Shoot to Thrill Book

5 stars - Romantic Suspense

There's a whole lot more to this than just the hot stud with a gun, yummy window dressing. I love romantic suspense that feature sexy, angst-ridden alpha military heroes, and Nina Bruhns sure delivers a steamy, exciting, fast paced, action-packed thrill-ride with this first book in her new Passion for Danger series. It's got everything I love in a great military romantic suspense: a sexy, bad-ass hero, a spitfire heroine, uber nasty villains, a clever, intriguing plot, thrilling locations, gripping edge-of-your-seat action, and plenty of steamy romance and hot sex. The author's style is similar to Suzanne Brockmann, Marliss Melton, and Catherine Mann, but I dare to say that I enjoyed this even more than Melton's Seal Team 12 series and Mann's Dark Ops series. It's that good (at least in my humble opinion).

Ex-marine Kyle "Kick" Jackson signed his life over to an elite, undercover "NOC" (non-official cover) CIA black-ops unit, but he's been trying dodge his superiors ever since a mission gone bad that killed his entire squad and left him with multiple scars and a battered leg. His former commander sends a team to kidnap Kick to force him to do one more (last) job because it seems that he's the only person who can identify a reclusive, dangerous terrorist hiding and plotting in the Sudan. Even though it's essentially a suicide mission, Kick sees it as his long awaited chance for vengeance against the terrorists responsible for the loss of his entire team, including his best friend.

New York ER nurse Lorraine "Rainie" Martin got more than she bargained for when she attended a medical speed dating function and ended up being kidnapped by a sexy, dangerous, wounded hero. She can't abandon a patient/soldier in need; and when the operation goes wrong, Kick and Rainie find themselves thrust into the treacherous Sahara together, surrounded by enemies, and have to rely on each other for survival and to complete the mission at all costs.

Shoot to Thrill has the perfect mix of action, adventure, intrigue, suspense, and smokin' hot romance, which is exactly the way I like it! There's a nice HEA, but it also left some ends untied; so you can be sure that I'll be picking up book two, If Looks Could Chill just as soon as it comes out in December'09! Big 5 stars!