Sadly I couldn’t get into this book. I had been so looking forward to it but it just wasn’t for me. It had sounded great from the description too

I received an arc from NetGalley and this is my honest opinion. This is a great read, especially during the winter. This will definitely give you a new perspective about ice.
The main characters are relatable and Each bring out the best in the other. Romance, mystery and lots of action are contained in this book.

An interesting story with an unusual location. It is well written and has good character development. I would read another book featuring Angel. There is sufficient romance in the story for anyone that likes that in their thrillers.

What a great first book for new series! I enjoyed it. Lots of heart pounding action, well fleshed out characters, and a look at what it takes to survive, both physically and emotionally, in a remote, ruthless location like Antarctica. And that's before the bad guys. Prepare for a wild ride!

I love romantic suspense, mainly because there’s usually a plot to go with the romance. Ariana Anders did not disappoint on that front. Set in the Antarctic, a world foreign to most of us, Whiteout delivered a thrilling plot, a satisfying if not too steamy romance and the kind of can-do characters you’d love to have in your life. My only complaint is that the suspense part of this romantic suspense novel ended as a to-be-continued. I’ve nothing against series books that share some characters and are best read sequentially, but I really don’t like having to wait for the next book in order to get plot closure.
Anders’ Blank Canvas series set the bar for great character development with hot sex and can’t-put-it-down stories. Whiteout falls a bit short in comparison. Even so, bring on book two!

This is the first Adriana Anders book I've read and it definitely made me want to check out more. I loved the unique setting in Antarctica - it made everything feel higher stakes and set it apart from a lot of the romantic suspense I read. I was invested in the romance but almost even more so in the adventure. I also found the character of Angel super relatable and was consistently rooting for her. A fun, fast-paced read!

This story is a fast-paced, suspenseful read. It has non stop suspense and danger. This is the first book that I have read by this author. I love romantic suspense books and this was a good book but, it was a little too dark for me. Overall, it was a good, suspenseful read.

I don't usually read romantic thrillers, but I thought I'd give this one a try after reading a few reviews and I have to say I really enjoyed it. Ford, a scientist working in Antarctica, and Angel the chef working at the research station, must work together to stop a virus from getting into the wrong hands. They have to trek across Antarctica and try to stay alive. It was fun and sexy and it kept me on my seat. I love a good bed sharing (or in this case tent sharing) trope. Highly recommend!

Wow! Whiteout was a page-turner like nothing I've read in a long while. Coop was the brooding hero we all want and expect to find working as a scientist in Antarctica. And Angel is a refreshing, full-of-life, chef that challenges Coop in ways he doesn't know he needs. What could possibly go wrong, right?

Well, the answer is 'just about everything.' Coop and Angel find themselves out on the ice, on the run for their lives, and by this time they can barely stand each other. Not the greatest start for teamwork. Can they put aside their differences to save their lives...or might they both find more than they expected in the other?

Sigh...I wish I could read this one again for the first time. It kept me up late, turning pages to find out what happened next. Grab this book and settle in for a grand adventure and a fabulous romance.

Angel Smith fled her life back in the States to find a new beginning after giving her all working in a high end restaurant. Traumatized by her world failing apart and dreams shattered, Angel finds a peace in the crystalline sanctuary of ice and snow in Antarctica. Ready to head back on her last day at the research station’s cook, Angel witnesses a horrific scene knowing that if caught by these seriously evil guys, her life is forfeit. The tension starts quickly in this story and does not let up. Ford Cooper, a scientist, who also came to this remote land because of some harsh life experiences, knows something is not right. When Angel tells him what happened, Ford realizes their only slim chance of survival involves a very dangerous trek to another station across the frozen wasteland where winter and total darkness approaches.

Because of something Ford had discovered in his ice cores, he knows that the perpetrators will return to hunt them down since Angel derailed their nefarious plans. Angel refers to Ford as the “Ice Man” as he seems just as frozen as the surroundings. A man of few words and most of them awkward, he begins to loosen up on their long, perilous journey. When survival mode kicks in, all the extraneous things fall away including Ford keeping Angel at arm’s length because she is a bright and beautiful soul who threatens to burn away his carefully constructed hard outer shell.

