I Own the Dawn by M.L. Buchman
Kee Smith has worked her way through
the Army ranks and has finally landed a spot as a gunner with SOAR (Special
Operations Aviation Regiment). These are
the highly elite helicopter crews that get the Green Berets and Delta Force
teams where they need to go, or get away from.
Kee is only the second female to be admitted to SOAR and she is placed in
the unit led by Major Beale – the first female in SOAR. Tension forms between the two as Kee wonders
if Beale has what it takes or not. Tension
also forms between Kee and the co-pilot, Lt. Archibald Jeffrey Stevenson III,
but it is tension of an entirely different type…
Want to learn about current life in the
military? How a forward base operates in
the mountains? How a team functions
about a Black Hawk? This is a good
introduction. There is a lot of
information about machinery and weaponry but not too much, the narrative is not
bogged down. The characters are well
developed and the multiple storylines are interesting (Kee’s life story, the
story of an orphan girl brought back to the base, the forming relationship between
Kee and Archie, and the shady goings on of a military mission). The romance does get steamy, but the focus is
on the trust forming between Kee and Archie and their missions.
Oh, and I can’t forget to relay this
tidbit: this is a military romance series written by a man!
