Nash Security Solutions: A 5-Books Romance Series

by Lola Silverman

THE COMPLETE SERIES, over 250,000 words. 5 books and NO cliffhangers!Book 1: WrathWhen I told my former marine commanding officer that I would be happy to accept a job with his security firm, I never realized what I was signing on for. Nash never said that we were protecting some little socialite just because her daddy upset a local mafia kingpin. Not only does this chick have zero sense of survival, she’s like a walking magnet for trouble. She’s hot. She’s entitled. And I have a feeling that she’s hiding some things.Book 2: CarsonGet in. Do the job. Get out. That’s what my boss told me and that’s what I intended to do. But it’s really hard to do the job I was sent to do when the first thing my client does is slam the door in my face. Although to be fair, she isn’t my client. Her uncle is the client and she’s just the poor sap that got tagged for death because of some idiot move her uncle made. It all sounds pretty unfair. Right?Book 3: AnaliseBabysitting spoiled rich boys is the stock and trade of every bodyguard. What I cannot figure out is why this one rubs me the wrong way. Ralston is smart, handsome, and so entitled that it makes me want to rip my hair out. Sometimes though he will really surprise me and that’s when I start to get a little worried about these weird feelings going on somewhere in the middle of my chest.Book 4: QuentinThere are not many women who could survive what Francesca has been through without losing their sanity. I should know. I spent years as a military interrogator in the Middle East. My time in the marines left me with a huge case of PTSD and an intimate relationship with violence. The first time I saw Francesca smile I knew that I would use every tool in my personal arsenal to keep this woman safe. When Stedman Hyde-Pierson filed a court order claiming that he needed to be named Francesca’s guardian due to her fragile mental state, I took up her cause with every bone in my body.Book 5: NashA career marine with multiple tours of duty through the Middle East under his belt should not be run ragged by a socialite from Boston. Of course, if Ava Harte had run US military operations, the war effort would have been on schedule and under budget. Ava is an incredible woman. I was hired by her ex-husband to protect her, but it didn’t take long for Ava to take command of the situation. Now we know that her ex-husband is the villain in this story. We just can’t be certain how to end his intimidation tactics and foul play for good.

Genres: Romance, Military Fiction

1146 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2017

Reviews

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book, or bundle, wasn't bad, but it didn't feel right either. I think that after reading a bunch of security romance novels, or romantic suspense, whatever, it was a little frustrating to see a bunch of experts making basic mistakes. It's usual for this kind of books for the bodyguard to fall for his charge, but in this case it was just too much, a bunch of bodyguards, all falling for their charges that happened to be all related, and at the same time? Way too far fetched for me. I can get over the bad guy making all those stupid mistakes and feeling untouchable, but the way the others managed the situation was lacking. There were too many errors or things that they should have seen faster. I mean, their lives were in danger, but it felt like they didn't take anything seriously, missing all the clues and the inconsistencies. Also, they were all supposed to be in danger, and they had threats over them, but it was as if as soon as the book about them was over, the threats disappeared and they were safe, because of reasons.



Wraith

This is the typical bodyguard - client situation. He is a cynical military guy with zero patience for civilians, and she is a spoiled rich girl that it's more than you see. There are some misunderstandings, some problems because of the idea each one has about the other one, but their chemistry can't be denied and at the end, when they finally see each other for who they really are, things work just fine between them.

Tegan is going about her normal day when suddenly she finds herself being thrown to the ground and then running from bullets. She didn't know, but Wraith was protecting her and saved her from being killed. She goes on and on about how she doesn't want to have him as her bodyguard, but her father doesn't listen to her, and when she finds out that he took a bullet for her, she feels guilty and tries not to be pain. She is not sure what's going on, but it's suspicious for her that her father cares about protecting her, and she starts suspecting that there is more going on, a suspicion that her mother shares.

A guy from Tegan's school, a rich boy, decides to propose to her, and she says no, causing him to get mad, Wraith protects her, and then she uses him to cover for her, saying he is her boyfriend. Things escalate and they end up sleeping together, but then he pushes her away and since her father wants her to accept the boy's proposal, she goes talking to him, but she can't stand him and they fight, ending any engagement between them. Then Wraith and Tegan finally accept that they are attracted to each other and get together.

Tegan keeps thinking that her father is behind the death threats and murder attempts, especially after he pushed her to marry a guy that it's obviously wrong for her and that would make her miserable and made her realize he didn't care about her. She finally confronts her father and he gets angry at her, then the killer after her breaks in, and takes her while her father just watches. She manages to buy enough time for Wraith to arrive and save her. After that, she cuts ties with her father and goes with Wraith.

