Title: Taken to the Edge Series: The Guardian Angelinos
Author: Roxanne St. Claire
Read copy: eBook
Published: November 1, 2010
Prequel for the first installment of The Guardian Angelinos series, Edge of Sight.
My rating:
Samantha Fairchild gives into her friend's haranguing to come to a party and finally meet her friend's brother before he goes back to war in three weeks...And inevitable happens.
This was a perfect little short story to whet the readers appetite for the next (full) book in this series.
I loved the instant connection between Sam and Zach.
But no retort formed in her head because every single cell in her body that called itself female woke up, shook itself off, and came out to play.
In another author's hands it could've been too rushed, too quick, unrealistic and PWP, but Ms St. Claire obviously knows what she's doing. Instead of focusing on the physical aspect of their "fling", the focus at the beginning is on the "connection", the attraction, the "inevitable"...When the story jumps forward, that connection is established even further, the visit to Zach's uncle cementing it, showing it for what it really is. Definitely not a fling. Even when they still refuse to acknowledge it.
Someone like you could keep him alive over there. Give him a reason to come home.
And then, the final jump forward comes, the dawn when Zach has to leave and feelings finally bubble to the surface.
The goodbye is bitter-sweet, that final sentence a punch in the gut, yet the promise of his return keeps the spark of hope alive.
Loved it.
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5 stars, bodyguard/military/merc/gov/cop/spy, contemporary, contemporary romance, favorites, freebie, Roxanne St. Claire, short story/novella
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