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Stranded in the Mountains
They survived the crash�
Now can they escape the wilderness?
Part-time treasure hunter Daniel Sturges’s secret assignment was simple—find a wrecked WWII B-17 and recover the artifacts inside. But now he’s stranded with fellow crash survivor Cassie Edmunds, who's searching for the same plane, and they’ll have to trust one another with their lives. With temperatures falling in treacherous terrain, will they risk everything for the missing wreckage or discover something more valuable between them? That is, if they can stay alive...
Now can they escape the wilderness?
Part-time treasure hunter Daniel Sturges’s secret assignment was simple—find a wrecked WWII B-17 and recover the artifacts inside. But now he’s stranded with fellow crash survivor Cassie Edmunds, who's searching for the same plane, and they’ll have to trust one another with their lives. With temperatures falling in treacherous terrain, will they risk everything for the missing wreckage or discover something more valuable between them? That is, if they can stay alive...
240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published May 24, 2022
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Geri Krotow
88Ìýbooks188ÌýfollowersAward winning, bestselling author of cozy mystery, romantic suspense, and women’s fiction. Buffalo, NY native and proud of it. Navy veteran.
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August 3, 2022
4 stelle e mezza
Anche in questo libro la suspense è data dalla necessità dei due protagonisti di sopravvivere in un ambiente ostile mentre cercano di raggiungere un centro abitato. Da questo punto di vista la storia è buona, l'unico neo per me è che la parte religiosa è molto forte: essendo un inspirational romance so che ci deve essere, ma io non sono così religiosa e in altri libri simili sono riuscita a "sopportare" questo aspetto perché mi sembrava meno impellente.
Anche in questo libro la suspense è data dalla necessità dei due protagonisti di sopravvivere in un ambiente ostile mentre cercano di raggiungere un centro abitato. Da questo punto di vista la storia è buona, l'unico neo per me è che la parte religiosa è molto forte: essendo un inspirational romance so che ci deve essere, ma io non sono così religiosa e in altri libri simili sono riuscita a "sopportare" questo aspetto perché mi sembrava meno impellente.
January 24, 2023
This was an interesting read, nice not to have people shooting at you all the time.
September 28, 2022
Good book that kept me hooked from start to finish. Cassie was on a trip from Pennsylvania to a remote area of Canada, looking for information about her great-grandmother. Great-grandma Eugenia was a WW2 WASP who crashed in the wilds of Canada when Cassie's grandmother was just a baby. Cassie hopes that the wilderness tour she signed up for will lead her to some answers to help her 85-year-old grandmother know more about her mother. The last leg of the multi-flight trip is by helicopter, where another traveler joins her.
Daniel is a high school history teacher who works as an Indiana Jones-like treasure hunter during his summer breaks. His current search is for a wrecked B-17 reputed to carry some Russian royal jewels. His job is to find the plane and hopefully the jewels so they can be returned to their country of origin.
There was a connection between Cassie and Daniel from the moment they met. I liked how Daniel tried to ease Cassie's fears while on the helicopter. That became very important when the flight ran into trouble and crashed into a lake. With their pilot dead, Daniel and Cassie were on their own to find their way to the nearest settlement. Thankfully, Daniel is very experienced in wilderness survival. Cassie has some hiking experience (local trails back in Pennsylvania) but would be in real trouble without Daniel. I liked that Daniel was patiently amused by Cassie as she got acclimated to their situation. Cassie impressed me with her determination to keep up with Daniel and not be a hindrance.
I was glued to the pages as the pair made their way through the wilderness. There were some funny parts, usually involving wildlife sightings, and some tense parts, such as coping with a snowstorm. I liked seeing Daniel and Cassie get to know each other, sharing stories about their lives and faith. I loved hearing Cassie tell Daniel her great-grandmother's story and her hope of finding more information. Daniel was a little more cautious about sharing everything, but the more he got to know Cassie, the more he was willing to share. It was easy to see that their feelings for each other grew stronger, but they didn't think anything would come of it. They lived on opposite sides of the state, and both had settled lives there.