- One thing I don't get is why after catching the guy after her, they don't send another one. It's very weird that they just give up after failing to kill her.



Carson

Carson and Kayla are another of those unlikely couples. Once again we have the typical bodyguard-charge love. This time the threat is different, since it quickly makes sense why they would want her dead. What I don't like is how they don't follow up on what's going on with her, they give a lot of information and then just leave it to the side. Her romance with Carson is different, but makes more sense.

Kayla's parents died when she was a child and her uncle took custody of her. She hates him, and he hates her. He doesn't help her, and she has to pay him rent for the apartment she lives in, one that belonged to her parents. When Carson arrives and tells her that her uncle sent him, she laughs at him and sent him away. She hates her family, and she thinks her family hates her, so she doesn't care about what's going on, but then someone starts firing at her, breaking her windows, and she has to accept she is in danger.

She is very different from her cousin, so as soon as she realizes she is stuck with her bodyguard she decides to seduce him. She makes a plan with her cousin to go and investigate about the threat on her, and they manage to get inside a mafia owned bar and find proof that Tagen's father, Kayla's uncle, is involved with them. They go visit Tegan's mother and she agrees that he must be the one behind everything, and also clues that he is taking advantage of Kayla and that she should have received her inheritance. Kayla thinks her aunt hates her and doesn't pay attention to her, but when she goes back to her apartment, and after a night distracting Carson with sex to hide the fact that she had gone to the enemy, he starts telling her that her uncle is fooling her, and that it's very likely she has money.

They go back to her aunt and she confirms that her parents left her a lot of money and properties, and then her cousin Ralston confirms that she actually owns a lot of properties. She goes to the bank and regains control of her trust fund, but finds out that her uncle actually owns the only building she really wants, the one where she lived with her parents. Kayla and her cousins go confront him, and they are kidnapped by the Russians, who tell them that they had no intention of killing them and that they are not the ones trying to kill them, that they actually want to protect them.

They guys from Nash security go after them to rescue them, and a fight between them and the Russians is about to explode, but Kayla manages to stop it. The Russians assure them they are safe and let them go, and they agree to stop hunting the guys from Nash Security as long as they don't attack them, but they never attacked the Russians, they only responded to their attacks...

- I don't get why the threats on her life just stopped, it should have gotten worse since she is fighting her uncle. It's not like they didn't know he was the one trying to get them dead since before, and I don't get why he didn't keep going and just blamed it on the Russians anyway. And the fact that they never mention again anything about her inheritance or the building her uncle stole from her. I don't get how or why he would let go of something he had taken from her for so long, or how no charges were filed for him.





Analise

Another bodyguard falling for her target, even after making mistakes and thinking that the person is not worthy. It's a very similar scenario to what happened in the first book, only with the gender roles reversed. There were a lot of stuff that just didn't make sense in this one, especially with the stuff between Ralston and his father. And Analise was a very annoying character most of the time.

Analise has to protect Ralston, but just like Wraith and Tegan, she thinks he is just a spoiled rich guy, and he thinks she is cold. After a few adventures and some misunderstandings they finally have sex and it's good, and they are both happy, but then Ralston decides that he wants to trap his father and that it's better if he pretends to be on his side, and even if he does that in a very idiotic way, his father buys the act.

Analise gets mad, especially because as part of his charade Ralston has to get engaged to a girl his father chose. They fight, she goes away, but Ralston's mother, who is determined to play matchmaker, basically bully her to give her son another chance, and she even plans how to get her to earn his father's trust. So she goes, humiliate Ralston's fiance, making her do a scene that makes her a liability for their image, so Ralston can terminate the relationship and go back to Analise. She then pretends that she is so in love that she is going to betray her boss and friends just so she can be with Ralston.

- The fact that his father bought the whole I want to be on your side stuff is very hard to believe. The fact that Ralston couldn't find another way of getting the information he wanted, since he is such a good hacker and good at tech stuff is very hard to believe.





Quentin

This one is about the aunt, a woman that was a very good friend of Ava, and ended up marrying the bad guy's brother, and Quentin, another one of Nash's men. He is super protective, and she is a mess, but they understand each other, and using Quentin's support and help, she starts getting stronger and losing her fears, allowing her to face her fears.

