The storm sweeps in like a thief in the night…Winter storm Holly is the worst in eighty years bringing high winds, subzero temperatures and snowfall better measured in feet than in inches. The weather paralyzes everything in its path, but, in this storm, weather isn’t the only threat.Emma Miller, a probationary security consultant posing as a reporter, is stranded at Portal International … International Airport in the worst storm in eighty years. She’s reassigned to protect a top-secret High Containment Lab in the international airport that houses the deadliest bio-contaminate diseases on the planet. A lab under attack by international terrorists who want those pathogens to sell on the black-market.
Dr. Gregory Mason Martin is a bio-containment specialist who runs the top-secret lab, and he knows Emma well. They grew up together, went to school together, and she’s always fascinated him, but she has a long-standing habit of going through men like water, so he’s kept his distance. He doesn’t dare to trust her or her abilities.
Now, all these years later, they must work together to protect the lab and stop the terrorists from obtaining the pathogens. And they must protect the pathogens from Holly, the deadly storm barreling mercilessly toward them. If those pathogens are stolen, the world will be held hostage, and worse, if mishandled, the country could be facing the worst pandemic in history. A pandemic that in short order could wipe out not just cities and states, but the entire nation.
Both are willing to risk their lives. Both are reluctant to risk their hearts. Yet events prove neither of them is who they were thought to be. And a fierce battle against terrorists and the storm proves challenging but no match for the challenges chambered in their human hearts.
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Fast-paced. Riveting. Emotional. Suspenseful. This book brings it ALL! It was an artful melding of heart-pounding thrills and nail-biting suspense.
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I love this book! Reviewers got it right they called DEEP FREEZE “awesome” and “spell-binding.” Highly recommended!
Deep Freeze
Vicki Hinze
A high containment lab located 4 stories underneath an international airport is a target for terrorists during a snow storm of the century that hampers having resources to help protect it and the people trapped there.
Can Emma protect them and the world until help can reach them? A can’t put it down until the end kind of book. Strong characters who work together through what the terrorists throw at them.
A great second story in this Storm Watch series.
This is the first time in reading this author with me scratching my head in wonderment on how I had not before now. This caught my eye being some of the other authors I saw how they too have one in this series. It lays the ground with a bad storm with I know how they can be having been in a couple of blizzards myself. Emma will be giving us some excellent intrigue with it causing us to be pulled more than once. Than there is also Gregory whom they do know each other but from time past. Now thanks to circumstances they must learn each other fast and work together or something bad will really happen. What a thriller you will be given a top notch one with it being a good reason it left me scratching my head when I finished but not from this novel but from how but so glad I did not.
DEEP..FREEZE..
….by.Vicki..Hinze
A winter storm closes an airport, underneath was a highly contaminated laboratory. Thieves wanted the pathogen and then to sell to the highest bidder. Mixed plot of mystery and some romance. With Dr Martin who runs
the lab, an Emma a rookie security consultant. A stand alone, and a series
written by different authors. Was a short read and a good plot.
Given ARC for my voluntary review and my honest opinion by Net Galley
and Booksgosocial.
This is the second book in the stormwatch series and my first book by Vicki Hinze. I really like this series and can’t wait to read them all.
This one is a fast paced, thriller filled with lots of action. Its fiction, so I choose to believe the setting the author bought to life. There were great characters, gun fights, life and death situations, a little romance, and during storm Holly, what more could you want???
Can’t wait to see where the storm leads us next.
#StormHolly #Stormwatch #VickiHinze #Lotsofaction
Winter storm Holly is descending on Colorado with a vengeance and Emma Miller is stuck at the Portal International Airport. She was on her way to her next assignment as a security consultant in the guise of an investigative reporter. Plans have changed and she is to assist Dr. Gregory Martin, a bio containment specialist. She and Gregory have been at cross purposes for years as she thought he wasn’t interested and he was waiting for her to realize that he was the one for her. Unbeknownst to the public, there is a high containment lab under the airport that was to be moved to Atlanta, but due to the storm has been postponed. Gregory soon realizes that Holly is not just a reporter as she works to counter a threat of a terrorist attack. It will take all their combined skills to protect the dangerous pathogens and keep the public safe. I received an advance review copy at no cost and without obligation for an honest review. (by paytonpuppy)
Hinze has crafted an amazing adventure with resiliant characters determined to succeed against all odds.
