After being placed on a leave of absence for screwing up her last assignment, Edge security operative, Roxanne "Razor" Haught is not only given an unwanted bodyguard but she is also tasked with training said bodyguard. If that weren’t enough on her plate, her best friend Jake Staite has sent her a mysterious e-mail and has turned up missing, and now it seems someone is actually trying to kill her. Newly resigned from his commission in the military, new Edge recruit Tanner O’Connell needs this job desperately in order to help out his debt ridden family. What he doesn’t need is for his first assignment to ditch him or wind up dead, and what he needs even less is the overwhelming attraction he feels for her.

This was an "edge" of your seat novel. The action and drama come at the reader from several directions and is constantly taking hairpin turns. Not only are our protagonists battling a hidden and very dangerous villain, but the evilness has invaded their ranks and they can’t tell the good guys from the bad. The conspiracies and treachery have invaded the military, federal agencies, police force and even the Edge hierarchy. The hero and heroine are also dealing with deep emotional scars and trauma in addition to their explosive but ill timed romantic relationship. Trust me when I say this is not a light read that can be pushed aside for a day or two.

The only aspect of this book that gave me any hesitation was (I bet you already know) the heroine. The character of Razor was extremely frustrating  because of the fact that if Razor hadn’t been too stubborn to listen to others the book would have been about one hundred pages long.  It was Razor’s mistakes and unwillingness to follow instructions that lead to most of the plot turns in the book. For a field security expert, she just didn’t work for me. I think the book would have been better served if she had been an in-house operative unfamiliar with field protocol.  Barring that it was still a very good read and I do intend to keep up with this series.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Very sensual