Phoenix’s Ascent by Winter Austin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is not my normal type of book, but I really enjoyed it. There are plenty of twists and turns, as well as character development.

Nadia is a trained government assassin of a mostly female squad, Hera Force, with a major Traumatic Brain Injury that causes her to lose track of time and has caused her to forget six whole years of her life, causing her to lose the man she loves and who loves her too. Mitch is a former MI6 agent in British intelligence, who has been in hiding after being framed for treason. When Nadia walks into his bar in Mexico, kills several drug cartel members, at first he can’t understand why she can’t remember him, but he knows he has to help her escape the police and cartel members that are now on her tail. This belief is only bolstered when she wakes up the next morning with no memory of what had happened the previous night, no memory of the six years since she last saw Mitch, and believing it is 6 years before. As Mitch works hard to get Nadia back to her teammates, Nadia struggles to make sense of her life and what is going on around her. Working together with Hera Force, Mitch and Nadia work to figure out who framed Mitch, who sent the cartel after Nadia, who is working to create a biological weapon, and who the Chessmaster, the man who is pulling all the strings, really is and try to bring him down.

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