About the Book
Book: Terminal Danger (Guardians Unleashed Series Book 5)
Author: Jerusha Agen
Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense
Release Date: October 24, 2024
This woman and her K-9 are being hunted. Exactly as she planned.
When a busload of schoolchildren disappears, Phoenix Gray knows the kidnapper is the unidentified serial killer she’s spent her life trying to catch. This time, she’ll find the killer and bring him to justice no matter what it takes. She and her Phoenix K-9 Security and Detection Agency join the search for the hostages, but they aren’t the only ones who want the criminal captured.
Callum Ross, an FBI agent who specializes in catching serial criminals, is about to resign. But not until he finds one last culprit, the killer behind a famous twenty-year-old crime Callum vowed to solve.
Despite the FBI agent’s uncanny understanding of her psyche, Phoenix refuses to be distracted from her goal. When the serial killer turns into the cat instead of the mouse, Phoenix thinks she’s ready. But will she need the God she rejected to achieve the justice she’s given her life to obtain?
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About the Author
Jerusha Agen imagines danger around every corner but knows God is there, too. So naturally, she writes romantic suspense infused with the hope of salvation in Jesus Christ. Jerusha loves to hang out with her big furry dogs and little furry cats, often while reading or watching movies.
More from Jerusha
Ever since I read Dee Henderson’s O’Malley Series, I’ve been hooked on a special kind of series. You probably can guess what that is. The team series premise!
In Henderson’s masterful Christian romantic suspense series, the “team” is a group of found-family siblings. I love sibling series in which each book features a member of the same family.
But another kind of team series that I enjoy reading is where the characters aren’t related but are bound together by a common job or cause.
Since I love reading team series, I couldn’t wait to write one of my own! Thus, the Guardians Unleashed Series was born.
Guardians Unleashed follows the five women operatives of the Phoenix K-9 Security and Detection Agency. Named after the founder and CEO, Phoenix Gray, this agency pairs each woman with talented K-9s who help them rescue and protect people in need.
From search and rescue to bomb detection and protection from assassination attempts, the operatives and K-9s of the PK-9 Agency can do it all.
When big or unusually challenging jobs come along, the women and their dogs tackle the assignment together. I love how the Guardians Unleashed series has one of my favorite elements of team series—the team members bond so closely with each other, that they become a family of their own!
As the final book in the Guardians Unleashed series, readers had high expectations for Terminal Danger. After all, it’s the story of Phoenix Gray, the secretive and mysterious woman who fearlessly leads her operatives into—and out of—danger.
Phoenix Gray was the most challenging character I’ve ever had to write, thanks to her high intelligence, psychological complexity, and emotional unavailability. But with much help from the Lord, this book came together as well as I had hoped.
One aspect of Terminal Danger that I and readers have enjoyed most is getting to see every team member of the PK-9 Agency again. They come together as a family for their hardest mission ever, and each character plays an important role while readers get the fun of seeing them with their heroes and dogs.
Ultimately, the people and dogs Phoenix brought together for their benefit and the benefit of others may also play an important role in her own life.
Your turn! What do you love about team series?
My Impressions
“But there was one other reason that a rhythm of hope continued to beat beneath his ribs. God.”
Hard to believe our time with the Phoenix Gray K-9 handler team and their dogs is at an end! Jerusha Agen has saved the most mysterious character for last, exposing Phoenix Gray and her secrets slowly in Terminal Suspense. Phoenix Gray seems to be the perfect, impassive operative. But her precision of planning security and accuracy of predicting a serial killer’s moves leaves her with a disdain for God. Yet, one by one, each of her hand-picked team has faced their own battles in previous books and found they needed God. As Phoenix fights for her life’s goal to be accomplished after twenty-six years, she plans to do it without help from others, including one highly intelligent FBI agent Callum Ross, or the God he serves.
This was a hard story to read. I find it difficult to read of children being in great danger by those who want to use them for their own lust and then harm them. I appreciated how Agen allows her child heroine to have found the secure love she needs to face danger so bravely! That was one bright spot in a dark story.
The other really bright spot is as characters realize that God alone can mete out justice. God can be trusted to control the universe and the people He placed in it. Even the horrible events that may happen can be part of His plan.
Agen includes some great twists! Always love to be surprised by those. And of course, just the presence of the SAR dogs is a comfort in the midst of a hard topic. What a great combination.
I received a copy of the book from Celebrate Lit. I also bought my own ebook. No positive review was required, and all opinions are my own.
Notable Quotables:
“Prayer is the best way I know to stop worrying about things I can’t control.” – Cora
“…whenever we can’t love in the old, human way, God can give us the perfect way.” – Callum
My Rating
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Magnificent!
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Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Jerusha is giving away the grand prize of a signed paperback copy of Terminal Danger, $25 Barnes and Noble gift card, Terminal Danger tote bag, magnet, and notebook!!
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