Title: High Impact (High Mountain Trackers, #4)

Author: Freya Barker

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: December 6, 2022

Cover Designer: Freya Barker

Manager for Hart’s Horse Rescue, Lucy Lenoir, finally feels she has a handle on life after having worked hard to leave her old one behind. So hard, there are times she almost forgets what she escaped. Memories which suddenly come flooding back when she catches a glimpse of a familiar horseman in town.

What’s worse, he’s in the company of the unlikely cowboy she’s only just beginning to trust.

High Mountain Tracker, Bo Rivera, tries hard never to repeat his mistakes. A huge one changed the course of his life and made him particularly cautious, especially around women. So much so, he almost passed up on the best thing to ever walk into his life; the compact, blonde ballbuster in need of a gentle hand.

However, the more he learns about her, the more he realizes a soft touch alone won’t keep her demons at bay. Those will need a firmer hand…to keep the gun steady.

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5 Stars

In true Freya Barker fashion, I was stuck to my chair reading page after page, wanting these characters to find the happiness they deserved, sometimes at the edge of my seat trying to figure out who was causing all this chaos and rooting everyone along as they head out to find the bad guy.

I love watching characters grow throughout a series. We have watched Lucy be there for everyone else but be a quiet bystander, always the listener, eager to help someone else out. Never giving much information about herself in the process, the readers knew there was so much more to her background and always curious. She's happy to run the rescue alone and be in her own company. Sure she craves the attention of a man from time to time, wishes for a love like her friends have found, but her tainted past holds her back from putting herself out there. This strong willed woman who learnt way too early to provide for herself will never let a man take advantage of her again, over her dead body.

Bo is more than happy with his life at the ranch, working with his brothers of arms both on the field and tracking. Being close to his mom and looking out for her is a priority for this big soft hearted man. Watching the guys all finding someone to share their life outside the business has created some longing for more in his life. Being misled and trusting too quickly almost had him burned for life, so he is very careful when it comes to women. But he feels a draw to Lucy that he can't seem to ignore. He can sense that she has much to tell in her life and not pushing too hard will be his strongest play.

The suspense that is behind what is happening around the ranch and who might be trying to scare Lucy is very misleading. I am in awe of Lucy's strength and determination to not let things get the best of her. Her willingness to flee to keep everyone else safe when she realizes the true danger is heartwarming.

I am sad to see this group and series coming to an end. I am secretly hoping for more in some manner as I see a few characters that still need their story told.

USA Today bestselling author Freya Barker loves writing about ordinary people with extraordinary stories. With forty-plus books already published, she continues to create characters who are perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy. Recipient of the ReadFREE.ly 2019 Best Book We've Read All Year Award for "Covering Ollie, the 2015 RomCon “Reader’s Choice” Award for Best First Book, “Slim To None”, Finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Award with “From Dust”, and Finalist for the 2020 Kindle Book Award with “When Hope Ends”, Freya spins story after story with an endless supply of bruised and dented characters, vying for attention!