I was on the edge of my seat, hoping they would find the plane before the weather forced them to give up. There was also the problem of making it safely to the settlement. Help arrived unexpectedly, and I was relieved to see their rescue carried out. I enjoyed seeing the people they met and the unexpected twist one of the older women provided. I ached for Cassie and Daniel when they parted ways without any mention of their feelings or future.
I loved the ending as we see Cassie at Grandma's birthday party, celebrating her life and that of Eugenia. As happy as Cassie was, there was a bit of sadness because she missed Daniel. I loved his sudden appearance and the surprise he had for Cassie. It was an emotional scene and a perfect ending for the book.
Daniel is a high school history teacher who works as an Indiana Jones-like treasure hunter during his summer breaks. His current search is for a wrecked B-17 reputed to carry some Russian royal jewels. His job is to find the plane and hopefully the jewels so they can be returned to their country of origin.
There was a connection between Cassie and Daniel from the moment they met. I liked how Daniel tried to ease Cassie's fears while on the helicopter. That became very important when the flight ran into trouble and crashed into a lake. With their pilot dead, Daniel and Cassie were on their own to find their way to the nearest settlement. Thankfully, Daniel is very experienced in wilderness survival. Cassie has some hiking experience (local trails back in Pennsylvania) but would be in real trouble without Daniel. I liked that Daniel was patiently amused by Cassie as she got acclimated to their situation. Cassie impressed me with her determination to keep up with Daniel and not be a hindrance.
I was glued to the pages as the pair made their way through the wilderness. There were some funny parts, usually involving wildlife sightings, and some tense parts, such as coping with a snowstorm. I liked seeing Daniel and Cassie get to know each other, sharing stories about their lives and faith. I loved hearing Cassie tell Daniel her great-grandmother's story and her hope of finding more information. Daniel was a little more cautious about sharing everything, but the more he got to know Cassie, the more he was willing to share. It was easy to see that their feelings for each other grew stronger, but they didn't think anything would come of it. They lived on opposite sides of the state, and both had settled lives there.
I was on the edge of my seat, hoping they would find the plane before the weather forced them to give up. There was also the problem of making it safely to the settlement. Help arrived unexpectedly, and I was relieved to see their rescue carried out. I enjoyed seeing the people they met and the unexpected twist one of the older women provided. I ached for Cassie and Daniel when they parted ways without any mention of their feelings or future.
I loved the ending as we see Cassie at Grandma's birthday party, celebrating her life and that of Eugenia. As happy as Cassie was, there was a bit of sadness because she missed Daniel. I loved his sudden appearance and the surprise he had for Cassie. It was an emotional scene and a perfect ending for the book.
August 19, 2022
'Stranded in the Mountains' is as straightforward and factual a title as the book is, itself. Geri Krotow makes much of her own personal experiences in the Navy (both in her bio and her 'to the reader' section), hoping that this will give her the boost over the dry, uninspiring hump that is the story, but... mmmmno. Sorry.
In the story, Cassie is risking her life for the sake of giving her 85-year old grandmother 'healthy closure' (pg 136). Granny's mother died when she was an infant, and apparently it was traumatic to the barely cognitive baby, because she needs 'closure' eighty-five years later over something that happened before she knew her A-B-Cs. R'something. Because reasonable storyline.
Anyhow, Great-granny was a WASP in WWII and her B-17 went down in one of the most remote of remote-est places in the universe. You can only get to it five weeks or so out of the year, and that's taking four planes and a helicopter from Pennsylvania up into the northernmost parts of the Canadian tundra. Which, of course, is a direct route from England to the United States, and the most likely way to transport planes in WWII. R'something. ((again.)) And even at that, the 'tours' given to people who sojourn up there wouldn't get her close to the plane, so... what the heck, again...???
