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 Spec Op 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. The story was a little slow to get going, as a lot
of time was spent setting up the series arc and the ongoing
storyline. The story didn't truly begin to take off until
near the end; but it was nice to get to know all the team,
and the sexy times were done very well. The reader will be
looking forward to reading more about this team and their
efforts to take down the bad guys and salvage their
military records.
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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