By: HelenKay Dimon
Releasing May 26, 2015
Avon Books
Blurb:
After
a grueling assignment with the black ops force known as the Alliance, Weston
Brown is craving downtime. Instead, he's pulled into his deadliest operation,
in the one place he never wanted to see again. No-nonsense and so damn hot,
Lexi Turner lied to get him to her mountain clinic in Pakistan. But the threat
is terrifyingly real.
Lexi
has been asking too many questions, drawing the wrong kind of attention. As
soon as she lays eyes on West, she can tell he's quiet—yet tough—and has a
rescue complex which will come in handy for going up against the world's most
ruthless gunrunners.
Cut
off from the rest of the Alliance, Lexi and West navigate the brutal terrain
and a primal sexual attraction. Sticking around has never been West's way, but
now he'll use every resource to keep Lexi by his side, safe from a killer who
leaves no loose ends behind.
Review:
Falling Hard is an action-packed, edge of your seat, heart stopping, blood pressure pumping, fantastic book...with some super sexy scenes too! It reminds me of my favorite TV show~Strike Back ! No wonder I loved the book so much!
West is such a tough,sexy, alpha-hero, but, at the same time he is tormented by the nightmare of being back in the one place that leaves him so cold. Lexi is strong and really smart, smart enough to know that the things she has seen going on near her father's clinic could end in a huge disaster for an entire country. So Lexi does was her father had instructed her to do...leave a detailed secret message and someone would come and help. That someone just happened to be Weston Brown...and Lexi knows right away there is more to West than what meets the eyes. I really loved the fact that Lexi was not the "simpering" heroine in this book, she gave it her all to fight for her clinic and the people it served.
This is the first time I have ever read anything by HelenKay Dimon, and as a huge Romantic Suspense junky, I have to ask myself why that is...This book fit all my criteria for a fantastic book...why haven't I read her before? She is on my list now for go to authors!
Falling Hard is an action-packed, edge of your seat, heart stopping, blood pressure pumping, fantastic book...with some super sexy scenes too! It reminds me of my favorite TV show~Strike Back ! No wonder I loved the book so much!
West is such a tough,sexy, alpha-hero, but, at the same time he is tormented by the nightmare of being back in the one place that leaves him so cold. Lexi is strong and really smart, smart enough to know that the things she has seen going on near her father's clinic could end in a huge disaster for an entire country. So Lexi does was her father had instructed her to do...leave a detailed secret message and someone would come and help. That someone just happened to be Weston Brown...and Lexi knows right away there is more to West than what meets the eyes. I really loved the fact that Lexi was not the "simpering" heroine in this book, she gave it her all to fight for her clinic and the people it served.
This is the first time I have ever read anything by HelenKay Dimon, and as a huge Romantic Suspense junky, I have to ask myself why that is...This book fit all my criteria for a fantastic book...why haven't I read her before? She is on my list now for go to authors!
Author Info:
HelenKay Dimon is a former divorce
attorney turned full-time romance author. Odd transition, right? She has sold
over thirty novels, novellas and shorts to numerous publishers, including
Kensington, Harlequin and Penguin, Samhain, Carina Press, and HarperCollins.
Her nationally bestselling and award-winning books have been showcased in
numerous venues and her books have twice been named "Red-Hot Reads"
and excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine. But the best part of the job is never
having to wear pantyhose.
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Excerpt:
Breathing in, forcing the adrenaline buzzing through him to slow, West eased his grip on
his gun.
The whole
attack probably took less than two minutes, but it dragged in West’s head. He
lived every second in slow motion. Always did.
Suddenly he
was facing down the barrel of a nasty assault weapon. An AK-103 or something
similarly problematic in the hands of someone aiming it at his head. To add to
the fun, this one had a grenade launcher attached to it. Which was just fucking
fabulous.
West’s gaze
traveled over the shaking arms to the white-knuckle grip on the plastic. Then
to her face. A brunette of the shockingly hot variety. Not that he cared about
that on a job.
He didn’t
like shooting women, but he would. He had. An enemy was an enemy, and he waited
to see if that’s the tack the victim-turned-potential-attacker took.
“Two roads
diverged.” She spit out the not-so-random sentence, and the dark energy
spinning around the room eased.
“Well,
damn,” West whispered, stunned to hear the code from her.
Josiah
lowered his gun as he finished the agreed-upon signal. The one the doctor
provided and insisted on, citing faulty short-term memory and a love or Robert
Frost. “Sorry I could not travel both.”
She blew out
a long breath as the stiffness across her shoulders eased. “Thank God you’re
here.”
West tagged
her as American but definitely not male, which made little sense under the
circumstances. But she wasn’t firing at random, so he considered that a bit of
good luck.
Still, a
potential novice with a weapon was an invitation to get his nuts blown off, and
he sure as hell didn’t agree to that when he signed Alliance’s employment
contract. “Ma’am, I need to you put that gun down.”
She blinked
a few times before her gaze went to her hands. It was as if she forgot she took
it off the dead guy when he dropped it. “Why?”
West
chalked the confusion up to the chaos of the last few minutes. Still, shock and
bullets rarely mixed well. “I don’t want to be shot.”
Her chin came
up as she nodded at him. “That makes two of us, so you lower your weapon
first.”
Okay, chaos
or not, her attempt to order him around was pretty fucking hot. Kind of brave,
too. “No.”
Not
dropping his guard, West took a second to study her. Long hair, half in and
half out of a ponytail, huge whiskey brown eyes, and the sexiest pouty mouth
he’d ever seen. He couldn’t make out her frame under the olive pants and
oversized long-sleeve tee but he guessed curvy.
Not just
pretty but lose-the-ability-to-spell sexy. Of course that could be the gun.
Something about a woman holding a weapon turned him on, sick twist that he was.
“I’m not
really giving you a choice,” he said, more to stall than anything else.
Josiah
moved in, step by small step, as if not to scare or rattle her. Pretty soon two
trained men would almost be on top of her, and then it was just a matter of
time until one of them wrestled the weapon away from her.
And that’s
how it would end because there was no way West was heading back home after this
and listening to the shit he would get from Bravo if he let a hot brunette get
the jump on him and take a shot. He had a badass shoot-anything reputation to
uphold.
“At this
distance I can blow your balls off,” she said,
looking
ready to do just that.
Then again
. . . “Okay, that’s a solid argument.”
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