Meanwhile, Daniel is a no-nonsense history teacher who spends his summers Indiana Jones-ing around whilst being paid to find hidden and/or lost treasures. Both he and Cassie are after the same B-17 - her to put a family plaque on the thing, and him to get a secret stash of jewels. Except the weather turns, their helo goes down, the pilot dies (as they ALL do in Love, Inspired Suspense novels - this would make #4 for me, this summer), and the two of them have to make their way to 1) the plane, and 2) civilization against all odds (ie., the weather, the critters, the landscape, the time limits, etc.)
Most of the book is just the author telling us what the two characters are thinking in the most banal, clinical terms imaginable. It's not love, it's not inspiring, and it's not romance (in spite of the words emblazoned on the cover of the book).
It's not even really suspense - we all know they both make it out. They have to, so that they can usurp Granny's birthday with a marriage proposal - because their big wrap-up is SOOOOOOO much more important than the woman who's *closure* was the whole impetus for this story. Do I have that right?
I'm sorry. It was... dry. Full of action, but not captivating, not interesting, and not at all - in any way - moving. We don't get pulled in and want to FEEL with these characters - not for a moment. We're TOLD they feel, but... nope. Mostly not believable, that. Even when Daniel admits he took them off-course by twenty miles? It's all reasoning and rationale and excuses for why she should be displeased, etc. Very clinical, not so much drawing us in, as readers.
And half of what we're told makes no sense. On pg 19 Krotow tells us Daniel let go his one semi-serious relationship several years ago because he was too involved in his teaching (winters) and adventuring (summers) to be 'on the same wavelength' as his then girlfriend. Later we're told he was 'burned' in love and 'wasn't ready' for another relationship. Um... really? Because it never sounded like it meant that much to him, actually...
The author's idea of faith is... weird... too. On pg 133 we're told that "God never meant for them to crash and for Sean to die". Oh, really? If it happened? GOD MEANT FOR IT TO HAPPEN. What the heck?! Also, while there are a lot of prayer references (mostly of the 'help us live' variety, which even unbelievers would be doing), Krotow seems to equate a godly life with going to church. If you don't go to church - and I mean e.v.e.r.y. w.e.e.k. ... well, you just aren't in a right relationship with the Lord. Nevermind that Elijah, Moses, Noah, Abraham, John the Baptist, John bar Zebedee... NONE of them were in church every week, hello. Or at *ALL*, for that matter. Chrischun mentality drives me crazy.
But mostly the writing was annoying. As an example: (pg 121) " 'I have faith that someday we'll tell this story and see a lot more humor in it, while honoring Sean's memory without the sting of losing him like we did.' She spoke to the fire, not trusting herself to keep from grinning inappropriately if she looked directly at Daniel. They'd lost Sean on this trip and she didn't intend to take from the gravity of his death. Something about Daniel had helped lift the cloud of grief from her soul, made her know that one day she'd be happy again. Would another man have done the same?"
What is that?! She knew Sean all of twenty minutes, spoke to him maybe six times, max... and 'the sting of losing him' is a thing? But she's 'lifted from the cloud of grief', so it's all okay, so long as she doesn't grin inappropriately - because she could be happy again, just not now. R'something? I can't even - it's a lot of word vomit, in this book, trying to 'weave together the sum of their ruminations' but just seeming *off*, in the end.
I didn't enjoy it. Sadly. At all.
In the story, Cassie is risking her life for the sake of giving her 85-year old grandmother 'healthy closure' (pg 136). Granny's mother died when she was an infant, and apparently it was traumatic to the barely cognitive baby, because she needs 'closure' eighty-five years later over something that happened before she knew her A-B-Cs. R'something. Because reasonable storyline.
Anyhow, Great-granny was a WASP in WWII and her B-17 went down in one of the most remote of remote-est places in the universe. You can only get to it five weeks or so out of the year, and that's taking four planes and a helicopter from Pennsylvania up into the northernmost parts of the Canadian tundra. Which, of course, is a direct route from England to the United States, and the most likely way to transport planes in WWII. R'something. ((again.)) And even at that, the 'tours' given to people who sojourn up there wouldn't get her close to the plane, so... what the heck, again...???
