Susan Stoker
Rescuing Casey
Delta Force Heroes Book 7
Release Date January 16th, 2018
One-minute Casey Shea was minding her own business, doing her job, teaching entomology to college students, and the next she was in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle fighting for her life.
Troy “Beatle” Lennon had watched his friends fall head over heels in love, but never thought it would happen to him. Until he sees a picture of one of his teammates’ sisters. That was it. The absolute joy in her eyes calls to him in a way he can't understand.
But that joy is currently being threatened by an unknown person who’d had Casey kidnapped and hidden deep in the jungle. It’s up to Beatle to find her and keep her safe until the threat against her can be neutralized. Surviving the dangers of the jungle turns out to be the easy part…staying ahead of the killer is much more complicated…and deadly.
**Rescuing Casey is the 7th book in the Delta Force Heroes Series. Each book is a stand-alone, with no cliffhanger endings.
MY REVIEW:
The newest Delta Force novel is EVERYTHING you could possibly want and enjoy in a story from Susan Stoker. Its sweet, its exciting as Beatle and his teammates get Casey through the jungle and to safety. It makes your heart pound and make you swoon as we watch Beatle care for Casey. His determination to keep her safe and to take care of her will easily make you swoon and your heart flop in your chest. I kept getting the butterfly feeling with each of his amazing actions. And Casey...she was such an amazing woman. Strong, capable, she kept things together at all the right times and when she had some minor issues arise because of her kidnapping, Beatle was RIGHT there for her. I honestly can't stop loving on these incredible stories of Susan Stoker and think the Delta Force heroes are some of my FAVORITES.
Rescuing Casey has the kind of heat and tenderness I know and love so much from Miss Stoker. The heat is always a pleasant burn. There is a almost, insta-love that can make ANY girl sigh. You can't find heroes that are any hotter or more caring than one written by Miss Stoker and women will fall...HARD for Beatle. I did within the first chapter. And the suspense and action had me hanging on to the edge of my seat. God, I just LOVED this book!
I give Rescuing Casey a MIND BLOWING FIVE SHOOTING STARS! If you are just getting started with Susan Stoker, why not, go ahead and pick up Rescuing Casey...I am positive you will go running for her other books after finishing this one.
EXCERPT:
Casey sucked the scant moisture from the underside of her bra
desperately. The half swallow of liquid she’d collected since the last time
she’d checked her makeshift filter wasn’t enough. Wasn’t nearly enough.
She was dying. She could live without food for a long time,
but not without water. The irony of it was that she stood ankle deep in liquid,
but none of it drinkable.
Water had trickled into her prison fairly regularly at first.
She’d heard it dripping down the wall. Always coming from the same place. She’d
been cautious as first, not sure she should risk drinking the liquid leaking
into the hole she was in. But when no one appeared to give her sustenance like
they’d been doing when she was in the hut with her students, she’d made the
filter with her bra.
It had worked surprisingly well. She managed to wedge it into
the side of the hole and catch the water with the cup. She’d then licked the
filtered water as it had seeped through the material of the bra. It wasn’t
exactly clean, but at least she didn’t have to lick the mud off the walls.
But recently her water source had dried up. Casey had no
concept of time in the darkness of her prison, but assumed it had been several
days. Whereas before the water had been a fairly steady stream, now it was
barely a trickle.
She’d spoken with her brother once about a time he’d been
held hostage in the desert in the Middle East. He hadn’t been held long, thank
God, but he’d told her about how helpless he’d felt, and how miserable the
conditions were, though at no time had he allowed himself to believe he would
die there. That had been the key to him overcoming the horrific circumstances,
and the torture his captors had put him and his team through. He’d stressed
that over and over. That mental toughness was the best thing she could use to
help herself.
But Casey wasn’t that strong.
She almost thought that torture and rape would’ve been better
than this.
Being buried alive and slowly dying of lack of water.
She could drink the putrid mess at her feet, but it would do
her more harm than good, give her diarrhea, thus making her lose more liquid
from inside her body, not to mention having to stand in the mess.
She hadn’t had to pee in quite a while, which she knew wasn’t
a good sign. She was getting just enough water through her bra filter to keep
her alive, but she’d begun to think she might as well stop trying.
Casey blinked, trying in vain to see any kind of light,
without success. Pulling her feet up out of the brackish water at the bottom of
the hole, she grabbed hold of them with her arms. Laying her head on her bent
knees, she closed her eyes. Maybe she could fall asleep and just not wake up.
She was tired. So tired.
Aspen wasn’t coming for her. She had to stop kidding herself.
She hadn’t heard any kind of noise above her head in what seemed like forever,
not since the gunshots. She was in the middle of a jungle in Costa Rica. Buried
deep in the ground in a tomb. No one was ever going to find her.
New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Susan Stoker has a heart as big as the state of Texas where she lives, but this all-American girl has also spent the last fourteen years living in Missouri, California, Colorado, and Indiana. She's married to a retired Army man who now gets to follow her around the country.
She debuted her first series in 2014 and quickly followed that up with the SEAL of Protection Series, which solidified her love of writing and creating stories readers can get lost in.
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