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Staying Alive
A selfless act of bravery had propelled Seattle schoolteacher Claire Grant into the center of a terrorist manhunt. Now, catching him depends on her —and her ability to play the deadly revenge game the terrorist is plotting. One wrong move, and she'll die. And so will an innocent.
Her best chance for staying alive is charismatic FBI agent Luke Krueger—a man with his own agenda. Separate, Claire and Luke are pawns. But together, can they uncover the terrorist's weakness and stop the madman once and for all?
Her best chance for staying alive is charismatic FBI agent Luke Krueger—a man with his own agenda. Separate, Claire and Luke are pawns. But together, can they uncover the terrorist's weakness and stop the madman once and for all?
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 9, 2007
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Debra Webb
547 books2,380 followersDEBRA WEBB is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 170 novels, including reader favorites the Finley O'Sullivan and Devlin & Falco series. She is the recipient of the prestigious Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense as well as numerous Reviewers Choice Awards. In 2012 Debra was honored as the first recipient of the esteemed L. A. Banks Warrior Woman Award for her courage, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. Recently Debra was awarded the distinguished Centennial Award for having achieved publication of her 100th novel.
With more than four million books in print in numerous languages and countries, Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go. Visit Debra at www.debrawebb.com.
With more than four million books in print in numerous languages and countries, Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go. Visit Debra at www.debrawebb.com.
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June 20, 2011
The heroine of the story is Claire, a 5th grade (that's year 6 to us Brits!) teacher. Claire lives a relatively normal life, however one morning terrorists breaks into the school and holds her class hostage. A pupil in her class is the son of a senator and the terrorists attempt to use this in order to secure the release of a captured terrorist. Claire is forced to shoot one of the terrorists in order to save her pupils lives, that terrorist turns out to be the only son of the leader of this particular terrorist cell. He plans revenge on Claire for this.
Enter the hero, FBI agent Jake who has been part of the mission to bring down the terrorist cell for a long time. He vows to protect Claire but makes it known that capturing the terrorist leader is priority and Claire will have to follow out all of the leaders awful instructions of revenge, even if that means Claire may die.
I really struggled to give this book a rating; I enjoyed this book very much, the plot line was excited, and very well detailed, it was definitely nail-biting stuff, and it had some really tense and emotional moments. However, it did not have much in the way of romance between the two characters. There was some nice interaction between them but not really enough for it to be a true romance novel. I did like however that their relationship was left almost open ended in that no professions of love were given, instead Claire and Jake acknowledge that they have an attraction to one another and they will give it go.
This book is written entirely from Claire's perspective and I do think it would have benefited by having Jake's perspective in there as well.
I could definitely see Jake as Jack Bauer! Hmmm, I think I'm going to have to watch the first season of 24 again...!
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
Enter the hero, FBI agent Jake who has been part of the mission to bring down the terrorist cell for a long time. He vows to protect Claire but makes it known that capturing the terrorist leader is priority and Claire will have to follow out all of the leaders awful instructions of revenge, even if that means Claire may die.
I really struggled to give this book a rating; I enjoyed this book very much, the plot line was excited, and very well detailed, it was definitely nail-biting stuff, and it had some really tense and emotional moments. However, it did not have much in the way of romance between the two characters. There was some nice interaction between them but not really enough for it to be a true romance novel. I did like however that their relationship was left almost open ended in that no professions of love were given, instead Claire and Jake acknowledge that they have an attraction to one another and they will give it go.
This book is written entirely from Claire's perspective and I do think it would have benefited by having Jake's perspective in there as well.
I could definitely see Jake as Jack Bauer! Hmmm, I think I'm going to have to watch the first season of 24 again...!
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
July 7, 2014
I still miss the Silhouette Bombshell series. They may have been romances (low on my list of genres I will read), but I really enjoyed the kick-ass women of Bombshell. Unfortunately, they were never really marketed well, and the line was cancelled.
In this on, a solitary woman dealing with personal issues becomes the target of a terrorist after she is forced to shoot and kill his son when he tried to take her grade five class hostage. She comes under the protection of an FBI agent with his own issues. Needless to say, they come together in the end. (I doubt that really is a spoiler, since it is part of the Harlequin publishing line).
There were some issues with the story. The heroine bounces between being incredibly naive and ready to be self-sacrificing. Not to mention able to kill a terrorist with his own gun in a struggle. The story is also entirely from her POV, so it's hard to tell how the agent comes around to falling in love. Just a couple of segments from his head would have made the romance more believable.
Still, a fun little read from a line that should have found a market.
In this on, a solitary woman dealing with personal issues becomes the target of a terrorist after she is forced to shoot and kill his son when he tried to take her grade five class hostage. She comes under the protection of an FBI agent with his own issues. Needless to say, they come together in the end. (I doubt that really is a spoiler, since it is part of the Harlequin publishing line).
There were some issues with the story. The heroine bounces between being incredibly naive and ready to be self-sacrificing. Not to mention able to kill a terrorist with his own gun in a struggle. The story is also entirely from her POV, so it's hard to tell how the agent comes around to falling in love. Just a couple of segments from his head would have made the romance more believable.
Still, a fun little read from a line that should have found a market.
March 13, 2013
surprisingly good.
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