The Porter Family Series continues with the story of Dru Porter, the former Marine, who is hired to be bodyguard to NFL star Gray Fowler. Gray has been receiving increasingly threatening letters on a weekly basis. Gray is used to danger and being on the defensive, and therefore thinks having bodyguards protecting him is unnecessary. Dru's last assignment ended badly and she is out to prove her expert skill and competence as a protective agent. After all she has three older brothers who have taught her everything she knows and a reputation to uphold. However, she doesn't count on feelings of attraction and compassion for Gray, who is keeping secrets of his past. The more aloof and detached Dru makes herself, the more competitive Gray becomes to try to win her heart. It's a game to Gray; he is used to getting whatever woman he wants, thanks to his fame and good looks. Dru is looking for a lasting commitment, the love she sees that her brothers' have for their wives. Gray has been on his own since high school and never had a family to care about him. The more time he spends around Dru and her family, he realizes there are couples out there that would sacrifice their life for the one they love. Yet his past keeps resurfacing and he realizes that he can't move forward and heal from his childhood unless he forgives and walks away from the pleasures of sin.
I love how Becky Wade continued the stories of the other Porter family characters. I could really see how Dru's life was shaped because of her family. She knows how a God-centered life should be and won't settle for less. After Gray has spent time with the Porter family, he realizes how empty his life is without God as the center of it. He was depending first on his own strength, and then his own wealth and fame to make him happy. He was living in his past and thought he could not escape from it. The novel is so real-life and the suspense is just enough to keep you on the edge. The struggles between Dru and Gray is believable and I felt like I was a part of the Porter family. Thank you Bethany House for providing me a free copy to review.
