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A sizzling British Special Ops Romance by Amazon bestselling author, Louise Rose-Innes.

Damaged ex-SAS soldier, Grant Kerridge, blames himself for losing his entire team in Afghanistan during an ambush. Then his deceased teammate's girlfriend goes missing, kidnapped by the Taliban. She was 'on loan' from the British government, working as a software designer on the Afghani's military software system and holds vital information that the Taliban are desperate to get their hands on. Determined to honor his friend's memory, Grant forms a rogue team of ex-soldiers and sets off for the Middle East to get her back. But what he doesn't count on is his attraction to the feisty, bright software designer or her intense hatred towards him for the death of her boyfriend.

Lillian Devereux has always valued brains over brawn. Recruited by the British national security company, GCHQ, she is sent to Afghanistan to assist the Afghan government with their military software update. Then her soldier boyfriend dies in an ambush and the bottom falls out of her world. However, she resolves to finish her mission in the hopes that it will end the senseless fighting in the region. As soon as the new system comes online, she is kidnapped by the Taliban who plan to extract top secret codes from her to prevent the government from forcing them out of the opium-rich Helmand Province. With international tensions in the area at boiling point, Lilly is under no illusions about her chances of rescue. It's just a matter of how long she can hold out before they extract the codes from her. Then through a hail of bullets, she meets rogue agent, Grant Kerridge, a man determined to rescue her no matter what the cost to himself, and she begins to hope again.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 22, 2019

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Louise Rose-Innes

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50k reviews128 followers
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November 9, 2020
🎁 FREE on Amazon today (11/9/2020)! 🎁
Profile Image for Cécile Smits .
1,470 reviews288 followers
May 9, 2020
This is the first time i’ve read anything by Louise Rose Innes,and i don’t think it’ll be the last.
(If i can find more books on iTunes,bol.com or smashwords,that is....)
Because she combined suspense and romance in a beautiful way.
Made the hero,Grant, a believable SAS soldier and gave him a caring side at the same time.
And showed that Lily may have had a reluctant attitude towards him,but once she found out she was wrong,she admitted it in all honesty.
She was resilient,didn’t give up easy,and Grant admired her for it.
Their journey towards safety was a difficult one,insurgents trying their best to find them.
But still they found time to grow closer.
When there’s only one way to make sure Lily gets to safety,Grant doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice himself.
Once back in civilization,she fears she’ll never see him again....

A fast paced story,that held my rapt attention.

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1,017 reviews14 followers
March 25, 2019
I am not usually one for military romances, but I am always willing to read new genres and broaden my reading interests. I am quite glad that I took a chance on reading this one. It wasn’t like a few of the others I have read, where there is an emotionally wounded vet at home who needs a woman to put him together again (not that there’s anything wrong with that, just not usually my thing). You can read the synopsis from the book blurbs, but I’m here to tell you that this reads more like an action film or television episode than it does a romance, and I think that’s one of the reasons I liked it so much. The nonstop action enhanced the tension between Grant and Lilly, which made it so much more interesting. They have a common goal of getting out of the situation alive (of course), so the romantic tension naturally builds between the two of them. I would love to see a follow up of where they go from here. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone. This review was written based on a complimentary pre-release copy.
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226 reviews2 followers
October 8, 2020
Surprised and "don't judge a book by its cover"
The book starts with the SAS troop being betrayed and team leader Grant Kerridge in a fire fight and losing all of his best friend Joe and all his other team members. Unable to get over Joe and his teams loss Grant leaves the forces

Lilly who was married to Joe, Grants best x-mate in with the SAS was a hot shot software designer working for GCHO (A British Intelligence similar to the American Intelligence NSA ) She had designed some software that could change or even hopefully end the war had been setting up the system and training the allies when she was kidnapped by the Taliban.

Lilly and some reporters are all captured by the Taliban and taken to a hidden hideout to extract the software code details from Lilly to dismantle it and close it down.
Grant and a handpicked team are tasked to go in under cover to rescue which they succeed but Lilly and Grant become separated leaving Grant and Lilly to fight and find their own way back to safety and England through Unforgiving terrain. Both are helped by Vance an x-SAS regiment soldier was originally a NHS doctor before joining left the forces after an earlier mission. He retired and then had returned to be with a Afghan women he fell for living in a small isolated village.

