Monday, August 5, 2024

Release Blitz & Review - HIGH FREQUENCY by Freya Barker

Title: High Frequency

Author: Freya Barker

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: August 5, 2024

When the rug is pulled from under Detective Sloane Eckhart, she leaves the Billings PD and returns to Libby, Montana.

Eight years ago she left with her pride and the promise of a future, but her heart was broken. On her return, there is no pride left, no prospects to speak of, but at least her heart is safely secured in the back seat.

Still, a bit of groveling, a kind offer of help, and a brand-new job with the sheriff’s office quickly gets her back on her feet.

High Meadow will always be home to Dan Blakely. Working with horses, being part of the HMT search and rescue team, and now building his own home right next door checks all his boxes. Only one thing is missing, but that dream walked out the door a long time ago.

Still, his life is good, steady…and perhaps a little boring.

That quickly changes when the rescue of a young, teenage girl, places the new sheriff’s detective squarely in his path. He’s not bored now, doing his best to keep her safe, even as their past holds them back while they fight for a future.

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5 Stars

Freya brings us a whole new set of characters to get to know and love as she starts this G2 spin off but she doesn't leave the ones we came to love behind. A great mix of the old and the new. For readers who haven't read the first series but are jumping in, she does a great job of letting us get to know everyone.

Life has been anything but smooth for Sloane from an early age, but she has always seemed to find her own path. She finds herself in a situation once again and knows that there is only one place to help her start over. It's not going to be easy as she upset some people she loved dearly when she left Libby, but knows deep in her heart this is where she wants to give her daughter a new start.

Dan loves his job with the High Mountain Trackers/ Breeding facility. And the people here have become his extended family. Though he has found some true blood family since letting his mom go all those years ago. Building his home and moving forward but knowing that something is missing. He has a deep need for more and though shocked to she her, he quickly realizes the missing piece was always her.

Ms Barker brings us a new grewling mystery to solve as we read Sloan & Dan's story. The mountains of Montana seem to be a breading grounds for bad people. As Sloan dives into her first case being back on the Libby Sheriff's department, she is full of tenacity trying to save these girls and not let this monster take another. Dan being the Alpha he as learned from the HMT team is determined to let her thrive but always being near to help her so she doesn't have to go it alone.

Grab your copy and enjoy this face paced suspense full of emotions and acceptance.

**Advanced copy provided in exchange for an honest review. **

“What do you need me to do?” I offer. Next thing I know, my arms open automatically when she shoves the baby at me. “Take her.” Ama disappears inside before my brain can come up with an objection. Any baby experience I have began and ended with Carmi, Sully’s daughter, and Fletch’s son, Hunter, and that was twelve or thirteen years ago. It’s not that I don’t like babies, because I do, but the fact this is Sloane’s baby is making it a little awkward. Still, I settle her a little better in the crook of my arm.

Then I hear the creak of the rocking chair and Thomas’s raspy chuckle and look up. The old fart clearly thinks this is funny. “You should see the look on your face,” he points out as he continues to rock his chair. “I’m guessing young Sloane becoming a parent was a surprise to you as well?” “Yes,” I grumble, just as a little hand slaps against my chin and catches on the short hairs of my beard. I drop my eyes to Sloane’s baby, who has her little face turned toward me. I don’t know who the dark hair belongs to, but those blue eyes are unmistakably her mother’s. “Aspen. That’s her name,” Thomas shares. “Pretty little thing, ain’t she?” She is, especially when her little mouth spreads in a wide, toothless smile. “You look good holdin’ that baby,” he continues. “Too bad you let her momma slip away, or that wee one could’a been yours.” Fuck. That stings. Should’ve known the old man wouldn’t hesitate to poke his finger in the sore spot. “I’m not the one who left.” The bitter comment slips out before I can check it. “No, you weren’t. You’re just the one who let her walk.” Agitated, I get to my feet, shifting the baby to my shoulder as I start to pace the porch. “It wasn’t that simple.” “It never is, son. It never is.”

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!