Book 7 in Bravo Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists · Romantic suspense · Reads as a standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
He found the love of his life across a crowded room. Then a Nicaraguan cartel king took them both.
Their eyes lock across a crowded nightclub, and Alec knows. Not a maybe. Not a someday. This is the one — the love of a lifetime, standing right there.
Barbi's haunted past has other ideas. She runs.
From him.
Alec approaches this the way he approaches everything: unwavering determination, relentless perseverance, and no interest whatsoever in the word no. He convinces her to believe in it. He sets about healing a heart that was broken long before he ever saw her.
And it works. For a while, everything falls into place, and the two of them do the dangerous thing — they start planning a future.
That's when the enemies of the Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists strike.
Artemus Gonzales — notorious Nicaraguan trafficking kingpin, cartel king, a man who has never answered to anyone — takes them both. Alec and Barbi disappear into a world of graft, corruption, black-market trafficking, and brutal interrogation.
Their love is the only thing keeping them alive down there.
It's also the exact lever Gonzales needs, and he knows it. Every hour, Alec faces choices where the wrong answer costs them everything, and the right answer might cost them more.
Will the darkness swallow what they built?
Or do Alec and Barbi walk out of it together?
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: love at first sight, heroine running from her past, he falls first, couple kidnapped together, captivity, cartel villain
- Heat: steamy
- Point of view: dual first person, present tense, Alec and Barbi
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: kidnapping and captivity, brutal interrogation and torture, human trafficking, cartel violence. It's darker than the earlier Bravo books. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
Rescuing Barbi is book 7 of 8 in Bravo Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists, the second team in Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists.
- Before it: Cara's Protector (book 6).
- After it: The Dark of You (book 8).
Questions readers ask
Can I read Rescuing Barbi as a standalone?
Yes. Alec and Barbi's story is complete in this book. The fight with the cartels builds across the Bravo Team books, so reading in order helps.
How spicy is Rescuing Barbi?
Steamy. It's darker than the earlier Bravo books, with captivity and interrogation on the page.
Does Rescuing Barbi end on a cliffhanger?
No. Alec and Barbi get their happily ever after.
Is Rescuing Barbi in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every Bravo Team book is in Kindle Unlimited.