Retired agent David Hill lives alone in a remote wilderness community. His house is a fortress. His neighbours know nothing about him. His name has been changed. Even his face is not his own. He likes it that way. It's comfortable. And with enemies like his it's a simple matter of survival.
Then one night an injured alien woman comes calling and his quiet comfortable life is turned upside down. She's beautiful and innocent and above all else she needs his help. What's a man to do?
Of course he still has his duty to do - and a conscience that won't let him do it. After all he knows what his old bosses would do to Cyrea if they ever caught her. What they would do to the rest of her people on Earth and his neighbours who've been hiding them for years. To reveal the Leinians' presence would be to place them all in deadly peril. To keep the secret is to betray everything he has believed in for his entire life.
But there is a greater danger facing them all. David has terrible enemies. The Leinians have an enemy too though they don't know it. And when the two of them get together it just might mean the end of the world.Show more Show less
3.5 stars. I wanted to give this book a higher rating, but I just couldn't. I had a few issues with it. For one, the editing in the authors earlier books is sub par. His later books have the editing problems solved for the most part. Another major issue with the story was the love interest. The alien woman he fell in love with in the beginning of the book was mistaken for a cougar. She was literally covered in fur/hair, had cat-like eyes, needle teeth, a tail, and let's not forget claws made of glass. A human, whether man or woman, is not going to be making out with needle teeth and glass claws on their hands and feet. No, just . . . No. The rather explicit and multiple sex scenes were not in any way romantic to me. The MC was making love to an animal and I could not get past that. And the bad guy, Woah! Talk about hard core evil at its worst. The descriptions of him and his past actions actually made me nauseous. Icky, but what a glorious account of such a perverse individual.
At 50%, I wasn't that impressed with the book, but the last half made it worthwhile. I'd give the first half 2.5 stars and the latter half 4.5 stars. If you don't mind the sex with an alien cat woman, the slow start and very gag worthy accounts of evil, this book is a decent read. Not my favorite book by this author, but an interesting tale.