Meanwhile, Daniel is a no-nonsense history teacher who spends his summers Indiana Jones-ing around whilst being paid to find hidden and/or lost treasures. Both he and Cassie are after the same B-17 - her to put a family plaque on the thing, and him to get a secret stash of jewels. Except the weather turns, their helo goes down, the pilot dies (as they ALL do in Love, Inspired Suspense novels - this would make #4 for me, this summer), and the two of them have to make their way to 1) the plane, and 2) civilization against all odds (ie., the weather, the critters, the landscape, the time limits, etc.)
Most of the book is just the author telling us what the two characters are thinking in the most banal, clinical terms imaginable. It's not love, it's not inspiring, and it's not romance (in spite of the words emblazoned on the cover of the book).
It's not even really suspense - we all know they both make it out. They have to, so that they can usurp Granny's birthday with a marriage proposal - because their big wrap-up is SOOOOOOO much more important than the woman who's *closure* was the whole impetus for this story. Do I have that right?
I'm sorry. It was... dry. Full of action, but not captivating, not interesting, and not at all - in any way - moving. We don't get pulled in and want to FEEL with these characters - not for a moment. We're TOLD they feel, but... nope. Mostly not believable, that. Even when Daniel admits he took them off-course by twenty miles? It's all reasoning and rationale and excuses for why she should be displeased, etc. Very clinical, not so much drawing us in, as readers.
And half of what we're told makes no sense. On pg 19 Krotow tells us Daniel let go his one semi-serious relationship several years ago because he was too involved in his teaching (winters) and adventuring (summers) to be 'on the same wavelength' as his then girlfriend. Later we're told he was 'burned' in love and 'wasn't ready' for another relationship. Um... really? Because it never sounded like it meant that much to him, actually...
The author's idea of faith is... weird... too. On pg 133 we're told that "God never meant for them to crash and for Sean to die". Oh, really? If it happened? GOD MEANT FOR IT TO HAPPEN. What the heck?! Also, while there are a lot of prayer references (mostly of the 'help us live' variety, which even unbelievers would be doing), Krotow seems to equate a godly life with going to church. If you don't go to church - and I mean e.v.e.r.y. w.e.e.k. ... well, you just aren't in a right relationship with the Lord. Nevermind that Elijah, Moses, Noah, Abraham, John the Baptist, John bar Zebedee... NONE of them were in church every week, hello. Or at *ALL*, for that matter. Chrischun mentality drives me crazy.
But mostly the writing was annoying. As an example: (pg 121) " 'I have faith that someday we'll tell this story and see a lot more humor in it, while honoring Sean's memory without the sting of losing him like we did.' She spoke to the fire, not trusting herself to keep from grinning inappropriately if she looked directly at Daniel. They'd lost Sean on this trip and she didn't intend to take from the gravity of his death. Something about Daniel had helped lift the cloud of grief from her soul, made her know that one day she'd be happy again. Would another man have done the same?"
What is that?! She knew Sean all of twenty minutes, spoke to him maybe six times, max... and 'the sting of losing him' is a thing? But she's 'lifted from the cloud of grief', so it's all okay, so long as she doesn't grin inappropriately - because she could be happy again, just not now. R'something? I can't even - it's a lot of word vomit, in this book, trying to 'weave together the sum of their ruminations' but just seeming *off*, in the end.
I didn't enjoy it. Sadly. At all.
May 25, 2022
From the very start of Geri Krotow’s first Love Inspired story, there was a skilled interweaving of sincere emotions, anticipation of what could happen next, and receiving encouragement from God. Soon after the first few scenes, there is a sense of danger tossed into the mix, and each dilemma thereafter captured my every thought because of their unanticipated and often perilous challenges. I was also kept enthralled because of the many ways in which the main characters interacted with each other, as their personal natures were clearly evident plus I got to be entertained with all the predicaments that continued to arise for the two individuals whose lives had unexpectedly been put at risk. STRANDED IN THE MOUNTAINS is an outstanding example of how a person’s life can be affected by trusting in the Lord.
