Review: Hot stuff - in more ways than one~
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
Hot Pursuit is the first in an exciting military series by Lynn Raye Harris.A fantastic read filled with loads of excitement, lashings of passion and extremely likeable characters mixed in with a fab and heart pounding plot.Evie Barker is back at home, her life in ruins, shampooing in her mothers beauty salon when her high school sweetheart and flirt from way back Spec Ops Captain Matt Girard turns up for a haircut.  Hiding out back Evie feels like dying when her Mom calls her out.  For Matt and Evie time stands still each remembering the last time they saw each other, 10 years ago when Matt took Evies virginity.  Matt good memories, Evie not so much. She still remembers Matt walking away to join the military.Skip forward to an evening at the lake, Matt gets up the courage to ask Evie for a dance. He can feel her pricklyness but asks anyway, also hoping to tye in an apology for his appaling behaviour as a teenager.  BAM all the action explodes  left right and centre.  Shots are fired. Evies sister is kidnapped and Evie and Matt reaquaint themselves with each other.  Once they find out Evies sister is missing they go in search. Next second Evies ex partner turns up dead. What a day!!!Inbetween all the non stop action Evie and Matt try to accept this is a one or two night thing, just while they're in town.  In the race against time to find Evies sister there's action and drama and feelings a plenty.  Then Matt brings in his team and hoo-rah HELLO!I really loved the characters, I loved the drama, the action, the loving and the sense of humor that was sprinkled throughout the story. and I loved the way Lynn used memories to build the complete story.  I was hooked every second right until the beautifully written last sentence at the end.+++++++++++++++++++++In Hot Mess, Georgie hasnt seen her brothers best friend, Sam, for six years - or on her wedding day to be exact.  Georgie was madly in love with Sam since she was 13 and basically tried to jump his bones at 18.  At the last second Sam pushed her away and the feeling of pain the rejection bought is one that Georgie has never really forgotten.  Now newly divorced Georgies brother Rick, begs Sam to check up on Georgie, make sure she's ok.Georgie is far from ok, little does she know, one of her military students was into something which wound him up dead and Georgie almost pushed into an oncoming train. When Sam's sending Georgie off to a safe place he's summonsed in by his CO, they need Georgie bought in, she's now part of a new mission.Georgie and Sam's relationship really tugged at my heart strings. Sam tries to be an ass to ward Georgie off.  All Georgie wants is to get Sam out of her system and she see's only one way of doing that.  Sam resists as best he can but hell, even Staff Sargeant Sam finds resistance futile and I'll never think of thunder and lightening storms the same way again.Under Sam's protection he and Georgie explore each other and the last thing Sam wants is to put Georgie in danger but that's what they have to do in order to lure the bad guys out. When Sam litterally flies out of Georgie's life my heart broke.Less out in the field action than there was in Hot Pursuit but as a novella, there's only so much action one can fit in and most of the action was bedroom action.LOVED the characters and cant wait to read more!+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++HOT PACKAGE well heeellllo - indeedy doody - holey guacomole!  Hot indeed!There was a hot package in the way of a CD that Olivia knew was not good and it possibly held the top secret details of espionage so she took it to the only person she could trust - Billy Blake... new team member of HOT and under the command of Matt.  Only problem is is that Billy was going out with Olivia 6 months ago for 6 months before she ran out an left him. Olivia couldnt handle the constant absences that came with Billy's job and asked him to choose.  He didnt choose HOT, he said they'd talk but when he got back she'd gone.This story is a lil heart wrenching because Billy's clearly been hurt and his pain is clearly detailed.  His inner battle with what he wants to do with and to Olivia is also simmering.Soon it's clear Olivia has uncovered something she shouldnt have and her life is in clear danger.  Hiding out at Billy's at Christmas poses more problems than one, especially memories of last Christmas Eve.  Billy is an IT Geek and with his skills and the team behind him they start to uncover the secrets but it's all on when both are kidnapped.I'm again amazed at the amount of information packed into a novella, I feel like I've read an entire full length novel.I loved Billy, he's the new kid on the block in the team and finding his way there but as a person he's all heart (and muscle) and he's 100% in love with Olivia and he wears his heart on his sleeve.  I loved the action and I loved the plot.I can not wait to read Kev and Lucky's story!