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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312945794
ISBN: 0312945795
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2008-08-26
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: 2008-08-26
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Summary: Best of the Series!
Comment: This is probably the most intense book in the series. From the snippets of Noah's personality that were introduced in previous books, I couldn't wait for Leigh to get to his story. I was not disappointed. High marks for eroticism and suspense. I couldn't put it down. Strong female and alpha male characters demonstrate a love that will last forever.
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Summary: Wonderful...
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I don't know how Lora comes up with this stuff but please don't ever stop. I loved Nathan/Noah's character and his strength and protectiveness reminded me of Mercury which is my favorite alpha male out of all her books.
The plot was fast pace and the love between him and Bella was oohhh so hot!!
Another must read!!
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Summary: wild story...
Comment: Once again, LL writes an agonizingly emotion-filled love story for us. I loved the characters. It's just always such a painful ride!! I absolutely love LL's alpha-heroes. I love a man who adores and possesses his woman so totally and completely. That is probably one of the main ingredients that attract me to LL's stories....that and the Hot Sex!! Wowza!!!
Nevertheless, its gut-wrenching to watch everything come together over such a long story. I mean OUCH!!! But of course, it all works out in the end. One of my absolute favorite authors!! I'm addicted.
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Summary: Wildcard
Comment: Noah loved Bella, but as another man, Nathan.
Due to harsh captivity, where his only life line was his wife, Nathan's life changed and so Noah was born.
Noah is thrown back into the life of his wife, who believes he died years before. His struggle to stay apart from her, and Bella's confusion of why she feels a connection so deep, it matches that of the one she shared with her dead husband, is a story that captivates from the get go.
I was captured and moved during the prologue, (I recommend you at least read Hidden Agendas from the Tempting Seals series which Nathan, aka Noah's, background first comes to light), and continued to be in tears throughout the book reading as these two find and get to know each other.
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Summary: A scorching, yet somehow, tender romance from Lora Leigh!
Comment: There are only two series the prolific Lora Leigh writes I continue to follow: that being the Breeds and her Tempting SEALs series.
By far the Breeds are my favs, but the latest- and I believe the last Tempting SEALs team entry as well as the first in a band new one called Elite Ops, - reminded me so much of the Breeds, I enjoyed it much more than the previous entries.
Sure, there wasn't fated mating heat or animal "instincts" popping up everywhere, but the hero is uber alpha and that coupled with a scorching love story, almost matched it for me!
PLUS, for my fellow paranormal romance fans, there was just a touch of magic in the Hero's Irish eyes to appease even me!
In this story we finally get Nathan Malone's story. In previous novels, Nathan was captured by the mostly evil but certainly morally bankrupt Diego Fuentes. He was pumped full of a drug called Whore's Dust- sorta like a hyper ruffie- tortured, and generally soul scarred by the time he managed to survive an explosion that set him free.
Because of all he endured, he went along with the governments decision to allow Nathan Malone to be declared dead so he could join a covert ops team as a new man- one Noah "Wild Card" Blake. (DING DING! We have a title!)
One problem- Nathan is married. And though his love for his wife, Bella, kept him chaste while being tortured under Fuentes, he didn't believe for one second his soft-hearted wife could handle the hardened man Noah has become.
Only Bella isn't as soft as he thinks. For though it almost killed her when she lost him, she did eventually manage to pull not only herself together but also her husband's all but defunct auto mechanic business.
Up until now Noah has ruthlessly excised his former existence from his life- when his uncle gave him reports on Bella, he trashed them satisfied with the knowledge she was alive and well.
Things change when Noah's uncle lets him in on some bad things going down in his hometown. A mysterious militia group is targeting illegal immigrants and are now focusing on Noah's garage as well as Bella.
Noah can't resist the mission because, of course, Bella still owns his soul and he's can't fight the urge to protect her. When he returns, riding into town on his Harley with a new hardened visage, Bella has no idea it's the husband she's grieved for these many years. But something about him reawakens a part of her she thought lost forever and though she feels she's betraying her late husband, she finds herself helplessly falling for him.
Of course they eventually bust the Militia ring but not before they both learn what they thought they knew of each other is nothing like what they truly are!
I LOVED Nathan/Noah. Sure he's a jerk for letting the wife he supposedly still loved and longed for believe he was dead for 6 years- but hey, some guys just have no faith in the inner strength of a woman! And too, Sabella Malone hid her spine of steel from him. (She's was young when they got married, and stupid enough to believe that a wilting hothouse flower of a wife was what her in-control husband needed.)
Personally I liked the changed Bella and Nathan much more than their earlier persona's. They were much more intense and, hooooo boy, when they get together again? The pages sizzle with heat!
Yep it's a scorcher, but it also has an almost poignant tenderness about it that will melt the heart of any romantic reader out there!
This one gets a 4.5 out of 5 from me. The editor on this one- AGAIN- needs their hands slapped- different times whole sections were repeated like it was copy and pasted from later in the book and then forgotten to be deleted from it's original spot- but I easily overlooked it because I enjoyed this couple so much!
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Editorial Reviews:
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It was supposed to be simple. All Navy SEAL Nathan Malone had to do was rescue three young girls from a Colombia drug cartel, then allow himself to be captured just long enough to draw out a government spy. That was before his mission went disastrously wrong…and before his wife, Bella, was told that Nathan was never coming home. Bella’s mourned her husband’s death for three long years. But she has no idea he’s still alive. Forced to assume a new identity, the man Nathan was is now dead. If he can get back to his wife, can he keep the secret of who he really is…even as desire threatens to consume them? And as danger threatens to tear Bella from Nathan’s arms once more?
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