Guardian Angel by Abbie Zanders

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

They call him the Iceman. The eldest of seven brothers, he is the biggest. The coldest. The meanest. 

No one has been able to break through the icy shield Kane Callaghan has built around himself. No one except the tiny, stubborn woman willing to sacrifice herself for him. She haunts his dreams, but he has no idea who she is. Where she is. Or if he’ll ever see her again. 

Rebecca Harrison spent the last twelve years with humanitarian relief organizations, travelling to some of the hardest hit areas of the world, but none has ever affected her as much as that tiny village in Africa. Because of him. 

Fierce and beautiful and terrible, she can’t get him out of her mind. Kane. The avenging archangel who appeared out of nowhere, saving her from a fate worse than death. The one she was forced to leave behind. 

Worlds apart, they are bound by the events of that one horrible night, though the chances of ever meeting again are too small to dare even hope. Of course, neither one realizes just how clever Fate can be… 

Guardian Angel

Slow burn!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💜
Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌏
Character development: 🙃😊😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Rebecca – She was a humanitarian relief worker for over twelve years until she ended up in Africa in a small village when it was attacked by insurgents. Her coworker was killed by a bullet, and she was performing last rights over him when the insurgents grabbed her and pulled off her hair covering, showing her blonde hair for all to see. She was in danger of being raped and tortured by more than one of them.

The Hero: Kane – Kane is the biggest, oldest and most dangerous of the Callaghan brothers. He is a former Navy Seal who now works with his brothers and father doing contract special ops work for the government, the kind where they can do things that the military can’t. They are known as the Ghost team. Kane thinks he is become less than human with each mission, he sometimes retreats to the solitude of his cabin in the woods.

The Story: Kane was on a mission in Africa, where insurgents were raiding a small town, killing and raping. When Kane sees a relief worker trying to flee the village, so he knows there are probably more and if the let the insurgent leader go, he will do the same to more villages. They grabbed their target, but Kane couldn’t leave without saving the American woman he saw being captured. They had to get out of the open fast, when someone shot at them and Kane was shot in the hip. Rebecca grabbed Kane’s gun and took down the men charging at them.

Kane assumed the woman was a nun, because of the covering she wore and the fact that she was saying the Lord’s prayer over the dead relief worker. She was also insane as she didn’t give up and helped drag Kane out of there even as he was telling her to leave him and run to his brothers at their meeting point. After Kane was taken to the nearest medic, Rebecca went back to the village to try to save any survivors. He couldn’t stop thinking of her during his months of rehab.

Rebecca was on her way to see her brother Aiden in Pine Ridge, when terrible storms were in the area causing flooding and putting people out of their homes. As soon as she arrived, she started to help out in the building where the flood victims were being put up. Rebecca and Kane were both surprised to find each other in the same city. They got to know each other slowly and started spending more and more time together. This was a bit of a slow burn for me and though I liked how gentle the big guy was, I wanted him to be more of a take charge kind of guy romantically.

This audiobook was done in dual points of view via solo narration. It was narrated by Aiden Snow, who is one of my favorite male narrators. He has a terrific voice, which is deep and soft. He is a great narrator and is perfect for each of these strong Callaghan men. I like dual or duet narration a lot better, though if you are going to have only one narrator, Aiden Snow is the one to have!

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