If you enjoy nonstop action, intrigue, and suspense--with some romance thrown in for extra measure, you’ll like Susan Sleeman’s conclusion to her Steele Guardians series, Edge of Steele. Creating realistic, flawed, but engaging characters is a strength of Sleeman, along with her obvious research skills. This story drew me in quickly and held my attention to the last page. Ryleigh Steele and Finn Durham have a shared history but needed to work together to find the bomber at a lumber company they provided security for.

I always enjoy learning more about crime solving and new technology used in it, and Sleeman is a pro at integrating it into her stories seamlessly. With plenty of twists and turns, this book kept me guessing to the end. Although this book is part of a series, it could be read alone, however, it was fun to see the appearances of characters from some of the other books in the series, and also some from Sleeman’s other series. For clean Christian suspense that will keep you reading late into the night, you can’t go wrong with this author.

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SUPERB SUSPENSE!

“Ryleigh’s future was going up in smoke. Literally. Right before her eyes.”

With these opening lines, Susan Sleeman invites readers to join her as she presents them with another superb suspense! When you start reading Edge of Steele, you will be distracted from wanting to do anything else because you will want to read it from cover to cover. It is that compelling! Sleeman has an exceptional plot that involves Ryleigh Steele, a former FBI Agent, who has joined the Steele Guardians and her first assignment is to protect the workers at a lumber company that has been receiving bomb threats.

Unfortunately, the threats become real when a bomb is detonated causing a fire at the facility. Even worse, there was a fatality. The body is so damaged that it will need DNA testing to confirm an ID. To complicate matters even more, the lumber company hired a head of security, former Navy SEAL, Finn Durham, to protect the property. Sparks fly over who is in charge. Sparks also ignite over past feelings between Ryleigh and Finn who dated in the past. While they only dated for a month, neither of them resolved the feelings they experienced. Ryleigh must let the smoke settle between her and Finn or the distraction could allow the killer to get to her first! This is another superb suspense! ( )