After speaking to local school girls, describing her job as an environmental engineer, Molly was abducted by local terrorists along with several of the girls from the school and had no idea how long she had been held in the Nigerian jungle until Mark "Smoke" Chamberlin fell on her in the hole in which she had been kept. Smoke's team, Silverstone, had been tasked with coming to Nigeria to kill the local terrorist leader, and he literally stumbled on Molly during their operation. Once she was freed, and discovering that Molly's grandparents had been killed during her captivity, she was left with no place else to go, so Smoke offered to give her shelter until she could figure out what to do with the rest of her life. Unfortunately, Molly would not only have to deal with her former job, but also her former boyfriend/stalker, who she had left the US to escape.

Trusting Molly is a fairly average romantic suspense. Most of the action happens in the first part of the story when Silverstone helps Molly escape. After that, Molly is pretty much helpless and under Smoke's protection from her stalker/boyfriend, Preston. The emotions in this story are all pretty weak as the characters are sorely underdeveloped. Molly and Smoke become connected far too quickly and Preston is a very one dimensional, stereotypical stalker. Overall, Trusting Molly is a romantic suspense story with very little romance and even less suspense. ( )

Trusting Molly by Susan Stoker
Silverstone Series #3

Thrilling introduction to both characters that set the pace for the story. Meet-cute definitely grabbed me and had Mark and Molly very aware of one another. The story continued to hold my attention till the end.

What I liked:
* Mark/Smoke: intelligent, capable, skilled, lethal, kind, caring, wealthy, protective, positive, a good man that deserved to find the perfect woman for him.
* Molly: smart, resilient, enduring, caring, kind, generous, has had a run of bad luck, has lost parents and grandparents, deserves to find the perfect man for her.
* The men of Silverstone are superior men and fun to read about. They have a bond tighter than super-glue and are there for one another and those that they love.
* Seeing how Eagle/Taylor and Bull/Skylar were doing and thinking about who Gramps will end up with.
* Wondering if Archer will get a story of his own – and will others at Silverstone have stories, too.
* The jungle portion of the story and how caring the team were of Molly.
* That Molly was such a trooper.
* The way Mark took such good care of Molly.
* The friendship that began to develop between Molly, Skylar, and Taylor.
* That the stalker was eventually dealt with.
* All of it really except…

What I didn’t like:
* The people and groups I was meant not to like: Boko Harum and Preston
* The way people over time had made Molly feel she was a trouble-magnet
* A bit of a dislike in that I kept wondering if the stalker would really think as he did in this story…and would have been so unhinged and even able to do what he did if in the state he must have been in at times.

Did I enjoy this book? Yes
Would I read more in this series/by this author? Definitely

Thank you to NetGalleky and Montlake for the ARC- This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars ( )