Review: A most excellent read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
Originally reviewed for Bodice Rippers, Femme Fatales and Fantasy.Intense, fast paced, emotional ringer!! Lynn Raye Harris continues her Hostile Operations Series by playing on a parent's greatest fear.. Someone kidnapped her child! HOT Shot is her 5th book in this series and each one pulls a different string, captures a different emotion and makes you just want to come back for more..Three years ago, singer Gina Domenico found herself the "girlfriend' of a very dangerous man. Afraid she may never escape his private island retreat, she is still terrified when all of the men around her start dropping like flies. Smart enough to get out of Dodge before anyone else shows up, Gina gets out fast. Only to get lost in the rain forest when the car she is using ends up in a ditch. Not sure who to trust she takes off on her own. Only to run into Jack “Hawk” Hunter. Fortunately he is one of the good guys and offers to keep her safe until help can come. Knowing she can't survive on her own, Gina is forced to trust him. And for three days they survive in a small cave.. an intimacy is formed and finally on their last day they give in to the attraction. Now it's three and a half years later and the baby conceived in that cave has been kidnapped. Gina is once again lost and is forced to call the only man she can really trust.. the baby's father. Only he doesn't know about his son.Jack “Hawk” Hunter loved once and loved deeply, when his wife and unborn child died in a tragic accident he cut himself off from any chance of future romance. Refusing to even act on an attraction to any woman until his time with Gina. But once they were out each went their separate ways.. When Jack gets a call from Gina, of course he wants to help but when he discovers it's his child. He is furious! How dare she???A Great, Great read!! Emotions are all over the place. Yes it's a second chance romance and those always hit me emotionally but this was so much more. Jack and Gina have to work together to find out who stole their child and what can they do to get him back. Jack has to deal with his anger and his fear. His anger at Gina for never letting him go and his fear of starting any sort of relationship. His fear of loss. But this time he doesn't have a choice.. he has a son so no matter what he is going to be there.Gina has to really learn who she can trust, has to wonder who would betray her. The only thing she really knows it the attraction is still there. Now she has to decide just how much she is willing to risk to have Jack in her life for good.Ms. Harris gives us a particularly skeevy villain with some rather excellent minions. It's not enough that some whack job kidnaps her child but what he really wants makes your skin crawl.And yes we do get to see more of the rest of the team. So once again we get to enjoy a group of individuals who are willing to put their lives on the line for each other..A most excellent read. It can be read as a stand alone but again, why would you want to? Check out this series..ShauniThis review is based on the ARC of HOT Shot, provided by netgalley