Into the Crossfire: A Protectors Novel: Navy SEAL
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Sam Reston’s world is dangerous, uncertain, violent … with no room in it for the helpless and weak. Then the most beautiful woman in the world moves next door to him …
Nicole Pearce’s life is complicated enough. The last thing she needs is to get involved with a secretive, hard-bodied, hard-headed neighbor. Yet Sam leaves her breathless—her body tingling with desire—and it takes every ounce of her fabled control to resist offering herself to him, no strings attached. What she doesn’t know is that Sam Reston is on an undercover assignment … and she’s about to step into the crossfire.
Never has Sam ached for a woman so badly. Now Nicole’s in grave danger and he will become her shield. Because a terrorist plot hatched half a world away is heading to their doorstep—and it can be derailed by only one man and one woman.
Lisa Marie Rice
Lisa Marie Rice is a virtual woman who exists only at the keyboard when writing erotic romance. She disappears when the monitor winks off.
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Reviews for Into the Crossfire
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was fun. More of a thriller with some sex sprinkled in. I enjoyed a romance novel for once.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5adults with adult lives
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bought this book because the reviews said it was a good hot read, but really it was tame and the whole story felt unimpressive. If you're not really a big reader, you should like it. If you have a lot of erotica/romance under your belt this just wont cut it. I returned all the books I got by this author based on this read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
loved It!!! ? - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Umm, "girl juices", Really? I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've read that description before. I made it to page 166 and then stopped. I like to escape with fantasy reads but it just wasn't working for me
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Intense plot but poorly researched.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This author never disappoints. As with all of her other books, I loved this one. Sam is definitely a favorite character now. Great suspense and hot lovin. Love it!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Into the Crossfire
3 Stars
Former Navy SEAL, Sam Reston runs his own private security company and is used to consorting with the darkest members of society’s underbelly. For this reason, he is caught completely off guard by his new neighbor, the beautiful and intelligent Nicole Pearce. After doing her a service, Sam manages to wrangle a date from Nicole, but little do they know that a dangerous threat from across the world is about to derail their budding romance.
Sam and Nicole are both likable characters and their romance is exceedingly spicy. The terrorist plot has potential and there are some intense and exciting scenes, but something is definitely missing.
Perhaps it is the fact that the basic storyline is very similar to Pursuit written by Rice's alter ego Elizabeth Jennings. In both books, the heroes are Navy SEALs, the heroines are targets of an assassin, and the killers are highly trained military rejects. Consequently, it all feels too familiar and might have been more enjoyable if I hadn’t read the two books so closely together. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Modern Romance. Protectors 1. Sam and Nicole, a translator, that moves into the office next door. OK
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another wonderful book by Rice. There was a lot of time spent listening to the character's thoughts so you really felt like you got to know them. It was easy to love both of the characters and believe that they deserved each other. There wasn't as much dialogue as I usually prefer. Her descriptions were so vivid and real that I felt like I was living the story. My biggest issue was that the book was too short. It could have easily been twice as long (and I would still want it longer!) I guess I just didn't want it to end. I loved the two other "brothers" and I'm sure they'll have great stories - hopefully in the near future.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic read just draws you in
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love this woman's writing. I have been reading her work for some time and I am not sure she can write a bad book. There is lots of action, nice mystery, hot, hot sex and OMG Hot alpha males. What more do you need in a book. LOL This is the first book in this series and I am looking forward to reading the rest of the books.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This author has a formula. And while she doesn't deviate from it much, as long as I don't read too many of her books in a row, it's a formula that works very well indeed for me. Ms. Rice's formula; total alpha hero, often ex seal or other type of military, heroine in distress, alpha hero lusts after heroine, falls very quickly for heroine and takes over and saves heroine in distress. Heroine falls for hero despite his overbearing ways and allows him to help her after a token resistance. Now one might think that might get a bit tiresome and were I to read too many of her books in a row, it does. I know this because I did it with the Midnight series, reading them back to back to back and by the time I got to Midnight Angel, the sameness really took away for me. In fact I don't think I even finished this one. But if I leave space and read all kinds of other genres between them, I just adore her books and once again I'm happy to say I adored this one too *insert happy face* As per usual, when hero Sam Reston, former Navy Seal and now part owner of his own detective agency first spies Nicole Pearce, his new business neighbour, he is instantly smitten. But he's undercover on his latest case, trying to put a criminal in prison and is in no shape to make any kind of approach. But once he's back to himself, he wastes no time in bargaining her into a dinner date. Sparks fly between them but Nicole is in no state for any kind of relationship. She's had to rearrange her whole life to take care of her dying father. She is trying to get a new business, translating, off the ground and when not working at this, she is looking after her much loved father. But Sam isn't about to let her go. He's never felt like this about a woman before and is willing to do whatever it takes to be a part of her life. He really gets his chance when something strange happens and her office is broken into. He goes into full Protector Mode as he works with his two foster brothers to find out who is after Nicole and what they want with her. As with all of Ms. Rice's heroes, I loved Sam. He's determined to help 'his' woman. He knows his way around the bedroom and he's willing to be flexible with Nicole. Although yes, a bit formulatic, nevertheless he makes for great hero material. And I equally enjoyed Nicole. Despite having her life turned upside down by the illness of her father, she holds no bitterness at her circumstances. Although give many opportunities to become one of those TSTL heroines we all despise, she doesn't. While she wants to hold Sam at arms length, she knows he can help her and she is open and honest with him when she needs to be. Along with every other book by this author with the possible exception of Midnight Angel and I need to read it again with distance this time, I loved Into the Crossfire and most heartily recommend it. There are two other foster brothers and I really hope they each get their own story. I'll be a happy camper if they do
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ex-SEAL Sam Reston and his two brothers-by-choice survived brutal childhoods and swore to protect -- not harm -- those weaker than them, especially women and children. Enter Nicole Pearce, translator and daughter of a diplomat, who quit her lucrative job to return to the US and care for her dying father. Sam is certain that Nicole is far above him, but he wants her and he'll do whatever it takes to get what he wants. When Nicole becomes the target of an unknown man* who is planning to kill her, Sam and his brothers enter the battle on her behalf.*the unknown man targeting Nicole is hired by a member of a Muslim terrorist organization. I have to say, with all the anti-Muslim nonsense that gets floated around the media, it's really hard for me to accept Muslims as the villains without wondering about the motives of the author. While there isn't as much nuance as I would have liked in presenting this group, supposedly affiliated with Hamas, the kind of comic book-y nature of it is in keeping with the rest of the novel.Overall, it was quick, easy read. Not the best I've read by LMR (too much info dumping via internal dialog), but still reminded me a lot of '90s-era Linda Howard.