A review by romancebookloverinseattle
Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti

5.0

This is my first Deep Ops book, and I LOVED it. Definitely going to be digging in to this serious to read all the books that came before this one that I missed. When the story opens, Gemma has just landed in her friends home, taking her place as a professor for a period of time. She has been on the run for several years now with her young daughter, trying to escape the monster from her past. While settling in to her teaching gig at the university she runs into Jethro, another professor in her department. Jethro finds himself intrigued by and drawn to Gemma, but at the same time finds himself caught up in a deadly situation when the brother he helped to put behind bars escapes and seemingly starts on a deadly path with his sights set on Jethro.

This was a very layered mystery/thriller with a slow burn romance and I loved how as it went on and we met more and more people from Jethro's life and past and got to know them as well as Gemma and Jethro and Gemma's daughter, Trudy. I can't wait now to go back and read all the earlier books in this series, as well as get to the next one to come!