This book has everything love, loss, passion and action. The characters have so much depth and the writing was amazing. I have recently starting reading Angel’s books and I loved everything about them. This book had such an incredible plot. Losing you soulmate can crush and harden you but finding out it was all a lie will turn you into someone that everyone should fear. The story unfolds perfectly and I love how everything slowly comes together. Love is never easy and this couple definitely has some struggles to work through and in the end if they are strong enough they will find their way back to each other. Such a beautiful love story you should pick up a copy and enjoy it for yourself.
I was given a copy from NetGalley for an honest review.

At first I wasn't sure about this book. But as I read it I had a OMG moment. Once you read this you will understand. I loved this storyline and how well it flowed. I can not wait for the next book.

Saved is the first book by Angel Payne that I have read. The description attracted me but it wasn’t quite what I expected. It covered many heavy subjects but I am not sure it did justice to any of them. I liked the story line so even though the story seemed slow at times I pushed through. I am glad I did. It definitely ended stronger than it started and I would definitely read another book by Angel in the future.

I hadn't read the blurb on this one and was surprised and thrilled at this story.

Saved by Angel Payne is much more than your steamy, hot, super hot (did I already say that?) love/lust story. There is so much pain in this story and while BDSM plays a part, the emotional pain is excruciating to read and to feel. Angel does a great job at putting us in the story and feeling what each of these characters is feeling with neither of them having the ability to express it...at least not fully.

Sage and Garrett's love story spans a year of amazing torture and loss. It is unclear whether they will ever be able to get back to where they were and if they can, how different will their lives me. There is suspense in this story to keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.

I can say that this book is amazing and that Fifty shades of Grey does not compare to some of the scense Angel has written in this book. I loved reading Garrent and Sage's story and seeing how these two people are so connected that nothing could stop them from being together. I can't wait to see what happens with Zene and Rayna in the next book.

I tried getting into this book.Lord knows I tried. However, the beginning of the book is so boring that I couldn't even get into the story.

Saved
By: Angel Payne
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I’m just going to start by I posted the authors blurb below because in truth my description would be all over the place.

I’m a little numb after reading this book. You know you’ve read something amazing when a day after you finish reading the book your heart races hoping you can do a review that gives a book and author credit for the words.

Angel Payne did a great job destroying my heart and then pain stakingly put it back together. She has you rooting for Garrett and Sage because it hurts to see them apart. Go along for the journey it’s an amazing book.

Author Blurb: He saved her life…she saved his soul.

Garrett Hawkins is the most valuable asset to his Special Forces unit, because, frankly, the guy doesn’t care if he lives or dies anymore. Since the love of his life, Sage Weston, was kidnapped and killed with her medical unit a year ago, Garrett has turned the shell of his soul into the armor of a finely tuned fighting machine. Being the first tapped for the unit’s craziest missions is just fine by him. The less time for memories and the agony they carve into his soul, the better.

It’s a plan that works, until Garrett’s world is upended one night in the jungles of Thailand. Memories become reality when the unit is called to rescue a group of kidnapped aid workers, and they discover Sage and her teammate among the retrieved women. Now that Sage is back in his arms, Garrett doesn’t know what to do. He has changed in dramatic ways, especially in the darker tastes of his passion. If he touches Sage again, he’ll want to claim her, restrain her...dominate her.

Is Sage’s love strong enough to let Garrett back in, not only as her fiancé but her Dominant? Can she trust that visiting the new shadows of his life will lead her to ecstasy and not ruin? Or can Garrett’s discipline be exactly what her soul needs to find its way back to life—and love—again?

Thanks to Netgally for letting me read and review!!!

I’m going to chalk this one up to that it just wasn’t for me. I’m a fan of this author and have read and loved several of her books. This one was not like any I’ve known from her. I think my biggest issue was that I struggled with behaviors and reactions after certain events in the book. This has some pretty heavy subject matter of kidnapping, physical abuse and threats of sexual abuse but the focus of the book was the heroine trying to convince her fiancé she can handle his dark side after being rescued. I actually found a scene towards the end to be a bit disturbing. Like I said, it just wasn’t for me. ARC provided by NetGalley.

I really enjoyed reading Garrett & Sage's story. It was amazing when Garrett & his team discover Sage & her friend early in the story. It's an interesting twist on dealing with PTSD & discovering someone is alive when thought to be dead. I like reading how the love story between the two of them is affected & highly recommend it for others. You won't regret it!

I have only read one other book by the very talented Angel Payne but was hooked. Reading Saved was a journey into loss, love and healing. Garrett, our heartbroken hero is trying to pick up his life after the love of his life was declared dead by the Army. Sage, our strong and beautiful heroine, has been kidnapped and subjected to the the world of human trafficking. When they come back together, they find that the person they loved aren’t quite who they thought and they have learn each other all over again. This book addresses some of the emotions involved with BDSM and not just the sex and scenes. Both characters struggle with their feelings and needs and that made it all the more believable. I can’t wait to read the second one.

He saved her life…she saved his soul.

"My Hero
My Heart"

Saved by Angel Payne was a heart pounding, nail biting, suspenseful love story about two broken hearts. My heart ached for Garret, the love of his life was stolen from him. His soul is broken beyond repair. He is breathing but not living. A shell of what he once was, finds no meaning anymore.

Until he goes on a rescue mission, and finds non other than his fiancé.

