On the Edge
Shannon StaceyRomantic suspense
Available from Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 1-59998-445-8
March 2007
| I met the Devlin Group, an elite team hired to do the jobs that are too messy for the government to admit involvement, in the exciting thriller 72 Hours. The agents I fell in love with are back with the addition of a few more who weren’t involved in the last mission. At an unprecedented meeting of the whole group, a traitor plants a bomb. Gallagher and Tony realized what was happening and warned everyone in time to get most out the window before the explosion. Our beloved Alex Rossi, a/k/a Sean Devlin, is critically injured while helping others to escape. The remaining leaders go rabbit until they can figure out whom they can trust. Tony was in love with the Devlin Group’s Exec-Admin and Mission Coordinator, Charlotte Rhames, even before he saw the body that took his breath away. Charlotte let him know their attraction was mutual, but didn’t admit she is in love with Tony, either. When Charlotte is included in the mission to get the man responsible for so many deaths among their group because her background makes her the only one able to get to the guy, she fears Tony’s love won’t survive the dark secrets of her past.
The first scene of the book is a tense hostage situation where Tony’s cover has been blown and he is fighting for his life and the life of a fourteen year old girl with a knife at her throat. She means nothing to the man who kidnaps children to be sold into sexual slavery. Charlotte is talking in his earpiece coordinating law enforcement converging on the scene, keeping Tony calm, and being his total support as she has been for the past nine years. The tension, both physical and sexual, never lets up throughout the most enjoyable plot I’ve read since I don’t remember when. Wow! This is a great book. The flow and pace never miss a beat. The sex is a lot like some of the racier category romances but also some of the most arousing I’ve come across in awhile. I actually had tears streaming down my face but didn’t realize it until I had to keep wiping my eyes so I could keep reading. The twists of the plot kept me guessing until the very end. The characters are marvelously well developed and the reader begins to care for them right away. Even many of the secondary characters will work their way into the reader’s heart and remain there. This is a book I’ll be reading again and again. I highly recommend it to everyone.
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Reviewer: Karen H. |
