Contrary to how this book is categorized (a romantic suspense), it is basically only about Jina Modell and her journey to becoming a drone operator for a paramilitary team of operatives sent to dangerous hot spots around the world to perform certain top secret tasks. As a very side part of all of that are the feelings she has for the team lead Levi. So I’m torn. The book wasn’t bad. Jina was a very interesting character and I loved the GO Team. However, I was also looking for this to be a military romantic suspense. And the romance is where it let me down. Just knowing that the main characters had feelings for each other, but did absolutely nothing about it until 91% into them book doesn’t make this a romance. Their little incident with messing around for a bit halfway through didn’t really count. Because then they went back to barely looking or speaking to each other unless absolutely necessary. And the HEA seemed like a tacked on after thought.

Here is an in depth summary, “I read this book so you won’t have to” style:


This book starts out with the familiar Axel MacNamara and the infamous GO Team we learned about in book one. Congresswoman Joan Kingsley is out for revenge after the death of her husband in book one. Since she can’t punish Morgan Yancy since he has quit the GO Team, she decides she’ll punish any team and also Axel. She unfortunately lands on Levi “Ace” Butcher’s team as the team that will pay.

Axel has started an initiative to pair up each GO Team with a computer analyst who will use a drone to help with intel gathering and possibly add to keeping the teams a bit safer on their missions. Jina Modell is chosen as the top analyst, but also the only woman. So Axel assigns her to Levi’s team because he thinks Levi is best equipped to handle the added challenge of Jina being a woman.

Sparks begin to fly almost immediately between Jina and Levi. But they both put it on the back burner and focus on getting her physically fit to handle the hard work ahead of her. Levi makes it clear that no one on the team wants her there, that they see her as a liability who could possibly get them killed, and that she is the least valuable person there. Jina works hard to prove she can keep up.

The parachute training almost takes her out. She is terrified of jumping out of a plane and nearly panics to death on her maiden missions. Even tandem jumping with Levi doesn’t help. She nearly kills them both in her mid air panic. But once they reach the ground they are both apparently at the point of no return and can’t keep their hands off each other. Things get a little spicy between them, but Levi sets her straight. He tells her he knows she has a thing for him and he admits that he has a thing for her too, but they both know that for the sake of the team, they can’t do anything about it.

Nevertheless, Jina passes all her training and becomes a full part of the team. She begins going on missions with them. About a year after all the training started, they go on a mission to Syria. The mission goes wrong and two men on the team are gravely wounded. Jina is in a separate location from the team and loses contact with them. However, she can hear when they make the decision to leave her behind in order to save the other two men on the team. So she’s forced to save herself. She has to run nearly 26 miles through the desert to meet up with them at the pick up location. She barely makes it. Just when Levi was about to send the rest of the team on to go back for Jina, she manages to show up just in time.

The experience destroys Jina mentally. Although she knows Levi made the only decision he could have for the team and even though he was going back for her, even if it was just for her body, she couldn’t really forgive him for it. Because he had kissed her. He had told her he had feelings for her. Him leaving her behind really hurt. She does some thinking while recovering from her desert injuries and realizes that she loves being with the team, but she hates the work that they do. So she decides to do the one thing she has never done in her life: she quits.

Axel instead reassigns her to be a drone instructor and she’s happy with that move. When she tells the team she’s leaving, Levi isn’t there. One of the other team members tells him that she’s gone. And do y’all know what that idiot does? He goes to Jina’s house, bag packed, talking about “you’re not on our team anymore so we can be together now.” And Jina