Emma is a security specialist sent on a mission to help out. She is sent to where there is a high security needed but sent in as a reporter. She is on an airplane when it they make the announcement that Holly The Storm watch has come into effect. They are now stuck at the Airport. When she call to find out her next assignment and finds out it is to access the situation and protect the the chatter from become truth.
Dr. Mason is in charge of the his faculties and when Emma arrives he is not happy. Emma is there to keep them safe. Even though they have a background together .
He was her through and think he know her but don’t.
During the walk through they get attacked by Holly the storm some terrorists who is trying to blow up the Lab that Dr. Mason has been working at. With the blows it has caused very terrible things to happen.
One of the colleagues of Drs. Child becomes ill during the attack. You will have to get to read from the first page to the last it is no stop from front to back.
This is very non stop action and emotional story. I love the characters and I felt like I was there in the book when I read it. It felt very real to me.
Emma works under a deep-cover as a reporter for a covert agency. She is really a newbie security specialist. Her bosses aren’t exactly happy with her – not only do her looks garner interest wherever she goes, but her writing is being lauded. Not exactly flying under the radar!
With Storm Holly on her way Emma is diverted to bring extra security to a hidden lab under Portal International Airport. She was a bit overwhelmed when she realises the guy in charge is her childhood friend and unrequited crush! Mason still can’t understand why his call for aid to HQ has landed him a reporter. Especially one with such flighty tendencies as Emma. God knows he lusted after her but he wasn’t willing to be another flavour of the week in the buffet!
As the storm intensifies Mason, Emma and the other inhabitants of the lab and Airport are going to face a major challenge when someone goes after the viruses in the lab.
Oh wow. What a great read. I loved little Jacob and Olivia. Olivia is going to be handful when she gets older! I was a bit overawed by the lab under the airport. How on earth did that get past the planners???? I could have slapped Emma and Mason occasionally for being pig-headed and cowardly when they should have taken a big dose of courage and went for what they wanted!
Book two of the Stormwatch Series by Vicki Hinze. As the worst blizzard in 80 years, Holly, bears down on Portal Colorado, Emma Miller wonders how she can get home. Emma learns this closed airport with thousands of stranded travelers is her next assignment for her undercover job as a security specialist, in training, for the Silencers Agency. Unbelievably the airport sits on top, literally, on top of a High containment lab. Adding the impossible situation of protecting this supposedly highly “secret” bio- contamination lab alone, against an imminent terrorist attack, the man she must work with, the head of the lab, is Dr. Gregory Mason Martin. A man she’s known for many years. The man no other man could live up to. The man who had no interest in Emma but stole her heart. As hard as she tried she couldn’t find any other man, and she went through a lot, who could keep her interest. Together they must defend the lab. He has never even fired a weapon and they must stop the inconceivable theft of one of the worst pathogens in existence. He doesn’t know of her special skills and she’s not allowed to tell him as she works to eliminate those bent on stealing what could destroy mankind. All the while a storm rages and thousands of people are oblivious to the dangers that lay below them. Fast paced read as Holly wrecks havoc on the area.
I was sadly disappointed in this book because I loved the first Stormwatch book. Each book has a different author so I shouldn’t be too hard on Ms. Hinze. I don’t particularly like books with terrorism as a part of the plot. I’m sure others will Enjoy this book.
DEEP FREEZE is second book in STORMWATCH series Combine deadly winter storm with danger of major pandemic along with two people who are intrigued by each other yet wary of their feelings and get instant explosive situation. This book is a cannot-put-down till finished! Highly recommend!!
Winter storm Holly means business as it bears down on Colorado, and travelers are stranded all over the state including Portal International Airport. Unbeknownst to these weary, trapped travelers, a top-secret High Containment Lab containing some of the deadliest pathogens known to man is right below their feet! And worse, there is credible evidence that an attack on the lab is imminent!Emma Miller, a probationary security consultant who has been grounded in Portal on her way home from her last assignment but now is redirected to handle this emergency. She is totally qualified but the person in charge just happens to be the one man that has always doubted her.