Angel understands this gruff and damaged man is key to survival because what she knows about being outdoors in Antarctica could fit into one of her artisan pastries. Ford is not only her lifeline, but a man she has been attracted to since the beginning even though he seemed to barely tolerate Angel. Their slow burn, or in this case, slow thaw relationship develops over the course of a seemingly impossible journey in this remote and incredibly dangerous landscape.

Adriana Anders’ prose skillfully draws the reader in with a descriptive narrative that makes all the dangers, hardships, and emotions including the love story come richly to life. Between the unforgiving landscape and her characters’ fraught situations, the intensity of this well wrought tale will resonate long after it ends. This full novel is the first in the Survival Instincts series. A free Kindle story is .5 in the series and featuring Ford’s brother, ex-Navy seal, Eric Cooper who also appears in WHITEOUT.

Whiteout is the first full-length book of the Survival Instincts series and features Ford and Angel. The first story, Deep Blue, is a novella about Ford's brother, Eric. I wouldn't say it is necessary to read the novella first, but it is available for free so why not? It will provide some background info for parts later on in the story.

Ford and Angel are in Antarctica when their station is attacked in order to steal dangerous research. They find themselves trekking across the ice to another research facility. So much action and death-defying heroism. Ford is a former military and all-around badass, so we expect him to be brave in the face of danger. Angel is a chef at the research facility but has nerves of steel. They find out so much about themselves as individuals on the journey and that makes when they get together so much better.

I really enjoyed Deep Blue and Whiteout. Deep Blue was my first read from Adriana Anders and I appreciate her writing style and heroines. They are definitely not damsels in distress.

I received an early copy for review in exchange for an honest review.

I kinda love when surly, growly folks (male or female, honestly, although I do have a particular soft spot for grumbly men) who try DESPERATELY to avoid romantic entanglements end up finding their special someone. Ford certainly fits the bill, in this case.

While he's growly and stern and comes across as cold, Angel is his polar opposite. Heh. She's outgoing and warm and she kinda likes the Iceman even though he's given her ZERO reasons to believe he does more than tolerate her out of necessity. For her part, although her body might light up when Ford's around, Angel also doesn't trust herself (FOR REASONS) to pick an actual honorable man who isn't going to use her to get what he wants. For reasons, guys. For reasons.

They're both sort of going out of their way to avoid one another and they probably would have succeeded if a very bad thing didn't happen. Suddenly, Angel's relying on Ford for survival and she sees that he's not the stoic Iceman she'd thought he was. Whereas, Ford starts to understand how incredibly lonely his life has been as he hides out on the ice and avoids emotional entanglements.

A boatload (or planeload, I guess) of danger, some simmering sexual tension in the bitter cold, a race against time and foodstuffs, and some very bad people who want to do some very bad things. Ford, Angel, and the others who end up helping have uncovered something bigger than they could imagine and they've only scratched the surface of things so far. I like.

4.5 stars

I don’t know about you, but a survival story with romance has my hands grabbing. I saw this book blurb and cover and knew I had to have it. Not one thing about this book disappointed, in fact, it surpassed by expectations. Get your running shoes on because this book has a fast-pace from start to finish.

What’s so special about WHITEOUT is that it was set in the antarctic and I really don’t think I’ve read a book based here (I’ve read a few thrillers set in the arctic). The time was taken to paint Antarctica both at the beginning but also as the story progressed and the characters ventured out into the wilderness. I needed this and it painted a white but vivid picture.

Angel was the summer chef on the station, ready to travel back to the US for the winter, leaving a skelton staff of scientists. Ford ‘Coop’ was a glaciologist there for the duration and he’d spent the whole time of Angel’s season on the station avoiding her and his attraction to her. He basically made himself look like a total jackass. There was a quick unfurling of events and Angel and Ford found themselves running for survival and for a higher purpose.