Although a really well written and knowledgeable and enjoyable story on the downside for me it had too much “lovey-dovey romance” in it for me. But the realistic and descriptive way in which Louise tells the story makes amends and all in all it was nothing like the cover image gave me! “I would recommend you give it a try though just for the storyline and action!”
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2,496 reviews66 followers
November 8, 2020
Page turning, action packed rescue has Grant and Lilly in close quarters and not sure how to feel about it. He feels responsible for Joe's death and Lilly blames him for talking Joe into joining the Special Forces...as they flee for their lives they both learn things about each other that has them shyly changing their minds. Can they make it out before something bad happens and find the love each is looking for? Loved it. I volunteered an honest opinion for this book ❤❤❤
2,300 reviews18 followers
March 29, 2020
This is my first book by this author and just from this read, I want more !!
When Lilly is kidnapped in Afghanistan, her dead fiancée’s father turns to Grant to go and rescue her. Grant was on Joe’s team right up until he died and he can’t turn down the plea of his friend’s father, Pat, a retired army commander, to go rescue her. He finds her and the two take off roaming the country side to find a way home for Lilly. Their journey is tough, with rebels wanting a piece of them, while trekking the unforgiving landscape encountering many obstacles along the way. But during their trek, Lilly learns that she has misjudged Grant for a very long time and discovers that her fiancée may have been hiding a part of himself from her. Now with the two of them getting closer, Lilly has to let the past go and Grant has to fight past the guilt of wanting his best friend’s girl.
A great read with steam, suspense, some action and two people finding each other who need to let the past go to move forward. These two were amazing, I LOVED the little to no drama between them and the fast pace of the book that had me glued to the pages. The story flowed beautifully with descriptions that were spot on and I loved the characters.
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956 reviews7 followers
February 12, 2020
A well written, military rescue story with more suspense than romance. One steamy scene in amongst moments of running to escape a bunch of kidnapping insurgents is all we're given. The story was interesting enough on its own to not require any sex to carry the burden of plot. It is the beginning of a series I will be checking into.
435 reviews6 followers
May 1, 2020
A male and female on the run from the Taliban

Grant Kerridge has flashbacks from his time in Afganastine from during the time most of his squad died after being attacked. Joe died in his arms and asked Grant to tell his girlfriend, Lilly, that he loves her.

He hears from Pat, the father of one of his squad, Joe, about Joe’s girlfriend being kidnapped with other people by the Taliban. The US government can take no official action to rescue her. Lilly has successfully designed a program to track Taliban locations in the country. The Taliban needs her to crack the application and render it ineffective.

Pat is willing to head up a group that will go in to rescue the kidnapped people. Grant signs on and gets a crew.

Read and find out how this winked-at unsanctioned operation goes down.

I read a free ARC of this beginning episode of the series.

6,545 reviews27 followers
July 12, 2019
This is a roller coaster ride of action and suspense The romance is almost a secondary thing in this book Don't get me wrong it is a great romantic read but there is so much action and drama that it almost takes a backseat in the story.

Grant is a special forces soldier who has just rescued Lilly a computer programmer She was about to be tortured so that the Taliban could get he information she held. Now the two of them are on the run Will they survive and can they ignore the sexual tension between them
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4,366 reviews5 followers
December 27, 2019
New author to me. This was a really good story. This is about spec ops but with the British. After an ambush in Afghan and two of his friends are killed, he has a really hard time. Especially when he lost Joe who had a wife behind. But when Lilly is kidnapped while working in Bagram for the Afghan government by the Taliban, her father-in-law, Joe's father gets a group of guys together to rescue her and the journalists with her. There is a lot of action, new found love and help from unexpected places. HEA
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238 reviews
January 25, 2020
The book was ok. Grant went to Afghanistan to rescue Lily when she was captured by the taliban because of her work. Really you have time for sex while rescuing someone? Sure we're running for our lives, running through Afghanistan, trying not to get killed by the taliban, but hey let's have sex. I can definitely see the rest happening, covering their travels. Going back the way they came, crossing a river to hide their tracks and any smell. For the most part it was decent to read, just not have sex scenes in the middle of a rescue situation in a foreign country being chased by enemy killers.
11.6k reviews49 followers
July 25, 2019
What an adventure being rescued can be

*** 4 1/2 Stars ***

Going Rogue is the first book that I have read by Louise Rose-Innes so I was not sure what to expect. You just never know what you will get when trying a "new to you" author but the description of the story looked interesting. I just love a good wounded ex-military hero romance story and this is definitely what this one is.

