Prowl by Colleen Coble Series: Sanctuary #2
Published by Thomas Nelson on November 4, 2025
Genres: Fiction / Christian / Romance / Suspense, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Fiction / Romance / Suspense, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 368
Format: Audiobook
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Prowl, the second book in USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble's Sanctuary series (following Ambush), delivers exactly what her fans want: the ideal blend of suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat with just the right amount of romance. Perfect for fans of Laura Dave, Allison Brennan, and Dani Pettrey.
When a worker at the Sanctuary is discovered dead in the tiger enclosure, authorities assume the big cat killed her. But when the autopsy shows she was killed by a lethal dose of anesthetic delivered by a tranquilizer gun, suspicion falls on Blake Lawson, co-owner of the Sanctuary. Blake has his hands full trying to clear his name as well as get the Sanctuary finances back in the black. When a soil test turns up traces of rare earth, he's even more puzzled. Is someone trying to run them out of business to get to whatever is under the ground?
Meanwhile, wildlife veterinarian Paradise Alden is determined to find the brother she only recently learned even existed. When the results of the DNA test she ran mysteriously disappear from her portal before she can read them, she realizes someone must not want her to know the truth. A break-in at her new apartment is alarming, but she tries to pass it off as someone trying to scare her away. She refuses to turn tail and run when she is desperate for answers.
For Blake, the only solid ground is his relationship with Paradise, and he longs to propose--but how can they even think about starting a life together with so many forces working against them?
Colleen Coble's Prowl combines gripping suspense with closed-door romance and includes intriguing mysteries from both the past and present, sabotage and danger, second-chance romance, found family, and themes of overcoming pain and how the past doesn't have to define you.
Also in this series: Ambush (book 1, available now) and Conspiracy (book 3, available July 2026).
Why we gotta keep killing people in the first sentence, then following up with a healthy dose of diabetes with the tons of sweet tea? I mean, I’m not complaining, but I have osmosis diabetes, as I think sweet tea is the only drink, in copious amounts, in the last several books I’ve read. I also love the interplay between the Sanctuary Series and the Tueplo Grove Series. I was super excited to see that in Ambush, but the correlation with Hez and Savannah here and what happened in that series is just a fun little Easter Egg for me. So if you haven’t read the Tueplo Grove series, here’s your suggestion. While it overlaps with the characters and locations, the stories don’t actually go together, just FYI.
Before I get into the good stuff, you know, suspense, we gotta talk romance. In Prowl, I felt like the story was there just to progress the romance, and for me, that’s a distraction. Everything that happens along the way is immediately tossed back to prevent them from getting married or even engaged, though it’s understood they will be engaged. I mean, I get it, you love each other, but please, not everything is an attack on your relationship. And shouldn’t you be more worried about the body count, the sabotage, and the chaos than on, oh my gravy, we’ll never have the funds to marry. But then, alas, my cold, dark heart.
Let’s talk about the things that kept the romance popping up. I literally feel like this family (including Paradise) has the absolute worst luck ever. What does everyone have against this animal sanctuary? I feel like Paradise’s story is a bit of distraction as well, but it does add flavor to the rest of the drama and even makes me sometimes wonder if it is all eventually going to fall on her head. But the tension was there, and it was consistent and tight. A few too many characters for me to keep it all straight and even figure out all the twists and turns. I found myself, again, going back to review who was who, but overall I was engaged from first word to last, and I can’t wait to read Conspiracy that just came out and is waiting on my stack.
About Colleen Coble
Publishers Weekly and USAToday best-selling author Colleen Coble’s novels have won or finaled in awards ranging from the Best Books of Indiana, the ACFW Carol Award, the Romance Writers of America RITA, the Holt Medallion, the Daphne du Maurier, National Readers’ Choice, and the Booksellers Best. She has over six million books in print. When she’s not writing, Colleen is playing Pokemon Go! with the family or traveling to the locales where she sets her novels. She’s a perpetual learner and a natural health nut. Colleen was the CEO of American Christian Fiction Writers for nineteen years and still serves on the Executive Board. She lives with her husband Dave in Arizona so she can spoil her small grandsons. She’s praying her granddaughter chooses Arizona for college to keep her close too.
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