A soldier struggling to leave the missions behind him. A cosmopolitan lawyer searching for a higher purpose. A businesswoman succeeding in everything but love. And a dark secret with deadly consequences.
What happens when the life you lead and the person you love can no longer share the same path? This is the question Hector Vidal struggles to answer when an energy company hires his team at Parabellum Risk to secure their newly acquired oil field in Iraq. Hector is ready to lead Bravo team, but for Kelly, his wife, this mission is more than she can bear. After too many sleepless nights over too many deployments, one more is something their strained marriage cannot survive.
The choice should be simple, but as the threat of ISIS looms near, the choice between safeguarding his men and saving his failing marriage is anything but. In the end, Hector is compelled to go on one more mission-his last. Just when Hector and Kelly's marriage nears the breaking point, an unexpected arrival further strains their precarious bond-Jessica Beaumont.
Jessica Beaumont, the lovely and intelligent lawyer for Norton-Allied Energy, is every man's dream: Attractive, confident, and smart-a femme fatale. As the lead negotiator, she's assigned to travel with Bravo Team to Iraq. There's just one thing: She also happens to be Kelly's estranged stepsister and a dangerous distraction for Hector, who must focus on the mission, his men, and the encroaching ISIS threat.
And Jessica is dangerous in more ways than one. The dark secret she has been running from for years has followed her-and her shadowy past is about to burst into light with violent consequences for everyone she knows. Jessica's past will thrust Hector into the most important fight of his life, but will he and those he loves survive the hell to come?
A Savage Joy is a gripping story that takes the reader into one man's journey through pulse-quickening danger and heartbreaking decisions and asks what or who do we love most, and how far are we willing to go to safeguard it.
