Saving Amanda

Elle James — 2022

For Ex-Navy SEAL, Carter Manning, nothing worthwhile is easy. Having lost the people he loved, he dedicates his life to the hard stuff to keep from looking back. The future is strictly about the next mission, not settling down or raising a family. When a rash of suicides plagues the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, teen counselor Amanda Small calls on the Brotherhood Protectors to help investigate what she suspects are murders. Manning and Small team up to investigate, discovering an attraction neither expected nor wanted. As they close in on the truth, they become targets and must decide whether their love and their lives are more important than stopping the next “suicide.”

Reviews

Nicola Sarah Brooks@nikkisbooknook

Sep 4, 2022

Brotherhood Protectors Yellowstone is a spin-off of the Brotherhood Protector series

Amanda loves her people, their history, their struggles, and their potential. she also realises that their lack of resources is leading her people into crime. Her job as a counsellor is to reach the young people of the tribe ad guide them into more productive roles in society. Having been a foster child herself, she knows personally what a lot of the kids are facing. She was eventually lucky enough to find a foster parent who stuck. The fact that he was the Chief of the Tribal Police meant that he put up with no shenanigans from her!

When local teens start to commit suicide, Amanda sees a pattern developing and is determined to bring home hemp. Enter Carter, a Yellowstone Brotherhood Protector, former SEAL and all-around bada$$. He's posing as her fiance to allow him to freely amongst her tribe without too many questions being asked.

The teens aren't forthcoming and Amanda is soon being targeted by both the local gang and it would appear, a cartel! Carter and Amanda are soon in crosshairs of a dangerous foe and those around them are not safe.

Quick-paced, snappy dialogue and great characters. The secondary characters were really well thought out and pertinent to moving the story along. I have no knowledge of Native American affairs other than what I have been able to google and research for myself but I think the author did a great job of not using stereotypes and harmful characterisations, whilst also being true to the issues facing the various Tribes and Nations.