Review: An Enjoyable Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
***Book provided by author for an honest review***Miranda Miller is an ex Green Beret and agent for The Company, an international security agency. We meet Miranda on her way back from a mission that went a little awry, leaving her fighting for her life against an organization involved in human trafficking. In the mist of hiding from the people who want her dead, Miranda is forced to deal with her ever increasing feelings for her boss. Office affairs are against company policy. They're even more complicated when you're trying to hide the fact that you're a lycan.Miranda is a strong heroine. She wants to stand on her own and prove she's a worthy agent on her own merit, making a relationship with the boss even more taboo. She waivers back and forth at times from her feeling for Garen, her boss, and thinking about replacing him with others. No matter how hard she tries, she can't seem to get Garen out her system. I enjoyed her interactions with Garen. I appreciated Miranda's reluctance to give up her life for a relationship she wasn't sure would have longevity. I would've hated it if she just fell into Garth's arms and quit her job.Garen LeRochefort is playing dual roles, both he has to keep secret. He heads The Company and is Miranda's boss. The Company is an organization of security personnel made up of shifters. Garen vets all the agents until he's sure they are shifters. Only then, do they make it to the top ranks of The Company. Miranda has become a complication in Garen's life. He can't continue to deny his feeling for her any longer, but he can't compromise his own company policies and he's not sure if she's a shifter. I like that Garen has a softer edge which humanizes the serious persona he has to display for his job.  His relationship with his friend Lars is entertaining and heartfelt.The relationship between Miranda and Garen is rocky to say the least. They struggle to maintain a professional affiliation, even after they had sex on the plane back to the West Coast. Each of their secrets upholds a barrier between the two, but slowly the force of their attraction breaks down the obstacles keeping them apart. The couple has a heated chemistry that propels you to want to know what happens next. The plot is engaging and fast paced. There were only a couple of things I didn't enjoy about the story. Much of the initial action that the plot is based on, Miranda killing the head of the trafficking organization, is only found out through dialogue between Miranda and others.  I wish I could have experience the scene first hand. It seemed a pivotal point of the action. There were a couple of places in the story where I thought the dialogue was a little forced just to give us some background information.Overall it is an enjoyable story with characters you can relate to.