Happy Friday! I hope you’re all staying healthy and doing well after another week of quarantine/isolation. I know I’m looking forward to diving in to a good book this weekend! 🙂

Today I’m linking up with Hoarding Books for another First Line Friday, and featuring Cara Putman’s upcoming release, Flight Risk. Keep reading for the first line and my review below!

Monday, December 7

“‘Savannah, call for you on line one. Says he’s a reporter. Never heard of him.'”

Flight Risk by Cara Putman

The Basics

Title: Flight Risk

Author: Cara Putman

Publication Date: April 7, 2020

Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense

My Rating: 4/5 Stars

From the Back Cover: Savannah Daniels has worked hard to build her law practice, to surround herself with good friends, and to be the loyal aunt her troubled niece can always count on. But since her ex-husband’s betrayal, she has trouble trusting anyone.

Jett Glover’s father committed suicide over a false newspaper report that ruined his reputation. Now a fierce champion of truth, Jett is writing the story of his journalism career—an international sex-trafficking exposé that will bring down a celebrity baseball player and the men closest to him, including Savannah’s ex-husband.

When Jett’s story breaks, tragedy ensues. Then a commercial airline crashes, and one of Savannah’s clients is implicated in the crash. Men connected to the scandal, including her ex, begin to die amid mysterious circumstances, and Savannah’s niece becomes an unwitting target.

Against their better instincts, Jett and Savannah join ranks to sort the facts from fiction. But can Savannah trust the reporter who threw her life into chaos? And can Jett face the possibility that he’s made the biggest mistake of his life?

My Thoughts

This book is part legal thriller, part suspense, and full of high-stakes action! With complex characters and an intricately woven plot, Cara Putman has cemented her position as one of my go-to suspense authors. The main characters in the story are a lawyer and an investigative reporter, allowing the story to be told in a unique way. The development of their relationship – from antagonistic, to begrudgingly working together, to friendship and eventually more – feels genuine and natural. I appreciated that they are a little older than main characters typically are in this genre; their life experiences and past struggles make the story much richer, and their romance is based on a foundation of friendship that makes sense with their story.

As with any good suspense novel, there is much more to the story than what meets the eye, and the discovery at the end of who was behind it all was just as shocking to me as it was to the characters!

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I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.