Now being back home, safe, life should be able to go back to normal.... but they both carry demons that haunt their every whim. The horrors his fiancé had to endure to survive, and Garrett hiding his true self, these two must face these obstacles together in order for their relationship to survive.

This story was honestly refreshing to read. It shows the difficult journey Garrett and Sage had to face. The relationship felt so real and powerful, it gripped my heart like a vice. The suspense, heart-ache, and oh the angst....... 5 STARS!

It was a little slow at the beginning but then I got into it. I liked the military suspense and the romance.

Saved by Angel Payne was the first book I have read from this author and I loved it. But I didnt like the fact the action and drama happened so fast it felt unbelievable. I wish things happened slowly.

Garrett Hawkins is the most valuable asset to his Special Forces unit, the guy doesn’t care if he lives or dies anymore. Since the love of his life, Sage Weston, was taken and killed with her medical unit a year ago, Garrett has turned the shell of men. Sage and her teammate, believed dead, are very much alive. Only now that Sage is back in his arms, Garrett doesn’t know what to do.The book is amazing. When I started reading I couldn't put it down I read the book is one day.Angel Payene is magnifysent writer.I cannot wait to read more of her books.Keep up that passionet work.

Exciting, sexy military BDSM romance

Angel Payne out does herself in this the first of the Honor Bound series. Garrett and Sage are reunited when he rescue Sage after thinking she'd been killed a year earlier. Their love is still strong but they have an emotional and physical journey to complete and Evil has to be thwarted before they get their HEA. This book kept my attention from the first to last chapter. Well written characters and plot had me finishing it in one sitting. I found the secondary characters equally well developed and look forward to reading their stories in the next books.
I received an Advance reader copy from NetGalley.

She was his everything. The world stopped turning for Garrett the day he heard Sage was killed. Haunted by the memory of her he struggled to live. Survive. Life had no meaning without the other half of his heart. On a rescue mission, he saves the one person that means more to him than life. Finally able to breathe again Sage and Garrett begin to rekindle their romance. This story is absolutely breathtaking and will pull everyone of your heartstrings as the two lovers reunite and finally begin to heal after their long year apart.

This story had lots of drama, deceit, action and trust issues. When the past comes back and life has changed, the lies and deceit come out. It takes a blast from the past to break thru the hangups of the current self doubt. I'm glad it worked out and trust was a new beginning between Sage and Garrett.

This is the second book that I have tried by this author and I just didn't like her writing style.

When you love someone, you should trust them with your wants, needs and cravings. You should never try to be someone you are not or hide from them, because you never know if your wants and needs are their wants and needs. Garrett had to learn that the hard way.
When his fiance Sage was kidnapped and killed, Garrett didn't care for anything. He would do anything and in my opinion wouldn't have minded if he died. He wanted to be with his heart. He wanted to leave the hell he was living. He would never let go of her and each day he was dying more and more inside. He had become a different person in the year+ she was killed. However Garrett's world was turn upside down again for a second time when he was sent on a mission to Thailand with his best friend Zeke. He went in to rescue people and ended up rescuing the one person he was told was dead a year ago.
Sage was strong and had survived some horrible things but when the voice of her hero rang in her ears, she knew that the pain and suffering was over. Garrett and his team had rescued them, they had finally found them. Her life was finally back, well that's she thought at first. But when she returned to the states Garrett was different. Not the person she knew a year ago, which was okay to her because she had changed. Her needs and wants had changed and she needed him to listen to her and understand, because Garrett though that what he wanted and dreamed of were completely crazy!
This book had me captivated from the first moment. There was always something going on. Sage and Garrett could not catch a break, not even for a day! They love each other so much, a love so strong it held on tight for a year of being apart and thinking the other was dead or will never see each other again. Angel this book was amazing and cant wait to read book 2! Definitely a 5 star from me. What I love most about this book was that we had both Garrett's and Sage's point of views and what they were thinking.

4.5 Star Review of Saved (Honor Bound Book 1) by Angel Payne
This is the first book in the series and one I really enjoyed. I have read other books from Angel Payne so I jumped at the opportunity to read this book as I have always enjoyed her writing style and the depth of characters that she writes about.
Garrett Hawkins is still struggling to fight his way back from the horror of the kidnapping and subsequent death of the woman he loves, Sage Weston. Not caring whether he lives or dies, he goes through the motions as a leader of a special forces team, doing his job but not really living.
Imagine his absolute shock and joy to find that on his latest mission, one of the women he has been sent in to rescue is in fact Sage and her co worker Rayna, who have been presumed dead for over a year.
Both Garrett and Sage struggle to re build their lives, both having changed in so many ways due to the horrors and trauma experienced. Can these two tortured souls find their way back to each other and allow the love they shared to strengthen and subsequently re-connect? Or has the past twelve months destroyed any chance that Garrett and Sage have?

I loved both Garrett and Sage and so admired not only Sage but Rayna for surviving such a harrowing and traumatic experience. Garrett is an alpha and dominant male, as are all the members of his team and it was interesting to see how both he and Sage struggle to reach a compromise as they learn to be with each other again as a couple.
The secondary characters of Zeke and Rayna, along with the other members of Garrett’s team were just as interesting and I cannot wait to read their stories.
There was intrigue, suspense, dominant and tender moments throughout this book and at times I truly felt I was on an emotional roller-coaster of a read. I
I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book through NetGalley from the publisher.