Becca Merritt has come to Hard Ink Tattoo looking for help.
Her brother Charlie has mysteriously gone missing, and she
suspects he is in serious trouble. One of the owners of the
tattoo parlor, Nick Rixey, is a former member of the Spec
Forces team that Becca's late father had been the leader of.
Not knowing who else to turn to, she shows up with a note
and the little information she had to go on about what her
computer hacker brother had been investigating concerning
their father and his inexplicable activities.
Nick Rixey is a man with a ruined military career, which had
been destroyed by his former leader Frank Merritt. Not only
did his former commander cause the downfall of his career,
Merritt's illegal activities had caused the death of six of
his comrades. There's no way he is going to do anything to
help the daughter of his former adversary, even if is she is
the most attractive woman he's ever seen. He turns Becca
away, only to have a change of heart and track her down to
her home. When he finds her in grave danger and her home
ransacked, his protective instincts come to the forefront
and he decides to help her. They do a little investigating;
and it's not long before they realize that Becca's missing
brother Charlie has gotten into some really bad trouble, and
is in serious danger.
Nick calls the rest of his former Special Forces team
together to help with the effort to find Charlie, and to
infiltrate the drug-running street gang behind his
abduction. Unwilling at first to aid the daughter of the man
who ruined their military lives, they begrudgingly agree to
help their buddy. The group begins to pull together their
efforts as a highly specialized team, and with their unique
individual skills. It's not long before they realize that
whatever Charlie had found out about Frank Merritt, it put
him squarely in the spotlight of the powerful organized
crime ring.
HARD AS IT GETS is the first book in what promises to be a
thrilling new series by Laura Kaye. This story serves to
bring the team back together, and put the operation against
the crime ring in motion. Although the main plotline is
brought to a satisfying conclusion in this book, the process
of taking down the drug runners has just begun. Each of the
other four members of the team are to be spotlighted as the
fight against the gang continues; and as they dig deeper
into the illegal activities of Frank Merritt and attempt to
remove the stain he placed on their military records. Next
up in the series will be team member Shane McCallan, and his
part in furthering the series storyline.
Tall, dark, and lethal...
Trouble just walked into Nicholas Rixey's tattoo parlor.
Becca Merritt is warm, sexy, wholesome–pure temptation to a
very jaded Nick. He's left his military life behind to
become co–owner of Hard Ink Tattoo, but Becca is his
ex–commander's daughter. Loyalty won't let him turn her
away. Lust has plenty to do with it too.
With her brother presumed kidnapped, Becca needs Nick. She
just wasn't expecting to want him so much. As their
investigation turns into all–out war with an organized crime
ring, only Nick can protect her. And only Becca can heal the
scars no one else sees.
Desire is the easy part. Love is as hard as it gets. Good
thing Nick is always up for a challenge...
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