Laney was a woman on the run. Her ex-husband, who just happened to be a cop, had a penchant for violence and, after Laney took their daughter and ran, he had a promise for revenge. She’d made a new life with a new name and had plans to stay hidden forever, but even the best laid plans go wrong… Forced to rush her daughter to the hospital Laney’s location is revealed. Laney had vowed to never seek … never seek help from the man again, until Riser’s 200 pounds of packed muscle made her his own personal mission. He vowed to protect her and her daughter from her ex, but could she trust him with their lives when she’d been burned so badly in the past?
Riser Malone was an admitted adrenaline junkie whose distraction on a crucial mission last year had resulted in complete failure of his objective: protect the girl. Unable to face his failure, Riser accepted every mission put before him, but a lull in the terrorist tempo left him with too much time on his hands back home. He needed a distraction, and he needed it badly.
And that distraction showed up in the form of Laney and her daughter.
With an abusive ex bearing down on her, Riser saw his second chance at redemption. And after one night with her, Riser knew his bachelorhood was over, but if he ever had any hope for a relationship with Laney in the future, he’d have to make sure her abusive ex-husband would never harm her again.
This book was previously published as Riser’s Resolve.
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**I received a copy of Riser’s Resolve from the author and Foreward PR & Marketing in exchange for a voluntary and honest review**
Riser’s Resolve by Lindsay Cross is book 12 in her Men of Mercy series. I’ve had the pleasure of reading each one and have to say that she just gets better each and every time. This story features Riser and Laney and her daughter Lily.
Riser still feels the guilt from the loss of a team mate in a fire fight and also Caroline Cotter but when he sees Laney holding a very ill Lily at the ER. He knows he must protect her as well as getting her the medical help for Lily. When he accidentally gives the nurse her real name, it will set off warning bells for her abusive ex-husband putting them both at risk. He does the only thing he’s really good at, protecting her at all costs while taking her on the run. If you’ve read any of the previous books you’ll recognize Bo, Cheri and the twins and know that they protect those they love.
Laney is on the run from her abusive husband, Mark, who has threatened her and now Lily with bodily harm if he gives him. He also has a network of ears and eyes just waiting her her to slip up so that he can find her and their daughter. But when her child falls very ill she know her days of hiding are over. She also knows that if he catches her this time it may be her last. Riser and Laney know each other from the bar in Mercy where she works But when they give into their attraction it will be a wild ride and one she hopes will last forever.
Will Laney and Riser be able to survive her ex and become a family that they all crave? I highly recommend this book and its a great addition to the Men of Mercy series.
Riser is in the emergency room after a bar fight that took place in the previous book. He sees a woman with a sick child, realizes he knows the woman who is being given the insurance run-around, steps in to make things right and then is sucked into a situation that requires his skills-set and also impacts him emotionally. What started out as him being helpful ended up putting Laney in danger again but also provided the perfect situation for a romantic suspense novella. It is a quick read with a quick to ignite romance that might not seem believable but then I usually consider this type of story more of a romantic fantasy than reality 😉
What I liked:
*Riser makes a wonderful book boyfriend
*Laney is a strong woman who puts her daughter first – but also knows what she wants and is willing to do what it takes to get it
*The story mentions characters from previous books that I have enjoyed
*The bad guy gets his comeuppance
What I didn’t like? Can’t really think of anything…
Thank you to the author for the ARC – This is my honest review.
4.5 Stars
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Laney Browder, 25, keeps her life very quiet but when she needs to have her 3 year old daughter, Lily, to the hospital she is ignored until Riser Malone comes to her rescue.
Riser Malone is a man who lives with regret regarding a woman he couldn’t save, Caroline Cotter. When he realizes that Laney needs some help he gets her the help that her daughter needs. But when Riser makes a mistake that puts Laney in danger he knows that he needs to do everything he can to keep her safe.
Will Riser be able to keep Laney safe from a past that won’t give up?
This is another awesome book in this incredible series! I love all of the men that are in the series and I love how each one is different, yet connected.
I loved Laney and as a mom I completely understand the need to keep my child completely safe – no matter what I had to do. She had to keep Lily safe and I felt so bad when everything fell apart for her. I loved though that through it all she was able to realize that Riser was the man for her and one that would protect her.
Riser was so awesome! I loved that he put Lily ahead of his own needs and was willing to help pay for everything. When he realized the mistake he made he did everything he could to keep Laney safe and take care of any problems that they may have. I still love Bo and that he was there for them!!
This is such a great series and I can’t wait to see what comes next!!
WOW, what an intense and emotional read, an alpha male that meets his one and does everything he can to protect her…and she is a strong, courageous woman that needs his help but just can’t quite trust. Can he keep her safe without her running and claim the lady in the end? Grab this one and get ready to keep turning pages, grab some tissues for the tears and ride the roller coaster.
The Men of Mercy have become an addiction; and one I’m more than happy to have.
