It's always fun to find a new author -- especially when they have beaucoup books already in print!
Thanks to Susan for sharing the author, Cherry Adair who writes a genre I enjoy reading, romantic suspense.
I decided to order some from the library. The reference librarian said -- Do you want all? strongly hinting that there were a lot. Ha! Yes, I did. So now I have a huge stash to read. Unfortunately, I can read them faster than she can write them! It looks as though each book gives enough of a recap to make it understandable if you read them out of order.
It is also available as a Kindle version.
Kiss and Tell is the second in the TFLAC series. I'm guessing The Mercenary is first.
While predictable, in a good way, I give it 5 stars. The odds of all this happening in a short period of time are thankfully small.
When Marnie Wright goes to her grandmother's cabin, shortly after her grandmother dies, in order to think out her life, she doesn't expect to meet a mercenary who pretty much has received a burn notice. When a storm comes up, washing away the bridge, and a tree falls on her cabin, she is 'rescued' by Jake Dolan (and her dog.)
But the bad guys -- or is it the good guys -- are running rampant in the woods, dressed in spy gear and speaking a special language known only to TFLAC members (or not.)
Trouble is, no one knows where he is and he hasn't been followed.
So, of course, someone knows where he is. I figured that out right away, though Jake and Marnie do not. Who that someone is, is a main part of the story.
Romance
Believable and strong.
Strong feminine lead
Marnie is strong, feisty, hard to resist in every way. It's great to have a strong feminine lead. She is not trained in warfare, but never underestimate the power of a woman who refuses to lie down and die.
Male lead
Jake has been burned by a woman he thought he loved. She tried to kill him by slitting his throat. So when Marnie shows up, similar in coloring to this previous woman, his defenses are up. Lucky for him he has designed a high tech lair to which they retreat, complete with infrared cameras.
Violence
Yes.
One by one the baddies are picked off. In this genre, you know the main characters will come out on top a la James Bond. You don't have to worry about that. Along the way, they pick up assorted injuries, are in several fights (rough ones.)
While there is violence, it seems very far removed from real life -- at least in once sense, until we think of terrorists -- so it is not something I worry about in a dark alley.
If you want a good read -- and an all too fast one -- you can't go wrong with this book.
Hints of the next book
Marnie has four brothers, all over protective, and her father owns a computer company (where she works.) One brother is a doctor; one a military man; one a photog; one owns a cattle ranch. But we are given hints in this book that they all are more than they seem. On thin ice is previewed in the back of this book, but it is not the second book, so far as I can tell. But as I said, they all pretty much can stand alone.
I'm on to the second one.
Have you read any of her books?
Do you have a favorite?
Book 3: Hide and Seek
Book 4: In too deep
Book 5: Out of Sight
Book 6: On thin ice
Book 7: Hot Ice
Karin
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