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Book Blurb

Coming off a high-pressure undercover job for his company's covert Retrievals Department, despite being on the edge of burnout, Jeff is thrown straight into another mission, to trap illegal metal detectorists who'll be planting a priceless reliquary in a field.

To be in the right place at the right time, Jeff seduces Alan, son of the farmer who may or may not be in on the million dollar scam. Should be straightforward, easy, and it is. Until Jeff finds himself falling for Alan. But Alan is trying to shake off an obsessive ex-lover, and doesn't want commitment, just their no strings, friends with benefits relationship. Events have a way of changing minds.

 

 

NOTE: This book was previously released by Silver Publishing in August 2012.

 

Book Review

What if your job involved seducing someone into trusting you, so they tell you all their secrets? How far would you go before you started feeling uncomfortable? This sounds like a question that could be debated by an ethics class, but in this case, Chris Quinton has decided to show all the pitfalls by writing a story. One with great characters, a conscience getting involved, and a man learning that a job, after all is said and done, is just a job. I think it is a wonderful way to show us what "I'm just doing my job" could do to others, the hurt that kind of an attitude can cause. Needless to say, I really liked the author's answer!

 

Jeff resembles a chameleon. He is a master of going undercover, of becoming someone else and playing a role. It allows him to distance himself from what he does, the sleazy criminals he has to be "friends" with in order to catch them. After all, it isn't really him who is slightly duplicitous. In the case that is at the center of this book, he doesn't have enough time between jobs, cannot gain enough distance from the role he's played for a long time, before he has to start a new assignment. What does he do? He falls back on being himself, since that is the only personality he has at his disposal, so to speak. So, this time, when he "sneaks up" on his target, it is him who does the lying and pretending, not some persona he's come up with. And guess what? This is the first time the full impact of what he does and the potential moral issues around that fully hit him. His process of waking up to that reality was fascinating to watch.

 

Alan is the "seducee", son of a farmer, and probably one of the most honest and straightforward men Jeff has ever come across. He has a problem with an ex, he is worried about the farm's future, and he trusts easily. Not that he really wants a relationship, but he has no idea that the very foundation of his and Jeff's acquaintance is flawed. His reaction to it and how he deals with the fallout made sure there was enough tension in the story to keep me turning the pages.

 

If you like stories with slightly shady main characters who learn and grow, if you enjoy rural settings, and if a bit of action adventure mixed in with your romance is what you're looking for, you will probably like this book.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novel, 50828 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	07-April-2014
Price	$4.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-finderskeepers-1472212-149.html