Review of Every Step She Takes by Jannine Gallant

**I received an ARC of this story in exchange for an honest review**

Grace Hanover’s life is her career. She’s a reporter for a San Francisco newspaper and after getting a hot tip on a huge story, she’s headed to Alaska for an interview with a witness to a high-profile crime. Unfortunately, she’s not the only one that found out the witness’s location. Travis Barnett is a former Navy SEAL who runs his own security company. He’s hired by a friend of his in the FBI to go get the witness and bring him back to Seattle before he’s killed. When they meet each other on the flight to a tiny town in the middle of Alaska, the attraction is definitely there, but they’re both determined to ignore it so they can deal with their personal tasks at hand. While hiking around in the wilderness looking for the witness, they each come clean as to why they are there, just as it becomes evident that they aren’t the only ones and for some reason, the killer has taken a personal interest in Grace.

For most of the book, Grace is definitely all about “the story”. Even when I’m yelling at her to NOT be that stupid, she is anyways. Throughout most of the book, she makes relationship mistakes she is obviously famous for making as it’s painfully reminded to her up until the end. Her saving grace is what she had been through when she was a teen, which ironically is why she has a psychopath chasing after her. Her dedication to her family is what lets you know there’s something in her that’s worthy of Travis. Travis, unlike most men in Grace’s life, is able to see what she’s trying to do and he’s just as determined to make her give them a chance. He’s willing to do what it takes to make sure she’s safe and that she doesn’t give up.

I wasn’t really sure how much I was going to like this book. At 40% in, what I thought was the primary story seemed concluded, I wasn’t sure exactly how the author was going to stretch the rest of the story. I was very pleasantly surprised with all of it. I highly recommend this book to anyone that likes this genre.