HOT SEAL Target (HOT SEAL Team #6)
by Lynn Raye Harris
Blurb:
Navy
SEAL Adam “Blade” Garrison’s assignment to infiltrate a tech billionaire’s
criminal operations just got complicated. His cover: bodyguard for the man’s
wife. His problem: Blade knows Quinn Halliday far too well. A sophisticated
version of the chubby, shy girl Blade once knew, Quinn brings out all his
protective instincts—as well as a few carnal ones that surprise him.
Quinn’s
pride in having improved herself has turned bitter. She’s trapped in a
relationship with a brutal man who views her as nothing more than a possession.
Blade’s unexpected arrival makes her hope for more than a barren existence in a
gilded prison. Until tragedy strikes, and Quinn realizes she’s next on the hit
list.
Blade
will do anything to shield Quinn from danger and keep her safe. But as they
draw closer, an enemy works to flush them out. If he succeeds, he’ll put an end
to Blade and Quinn’s budding happiness.
Unless
Blade and his SEAL Team strike first…
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 4.25 stars
Heat Rating: 
Review:
The
HOT shots are back!
The
amazing men and women that are protecting the world behind the scenes, never
getting recognition for their amazing work, have always interested many of us,
especially the personal lives that they have to fight so hard in order to have.
Love and softness is not something that they often get a chance to experience,
but Lynn Raye Harris gives us a small peak into their lives and loves in her
amazing stories of the HOT squad. The
series has grown exponentially from the first story that grabbed my attention
and the more I get to know these characters the more I come to love them, even
as Lynn brings in more characters as eh expands the squads. I love the way she weaves in the adventure
and the drama without taking the focus away from the true purpose of the story,
the love between the H/h, and makes the relationship the most important part. While
the drama can sometimes overwhelms the story, Ms. Harris always finds a way
back to the lovers. The only part of her
stories that are sometimes a bit much is the speed at which the lovers fall,
mostly due to the adrenaline of the circumstances and the pace of the book,
since the book sometimes only lasts less than a week in real-time. I am definitely dying to find out what
happens next, since as always Lynn snuck in a sexy epilogue and a bit of info
about a possible next relationship, but either way I know I will love whatever
comes next.
Adam
“Blade” Garrison has been given a mission that he has no idea how to handle,
not because of the danger, the intrigue or the possible loss of life, but
because it puts him directly into the path of his childhood best friend, a
woman that has changed immensely and now makes his heart race and his body
burn. Quinn changed her whole life by changing her body, but she never knew
that the attention it would bring her would leave her trapped in a dangerous
marriage to an abusive maniac. When she finds
herself face-to-face with Adam after all these years her first instinct is to
protect the precious knowledge that she knows him, in order to keep him safe
from her husband, but she never imagined he would be the man to save her from
the life she finds herself in or be the man to show her what love truly
is. In the end their lives are forever
changed by the simple fact that together they can accomplish anything and that
their love is strong enough to save themselves and the world, with the help of
a few of Blade’s HOT friends.
Blade
has been one of those peripheral characters we have gotten to know just a
little bit about here and there in the previous novels in the series, but I very
much enjoyed getting to know him now.
His strength and vulnerability made him an equally balanced man that was
a perfect hero to swoop in and not just rescue Quinn, but show her the inner strength
she possessed to save herself. He is as alpha as the rest of the HOT men of course,
but his sweetness and thoughtfulness in the face of Quinn’s fears and insecurities
make me melt and want to his big teddy bear self. When he is in action, he is totally kick ass,
using his skills from being a naughty kid on the streets of Honk Kong and the
skills Uncle Sam taught him in equal proportion. Quinn has fought for many
years to overcome what she sees as flaws in her body and her insecurities with
her body image have left her vulnerable in a lot of ways. I felt an emotional connection to her, mostly
due to my own issues with weight problems and body image concerns, but I was
sad to see her husband tearing her down, even though in the end Blade was able
to build her back up. Quinn’s inner
goddess took a few hits, but she shined through again and again and was able to
make a comeback in a big way as she helped Blade and the HOT teams bring down a
madman.
I
am always a little hesitant going into one of these stories, where the lovers
knew each other long ago and have to come to terms with old feelings and the
changes to their feelings and in each other, before the ever have a chance at a
new relationship. Baggage is never fun
to deal with, even in just reading about it, but thankfully Ms. Harris manages
it with great aplomb and we are able to enjoy these two rediscovering their
friendship and their love. Adam comes to
terms with his need for a woman to complete his life and realizes that just
maybe Quinn was the missing piece of his heart all along, while Quinn discovers
that her feelings for Adam were truly love and not just the innocent hero
worship she believed it was when she was a young girl. Adam is amazing in so many ways, not the
least of which is his ability to understand at any moment just what Quinn needs
to build herself up when someone has torn her down. Quinn has to find a way to
get out from under the boulder her marriage has buried her under, but once she
does she is free to embrace the intense connection she still feels with Blade
and there is no way she can deny either of them the need to be together. I loved every second of these two together,
even when the intensity of their fear cause my own heart to race and palms to
sweat, but I never doubted the HOT boys would prevail in the end. The passion between
Adam and Quinn is undeniable, even when they are both fighting it, but the low
hum of deeper emotions is just as obvious and intense, letting readers know
that this isn’t just a hot fire that will burn itself out quickly. IF you are looking for a story with action,
drama, sensuality, and a deep emotional bond between two friends turned lovers;
HOT SEAL Target will hit every target and offer so much more as well. Way to go
Lynn!
*eARC provided by Author for the
purpose of an honest and unbiased review.
No compensation was provided.
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