BOOK INFORMATION
TITLE – Daughter of Valor
SERIES – Texas Hill Country Series
AUTHOR – Emily Mims
GENRE – Romantic suspense
PUBLICATION DATE – January 2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 332 pages, 99,500 words
PUBLISHER – Boroughs Publishing Group
COVER ARTIST – Boroughs Publishing Group Art Department
SERIES – Texas Hill Country Series
AUTHOR – Emily Mims
GENRE – Romantic suspense
PUBLICATION DATE – January 2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 332 pages, 99,500 words
PUBLISHER – Boroughs Publishing Group
COVER ARTIST – Boroughs Publishing Group Art Department
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Wounded war hero Holly Riley has come home to the lake shore community of Heaven’s Point to recover from her injuries and build a new life for herself with her band of fellow wounded warriors. Temporarily employed as a nanny by charismatic Congressional candidate and neighbor Jimmy Adamcik, Holly and Jimmy quickly begin to care for one another in spite of Holly’s distrust of politics. But Jimmy finds himself sucked deeper and deeper into the seamy side of the political process, and an old enemy from Jimmy’s past targets Holly’s soldiers one by one. Will Jimmy and Holly’s love survive the double onslaught-or will they be the final target of their unknown enemy’s rage?
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Jimmy took one look at Holly’s face and ushered her in grimly. “They decided to support Navarro, didn’t they?” he demanded tersely.
“I tried to get them to change their minds,” she said quietly. “I’m sorry.”
“You’re sorry?” he demanded incredulously. “You and your buddies are going to embarrass the hell out of my campaign and you’re sorry? May I be so bold as to ask what made them throw their support to Navarro?”
“Jimmy, get real,” she shot back. “You have platitudes. He has a plan.”
He flinched. “So they realize the position I’m in with your mother and her buddies?”
“That’s part of the problem,” she admitted. “They feel like you won’t have the freedom to represent their best interests and Navarro will.”
“Why didn’t you fight them?” he asked. “Why are you just going along with what they’re doing to me?”
Holly was silent for a moment. “Because if I weren’t involved with you, I would be doing exactly what they are. And as much as I hate to admit it, I think Alex Navarro would be light years better for me and my soldiers than you would.”
“Oh, really? Then your buddies can take a hike and you can go with them,” he said angrily.
It was Holly’s turn to flinch. “If that’s how you feel I will most certainly be taking that hike. But first I’m going to tell you to your face that you are a hypocrite of the highest order. Yes, you are,” she said when he started to object. “You expect me to separate my feelings for you from my work with the soldiers. You expect them to understand when you would rather brown-nose my mother and her supporters for their money than support them. And then you act like a spoiled brat when my soldiers throw their support to the candidate who might actually do something for them. That, my friend, is hypocritical.”
She jerked open the front door and turned back around. “You know, Jimmy, an election isn’t just about money,” she said softly, “it’s about votes. And if you run off all your votes chasing the money, you’re going to lose the election, no matter how much money mom’s cronies put into your coffers.”
MY REVIEW:
DAUGHTER OF VALOR IS AN EMOTIONAL READ THAT SHOWS THE OBSTACLES A WOUNDED VETERAN GOES THROUGH WHEN THEY RETURN FROM WAR. THE AUTHOR DID A WONDERFUL JOB IN PORTRAYING THE WOUNDED VETERANS AND THE EMOTIONS AND OBSTACLES THEY FACE WHEN THEY RETURN FROM WAR. EMILY MIMS IS A NEW AUTHOR FOR ME AND I AM GLAD I GOT A CHANCE TO READ ONE OF HER BOOKS BECAUSE I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED ONE BIT.
BOTH HOLLY AND JIMMY ARE WOUNDED VETERANS AND ARE VERY STRONG. BOTH HAVE SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES INCLUDING EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL SCARS. DESPITE ALL THAT, HOLLY HAS A SUPPORT GROUP THAT SHE RUNS TO HELP THE VETERANS OUT. SHE GOES OUT OF HER WAY TO BE THERE FOR THEM. WHEN HOLLY MEETS JIMMY AND FINDS OUT HE IS RUNNING FOR CONGRESS AND IS A WOUNDED VETERAN, SHE FEELS HE COULD DO ALOT TO HELP OUT THE VETERANS IF HE WINS THE ELECTION.
JIMMY FEELS HE CAN DO A LOT OF GOOD IF HE IS ELECTED INTO CONGRESS BUT IN ORDER TO RUN, HE NEEDS A LOT OF MONEY AND BACKING. IN ORDER TO GET HIS MONEY AND BACKING, HE HAS TO GIVE UP HIS PLANS FOR CONGRESS AND GO ALONG WITH WHATEVER THEY SAY. JIMMY SACRIFICES HIS TRUE SELF AND MORALS BY DOING THAT.
HOLLY AND JIMMY ARE CONSTANTLY BICKERING BACK AND FOURTH REGARDING THE ELECTION AND VETERANS. THERE IS SO MUCH CHEMISTRY AND PASSION BETWEEN THEM. THEY ARE BOTH SO VERY STUBBORN AND WILL NOT GIVE IN.
WHEN THE VETERANS CLOSE TO HOLLY START BEING ATTACKED, INJURED, KILLED OR HURT IN SOME WAY, IT BRINGS HOLLY AND JIMMY CLOSER AND THEY FINALLY GIVE IN TO THEIR PASSION FOR ONE ANOTHER. JIMMY AND HOLLY ARE APPARENTLY THE TRUE TARGET OF THE KILLER AND HE OR SHE IS OUT TO HURT BOTH IN ANYWAY THE KILLER CAN. WILL THE KILLER SUCCEED IN HIS PLANS?
DAUGHTER OF VALOR WAS FAST READ FOR ME THAT LEFT ME VERY EMOTIONAL AND SAD AT TIMES. THE STORY WAS TRULY TOUCHING AND SHOWED JUST HOW OUR VETERANS ARE TRULY TREATED. THEY SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR US EVERY DAY AND WHEN THEY COME HOME INJURED NO ONE IS THERE IS TO HELP THEM THROUGH IT. IT MADE ME TRULY SAD THAT IS HOW OUR GOVERNMENT TREATS THEM. I LOVED ALL THE CHARACTERS AND EMILY MIMS DID A WONDERFUL JOB WITH THE STORYLINE AND CHARACTERS. SHE KEPT YOU GUESSING UNTIL THE VERY END WHO THE KILLER WAS. YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WOULD DO OR WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ THIS BOOK. IT WILL TOUCH YOU IN SO MANY WAYS AND YOU WILL ENJOY THE CHARACTERS AND STORYLINE. THE STORY WILL KEEP YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT AND YOU WILL DEFINITELY BE GUESSING UNTIL THE VERY END. I LOVE EMILY'S WRITING AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING MORE BOOKS BY HER. I HAVE FOUND ANOTHER FAVORITE AUTHOR. 5 STARS
AUTHOR BIO
The author of twenty romance novels, Emily Mims combined her writing career with a career in public education until leaving the classroom to write full time. The mother of two sons, she and her husband split their time between central Texas and eastern Tennessee. For relaxation she plays the piano, organ, dulcimer and ukulele. She says, “I love to write romances because I believe in them. Romance happened to me and it can happen to any woman-if she’ll just let it.”
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