The journey to survive was compelling reading alongside an equally riveting story of the reluctant connection between Ford and Angel. Angel was all soft edges, kindness but with an expected strength that she bowled me over. Ford was the epitomy of grumpy male but just a bit more than that. I still have questions about whether he was on the spectrum, had PTSD and I still don’t know the story of his voice, and I NEED that. I’m hoping to find out more about him further into the series.

“But here, across from a women who was the antithesis of everything he’d ever known, who’d fed him food that burst with flavor and worked as hard as any soldier he’d ever fought beside, he let himself wish-for just a second or two-that he could be the man who made her laugh.”

This story kept rolling from the opener to the end. I wanted to read and stayed up late to do so, just to devour the words and the story. I fell into this book and writing not knowing the kind of writer Adriana Anders was, but I do now and I like her style very much. Just brace yourself for where this ends, although there is definite tying up of ends. All I can say is thank goodness this is a series and we get more from these characters and world.

Thank you to Sourcebooks for the early review copy, I read this super early because I couldn’t resist. I hope that makes you want to pick it up.

I received a complimentary ARC of this book from Netgalley but all opinions provided are my own.

I can’t say that I remember reading any books set in Antarctica before, much less a searing romance that features one of my favorite combinations: a grumpy, taciturn hero and a “sunshine” heroine who’s friends with everyone…but the hero.

The fact is that despite my extreme aversion to the cold—I usually try to walk around in head to toe fleece in the winter—Adriana Anders’s Pole romance Whiteout has everything that I want: the fantastic tension of that aforementioned grumpy/sunshine dynamic; a keen sense of bated-breath suspense, given that the stakes are life and death and the latter seems all too easy to imagine with an Antarctica survival story; and a distinctive writing style that makes even something like the endless white and sometimes gray/sometimes blue expanse of Antarctica—the ice and the rush and the despair, the way such an inhospitable environment can bring a grumpy hero and a sunshine heroine together—feel fresh and new, even as said hero and heroine spend day after day trekking across it.

Simply put, this book is amazing, and I loved every minute of it.

Cook Angel Smith accepted a position at the Burke-Ruhe Research Station in the South Pole after her life fell apart. She’s drawn to the grumpiest person in the camp, researcher Dr. Ford Cooper, whom she’s privately christened Ice Man. Despite her attraction (which grumpy hero Ford secretly reciprocates but will never act upon), Angel has every intention on saying goodbye to the station and heading back home, only she misses the plane out and witnesses a murder instead.

Suddenly, she and Ford are allies, the only people left at the station who can possibly prevent the villains in the story from a nefarious plot involving something-which-will-not-be-named-because-spoilers. In their desperation they set out across the landscape, knowing that with every step they’re probably walking closer, and not farther away, from death.

Whiteout’s full of twists and turns, it’s intense and even stressful at times, and all of it’s blissfully rewarding for the reader. It’s also full of passion and sweetness, the latter of which is particularly powerful because Ford doesn’t really have those soft/protective instincts for anyone but Angel, and he’s all too willing to do whatever it takes to keep her safe. He’s the ice-bound bodyguard she's (you’ve) always wanted.

Whiteout was a complete surprise for me, and I. can’t. wait. to. read. more. (Seriously, when can I read more?)

5 ⭐️

What a nail-biting story! I was cold the entire time I read it! The chemistry was electric and the story kept me on the edge of my seat. It almost felt like a book in the middle of a series. The characters were well-developed and I want to read more of the backstories. There seems to be room to move forward as well. It was a hot adventure read and I can't wait to share it with my thrill-seeking patrons!

First book that I’ve read by Adriana Anders and she blew me away! Whiteout was a nail biter that had me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. Angel and Ford were an unlikely duo that were oh so perfect together. Excellent read! Can’t wait for more in this series.

