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Hot Zone #4
Close Quarters
First impressions can be dead wrong. Hot Zone book 4. Neena Williamson is positive the man who just walked into her favorite café is all wrong for the local charity’s new hot male calendar. For starters, he’s wearing the most butt-ugly Hawaiian shirt on the face of the earth. He doesn’t fit anyone’s image of a smokin’ hardbody, even if her friend insists he’s perfect for Mr. December. When a gunman robs the café, Mr. December proves that underneath his bad taste in clothes, he knows how to bring it. Clarksville, Wyoming is the perfect place for Mitch Gilroy to hide in plain sight. He enjoys his low-key handyman job, and no one pries into his former life. But in an instant, Mitch is forced to remember everything he’s tried so hard to forget. Thrown together by sudden violence, Neena and Mitch quickly discover how tangled their emotions can become. And the only way to banish the monsters that haunt them is to do the one thing they fear most. Become vulnerable—to each other.
125 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2008
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Denise A. Agnew
109 books162 followersDenise A. Agnew is the award-winning author of over 70 novels and several optioned and produced screenplays and TV pilots.
Denise’s record proves that with paranormal, time travel, romantic comedy, contemporary, historical, erotic romance, romantic suspense and horror writing under her belt, she enjoys writing about a diverse range of subjects. Her experiences with archaeology and archery have crept into her work, as well as numerous travels through the UK and Ireland.
Denise is also a Writer/Producer (Where’s Lucy? Productions), a paranormal investigator (SOS Paranormal Investigations), Reiki Master, Certified Creativity Coach and Medium. As a Creativity Coach, Denise assists anyone in the creative arts, including writing and acting, to maintain lifelong creativity. Denise lives in Arizona with her husband. She is represented by Gandolfo Helin and Fountain Literary Management.
Visit Denise’s websites at www.deniseagnew.com and www.agnewcreativemedium.com
Denise’s record proves that with paranormal, time travel, romantic comedy, contemporary, historical, erotic romance, romantic suspense and horror writing under her belt, she enjoys writing about a diverse range of subjects. Her experiences with archaeology and archery have crept into her work, as well as numerous travels through the UK and Ireland.
Denise is also a Writer/Producer (Where’s Lucy? Productions), a paranormal investigator (SOS Paranormal Investigations), Reiki Master, Certified Creativity Coach and Medium. As a Creativity Coach, Denise assists anyone in the creative arts, including writing and acting, to maintain lifelong creativity. Denise lives in Arizona with her husband. She is represented by Gandolfo Helin and Fountain Literary Management.
Visit Denise’s websites at www.deniseagnew.com and www.agnewcreativemedium.com
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August 4, 2014They never had a scene where the bad guy is put away forever. That was my biggest problem. Otherwise, not bad. I skimmed the entire thing.
It's basically like the summary. Girl meets guy. Guy saves girl. Preconceptions are broken when they get to know each other. They have raging sexual chemistry. There are some kisses when he comes as a handyman. Some steamy thoughts at the half-naked calendar photo shoots. At the fundraising dinner, they leave early to have sex for the first time. She leaves when he goes to the bathroom after sex because he couldn't talk about his past. The bad guy from the beginning catches up to the girl when she is driving away from his house. The guy comes and chases the bad guy away. They make up. They share their pasts. Her father was a drunk. One day, when he came home drunk, she says she is divorcing him. He takes a gun and shoots her in the head and then points the gun at the girl. The girl takes another gun and shoots her father in the chest and kills him. The mother lost part of her jaw, but survived. She was 15. The guy was a sniper in the army. He had a friend from Iraq serving in the war in the Iraq war as an American soldier. The soldier had a brother who had followed him to Iraq. The brother was a radical fundamentalist. The brother arrived at the complex and asked to see his brother. The solider came out. The brother killed the soldier. The male lead was waiting with his gun and asked him to stand down instead of just shooting him. But the brother had others with him. The other soldiers in the complex rushed out to fight. The male lead was shot, but ok. Later, his group was on patrol and was asked to round up some insurgents. The brother was one of them and was about to set off a bomb when the male lead shot him. He then got PTSD and never went back. He served for 15 years. (You need to serve 20 years to retire.) The male lead came to the small town for peace and quiet. The girl assures him that he is not a bad man, that even though the guy is afraid he might have shot the brother partially because of revenge, he probably just did it to save the lives in his group from the bomb. He is too good a man to do it just for revenge. In the end, they are engaged.
It's basically like the summary. Girl meets guy. Guy saves girl. Preconceptions are broken when they get to know each other. They have raging sexual chemistry. There are some kisses when he comes as a handyman. Some steamy thoughts at the half-naked calendar photo shoots. At the fundraising dinner, they leave early to have sex for the first time. She leaves when he goes to the bathroom after sex because he couldn't talk about his past. The bad guy from the beginning catches up to the girl when she is driving away from his house. The guy comes and chases the bad guy away. They make up. They share their pasts. Her father was a drunk. One day, when he came home drunk, she says she is divorcing him. He takes a gun and shoots her in the head and then points the gun at the girl. The girl takes another gun and shoots her father in the chest and kills him. The mother lost part of her jaw, but survived. She was 15. The guy was a sniper in the army. He had a friend from Iraq serving in the war in the Iraq war as an American soldier. The soldier had a brother who had followed him to Iraq. The brother was a radical fundamentalist. The brother arrived at the complex and asked to see his brother. The solider came out. The brother killed the soldier. The male lead was waiting with his gun and asked him to stand down instead of just shooting him. But the brother had others with him. The other soldiers in the complex rushed out to fight. The male lead was shot, but ok. Later, his group was on patrol and was asked to round up some insurgents. The brother was one of them and was about to set off a bomb when the male lead shot him. He then got PTSD and never went back. He served for 15 years. (You need to serve 20 years to retire.) The male lead came to the small town for peace and quiet. The girl assures him that he is not a bad man, that even though the guy is afraid he might have shot the brother partially because of revenge, he probably just did it to save the lives in his group from the bomb. He is too good a man to do it just for revenge. In the end, they are engaged.
August 12, 2025
A contemporary romance novella. The heroine, Neena, stops for coffee cake and spies a guy that would be perfect for the charity calendar she is coordinating. There's also a second guy there wearing the ugliest Hawaiian shirt she has ever seen. When the place is robbed, Mr. Hawaiian shirt steps in and saves the day. Like I've stated, this is a novella so its short and not a lot of time spent with developing the characters and backstory but that was fine. It didn't need it. Flowed smoothly and quickly to the end. The steam level is about what you would find in most mainstream romances.
September 19, 2012
cool, two sexy ;)
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