Hold Your Breath by Katie Ruggle

Book Description:

In the remote Rocky Mountains, lives depend on the Search & Rescue brotherhood. But in a place this far off the map, trust is hard to come by and secrets can be murder...

As the captain of Field County's ice rescue dive team, Callum Cook is driven to perfection. But when he meets new diver Louise "Lou" Sparks, all that hard-won order is obliterated in an instant. Lou is a hurricane. A walking disaster. And with her, he's never felt more alive...even if keeping her safe may just kill him.

Lou's new to the Rockies, intent on escaping her controlling ex, and she's determined to make it on her own terms...no matter how tempting Callum may be. But when a routine training exercise unearths a body, Lou and Callum find themselves thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a killer who will stop at nothing to silence Lou-and prove that not even her new Search and Rescue family can keep her safe forever.

Search and Rescue:
On His Watch (novella)
Hold Your Breath
Fan the Flames
Gone too Deep
In Safe Hands

My thoughts:

Thoroughly enjoyed this one.  Lou is new(ish) to the area but she is on the ice dive rescue team.  While practicing a rescue, she comes across a horrible discovery!  Cal is her boss and with the problems Lou suddenly has, he has decided to stay close to her.  In fact. he decides to stay extremely close.  There is someone out there trying to kill Lou and it may be more than Cal can handle to keep her alive.

I really liked Lou.  She is strong and determined.  She didn't cave when she found a dead body, but decided to handle it like a pro.  I really liked the whole group of characters in this book.  There were some that I really liked and some I couldn't stand, but overall they were good.  I really liked Cal and how he took care of his team.  The whole story unfolded quickly and I didn't want to put it down.

It was an absolute 4/5 for me.  I'm excited to see who the next book is about.

Thank you to the publisher for the review copy of this book (via netgalley).  I received this book in exchange for an honest review and the opinions stated above are 100% mine.