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Book Blurb

A novel of romance and betrayal in a world where love, loyalty, and honor are under siege and even friends may be enemies.

With the nation on the verge of war and the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on her lover, First Daughter Blair Powell, still at large, the last thing Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts wants is to be replaced as Blair\'s security chief. The President has a different mission for her, however, starting with finding the traitor within the inner circle level of the nation\'s security system who conspired to kill Blair. The hunt is personal for Cam on every level because her quarry is her ex-lover, Valerie Lawrence. Blair soon finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game that pits her allegiance to her best friend Diane Bleeker, Valerie\'s newfound love, against her loyalty to Cam. Fast-paced action culminates in a deadly standoff where life and love hang in the balance.

 

Book Review

This book is fantastic and the series is phenomenal. For the past few books now the continuing and all-pervasive aura from the September 11, 2001 assault on United States territory still permeates all hearts and minds referenced. As I relive the focusing story with the three primary couples that were central characters within Honor Series 5, I find myself overwhelmed by my own memories along with their experiences. Extraordinarily this book, as did book five, starts practically after the end of the previous book. This feels like it is really ratcheting up the intensity and compounding the impact of these women's encounters as they continue to live in the aftermath of the 9/11 crisis. Such excitement blended with the palpably persuasive sensuality raises the heat level across the board. Simply sensational!

Blair Powell, one important part of the main female couple, blossoms and elevates her game with each book within the series. A certain measure of maturity may have reluctantly become part of her persona and concurrently her style. So that means from one perspective, she is more accepting of the inevitable constant secret service surveillance. Albeit from a very different viewpoint, Blair is feistier, maneuvers with craftier mannerisms, and seems to have raised her slither ability to an entirely new stratosphere. Blair blows me away at the same time as she charms and totally wows me. If she weren't an irascible personality with a powerful temper that is barely kept under control in addition to being the president's only daughter and offspring, I am certain she would be a diva wrapping worlds around her talented fingers. I might be so bold as to suggest she deserves a series devoted exclusively to her. Blair's partner and lover is Cameron Roberts who is also with the secret service. She is not only a truly solid individual, but an extraordinary inspiration to her team and to the primary security detail assigned to Blair. I would follow this woman anywhere and I love her perhaps unconditionally. Magnificently monumental!

Another couple that has flourished is Paula Stark, current chief in charge of Blair's security, and Renée Savard, FBI agent recuperating nicely from a recent second injury plus an accomplished counterintelligence operative whom Cam recently tapped for her highly specialized, behind the scenes team reporting directly to the president. It is just delicious to watch this second pair grow closer even as their respective jobs get more dangerous and complicated. With Cam intimately linked to Blair and Renée a key player in Cam's brand-new Homeland Security operation, Paula and Renée are even more intricately connected to Blair and Cam and therefore are always accompanying Blair and Cam as they relocate. They do definitely spice things up. Gloriously groupie!

The third couple that came on the scene in the previous book becomes the central focus for all the collected players from several government agencies and now the named villain, Thomas Jefferson Matheson, operating and controlling a large but unknown quantity of men who think of themselves as freedom fighters. Diane Bleeker, a longtime friend of Blair, and Valerie Lawrence, currently a rogue CIA spooky and former undercover professional sexual partner to Cam, are hiding out from almost everyone since Valerie strongly feels targeted by Matheson's group. Nevertheless Diane and Valerie are unquestionably a hands-down hot couple on all fronts. The astounding dynamics bouncing back and forth between the so-called freedom fighters and the core functionaries kept me on the edge of my seat. Though Diane and Valerie are a newly evolving couple, they are being sought after by scores of folks seriously interested in what Valerie knows and for whom she actually works. This is incontestably an artfully imaginative new viewpoint. Time to tip my hat, once again, to the inventive author of this entire series. Alluringly artistic!

 

I do suggest you start with the first book of this set so the scope and depth may be enjoyed thoroughly and all the exceedingly delectable intricacies savored. However, each book stands solidly on its own. Impressively ingenious!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 282 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-June-2007
Price	$9.99 ebook, $15.95 paperback, $18.99 bundle
Buy Link	http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/9781933110806B.html