Grant has a mission to accomplish which is to rescue Lily, the girlfriend of his dead friend. It seems Lily has gotten herself into a wee-bit of trouble and is being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Grant has issues as he suffers from PTSD after losing his team on a mission, one of which is Lily's late boyfriend. So let's just say that even though Lily needs to trust Grant and Grant needs to protect Lily these two are not really digging each other. However, that old thing called chemistry has other things in mind for these two and there are enough sparks to burn down all the bad guys out to get them.

Going Rogue is an engaging story with lots of sizzling chemistry, action, suspense and romance. The writing is good and the characters are interesting.

I received a free ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. My opinions are all my own.
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788 reviews43 followers
October 11, 2020
This was a book I borrowed through KU and it was a definite DNF for me. The writing was technically fine, but the story made no sense, the characters weren't very well fleshed out up to about page 50, which is where I had to stop.

Really? He tells the heroine that her now dead boyfriend wanted her to know, as he died, that he loved her, and told this idiot to tell her that. This idiot does so, FOUR months after the guy died (there was nothing wrong with telling her at the funeral doofus), THEN within minutes of when he tells her, his "body is responding" and he's wondering what she tastes like, and commenting that she's filled out and put on some weight since he'd seen her last, which he now says is 10 years before. So wait! What? She didn't go to the funeral? He didn't go to the funeral? Ah Ah Ah, yes he did, because the guy's father was crying there. So this woman, who had no one in her life except "Joe" who died, doesn't go to the funeral? Cut me a break and watch your plotting. You can't build a good story arc if all you're doing is making it up as you go along with absolutely no thought of whether the pieces fit. And the other problem I found was Insta-Lust has to make sense.
915 reviews5 followers
July 15, 2021
HEA romance, worth reading

No plot spoilers
No potential triggers
There are a few grammatical and editorial errors.
The characterisation isn't the strongest. To be honest, none of the characters were engaging enough for me to believe in.
The plotline is good, if a little far fetched, but could have been so much better if a little more detail had been provided around her job role. I also thought it a bit daft that someone as important as Lilly was sent off bye bye with no military escort, thereby enabling her kidnap.
It's a bit stilted, with no real depth but it was free so I can't complain.
There are a couple of light sex scenes and very little swearing.
I think the premise is good but the execution lacks an all round knowledge of character building, I don't think I will be purchasing the next book in the series.
18 reviews
September 4, 2020
The action was OK, but the heroine was ridiculous, and I ended up skimming to finish. One minute, she was this haughty, judgemental human being, the next she was a sex kitten, and then I was supposed to feel bad for her because she had a difficult early childhood. She had a 10 year relationship with a man and never did enough intraspection or analysis of the situation to realize that she didn't really know said man. He was dead at the beginning of the book, and I found that I felt bad for him for having wasted 10 years of his life with a woman who couldn't see past her own hateful glasses.

I read a lot of romantic suspense, and this one wasn't bad except for the heroine being so difficult to like. I might give the next one in the series a try and hope that I like those characters better.
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March 7, 2021
This is nope for me!

I tried to like this book. I was really excited to read it when I downloaded it but I quickly realized that this was not going to be a series that I finished.

The woman’s boyfriend of 10 YEARS!! dies and she doesn’t go to his funeral!?? Then she falls in love with his best friend that she never liked after only 4 months from when he died!
There was no real story to where you could get attached to the characters and be ok with the instalove.

The storyline just seems like the author was putting little ideas and thoughts that they had together and trying to make one cohesive story. It didn’t really work.
12 reviews
June 7, 2020
I love romantic suspense stories, and this one was great! Lilly is kidnapped for a computer program she helped develop, and Grant is sent in to rescue her. She was the girl of one of his teammates who was killed in a mission. Grant is determined to both keep her safe, and avoid the attraction for her, out of loyalty to his teammate. The attraction between the two of them was great as they both dealt with the death between them. The action was also non-stop, as they had to make multiple attempts for both of them to get to safety.
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1,470 reviews6 followers
January 21, 2021
Good storyline, very different than pretty much everything I’ve read before! I will definitely continue the series.

