Code of Honor

Hornet, #4

by Tonya Burrows

Jesse Warrick used to consider himself a kickass medic, but a teammate’s brush with death has him questioning everything. Now he’s been promoted to field commander of HORNET. How can he lead when he can’t get his shit together? And how can he focus when the sexy new recruit makes him want to break the rules?

Lanie Delcambre can’t seem to find solid footing within the elite hostage rescue team. Worse, the man she’s loved for most of her life is now her boss. She’d kill to act on the chemistry between her and Jesse, but she can’t risk ruining her career.

It was only supposed to be a training mission. No live ammo, no hostages, and no real bad guys—only someone didn’t give the bad guys that memo. When their hotel is taken hostage with half of HORNET inside, Jesse and Lanie are the team’s only hope of escaping alive…

While technically this is a suspense romance, it definitely falls more on the suspense side.  It’s just stuffed full of danger, intrigue, betrayal – the action pretty much doesn’t stop once it gets started.  But there is also the long-held feelings between Lanie and Jesse that need to be addressed, as well as Jesse’s relationship with his son.  Thrown in this group of people who have between a family of sorts over the years and the feels just come at you.  Well, feels when done by Alpha males which is their own kind of weird thing that works for them 🙂

I’ll be honest, while this one can technically stand on its own it will definitely be easier to keep up if you’ve read at least Broken Honor.  There is just a lot of people and a lot of interactions between them that make more sense if you have some kind of history there.

And you better be ready to hang on to your hats because Burrows gives us one heck of a ride!  She got me from the very first page and didn’t let me go until I got to the end.  And even then she just teases about what is coming next … I’m so gonna be stalking her until she releases book 5 because I can’t wait to see where she goes from here.