Ranger Protector

Texas Ranger Jack MacKinnon receives a short but urgent phone call from his partner Wade Hamilton; Jack is to pick up Megan Harper at Bergstrom Airport. Megan is flying from Dallas to Austin, and she has the nagging feeling she’s being watched; but why? And she isn’t wrong, when a decidedly unfriendly man approaches her, and Megan gets rid of him rather creatively. Then there’s Jack, whom Megan doesn’t know, but he has Megan’s friend Therese on the phone, and Therese says someone is trying to kill Megan. A little while later, it seems all this is true, as it turns out Megan has been drugged! And all this is in the first few pages as Angi Morgan takes us on another grand adventure in Texas! I loved not knowing any more than Megan and Jack about what was going on, and learning about it as they find out, with much difficulty and a lot of very cold water! Megan works for the State Fire Marshal’s Office, but she had once been a police officer, so she’s not clueless, and she reacted like a reasonable and professional individual throughout; if Megan didn’t stop breathing, I think I did in a few instances! Bless Angi Morgan for that mention about the “electric shock”, which I will never forget, as well as other witty remarks that popped up here and there, and felt precisely how people think and act, even when their lives are in danger. The characters are great all-around, from Jack’s nosey neighbour to his father Jack Sr., with whom he has a complicated relationship. We see glimpses of Wade and Therese – whom I suspect will be in future books – and Wade seems just as reckless as Jack says he is. RANGER PROTECTOR’s plot is quite complex, and I just loved how the romance was ever so deftly blended in. Megan and Jack act on their attraction like reasonable adults whose lives are in danger, but still manage flirtatious and playful banter all the while. The make a great team and a great couple, with palpable chemistry, and I enjoyed so much that Megan did not act like a damsel in distress, even though in fact, she was. I must say that the romance in RANGER PROTECTOR is absolutely perfect, and exactly what I expect in a romantic suspense; I believed in Megan and Jack every step of the way, and you know that theirs is a real happily ever after because of how they are towards each other. RANGER PROTECTOR is a solidly plotted suspense, very quick-paced, with appealing characters, and with just my kind of romance; this is a most excellent book! I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book.