Louise asked me to read book 7, Rogue Hunter, when it was coming out, but I wanted to start at the beginning - I don’t like reading series out of order. I look forward to the rest!

Grant and Lilly’s story was a great slow-burn as she had a recent loss, and he was rescuing her from a hostage situation in Afghanistan. Excellent read if you enjoy military hero romance with a little bit of steam!
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Author 40 books270 followers
March 19, 2022
Most military romance novels on audible are American and to hear a British one was an absolute treat! I loved it. The story is adventurous and (as far as I can tell) realistic and believable. The buildup of the relationship between the two MCs really made me root for them and I would have loved to be in the MMC's arms to warm up, too. Swoon! What a man. Even the way the characterisation of the fallen boyfriend/best friend through conversations and revelation was really beautiful and touched my heart. Am amazing, hot and action-packed story with all the feels! 💕💕💕
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31 reviews1 follower
March 20, 2021
I was surprised to find myself pulled into this story really quickly. Great plot, storyline flowed and enough backstory for each of the characters to make them feel real, and their motivations clear. Loved that Lilly wasn't whiney and the sex scenes were natural, not forced. Only one real sex scene, and with the cover, I was expecting this to be a far raunchier book than it was. Lots of little detail included that made the story interesting and realistic.

Can't wait to read the next in series.
57 reviews
March 25, 2019
Gutsy lady heroic man

Lily is a strong, gutsy character, coupled with Grant the ex SAS sent in to find her. The author delves deep into the characters feelings and persona. I enjoyed this book, it sets up for what should be a good series. I hope the characters follow through the series and you get to see how Lilly and Grants relationship develops.
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4,066 reviews35 followers
March 25, 2019
This is an amazing military romantic suspense novel. Great character development and the descriptions of the Afghanistan terrain and the trek across the dessert are hauntingly real. Can two people fall in love when they are also fighting for their lives?

I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy.
7,160 reviews33 followers
July 11, 2019
A well written military story. The book will pull you in right from the start and keep you there till the very end. The characters are enjoyable, and with amazing chemistry between the characters and lots of action. You will not be disappointed in this book . I look foward to more in this series.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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4,152 reviews31 followers
July 12, 2019
Lilly and Grant do their best to ignore the sexual chemistry between them as they are thrust together in a life or death situation. This story is fast-paced and has lots of action, I had finished the book before I realized it as it just flew by!

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19.2k reviews8 followers
July 13, 2019
A new series called SAS Rogue Unit series and I know I want to read the next book. This is a new Author to me I found the story to be well written with a storyline that held my interest from cover to cover. Lilly and Grant's story has suspense, drama, danger, kidnapping, ambush, death, and romance. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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16.4k reviews217 followers
March 27, 2020
Another great read, with lots of chemistry and hotness. This is a well written story and hooked me from the start.This is a quick hot read, with a interesting plot and fantastic characters, great emotion and Loads of steam!

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Profile Image for Kathleen Bradbury (Bulfon).
16.4k reviews217 followers
March 27, 2020
Another great read, with lots of chemistry and hotness. This is a well written story and hooked me from the start.This is a quick hot read, with a interesting plot and fantastic characters, great emotion and Loads of steam!

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Profile Image for Kathleen Bradbury (Bulfon).
16.4k reviews217 followers
March 27, 2020
Another great read, with lots of chemistry and hotness. This is a well written story and hooked me from the start.This is a quick hot read, with a interesting plot and fantastic characters, great emotion and Loads of steam!

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Profile Image for Kathleen Bradbury (Bulfon).
16.4k reviews217 followers
March 27, 2020
Another great read, with lots of chemistry and hotness. This is a well written story and hooked me from the start.This is a quick hot read, with a interesting plot and fantastic characters, great emotion and Loads of steam!

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
96 reviews
June 23, 2020
Good story!

I enjoyed reading this book. It had action with a hot military man along with some romance. It could have been expanded a bit in some of the details, but all in all was an enjoyable read. I am moving on to the next one in the series and hopefully I will like that one as well.
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