Francesca abused her during all their marriage, causing her to suffer from PTSD. Quentin was a military interrogator and he has his fair share of nightmares. Francesca has been fighting for her sanity for a long time, and her brother-in-law is not helping by trying to get her declared insane so he can take over her shares of the company. With Quentin's and Ava's help she manages to fight back, but it's not easy, especially since she starts a complicated relationship with Quentin, full of misunderstandings and ruled by their fears and previous traumas. But at the end, she understands that even if he is capable of violence, it doesn't mean that he is going to use it on her, like her late husband.

So they finally go to court, and things go in her favor, leaving her brother-in-law humiliated and defeated, giving them another victory.



Nash

In this one we explore the relationship between Nash, the boss of the security guys, and Ava, the matriarch of the family. It's complicated because they both know they like each other, but even if Ava is willing to explore the relationship, Nash thinks it's inappropriate and avoids her, but it doesn't really work, and as you expect, they finally end up together. In this book is also when all the issues with Ava's ex-husband are finally solved, but the work is so sloppy, and the resolutions so messy, that it left me very disappointed. They finally find out some things that were very obvious from the start, and somehow they manage to come up with a very complicated and unnecessary plan that still manages to backfire. Not the best ending to the saga, but at least is finally over.

Ava and Nash are always fighting, mostly because she is mad that he refuses to acknowledge their attraction. He wants to keep her safe, but she is always pushing and doing reckless things. She finds out that her ex killed one of the Russian bosses, but Nash minimizes her findings, saying that without a body to prove it, then it doesn't count, and then she puts herself at risk again to look for the body. Nash goes and let both the FBI and the Russians know where the body is, but Ava warns her ex-husband that they know about it.

- I don't get why they would warn him about knowing about the body, but what bothers me most, is that nothing happens. We don't know what happened with the body, or what the Russians did about it, or if the FBI or police found anything about it, but what's worse is that no one asks about it again, they just let it go.

So, since there's nothing happening, they elaborate a complicated plan to get him to confess his crimes, or at least a tiny part of them, so they can send him to jail. Everyone gets involved in the planning and everyone has a role to play. Then Sergei, a Russian mobster that is also working with the FBI gets involved. Their ridiculous and complicated plan seems to be going well, they manage to get him to confess to planning to take over a company by stealing their money, using the bank he works in, and even says that it is something he has previously done, so they get in, arrest him, but they also arrest Ava, because the FBI agent is corrupt, and they want her to give them some information about some accounts, something that is in a book she gave her ex, and then her daughter recovered. So they finally realize that the FBI agent crossed them, and the security team stops her and get the local police involved, and somehow they manage to put all the FBI agents in hold. Then they go after Ava, it turns out that Sergei also double-crossed the FBI, and they take Ava and her ex. They kill her ex and take Ava to her house, intending to force her to give them the book, but she already gave it to her son. Sergei gets angry and is about to kill her when the Nash team arrive, and they manage to kill him. Then the other Russian guy goes away with Ava's ex's body. Since the bad guys are dead, then everything is alright again and everyone gets the chance to be happy and everyone gets married, the happy family to the happy security team.

- I don't get the crazy plan at all, they had a lot of evidence of wrong doing from what he did with Kayla's inheritance to at least start an investigation and discover the rest of his deals, if what they wanted was to send him to jail. And if not, I don't get why the Russians didn't kill him, since he had already killed some of them, why wait?

- They never said what happened to guy he killed, everyone was supposed to be after him, but no one did anything about it, why?

- How come a group of ex-military with different personalities and backgrounds ALL fall in love AT THE SAME TIME? That part made zero sense, one or two I would believe, but everyone?

- Why hire Nash security in the first place? They were pretty stupid with their investigative skills, but their protective work was really good, so it makes no sense to hire them if what he wanted was to kill all his family.

So many things that made no sense... They were "experts" and everyone kept making stupid mistakes. Some of the situations were funny, some (not all) sex scenes were interesting, but overall the book was lacking.

[Caroline Morris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not that bright

I chuffed through this series, thankfully on my unlimited account, as I read the stories I couldn't believe that these supposed intelligent people could be so dumb. I worked out the base of the storyline before the end of book 1. Admittedly there were a few twists and turns but I felt fairly irritated that the security team seemed to have their brains permanently lodged in their pants. Fairly disappointed

[Tracie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked that this entire collection could be opened and read one right after the other but towards the second or third book, I felt like I was just making myself finish it because I started it. The things I liked were how the author tied all of the characters together and once introduced, they stayed with the story until the end. Things I didn't like: the security firm was all former Marines who were bumbling idiots who thought with their pants and should have figured out what I did by the end of the first book. I hated the fact that once this person was out of danger, they were still in the story but poof...everything was fine. There was such potential to flesh out the storyline to be amazing...and it wasn't. The crooks were stupid, the heros were stupid, the FBI was corrupt and stupid, and all the falling into bed, fighting feelings, then happily ever after was hard to believe.

