Keeping Amanda

BySusan Stoker

Release Date: 2025-11-04
Genre: Romantic Suspense

Score: 4.5

4.5

From 148 Ratings

Description

She thought the most difficult thing she’d ever done was survive the rainforest…she was wrong.

Things between Amanda Rush and Nash “Buck” Chaney aren’t starting out very well. He’s one of two Army Night Stalker helicopter pilots sent to rescue her and the twenty-three kids who’ve been kidnapped from a school in Guyana. But when the time comes for everyone to escape the military rebels who’d driven them deep into the Amazon rainforest, Amanda runs away from rescue, instead of toward it, forcing Buck to chase her down.

As it turns out, she has a very good reason for not immediately rushing into the helicopter with all the kids. But now she and Buck are stranded in the very warm, very wet, and very uncomfortable rainforest—with a whole contingent of pissed-off rebels on their trail, who are determined to hunt them down.

Not on Buck’s watch.

Danger’s a funny thing. It can either bring people together or drive them apart. Despite their rocky start, Amanda and Buck find, to their surprise, that they have a lot in common. And once they return home to Virginia, they think they’ve left that danger behind them in the hot and humid rainforest.

They couldn’t be more wrong. Someone went to great lengths to get rid of Amanda…and they’re determined to finish what they started.

**Keeping Amanda is the 2nd book in the Rescue Angels Series. Each book is a stand-alone, with no cliffhanger endings.

Trigger Warning: This story very lightly explores the distressing reality of child soldiers in other countries, as well as the sometimes devastating impact of adult mental illness on children. For those reasons, it may not be for more sensitive readers.

Reviews

Inauspicious Beginnings
5
By Melanie Milburn
When Amanda, “Mandy” Rush volunteers at an orphanage in Guyana, she could never have foreseen the things that would happen. She and the children are taken by Venezuelan rebels, they are rescued by Nightstalker pilots; she misses the helicopter when she looks for a missing child; and one of the pilots, Nash “Buck” Chaney, ends up leading them to safety through the rain forest. Not a great start, but good things do start happening as the two make their way.
This was an action packed and shouldering romance!