Dr. Gregory Mason Martin is a bio-containment specialist who runs the top-secret lab and knows Emma well. They grew up together and went to school together but in his mind, her “flighty” nature leaves him doubting her abilities to stop the threat and keep the lab safe from the terrorists determined to breach security and the lab to get their hands on the deadly secrets within.With threats coming at them from all sides and lives on the line, Emma and “Mason” might just learn a few things about each other and themselves as they fight to keep everyone safe from both nature and the greed of men willing to set off a pandemic of epic proportion for the love of money.Fast and action-packed, book two in this amazing series is a must-read.
Emma is a security specialist sent to the airport in Portal, Colorado, just as a history-making snow storm is bearing down on them. Her assignment is very unusual, to protect a secret lab built way underground that houses some deadly pathogens. The action was fast-paced and non-stop, taking the reader deep into the bowels of the airport. In fulfilling her duties, Emma is forced to work with Mason, a scientist who was once well-known to her. The story was believable and terrifying at times, with terrorists striking at the most opportune time but also the time when little assistance was available to those trying to keep the lab safe. Vicki Hinze did a great job of continuing the story line of the Storm Watch series, creating a scenario that kept me enthralled from beginning to end. Fans of romantic suspense will definitely enjoy this book and it is a clean read.
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Another exciting read in the Stormwatch series. Emma Miller is a probationary security specialist who poses as a reporter. She is stranded at the Portal International Airport in Colorado during winter storm Holly and is contacted to secure and protect a hidden biological storage facility below the airport because a terrorist attack is imminent. The manager of the bio-containment lab is Dr. Gregory Mason Martin, Emma’s crush from years ago. The harrowing events of the attack on the lab and the infection of a child onsite have them working together and discovering some truths about each other. This is a page turner through most of the story, but lags just a bit at the end. As a reader I was happy to see Emma and Mason get their happily ever after.
Emma Miller is a rookie security consultant posing as a reporter. She’s being assigned to protect a top secret High Contaminant Lab that’s housed at an international airport. Kind of strange place to have a lab full of biological warfare diseases stored … 4 floors below the actual airport.
It’s even more dangerous now with a huge winter storm bearing down on them. But weather isn’t the only problem … Emma’s security company has reason to believe that this lab is being targeted by terrorists.
Dr. Gregory Mason Martin is the specialist who runs the lab … and he and Emma have a history. They grew up together and although she rather fancied him, he kept his distance.
Book Blurb: Now, all these years later, they must work together to protect the lab and stop the terrorists from obtaining the pathogens. And they must protect the pathogens from Holly, the deadly storm barreling mercilessly toward them. If those pathogens are stolen, the world will be held hostage, and worse, if mishandled, the country could be facing the worst pandemic in history. A pandemic that in short order could wipe out not just cities and states, but the entire nation.
Lots of excitement here … especially with a super big snowstorm and over 5000 people stranded at the airport temporarily. Between the storm and terrorists, Emma and Gregory find themselves working together to save everyone.
The characters are finely drawn, but credibility is stretched with having this kind of lab under an airport, filled with diseases that could wipe out the world. But it is an entertaining read, nonetheless.
Many thanks to the author / BooksGoSocial / Netgalley for the digital copy of this Romantic Suspense. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
Impossible to believe
This is the second short stand-alone novel in a series centered around Winter Storm Holly.
I enjoyed the story but could not get past the unbelievability of having a high containment facility located underneath a busy international airport – a fictional airport.
I really enjoyed the first story in the series and one reason was that it was located in an actual real town in Montana. There is no Portal, Colorado, much less an international airport based there or a high containment facility. To me, who grew up in Colorado, it really took away from the story.
I received this book from BooksGoSocial through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.
I received a ARC of Deep Freeze by Vicki Hinze from NetGalley and the publisher and this is my fair and honest review of the book.
The second book in a new series, this one also centers around the massive snow storm Holly. Who would ever think of building a secret lab underground at a airport, although this book was action packed and well written I still found it a little hard to believe. It was a decent book, just not up to the standard I expected after reading the first book by Debra Webb. I would give the book an overall 3 star rating