Review: Sometimes revenge is not as sweet as we hope for.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
Read from June 11 to 12, 2014Book InfoKindle Edition, 225 pagesPublished May 6th 2014 (first published May 4th 2014)original title Searing Lies-Love, Power & Sin #1ASIN B00K40M50Eedition language EnglishURLother editions (1)Source:Kindle copy from author for honest reviewBook Buy LinksAmazonB&N;BOOK SYNOPSISAs the only child of an industrial magnate, Allyson Roberts has it all: love, fortune, and a promising career. Her perfect life goes up in smoke when she sees her father's name in the papers next to horrible accusations. In a blink of an eye she loses her fiance, her employment, and her fortune. Just when she seems to have hit the bottom, Ally is recruited by an undercover agency that is interested in her skills. She takes the job with only one goal in mind: to clear her father's name. Vengeance is the only thought on her mind as she convinces herself that her heart has no room for love-or does it? A former top agent in his field, Jake Morrissey has inner demons he can't put to rest. Now he bides his time as a training instructor. He's sworn off women, but try as he might he can't keep his eyes off Allyson Roberts. When he's asked to partner up with Ally on a new assignment, Jake is tempted to end his retirement. Will he keep running from his fears or will he find the strength to become the man he once was?My ThoughtsAbsolute power corrupts absolutely and this is one of the themes running through this story. Allyson Roberts is not close to her father but having lost her mother at a young age she loves him with all her heart and has treasured the moments spent with him that he can spare when not attending to his business. There is always in the back of their minds that “someday” the two will have a chance to kick back and enjoy spending more time together now that Allyson has almost graduated college and her father no longer has to spend all his waking hours on his company.That dream is gone the day that Victor Roberts is put in jail after being accused of crimes that eventually cost him his company and all it’s assets rendering Allyson in one fell swoop destitute as well as soon after losing her father. The only thing on Allyson’s mind is finding the one responsible for these catastrophic events and to that end she takes the only avenue open to her which is taking a job offered to her by an agency, the DOE, who has the resources available to further investigate the accusations that caused her father’s downfall hopefully giving her the ammunition needed to clear his name and bring to justice the actual perpetrators of the crime.Along the way she forms an attachment to her instructor Jake Morrisey, whose charming good looks are offset well by his intelligence and skills as a former agent of the agency.Allyson finds inner strength as she hones her skills during her training period, the friendship that she finds with her fellow trainee and roommate Delilah Jones helps ease the loss of not only her former best friend Maddy Graystone but the loss of Maddy’s brother Ron as her fiancé as well when his straitlaced socially conscious family decide that it would be best for the two to part ways and instead of fighting for Allyson Ron bows to his mothers wishes.Allyson gets her chance to prove her father’s innocence and restore his good name, with the agency behind her she manages to get an in with the one man who she believes had the best motive for creating her father’s downfall and eventual death.Not only will you enjoy the smooth pace, the suspense, the evolution that Allyson undergoes during her training by the DOE but also the fact that as time goes on she allows herself to open her mind and heart to Jake with the result by the end of the story they become not only work partners but romantically involved also.Another prime example that no matter how bleak life always has a way of turning around if we work hard enough at it and do not let despair for the past overshadow the future, a lesson Allyson and Jake both had to learn the hard way![Kindle copy from author in exchange for honest review]