When Cassie Edmunds agreed to carry out a long-time yearning of her grandmother’s, it had her leaving Pennsylvania and travelling to an isolated part of Canada. Once getting there, she hopes the tour that she had signed up to take may eventually lead to some answers about a relative connected to a plane that was lost in the area during the Second World War. The only other passenger on the last leg of her flight is Daniel Sturges, a history teacher who enjoys searching for artifacts while out for the summer. On the way to their final destination, the helicopter ride goes from rather bumpy to terrifying and then crashes in a lake. Now Cassie and Daniel will have his wilderness training to rely on while also letting their faith in God guide them, too.
Since I like storylines where there are some suspenseful incidents taking place from time to time, I found myself enjoying this Love Inspired book even more than usual when I read this genre. What happens to Cassie and Daniel is realistically depicted with convincing circumstances, and Geri Krotow certainly gave this couple plenty of chances to discover what their spur-of-the-moment reaction would frequently be. From dangerous encounters to weather related problems, these two never knew what they would have to live through in the mountainous location. Any events where their feelings were the focus of the scene came across as very believable, and I was always eager to learn what kind of inner emotions Cassie and Daniel were experiencing. I am already looking forward to more books like this from Geri Krotow.
When Cassie Edmunds agreed to carry out a long-time yearning of her grandmother’s, it had her leaving Pennsylvania and travelling to an isolated part of Canada. Once getting there, she hopes the tour that she had signed up to take may eventually lead to some answers about a relative connected to a plane that was lost in the area during the Second World War. The only other passenger on the last leg of her flight is Daniel Sturges, a history teacher who enjoys searching for artifacts while out for the summer. On the way to their final destination, the helicopter ride goes from rather bumpy to terrifying and then crashes in a lake. Now Cassie and Daniel will have his wilderness training to rely on while also letting their faith in God guide them, too.
Since I like storylines where there are some suspenseful incidents taking place from time to time, I found myself enjoying this Love Inspired book even more than usual when I read this genre. What happens to Cassie and Daniel is realistically depicted with convincing circumstances, and Geri Krotow certainly gave this couple plenty of chances to discover what their spur-of-the-moment reaction would frequently be. From dangerous encounters to weather related problems, these two never knew what they would have to live through in the mountainous location. Any events where their feelings were the focus of the scene came across as very believable, and I was always eager to learn what kind of inner emotions Cassie and Daniel were experiencing. I am already looking forward to more books like this from Geri Krotow.
June 2, 2022
Bonded by survival! This strongly faith based story unites two unlikely souls in a fight against the elements when their flight to a remote site strands them with the barest of resources. Each character has a back story that endears their part of the plot to the reader and watching them grow their connection throughout the wilds of the wilderness makes a powerful human interest side to the story. I liked them a lot, but would have enjoyed more relationship development once they returned to real life.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a high impact survival type romance with a strong outdoor backdrop.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a high impact survival type romance with a strong outdoor backdrop.
March 27, 2024
"Part-tine treasure hunter Daniel Sturges's secret assignment was simple - find a wrecked WWI B-17 and recover the artifacts inside. But now he's stranded with fellow crash survivor Cassie Edmunds, who;'s searching for the same plane, and they'll have to trust one another with their lives." This book tells a story of courage, trust and faith in God. I enjoyed how the characters explored their own feelings in situations and diving deep into the reason for their doubts about each other and themselves.
May 19, 2022
Stranded in the Mountains by Geri Krotow is a Harlequin issued Love Inspired Inspirational Romance. I found the book to be an enjoyable Christian read. The main characters, Cassie and Daniel found themselves in God's hands numerous times during their survival story. I really liked these two characters and was really into following along on their perilous journey to a Happily Ever After.
I received an ARC and this is my honest review.
I received an ARC and this is my honest review.
August 20, 2022
Stranded in the mountains - Great inspiration romance
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