Riser brings his own brand of adrenaline packed action to this story and shows the typical serve and protect instincts, we as readers have come to expect from this take-no-prisons series. Laney lands on Riser’s radar just when he needs to prove that his past failure doesn’t define him, and offers an opportunity for his need to succeed.
I can’t begin to say how much I adore this series and Ruthless River (previously Riser’s Resolve) is every bit as gripping as previous books!
He needs to be ruthless to protect an innocent from her abusive ex…
Despite the fact that RUTHLESS RIVER is a fast-paced, page-turning story (I so wanted more of this story) – it still gifts you a beautiful and heart touching story for Riser and Laney, and her beautiful daughter, Lily. RUTHLESS RIVER Bk 6.6 in the Men of Mercy series, delivers high speed suspense, drama and intrigue… this time the stakes are extremely personal, rather than a Task Force Scorpion assignment.
Get ready for Riser, no matter that he’s already sporting his own injuries, he’ll be on his A game, absolutely ruthless in protecting this innocent lady and her child from the abusiveness and power of her ex husband. Just maybe, in doing so can make amends and find redemption from his own guilt and past error’s in judgement.
Both character’s have baggage… for some that baggage is abusive and potentially deadly. You do whatever it takes to remain hidden. Until a medical emergency and the unwitting help from a stranger in the hospital exposes your hidden identity…time has suddenly run out.
Riser has always noticed Laney when he’s been at the bar where she is working but pushes those thoughts aside for easier pickings. He sees that she is the forever type and that’s the last thing he is looking for when all he is wanting is to resolve and amend the past. It’s an act of kindness and help in an emergency with her child, and finding out her background that forever changes everything for Riser.
Lindsay Cross constantly brings you stories that are not only filled with that romantic suspense and intriguing drama… but stories that touch your heart and raise awareness at the injustices people can face in their time of need. For those that love the heroism, military-bearing alpha male, those that will give their all to protect and love… RUTHLESS RIVER is such a beautiful, intense story for you to be swept away.
While part of an expansive larger series and universe, this book can be read as stand-alone.
This series follows Riser and Laney. After needing stitched back up after a bar fight, Riser meets Laney and her daughter in the ER. Laney’s on the run from an abusive ex, needs some help and Riser is just in the right place at the right time to be that guy. Seeing this two fall together and escape / move beyond their pasts is a sweet, fast-moving romance.
I’ll admit this is one of those stories where you just have to suspend disbelief and dive right in. Sometimes those are the best escape! I also feel like I’ve been in this world before, so I’m definitely going to have to check back and see what else I’ve read by this author!
This is the story of Riser Malone. Riser never got over his mission failure to protect a woman, Caroline. Now he mets Laney, a woman on the run from her abusive ex-husband who is also a cop. When Laney is forced to take her daughter to the hospital she meets Riser who is also there in the ER seeking treatment. His protective side comes forth when he sees that she is having trouble getting her daughter seen by a doctor. Riser is determined to help this woman, especially since he still feels guilt over his previous failure to protect a woman. When Laney’s location is unwittingly revealed the story quickly gets exciting.
Once again this author delivers an exciting, suspenseful and fast paced story. It also has some steamy hot sexy romance! It gets very intense and will pull on your emotions, as it pulled on mine. The story is very well written with loads of drama, intensity and suspense that moves at a very good pace. The characters are complex and very lovable. This book has it all! Lindsay’s books never disappoint. Very highly recommended.
Great story! Guilt is holding Riser Mallon in a vice, he must find a way to redeem himself before he can truly move on with his life. Laney Browder is hiding with her daughter Lily from her abusive husband who just so happens to be a dirty cop but still a cop. After first abuse she went to her husbands’ partner and told him about it, the partner said, that’s just the way it was that Mark had a stressful job and she needed to let him relieve his stress on her. So, Laney has been hiding off the grid working for cash at a bar and doing everything with cash, no credit cards, nothing just to be safe and keep her daughter safe.
Lily gets sick and Laney takes her to the ER a couple of towns away from where she lives. The ER doctor is trying to get them to leave because she doesn’t have insurance. That’s when Riser Mallon steps up to start his white knight role, he talks to the director and suddenly Lily is being taken back to be checked. Riser’s in the ER because he was out with his buddies and they were in a bar fight and he was stabbed in the side. Angry because the hospital was going to try to turn away a very sick little girl, he makes sure she is taken care of especially when she is taken to emergency surgery for an appendicitis.
Riser inadvertently provides the ER with Laney’s information, not knowing that she was on the run from her ex. And drama begins, the ER staff notify the police that they have a possible kidnapper and victim in the ER and that’s when Laney tells Riser about her ex, Mark Browder abused her and she took it until it looked like he was going after her daughter, then she took Lily and ran. Mark being a cop found her once and beat her badly, Laney finally escaped him. Mark put a kidnapping warrant out for her, so he can find her if something like this were to happen. If her ex finds her, he’ll kill her.
Riser feeling horrible about outing her, helps her escape the police that are now at the hospital searching for her. With the help of their local sheriff, Bo Lawson a by the books lawman who hates dirty cops and anyone who abuses their wife and or kids.
