"A Larger than Life Hero!!!"

Ms. Kent is an automatic buy for me now when it comes to her single title series. Her latest effort is no exception and this read is just another example of what wonderful alpha male hero's she manages to create as well as the complex storyline.

Mick Savin is in New Mexico working to gather intel to be used later against Spectra IT. He is caught and than beaten and left for dead. Thankfully, Mick is rescued by one sassy lady that despite her better judgement helps him.

Neva Case has her own secrets to keep, so she is less than thrilled at first to find herself reacting to the sexy man that she rescues. He wakes all sorts of feeling that in Neva's opinion would be better left buried. Still she can't help but be drawn to Mick and even though she knows he has secrets of his own...allows him to draw close to her. She has no idea that this is the best thing she could ever do. In fact she might be able to finally find the peace she has been searching for.

Along with the main conflict between Mick and Neva, Ms. Kent has created a very absorbing secondary storyline, as well as secondary characters that jump off the page for the reader. Ms. Kent's trademark senuality, as well as her fast- paced read are all present in this latest adddition to the SG-5 series. This is one read that I suggest that you add to your summer reading list!

Reviewed by Kristi Ahlers
Posted June 13, 2006

Summary

Mick Savin is discovered, beaten and bloody, along the side of the road by a woman with even more secrets than he has. Neva Case is an attorney, but she also runs the Big Brown Barn, where young girls fleeing from marriages arranged by their cult-member parents to middle-aged men, and willing to pay for the privilege, can hide before being spirited out of the area. Neva takes Mick in, patches him up, and in return he offers to help her out. This one won't win Kent too many fans among romance readers, although admirers of her original Bond and Gor adventures may enjoy it. It starts out with two teens running for their lives, then gunshots. Next a dog is beaten, and Mick is hogtied and sadistically dragged along rocky ground by two thugs on ATVs. And that's just the introduction to the story, which crams cult practices, abuse, and child prostitution into another graphic tale of sex and organized crime featuring one of the SG-5 team.