Gunner Ortez and Sydney Sloane are Elite Ops Division
agents, a group so secretive and off the radar that they are
codenamed the Shadow Agents. Gunner is a former Navy
SEAL
who acts as the team sharpshooter, and Sydney is the team's
computer and investigation specialist, and sometimes their
pilot. Sydney is engaged to Gunner's brother Slade, a
charter airplane pilot who occasionally works with the
Shadow group. After a charter gig to Peru goes bad, Slade is
stranded there, in a hostile situation. Sydney and Gunner
go in to rescue him, but Slade is killed during the escape.
They are unable to retrieve his body, and are forced to
leave it behind.
That was two years ago. Time has passed, and the open
wounds caused by Slade's death have mostly healed. Gunner
and Sydney continue to work on ops together, and over time,
have become closer. Sydney is open to Gunner's attentions,
but he refuses to make a move on the woman who loved his
brother. Sydney gives up trying to reach him, and returns to
her home. While at a bar flirting with a man she met, Gunner
shows up, his jealousy and need for Sydney more than he can
stand. As they tentatively begin a relationship together,
a call comes in from team leader Logan, Alpha One, who pulls
the team together for a hostage-rescue operation in Peru;
where some rebels are holding a businessman hostage. While
doing some reconnaissance work at the rebel's campsite,
Logan discovers that there is not one hostage, but two; and
the second hostage looks suspiciously familiar.
After the operation goes disastrously wrong, the EOD team
barely escapes with their lives. They head back to the
states with the rescued hostage; only to find themselves
facing greater danger, a peril that hits very close to home
for the team. Lies, double-dealings and threats dog the
team after they come home, where a perilous menace threatens
to tear the team apart. The past reaches out to place
Gunner's job and his freedom in jeopardy. Several attempts
at murder have been made against Sydney, until the two of
them have to wonder if the threat to their safety and
happiness is a danger more personal to both of them than
they really want to acknowledge.
SHARPSHOOTER is a very good, highly suspenseful story; and a
treat for fans of the series. The plotline is fast paced
and exciting, with action and danger that almost never lets
up. Gunner and Sydney form a relationship forged in the
danger of their occupation, and face a very personal threat
to their love. The love story and the action of the dangers
the team faces is seamlessly woven together. This is the
third book of an ongoing series, the Shadow Agents,
but
can easily be read standalone.
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Two years ago Gunner Ortez saved Sydney Sloan's life on a
mission gone wrong. And ever since then, he's been watching
her back. Now a hostage-rescue mission is about to blow the
Elite Ops agents' lives apart once again.
Working side by side back in the jungles of Peru, the heat
between Sydney and Gunner is hotter than ever-and so are the
threats to their lives. With the danger escalating, Sydney
knows Gunner is her only hope at successfully completing
their assignment. But the ex-SEAL who arouses passion she'd
only dreamed about also poses the greatest risk to the
secret she carries in her heart...and in her belly.
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