With a call from the hospital telling Laney that Lily is in a serious situation and they need her back at the hospital, she doesn’t think twice about it she leaves Riser sleeping, takes his truck an heads for the hospital, she knows it probably a trap but when the nurse says her daughter could die, she races to the hospital without a second thought. Riser wakes up when he hears his truck start up and knows something is wrong, that someone must have contacted Laney and she’s headed back to the hospital. Riser calls Aaron Speirs from his team Task Force Scorpion (TF-S), a branch of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) based out of Ft. Grenada, MS, Aaron jumped at the chance to teach a lesson to an abuser, so Riser directed him to head to the hospital to keep an eye on Mark and to help protect Laney when she gets there, he’s on his way.
Laney gets to the hospital and Mark grabs her and beats her in the parking lot and throws her in his car and takes off he plans on punishing her and tells her all about it. Laney is on the verge of being unconscious, when Mark say’s that he will just have to take his stress out on Lily, she attacks him from the back seat of the SUV clawing at him, there is nothing like a woman protecting her child! They crash and as they do Riser comes upon them and pulls Laney out of the crumpled SUV, he wants nothing more than to kill Mark for what he has just done to Laney, her face and body show the signs of the beating Mark gave her.
Laney must talk Riser down from this rage or she knows that she will lose what they have just found with each other.
Mark is sent to prison not only for his abuse of his wife but for selling drugs on the side of his police job, he’s getting 20+ years. Laney and Lily move in with Riser who is still her white knight but the love of her life. Lily loves and adores him and he does her also.
Great read, the issue with the hospital bothered me, everyone should receive medical are regardless if they can pay for it now or not, also the abuse from a cop on his wife and kids makes me very angry, the police should be held to a higher standard and monitored so that we can all be safe from the dirty cops out there.
Ruthless River by Lindsay Cross is book 6.6 in the Men of Mercy Series. This is the story of Riser and Laney. Riser over hears Laney begging for help for her daughter in the hospital when a Dr reports that if she doesn’t have insurance he can’t help her. Riser steps forward to get her that help which then opens him up to helping her and her daughter more when he learns what is going on. In addition to the feelings that he is having for her and she for him.
This was a quick exciting read!
Love the Men of Mercy series. This books just jumps right into the action. I’m a sucker for an alpha man like Riser who steps up to protect Laney and her daughter. Books like this I just can’t put down.
Laney is a young mom with a 3 year old daughter who is very sick. The hospital ER is denying treatment since they have no insurance. Riser is a military man – Special Forces, SEAL, Ranger, something along those lines but he’s evasive about that when Laney asks. He makes the doctor examine the little girl, who needs an emergency appendectomy. in the chaos, a nurse tells Riser that Laney didn’t fill out all the paperwork so he uses information in her wallet to do it for her, thinking he is helping. Of course, this alerts Laney’s abusive police officer ex husband to her location and all hell breaks loose.
The synopsis sounded good, so I went into this book with high hopes. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. First of all, this is a very short book. It could easily be 2 chapters of a full length novel, and honestly a longer book would have made this a better story. The entire story takes place in one evening, except for a short epilogue set 3 months later. As it is now, things get a little ridiculous.
First, though, I’ll say what I *did* like. Laney is a great mom and a fighter. She will do anything to keep her daughter safe, including going head to head with the hospital staff.
The parts I didn’t like, though? I’m sorry, but that’s a lot. The very first thing that made my mouth fall open with disbelief (in a “there is no way that would ever happen” way) was when, less than 2 hours after her daughter was rushed away for emergency surgery, then a police chase and all the fear for her daughter’s health and both their lives, Laney practically jumps Riser and they sleep together. As a mother, and one whose child had unplanned surgery, I can tell you there is no way on Earth Laney can put aside that gut-clenching fear and worry and start banging the guy she barely knows, complete with multiple orgasms. Especially since they had to run while her daughter was still in surgery and she doesn’t know how it went. Granted, they weren’t strangers, but the extent of their prior knowledge of each other was first names only, since she was a bartender in a bar he frequented. My other big dislike was the instalove. It’s no secret I hate instalove, but under these circumstances it’s eye-rollingly awful. There is no way that either one of them, with their backgrounds and baggage, suddenly got over all their issues overnight, especially not this night.
Like I said earlier, if this was a longer book and the plot and characters were better fleshed out, this could be really good. But this… it just isn’t.
I was kindly provided this book as an ARC; in exchange for my honest review. If you’ve previously read Riser’s Resolve (Kindle Worlds); then you’ve read this book. This is another one of the books affected by Amazon’s stupidity. Sadly reader and authors are paying the price..
If you’re new to the Men of Mercy series, you may want to read the series in order; it’s not critical for this book, but may help you understand the references and names mentioned. This story centers on Riser and Laney. Riser is a spec ops guy who works with Task Force Scorpion. Laney is a young mother on the run with her little girl from her abusive husband. Riser steps in and the rest as they say, is up to you to read! This is a good story, moves fast, and is an easy/fast read.