I adopt Bekah? What a sweetie!
I have been waiting for Eryn to have her own story and it is finally here. She is my favorite character in this series. Eryn is very computer savvy and her intelligence is over the top. I don’t think there is anything she can’t do on a computer. Companies would be standing in line to hire her. To me she is the glue that holds Blackwell Tactical together.
The plot is perfect for Eryn as her computer is locked with ransomware. I never heard of this term, but with the excellent research by the author I know about how hackers do their dirty work. Eryn tries to play off that the threat against her isn’t a big deal, but her team isn’t taking any chances.
Trey has been assigned to protect her since she is determined to teach her classes at a conference. Trey is a good guy but his feelings for Eryn could get in the way and distract him from his job to keep Eryn safe. The tension between the two is heavy and I’m not sure Eryn will let Trey into her life.
I loved how the author used the character’s faith to pray protection over each other. It’s a race to the end to save Eryn as the person behind the cyber attacks inches closer. Get ready for an edge of your seat ending.
I received a copy of this book from the author. The review is my own opinion.
Susan Sleeman is one of my go-to authors for romantic suspense. I can always count on a well-researched book with realistic, engaging characters. In Cold Case, she takes us back to Cold Harbor for book number 4 in the Cold Harbor series about the Blackwell Tactical team. This book can be read alone, but the previous books give some of the background of the other members of the team who play a big part in this book.
Eryn, Blackwell’s cyber expert, and Trey, a former Green Beret, are the main characters in Cold Case, and they are both endearing and easy to relate to. I enjoyed learning more about cyber security, even though a lot of it was way over my tech-challenged head. That’s really the only drawback I had with this book—the terminology and concepts of some of the things Eryn was doing were a little too technical for me to understand. Otherwise, this story was a great blend of suspense, intrigue, romance, with a bit of faith woven in.
I’m always impressed with Sleeman’s research and attention to details. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series. I would recommend this to those who enjoy well-written romantic suspense.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
Discovered this wonderful author just a few months ago. Bought & read this series in just days. Action packed, twists and turns you won’t expect, page turner, and you will want to read the whole series. I received the first book in the series through a contest. Before I was half way through I bought the rest of the series. Susan Sleeman is that good. She immediately went on my favorite author’s list. When the bookstore called & said they had the rest of the series in I made a trip across town (where they moved to from my side) just so I could read one right after the other. Sure glad when I started the whole series had been published. Highly recommend this author if you love a good Christian romantic suspense with emphasis on suspense.
Four books into Susan Sleeman’s Cold Harbor series, readers have gotten a pretty good grasp on the roles of each of the team members. In the previous books, three of the men have gotten to showcase their talents and find love. Now, it’s the lone woman’s turn.
Eryn Calloway has always interested me. She’s intelligent (ex-FBI computer analyst) and speaks what seems to be another language to the guys sometimes but she’s also got a softer side when she spends time with her four-year-old daughter.
Now someone is targeting Eryn, demanding she cancel the classes she’s teaching at a police convention. With only half the team there but also committed to classes, deputy Trey Sawyer steps in to protect Eryn and her family despite her protests.
There are so many things I liked about Trey. He’s not shy about expressing his interest in Eryn and even though he doesn’t always understand what Eryn does, he appreciates and admires her work. But most of all, how can you not love a big, strong, former Green Beret who is willing to watch cartoons and eat chicken nuggets with a little girl?
In her usual high-octane style, Sleeman kept me guessing as to who was behind the crimes with plenty of possible suspects with motive, twists and turns throughout, intense chemistry and action, and an ending that left my heart racing for a few chapters.
There is also a new team member introduced in this book who I am looking forward to learning more about in the upcoming books.
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I’ve been anxious, as I’ve read this series, to see what makes the only female on the Blackwell Tactical team tick. I wanted to know Eryn’s backstory and see how she got on the team to begin with. It was interesting to find out why she was a single mother and how she got into cyber security. In this book, she is the one being threatened so it’s personal. That’s a first for this series….they usually are working on a case! This is hard for Eryn because she doesn’t like being “coddled” or taken care of by others. She feels she can take care of herself. However, the person threatening her is so elusive and since she’s a single mother, she has to think of her daughter too. Enter, Trey Sawyer, a former Green Beret. He’s injured so he’s off duty but he’s been in love with Eryn for a long time and happens to be with her when she receives the threat. He decides he’s going to be her bodyguard! Two stubborn people together makes for delightful reading! I really liked Trey and the way he treated Eryn’s daughter was so cute! He was really trying to win over Eryn and show her she could trust him for a life partner too! I loved the danger of the situation AND the personal relationship going on. Both things made it a great book to read! I would definitely recommend it!
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author but was under no obligation to post a review. The opinions of this review are completely my own.
“Don’t make a sound. I have no qualms about dropping you right here.”
And so begins another of Susan Sleeman’s edge of your seat suspense books. Seriously, this author knows her business and writing suspense is something at which she totally excels.
Former FBI cyber security expert, Eryn Calloway, is now working for Blackwell Tactical and is teaching a security seminar at a resort venue when very dangerous malware shows up on her computer. She is warned not to continue the classes or she will find herself dead. Eryn is not one to run from danger. So former Green Beret and deputy Trey Sawyer agrees to be her bodyguard. Trey has secretly been in love with Eryn for quite some time, but she is constantly pushing him away. Widowed, with a small daughter, Eryn is convinced that if she never loves again, she will never experience heartbreak again.
Sleeman ratchets up the suspense chapter by chapter until the breathless ending of her stories. I always look forward to her books because I know I will be held enthralled for the time it takes me to finish one of her good books. I’m never disappointed. I love this series and I believe there will be two more books!! Highly recommended.
*My thanks to the author for a copy of this book. The opinion stated here is entirely my own.
Ms Sleeman takes us back to Cold Harbor, the home of Blackwell Tactical Investigations and where widowed cyber security expert, Eryn Calloway lives with her child, Bekha. Eryn is the only female at Blackwell’s and the guys treat her as family and one of their own.
Trey Sawyer, a deputy and former Green Beret, has known Eryn for a while, and has feelings for her. Now injured after helping save one of Blackwell’s significant other, he is at a desk job and questioning his future as a deputy. When Eryn needs a bodyguard for her and her daughter, he jumps at the opportunity not only to keep them safe but to get to know them both better.
While the suspense keeps you guessing and keep you engaged in the storyline, it’s the personal stories that always attract me to Ms Sleeman’s books. In this case, Eryn has kept her heart under lock and key for fear of falling in love and losing that person. She feels she can’t go through that experience again. Trey is patient and reminds her to have faith in God and his work. As danger gets closer , so do Eryn’s feelings for Trey grow.
Another great story in this series.
I voluntarily read this ARC copy. The opinions expressed are solely my own.