Exposed, Endangered, Enduring
Series: Jagged Edges, Book 1
Written by Kelly Borjas
Release Date: 09.15.26
Genre: Christian Mystery & Suspense Romance,
5 Stars!
Some books make me notice the setting first. Others make me notice the suspense first. High Exposure made me notice the writing.
Kelly Borjas writes with an ease that made me slow down and actually notice the way scenes were built. Snow, silence, fear, grief, awkwardness, attraction, danger. Nothing felt hurried onto the page just to get me to the next twist. The details gave the story weight, and the emotional moments had room to breathe.
Julia interested me because her hurt had edges. She is grieving, angry, searching, and not especially interested in neat answers. Her struggle with God mattered to me because it was allowed to remain difficult for a while. She did not move from pain to peace in three tidy pages. Her questions had consequences.
Cade gave the story a different kind of strength. He carries regret and responsibility differently than Julia does, and I liked the way his faith showed up in his choices, his prayers, and his his understanding that he would always need God to keep working in him. He was protective without becoming overbearing, and the humor between them kept the story from becoming emotionally heavy all the time.
I cared about Julia and Cade before I cared about how the danger would end. Once that happened, the suspense became personal. I was not just waiting to see what happened next. I wanted these two people to make it through.
The faith meant the most to me when Julia was at her rawest. Her grief and anger with God were not hurried past, and neither was the slow work of trusting Him again. Prayer, guilt, surrender, and hope came through pain that had to be faced, not skipped over. That made her learning to trust God again mean so much to me.
It is hard to believe High Exposure is Kelly Borjas’s debut. She gave me a story with emotional depth, real Christian faith, humor, danger, and characters I wanted to keep reading about.
Kelly Borjas is officially on my radar after High Exposure. Bring on the next Jagged Edges story.
I received an eARC and paperback copy of this book for review. I also received an Amazon e-gift card to preorder the Kindle edition. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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