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This book starts with a prologue, and a discussion between Victoria Colby and her latest client, Nicola Reed. The latter trusts only Ian Michaels, one of Colby's experienced investigators and after previous book's Nick Foster's retirement, the former's second-in-command. Nicola Reed is working on the WitSec Program and already her Director is dead along with a fellow agent. She specifically seeks out Ian Michaels to protect her, they have a three-year-old history. A history where he hates her because she deceived him. He refuses to work for/with her, but when an explosion endangers her life, he changes his mind.
Another explosive beginning! She seduces him, for those old memories, for her desire for him, and also hoping that she could give him the slip and face the dangers alone. Protect herself and her witness. I know Nicola's a federal agent but I felt sad for all that she had to witness, the murders, people in pain. One of my favourite romantic suspense plots is where hero and heroine, either one of them having deceived the other, meet after a few years, working in a similar scenario about the same case as before.
There is a kind of an interlude where they both go to a secluded cabin in the mountains to draw out the enemy, but what they find there, especially Ian's reaction, is just so hilarious. I loved how the author, [a:Debra Webb|68900|Debra Webb|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1502026405p2/68900.jpg], gave voice to both his and her kinks. And this was more thrilling than any other, a secret criminal stalker, oh my! What a routine of seduction, ah! This was an out and out erotica at some places. Their jibes at each other are too amusing. The cutest, naughtiest, and deadliest couple ever! Though it's never revealed how Ian got that sexy European accent. Sigh!
What a terrific ride this book was! This one's a keeper.
I love the Cast of Characters Harlequin Intrigue always does before getting into the story, and the maps too. Except Victoria Colby, no other characters from the previous book carry over. Being the head of the agency, she's the only constant. I love the epilogues too, in this series. They provide closure to the story as well as introduce the next one. Another thing I am really liking about this series is the introduction and weaving of the main character of the next book into the current book's story. It's like providing a background for the lead character. In this one, Trevor Sloan is introduced.
Another explosive beginning! She seduces him, for those old memories, for her desire for him, and also hoping that she could give him the slip and face the dangers alone. Protect herself and her witness. I know Nicola's a federal agent but I felt sad for all that she had to witness, the murders, people in pain. One of my favourite romantic suspense plots is where hero and heroine, either one of them having deceived the other, meet after a few years, working in a similar scenario about the same case as before.
There is a kind of an interlude where they both go to a secluded cabin in the mountains to draw out the enemy, but what they find there, especially Ian's reaction, is just so hilarious. I loved how the author, [a:Debra Webb|68900|Debra Webb|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1502026405p2/68900.jpg], gave voice to both his and her kinks. And this was more thrilling than any other, a secret criminal stalker, oh my! What a routine of seduction, ah! This was an out and out erotica at some places. Their jibes at each other are too amusing. The cutest, naughtiest, and deadliest couple ever! Though it's never revealed how Ian got that sexy European accent. Sigh!
What a terrific ride this book was! This one's a keeper.
I love the Cast of Characters Harlequin Intrigue always does before getting into the story, and the maps too. Except Victoria Colby, no other characters from the previous book carry over. Being the head of the agency, she's the only constant. I love the epilogues too, in this series. They provide closure to the story as well as introduce the next one. Another thing I am really liking about this series is the introduction and weaving of the main character of the next book into the current book's story. It's like providing a background for the lead character. In this one, Trevor Sloan is introduced.
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