Review – Rescue Team

Back Cover Copy:

Tired of running from her past, nurse Kate Callison intends to become Austin Grace Hospital’s permanent ER director and make Texas her home. Despite staff friction, she’s moving ahead. Then unthinkable tragedy wraps the ER in crime tape, bringing swarms of media, legal chaos—and a search-and-rescue hero who seems determined to meddle in her life.

For Wes Tanner, nothing beats finding someone who’s lost; he’s known that helpless terror firsthand. So he’ll expand his team’s lifeline of hope: K9 tracking, swift water rescue, even horse-mounted searches. He’s ready for anything—except Austin Grace’s prickly and dismissive ER director.

As Kate and Wes discover more about each other, new respect becomes something deeper. Kate wonders if her heart might have finally found a home. Then an unsolved missing persons case—and a startling new one—become catalysts that threaten the loss of all she and Wes have found.

My Take:

Candace Calvert delivers another fine medical suspense drama in Rescue Team the second book in the Grace Medical series. Once again, Calvert’s characters were multi-faceted and flawed yet at the same time very likeable. We first met Kate, the heroine of Rescue Team, in Trauma Plan and it was great to see her grow and change in Rescue team.

Rescue Team, like Calvert’s other books, is slower and light on the suspense action, but the characters pull you in and keep you reading. Calvert is a master at character development. Not only are her main characters well developed but she brings the same depth and authenticity to her secondary characters as well. I rooted for Kate and Wes as they worked through their internal struggles, trying to overcome them for a happily ever after ending. Plus the spiritual message was well integrated and never seemed preachy.

Candace Calvert is a writer I have added to my romantic suspense must read list and you should, too. Though each book in the series stands alone, hurry out and get Trauma Plan then dive right into Rescue Team, the second book in the series and hold your breath until the third book, First Responder releases in 2014.