Publisher: Pocket
Publication Date: December 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4165-6675-5
Romantic Suspense
Paperback
Reviewed by Gina
Johnny Duane Reed is a living, breathing, walking out of women’s lives chick magnet. He’s never met one he can’t walk away from.
With her red hair and pixie looks, Vegas security operative Crystal Debrowski isn’t too far off the mark of her Tinkerbell tattoo. She calls it like it is and anyone who mistakes her petite size for weakness soon learns Crystal is no one to under estimate. When Johnny first crosses her path in TAKE NO PRISONERS, she pegs him as a “gay cop cowboy” and wants nothing to do with the walking, talking and oh so hot eye candy. His sexy grin doesn’t make her hot and his well defined body doesn’t turn her on although she does find personal enjoyment in ditching him at every turn while he tries to follow her tail. When Sam and Abbie Lang say their “I do’s” Crystal and Johnny sort of find their way to each other, but Johnny just can’t quite commit. He comes just close enough and then beats feet out of town. And then one day, Johnny has to come to terms with just how he feels about Crystal.
On the job one day…or being Vegas, is it evening? A man who gives Crystal the creepy crawly chills shows up at her table. Long Yao has decided he wants Crystal for his own and when she says no, he doesn’t take it too kindly. First he tells her her decision is unacceptable and then he sets her up for arrest by flooding her area of the casino with counterfeit bills. When Johnny and Sam show up at the jail to bail her out, she learns it is Yao who posted her bail. He hasn’t done it out of the goodness of his heart. Far from it—Yao deals in human trafficking—sex slavery and he’s set his sites on Crystal for his personal pleasure.
Drugged, kidnapped and branded, Yao brings Crystal to Jakarta where her worst nightmare unfolds before her eyes. She hopes against hope that Johnny will care enough to find her before it’s too late.
Cindy Gerard is one of my top ten favorite authors. Hands down she crafts the best in toe curling romance and breath holding suspense and wraps the two together in books you simply cannot put down once you start reading them. I haven’t come across a one of her books that did not leave me wanting more. And then she tops ever herself and WHISPER NO LIES is one of those crowing achievements. She outshines even herself.
From my first glimpse of Johnny Duane Reed in SHOW NO MERCY, Book 1 of the BOI’s series, I wanted to get up close and personal with him. More likely than not it is because he reminds me of the big, buff and breathtakingly gorgeous blond haired, green eyed Marine I dated. While Johnny has these incredible blue eyes, the rest of him is the epitome of the Marine warrior. For all his “awe shucks”, love em and leave em bravado, Johnny has a soft side and a vulnerability that makes him alluring. Yet he hides it. Crystal is the perfect foil for him. She’s smart, sassy and can stand her own two feet. While I have enjoyed almost all of Ms. Gerard’s heroines, I think Crystal is my all time favorite.
In WHISPER NO LIES Ms. Gerard tells not only an action packed story, she delves into the devastating painful and all too real and frightening world of human trafficking. While telling a good story, Ms. Gerard opens her readers eyes to one of the world’s dirty little secrets. At the end of the book she provides information on where her readers can learn more. Her love scenes are hot and the kind you want to experience for yourself. The suspense is palpable. I held my breath when Johnny and Crystal attempted their escape from Yao’s building and again when they hit the high seas when they flee Jakarta only to have Yao follow them to their destination.
The promotions show only SHOW NO MERCY, TAKE NO PRISONERS, and WHISPER NO LIES, but with Mendoza setting his sights on a certain U.S. Attorney’s lady, I’m eagerly waiting the next installment.
Publication Date: December 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4165-6675-5
Romantic Suspense
Paperback
Reviewed by Gina
Johnny Duane Reed is a living, breathing, walking out of women’s lives chick magnet. He’s never met one he can’t walk away from.
With her red hair and pixie looks, Vegas security operative Crystal Debrowski isn’t too far off the mark of her Tinkerbell tattoo. She calls it like it is and anyone who mistakes her petite size for weakness soon learns Crystal is no one to under estimate. When Johnny first crosses her path in TAKE NO PRISONERS, she pegs him as a “gay cop cowboy” and wants nothing to do with the walking, talking and oh so hot eye candy. His sexy grin doesn’t make her hot and his well defined body doesn’t turn her on although she does find personal enjoyment in ditching him at every turn while he tries to follow her tail. When Sam and Abbie Lang say their “I do’s” Crystal and Johnny sort of find their way to each other, but Johnny just can’t quite commit. He comes just close enough and then beats feet out of town. And then one day, Johnny has to come to terms with just how he feels about Crystal.
On the job one day…or being Vegas, is it evening? A man who gives Crystal the creepy crawly chills shows up at her table. Long Yao has decided he wants Crystal for his own and when she says no, he doesn’t take it too kindly. First he tells her her decision is unacceptable and then he sets her up for arrest by flooding her area of the casino with counterfeit bills. When Johnny and Sam show up at the jail to bail her out, she learns it is Yao who posted her bail. He hasn’t done it out of the goodness of his heart. Far from it—Yao deals in human trafficking—sex slavery and he’s set his sites on Crystal for his personal pleasure.
Drugged, kidnapped and branded, Yao brings Crystal to Jakarta where her worst nightmare unfolds before her eyes. She hopes against hope that Johnny will care enough to find her before it’s too late.
Cindy Gerard is one of my top ten favorite authors. Hands down she crafts the best in toe curling romance and breath holding suspense and wraps the two together in books you simply cannot put down once you start reading them. I haven’t come across a one of her books that did not leave me wanting more. And then she tops ever herself and WHISPER NO LIES is one of those crowing achievements. She outshines even herself.
From my first glimpse of Johnny Duane Reed in SHOW NO MERCY, Book 1 of the BOI’s series, I wanted to get up close and personal with him. More likely than not it is because he reminds me of the big, buff and breathtakingly gorgeous blond haired, green eyed Marine I dated. While Johnny has these incredible blue eyes, the rest of him is the epitome of the Marine warrior. For all his “awe shucks”, love em and leave em bravado, Johnny has a soft side and a vulnerability that makes him alluring. Yet he hides it. Crystal is the perfect foil for him. She’s smart, sassy and can stand her own two feet. While I have enjoyed almost all of Ms. Gerard’s heroines, I think Crystal is my all time favorite.
In WHISPER NO LIES Ms. Gerard tells not only an action packed story, she delves into the devastating painful and all too real and frightening world of human trafficking. While telling a good story, Ms. Gerard opens her readers eyes to one of the world’s dirty little secrets. At the end of the book she provides information on where her readers can learn more. Her love scenes are hot and the kind you want to experience for yourself. The suspense is palpable. I held my breath when Johnny and Crystal attempted their escape from Yao’s building and again when they hit the high seas when they flee Jakarta only to have Yao follow them to their destination.
The promotions show only SHOW NO MERCY, TAKE NO PRISONERS, and WHISPER NO LIES, but with Mendoza setting his sights on a certain U.S. Attorney’s lady, I’m eagerly waiting the next installment.
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