Everyone is Watching

Hostile Alliance

Series: Hostile Alliance, Book 5

Written by Jorgia Yates

Published by: Jorgia Yates, Inc.

Release Date: 01.29.26

Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense & Mystery

5+ Stars!

Hostile Alliance’s tension is immediate, volatile, and heavy with threat, as though the air itself has been wired to explode. Every page carries pressure. Every scene feels watched, measured, cornered, one misstep away from ruin. The writing is fierce and exacting, charged with danger that feels intimate, unavoidable, and closing in. I felt the hostility of the world tightening, the emotional stakes rising, the cost sharpening, the realization that survival demands far more than skill. This story requires attention, steadiness, courage, endurance, drawing the reader into a landscape where fear, faith, obedience, and surrender are tested beneath scorching scrutiny and fire.

This novel is forged with precision and courage, written with a clarity that slices through danger, deception, fear, and self-illusion. Every thread of suspense is intentional, purposeful, weight-bearing. The story keeps pressing inward, not toward spectacle, but toward the soul. It asks difficult questions and refuses to soften them. It creates space for the reader to pause, to listen, to examine what faith requires when obedience carries risk, when trust feels dangerous, when standing firm costs more than retreat ever could.

Adena’s faith anchors this story with quiet authority. It is steady, practiced, and lived in the dark. Scripture appears with reverence and restraint, never ornamental, never performative, always placed where it can be carried into the reader’s own life. Her belief does not shield her from danger, fear, or consequence. It steadies her when nothing else can. Watching her walk forward with integrity, discernment, resolve, humility, and trust felt deeply personal. Faith is portrayed as lived endurance.

Jagger’s journey carries its own gravity. Years of survival have taught him to measure everything by risk, exposure, loss, and damage. The weight of his inner conflict surfaces in moments that feel painfully honest, especially when grace begins to press against long-held defenses. One line captured that tension with aching clarity: “The words settle over me like a weight I don't know if I can carry. She's offering me something I've spent years running from, something I'm not sure I deserve.”

His struggle is not rushed. His reckoning unfolds under pressure, doubt, resistance, exhaustion, longing, forcing him to confront what survival has demanded and faith now requires. The surrender that follows strips away everything he once relied on to stay alive and binds him fully to the faith he can no longer resist.

The relationship between Adena and Jagger develops under relentless surveillance, constant threat, and emotional restraint. What forms between them is shaped by trust, attentiveness, shared peril, and quiet sacrifice. One moment crystallized that shift with striking intimacy: “Whatever it is we're about to walk into, his touch doesn't feel like a cover anymore. It feels like a lifeline.” That line holds the heart of the story. What begins as strategy becomes refuge. What is supposed to be false becomes something irrevocably true.

This story also dares to ask what faith looks like when morality is complicated by circumstance. When obedience means remaining in the shadows. When doing the right thing requires patience, restraint, silence, suffering.

This story opened the door to the Hightower Security series for me, and I am committed to reading from the beginning. Hostile Alliance stands as a powerful witness to what clearly Christian fiction can accomplish when faith, obedience, and truth shape stories created prayerfully, intentionally, and with care

I received a digital ARC from the author and BookSirens. I am not required to write a positive review nor paid to do so. This is my honest and unbiased review. My thoughts and opinions expressed in this book review are my own. My review focuses on the writing and the story’s content, ensuring transparency and reliability.