Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Before Prophet Drews can have a future, he must first put his past to rest.
Prophet Drews and Tom Boudreaux, his partner on the job and in real life, are back from the tumultuous events in New Orleans and trying to figure out where they go from here. Tom has moved into Prophet’s condo while continuing to work for E.E, Prophet’s former employer. And Prophet? He remains haunted by a past that won’t let him go and a secret he is hiding from Tom that might shatter any future they might have together.
Then his old CO asks Prophet to help in a dangerous rescue mission, one that will reunite all of Prophet’s old SEAL team and bring out Prophet’s and the team’s old enemies as well. When Prophet asks Tom to come with him, Tom jumps at the chance to support his partner and uncover some answers of his own.
Before long it’s not just CIA assassins, the terrorist Sadiq, and the enigmatic spook Cillian involved with Prophet, Tom, and the SEAL team’s rescue mission. Odd events and occurrences start to point at one of the most important person in Prophet’s past… John—”traitor, former teammate, and Prophet’s first love”, being involved as well.
With only a small window of opportunity to get in, accomplish their mission and then escape and when no one is sure who to trust , Prophet and Tom must search within themselves and their relationship for the truth, not only about each other but their relationship as well. Danger , past, present and future lurks everywhere….can Prophet and Tom make it out alive and together?
In Prophet Drews and Tom Boudreaux, SE Jakes has created two marvelously complex and troubled men among a company of such men in her E.E series. Through the last several stories, we have watched Prophet and Tom circle around each other in an absorbing pas de deux of action, passion and traumatizing personal past histories. Endlessly drawn towards each other, the constant push and pull of attraction and yes, love, has made these two men fascinating to connect with in the drama they create and the mysteries that follow them through each adventure and calamity. Now back from New Orleans and with their relationship strengthened, Prophet’s PSTD is getting worse by the day as is his indecision and pain over an enormous secret he is hiding from Tom.
Jakes has always been able to pull us intimately into the minds of these men and in Daylight Again the author puts them both under a narrative microscope that will magnify all the demons Prophet and Tom have been fighting and bring them into the light for them and the reader. Daylight Again begins a journey of revelation for Tom and Prophet on many levels. SE Jakes starts to pull together the plot threads and characters from several of her interconnected series and weaves them here into a suspense filled, action packed drama that kept me on the edge from beginning to end. This is a taut, streamlined narrative and it flows just as quickly from point to point as one would expect from this author and this series.
I love this author’s ability to create characters that zing off the page, their vitality and depth almost too much to be contained within the confines of a page. We have gotten to know them from Catch a Ghost, and then watch them pull together in Long Time Gone. Now Daylight Again starts with them living together and adjusting to that fact and each other with varying degrees of success. What hurts is how close these men have become to each other and yet the reader is always aware that some sharp shard of their past lurks just outside their growing relationship to splinter it all to hell and back at a moment’s notice. That tension that haunts this couple and story is just one more marvelous element in SE Jakes storytelling repertoire and it serves to keep the reader engrossed in the story and tightly connected to these men.
All my other favorites are here too, especially Cillian and Mal, whose story Dirty Deeds uncovered a major past connection between them whose disclosure devastated them both. Mal and Cillian are front and center here, still trying to deal with that personal bombshell while working together for the success of this mission. These are strong characters too and SE Jakes does them justice and keeps us invested in their status even though this really isn’t their story….Its Prophet’s and Tom’s. And what a story it is. SE Jakes has me both anticipating and dreading the next installment because of the great way this story ended.
The ending is astonishing. I love the way Jakes sets us up for that denouement. And it will take us and this couple into the penulitmate story in their Hell or High Water series. I can’t wait. Consider this one of ScatteredThoughtsandRogueWords highly recommended novel as well as one of the most entertaining series of the year. Don’t pass up this or any of these stories by SE Jakes. In fact, grab up everything in the Extreme Escapes universe and start reading. You are going to fall hard for each and every dangerous and sexy man you will find within.
LC Chase has again supplied us with another outstanding cover, I just love these tats. Graphically appealing and perfect for the men involved.
Books in the Hell or High Water series in the order they should be read:
Catch a Ghost (Hell or High Water, #1)
Long Time Gone (Hell or High Water, #2)
Daylight Again (Hell or High Water, #3)
Not Fade Away (Hell or High Water, #3.5) Expected publication: July 14th 2014
If I Ever (Hell or High Water, #4) Expected publication: October 1st 2014
Associated Series: Extreme Escapes Universe: Men of Honor and Dirty Deeds:
Dirty Deeds (Dirty Deeds #1) Mal and Cillian
Free Falling (Extreme Escapes, Ltd.) Blue and Mick
Book Details:
ebook, 265 pages
Published May 5th 2014 by Riptide Publishing (first published May 3rd 2014)
ISBN139781626491403
edition languageEnglish
urlhttp://www.riptidepublishing.com/titles/daylight-again
seriesHell or High Water #3
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 
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