[Irene Marshall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting

This is a good series Nash security go on a job to protect a family from death threats but get embroiled in lots of drama with the man who initially hired them and the Russian mafia. All of Nash's security team end up falling in love with the family member that they are protecting and each one falls hard including Nash himself. There is a lot of intrigue and double dealing going on and bent F B I officers everyone seems to be trying to rip each other off. Really interesting storyline and lots of hot sex thrown in, thoroughly good read.

[Tianna McPherson (Anna Lee) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this series of books. The fact that you had a group of people come to the aid of a family and then in turn that group fell so hard and fast for that family just made my mind swirl. From Wrath and Tegan to finally Jason and Ava who I would find their happy ending. This story was so interesting that I just couldn't put it down. Thank you Lola for writing an incredible seies. Looking forward to reading more of your work.

[Barbara Peterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not one of Silver man's best

I am a huge fan of Lola Silvermans'. I enjoyed this series for the most part, however I felt that some of the scenes languished. There was a repetitive nature in the characters actions and activities. I often can't put down a Silverman book, but I found I was finding it difficult to keep interested in the storyline at points during this series. I won't give up on Silverman, she's a great author, but not with the Nash series.

[Aleta · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was very difficult to suspend disbelief for the entirety of this collection. Too much insta-love and the conclusion of the 'suspenseful' plot line was weak and left too many unanswered questions. A good editor may could have helped tie the threads together and caught the typos and incorrect vocabulary.

[Kathmc30 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing series

Was nice to find another author that puts the full series into a bundle, loved it, from beginning to end, lol and found it pretty cool that they allo pretty much married intuitive the same family, well written and fun, thank you will look forward to reading more books by lola in future :)

[Dorothy A. Kulinka · Rating 4 out of 5]

M.

One of the best series I have read. The characters were so real and interesting. Storyline kept me turning pages.👍 I loved that each character was so defined and they all took part with each other. And yet the reader quickly got to know each character.👍

[Marbea Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The entire series as a whole is adventurous,preposterous,and downright awesome. I don't think I would read each seperate book. I don't like series and this read more like a follow through full length novel.

[Katie Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it

I loved all the books in this series, however frankie's story was my favourite. I group of ex marines meet their match with the people they are there to protect and fall in love while bringing down the bad guy. Well worth the read

[Coleen Sereno · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was fun interesting book. Only reason for 4 stars was in the package format it was a little formula towards the end but definitely a good series to read

[Gwen Bazzrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great series

Loved this book series. I'll definitely be looking for more of Lola Silverman's work. Really enjoyed the interplay between couples and friends.

[angela yargus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved Every minute!

Great job, Lola! I couldn't ask for a better balance of hot sex and mystery! I may be 82, but I am ALIVE and gasping....for MORE!

[Dorothy Gottfried · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book

I was very surprised with each of the love stories about the entire team. They were wonderfully written to show the character of each member.

[Stacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing series

I loved how each book flowed into the next. But still kept storyline evolving. Fantastic characters! I want a continuance!

[eileen bibby · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book took me ages to read as to be honest got a bit bored with it, but felt I should finish it to see if there was a build up. The stories although great because you could read the whole series at once didn't hold my interest, just didn't seem to flow right.

[Janice]

Wrath, Carson, Analise, Quentin, Nash

[Jessica N. · Rating 4 out of 5]

All around good

Pros
Funny. Loved the bantering.
Exciting. Speeding cars, covert stuff.
Sweet. A lot of hea happening.

Cons
Predictable. Figured out the story quickly.
Typos. She cracked her eyes in the bowl (eggs).
Dialogue. Some of sex dialogue was cheesy.

Overall, an enjoyable series.

[karn · Rating 5 out of 5]

modern 3 stooges

This group could be the 3 stooges, what can go wrong will and the best will happen----to someone else! Such an enjoyable and fun read.

[Becky Lasher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Give it a chance

The first three books had me hooked. Once I got to book four the stories were becoming repetitious. The books are good but not the best. There's also some misprint you have to look over.

[Geraldine]

Great series

Love the way these books dovetailed one another. You need to read them all to get the full story. I'm looking forward to the next one.