*ARC provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

An action packed thriller!
Like so many others, Angel and Ford go to South Pole for their own reasons, Angel to escape her life and Ford to be as alone as possible. Angel calls him "Ice Man" as he is completely unemotional. All that will change as things start getting deadly in the South Pole. Ford had unearthed a hidden virus deep within the ice, and people will do anything to obtain the deadly weapon. With nothing but frozen ice before them, Angel and Ford must embark on a dangerous track across the vast wilderness of snow and ice to survive the killers that will do anything to obtain the virus.
This book is filled with action, emotions, and love. The well developed plot and characters made this book a page turner that I didn't want to put down. Can't wait for the next book!
I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Holy moly. What did I just read? I finished this book two nights ago and I STILL have a book hangover! Adriana Anders needs to write faster. That's all there is to it.
One of the things I adore about her books is that her heroes aren't perfect. She's written about a blind man, an amputee, and in this one, a socially awkward loner. It's better than it sounds though.... Ford Cooper is all THAT and more. Angel calls him the Ice Man, because he is like a frozen shell of a man. No emotions, no expression, no humor.... just stoic isolation.
That all changes when Angel and Coop find themselves literally running for their lives across Antarctica. His protective instincts kick in, and his hell-bent determination to keep Angel alive was so incredible. I would say this was romantic suspense at its best, but it's not really suspense. More like.... romantic thriller? There was SO much going on along their journey to safety. The thrills and chills were real, and the heat... let me tell you, these two knew how to heat up a tent in the middle of the frozen tundra.
I don't think this book had quite the same level of sexiness as some of her others, but Ms. Anders definitely delivers on the intense passion.
I loved how much Angel and Coop learned about themselves and each other. There was something magical about how she brought sunshine into his life, and when he finally allowed himself to bask in it? Wow.
This was a thoroughly intoxicating read, and I want more!

Whew...what an action packed story. I have to admit, it took me a few chapters to get used to the style of writing, especially when describing the characters feelings. The author uses many descriptive words that can sometimes seem unnecessary, however the premise and the story was intriguing enough that it didn’t bother me after awhile. I felt cold reading it and was exhausted after I finished it. Can’t wait to see if Leo is okay in the next book

Adeptly written, full of thrilling moments showing superb narrative control, ‘Whiteout’ is putting Adriana Anders on my romantic-suspense-authors list. Truth is, I had a damn good time with this. Few stories use Antarctica as a setting; even fewer delve so deeply into and write so convincingly about the endless, brutal, frigid whiteness and the fragility of humanity against the unrelenting harshness of nature.

Both Angel Smith and Ford Cooper are in Antarctica for various reasons of their own, but they have each found a place there they belong, amongst an eclectic group of people finding camaraderie at the end of the world. Things change only when a series of events lead them to run for their lives and the fractious ‘relationship’ both initially have changes as they are thrust together in extreme and adverse circumstances that no one could ever imagine.

Angel/Ford are an unlikely pairing, but Anders persuades me early on that a terse, emotionally-unsure glaciologist with an everyday heroine with her own hurts can actually be one I’ll root for. In fact, the strength that Angel develops as the crisis goes on is admirable—more so because it very eloquently details the sort of limits and fortitude you don’t know you have until the need for survival drops suddenly on you.

The overall narrative arc isn’t one that is yet resolved: Ford and Angel barely get out of this alive (this is still thanks to an almost Deus ex Machina moment) and the bad guys for now get their comeuppance, but there overall trajectory of world domination through population-cleansing is still there. It left me somewhat uncertain and unclear, so portions with the masterminding corporation and the higher-ups seemed fuzzy despite the slow movements of chess pieces across a board I couldn’t fully understand yet.

I wished we could have had more moments exploring Ford’s history together—that is merely briefly alluded to—but the focus is so on the present that there just doesn’t seem to be enough space (both mental and emotional) for it. The last few pages wrapped up Ford/Angel’s story a tad hastily and a sort-of cliffhanger ending made ‘Whiteout’ feel incomplete despite the rushed HEA. But Anders leaves me wanting more and in this case, I’m already watching out for the sequel.