Blake by Nyssa Kathryn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A past that can’t be changed. A future as uncertain as their relationship….

Willow Foster has been a single mother for most of her young daughter’s life, ever since the girl’s father—a man Willow thought she’d be with forever—inexplicably disappeared. Now, just as mysteriously, he’s back, living in Cradle Mountain, Idaho. Blake has always been her weakness, and while she’s no longer willing to risk her heart, Willow relocates so her daughter can build a relationship with the father she barely knows.

She can only pray she doesn’t lose part of herself in the process. 

Blake Cross’s life changed for the better when he learned he was having a daughter. Then, two years later, it changed for the worse when he was kidnapped and separated from his family. Finally free, his priority is his family. Blake may no longer own his wife’s heart, but he still cares deeply for Willow. He can’t change their past, but he can promise a better future.

Or can he? When Willow’s life is threatened on more than one occasion, both their futures are a lot less certain, forcing Blake to risk everything to protect the mother of his child—and the woman he never stopped loving.

Blake

Fear and loathing on Cradle Mountain!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: ☹️😮😋😄
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The Hero: Blake – when his daughter Mila was two years old and he was a Navy Seal, he was taken from a hotel room and held for over two years by Project Arma. It was a government sponsored project designed to create super soldiers through DNA manipulation. He was given drugs and animal DNA to alter his own DNA and trained along with his team. He and his team have heightened hearing, vision, healing abilities, they are faster and stronger than normal men. Now they are free and living in Cradle Mountain, Idaho and they own Blue Halo Security together. They still go on missions for the government, the kind of missions that normal soldiers can’t and won’t take on.

The heroine: Willow – she is married to Blake, and she had been suffering from severe post-partum depression when Blake disappeared. She got help and now is a great mother to their daughter, she is also attending college to become a teacher. She is in her last year of college. Since Blake was freed and returned, she has been resistant to get back together with him because things were not great in their marriage to begin with, since he had been gone so much, and she had undiagnosed depression. Though they have been co-parenting Mila.

The Story: Blake and Willow had been together since they first met when she was thirteen and he was fifteen. Blake knows there is nobody else for him but her and wants nothing more than to get back together. Willow loves Blake but is afraid more than anything. I usually don’t like second chance romances, and this one wasn’t my favorite in the series so far, but it wasn’t bad. The storylines were good and there was a failed mission to get a terrorist involved as well as some crazy judgmental christian’s who think the guys aren’t natural.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Joe Arden and Callie Dalton. Both of these are good narrators. I love Joe Arden’s gravelly voice and Callie Dalton is very expressive and her voice is soft and feminine. Overall, I liked this book, though not quite as much as the first few. I do plan to listen to the rest of the series as well. The books in this series have some terrific narrators.

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