Dangerous Intentions
Denise A. AgnewRomantic suspense
Available from Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 1-4199-0644-5
May 2006
| Ten years ago Kiley Chapman was kidnapped by a man she thought loved her but he turned out to be a psycho. He'd kept her in a dark cave, tortured her for days on end and would have killed her if she hadn't managed to escape. After years of bodyguards and jumping at every shadow, she decided she was sick of being afraid. She took self-defense classes and started a magazine geared toward empowering women. But Gregory Thorson, a long time enemy of her family, has just been released from prison after twenty-eight years because Kiley's Uncle Reginald Casey Chapman turned him in for smuggling drugs using Chapman's company as a front. Thorson called last week and threatened to kill Kiley. Since Reginald knows Thorson was responsible for Kiley being kidnapped ten years ago and he'd murdered another close friend, Reginald has no doubt Thorson will follow through on the threat. He's hired Scott Danger of the Taggert Agency to protect Kiley, knowing she won't accept a bodyguard. Her magazine was interviewing applicants for an article on modern day heroes and Scott simply applied to get himself in the door. Unfortunately, the good guys weren't the only ones to think of that ploy - Thorson's hit man got in the door the same way.
Scott and Kiley were attracted to each other from the moment they met. They were so twitter-pated they could hardly speak to each other in whole sentences. They were both terrified by the reaction, but when they finally gave in, the sex between them was like nothing either had ever dreamed of experiencing. Scott realized that the threat to Kiley stemmed from the deep, dark secrets reaching back before Kiley's birth that everyone wanted to keep buried. Mrs. Taggert, the head of the Protection Agency, other bodyguards, a homeless ex-sniper named Joe, and Kiley's uncle were well developed secondary characters that kept the plot moving smoothly and provided bits and pieces of the puzzle at appropriate moments. The dark secret is a doozie and the suspense is an ever-tightening rubber band stretched with enough tension that we know it is bound to snap soon. Through all this, Scott and Kiley discover their undying love and are determined to stay alive long enough to proclaim it to each other. Dangerous Intentions by Denise A. Agnew is an extraordinary read, romantic suspense at its best, written as only Ms. Agnew can write them. I highly recommend it.
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Reviewer: Karen H. |
