Celebrate Lit / June 2, 2024

Trust Fall

About the Book Trust Fall

Book: Trust Fall

Author: Chautona Havig

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release date: April 30, 2024

Protecting her without her knowledge might get them both killed.

Grief has held Eve “Kensi” Kensington captive long enough. Determined to move on after the death of her fiancé six years ago, Kensi moves to St. Alyn to help Ezra with the new boat book business. That there’s a great therapist on the island is just a bonus.

When the West Coast Agency learns that the former fiancée of a deceased informant is under the radar, Simon Garver is tasked to protect her—without her knowledge, if possible. Great. Listening in on her therapy sessions might be the worst thing he’s ever had to do as an agent.

Nope… scrap that. Falling for his client takes the cake.

When Kensi learns Simon has been keeping secrets from her, she’s done. Too bad the arrival of a guy sent to “take care of her” means she needs him. She’ll cooperate until she’s safe, toss the trust exercises her therapist has insisted on in the trash, and get back to her job on Ezra’s boat.

If only her heart would listen to the plan…

Take a trip to the Suamalie Islands where palm trees sway, the sand and sea pulse with life, and the people will steal your heart.

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My Thoughts on Trust Fall

Also, first I have to say that I love this author. Chautona Havig is amazing. Her books always keep me spellbound. This one is no exception. I loved loved loved the Agency Files and was so thrilled to see a new one. This one takes place on the islands though which is different.

Protection without extraction. That’s the goal here. Because Kensi is a little too emotionally fragile to deal with their normal type of extraction. So Simon has to protect her. Without her knowing that he’s protecting her. What could go wrong?! Okay. So, a lot could go wrong. And it does. But it makes for a great novel!

I love Kensi and Simon! They’re so great together.

Kensi has some issues. Her fiance died and she was left almost dead. It took her forever to heal from that. Well, she’s not fully healed. Physically she is except for the scars but emotionally is another story. She’s seeing a therapist on the islands. The therapist, Henri, just so happens to be her friend Ezra’s almost fiance.

Simon is an agent of the Agency. Only he’s from the West Coast office. Rockland is where the series took place prior to this one. I personally can’t wait to see more of those come out. But anyway that’s off-topic for this book unless you’re an Agency addict like I am.

Not sure how much more I can say because if I keep going I’m going to give away way too much.

Let’s just say I look at centipedes a whole different way now. Who knew they bit? Not me at least. I devoured this book in an afternoon, really less than that, maybe only two hours tops and it was gone. Done. Finished. And I really wanted more!

Read it. You’ll love it. Read all the Agency Files.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of Trust Fall

Chautona Havig lives in an oxymoron, escapes into imaginary worlds that look startlingly similar to ours and writes the stories that emerge. An irrepressible optimist, Chautona sees everything through a kaleidoscope of It’s a Wonderful Life sprinkled with fairy tales. Find her on the web and say howdy—if you can remember how to spell her name.

More from Chautona

Sometimes life doesn’t go as you’d planned. Like at all. You think you’re going to have a great wedding, an idyllic honeymoon, followed by the perfect, picket-fence existence with the love of your life.

Then some crazy author comes along and rips it all away. Fiancé? Dead. Honeymoon? Not hardly. And by the time she’s done, that fence feels like someone rammed those pickets into her heart. All in a day’s work, and all before the first word of the story.

It’s a wonder that characters don’t revolt or something.

Look, here’s the deal. I just thought it would be cool to bring my Agency Files to Suamalie. And for that, we needed a tough background, because The Agency doesn’t get involved in disputes over spa appointments or boat rental rescues (most of the time).

So, after many hours of plotting and planning, I finally figured out how to torture my Kensi—I mean, give her an interesting backstory—while not tormenting readers. Too much. It’s been a couple of years (okay, it’s been six!), she’s having trouble coping, and….

Then what?

How does The Agency fit in?

That started off as a conundrum that got really cool the more I thought about it. I mean, here’s the thing. The Agency is a protective entity. They swoop in and protect people from imminent danger while law enforcement does its job to remove that threat. Sometimes, as in Justified Means, this involves “involuntary” protection where they extract someone from his or her life until it’s safe to return—whether that person wants to be extracted or not.

I didn’t want that this time, but I also didn’t want Kensi to know she was in danger. So, off she goes to visit her friend Ezra in the Suamalie Islands and there she meets Ezra’s therapist fiancé.

This much was easy to figure out.