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Family Secrets #0.7
The Impossible Alliance
AGENT: Jared Sullivan
MISSION: Rescue a missing CIA agent and thwart Rebelian Dictator General DeBruzkya's plans for his collection of stolen gems.
DEEPEST SECRET: Jared believed nothing could restore his belief in the future, until he met the woman he wanted to build one with.
Three months ago a dark secret forced Search and Rescue specialist Jared Sullivan out of the secret agent game--a fact that meant nothing to ARIES director Sam Hatch. Against his better judgment, Jared agreed to his mentor's request to take on one last mission. He had no idea his chase would lead him to beautiful but unknown ARIES agent Alexis Warner. Alexis has shocking secrets of her own. Somewhere in the woman's missing memory is the key to a ruthless dictator's insidious intent. And if the truth doesn't surface soon, not only will Jared and Alexis lose their chance for a life together, they might not have a world left to live it in.
FAMILY SECRETS: No one is who they seem.
MISSION: Rescue a missing CIA agent and thwart Rebelian Dictator General DeBruzkya's plans for his collection of stolen gems.
DEEPEST SECRET: Jared believed nothing could restore his belief in the future, until he met the woman he wanted to build one with.
Three months ago a dark secret forced Search and Rescue specialist Jared Sullivan out of the secret agent game--a fact that meant nothing to ARIES director Sam Hatch. Against his better judgment, Jared agreed to his mentor's request to take on one last mission. He had no idea his chase would lead him to beautiful but unknown ARIES agent Alexis Warner. Alexis has shocking secrets of her own. Somewhere in the woman's missing memory is the key to a ruthless dictator's insidious intent. And if the truth doesn't surface soon, not only will Jared and Alexis lose their chance for a life together, they might not have a world left to live it in.
FAMILY SECRETS: No one is who they seem.
- GenresRomantic SuspenseRomance
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
63 people want to read
About the author
Candace Irvin
17 books56 followersCANDACE IRVIN is the daughter of a librarian and a retired US Navy chief. Candace grew up in the Philippines, Germany, and all over the United States. Her senior year of high school, she enlisted in the US Army. Following basic training, she transferred to the Navy’s ROTC program at the University of Texas-Austin. While at UT, she spent a summer in Washington, DC, as a Congressional Intern. She also worked security for the UT Police.
BA in Political Science in hand, Candace was commissioned as an ensign in the US Navy and sent to Surface Warfare Officer’s School to learn to drive warships. From there, she followed her father to sea.
Candace is married to her favorite soldier, a former US Army Combat Engineer. They live in the American Midwest, where the Army/Navy football game is avidly watched and argued over every year.
Go Navy; Beat Army!
Candace also writes gritty military thrillers under the name Candace Irving—just add the "g"!
BA in Political Science in hand, Candace was commissioned as an ensign in the US Navy and sent to Surface Warfare Officer’s School to learn to drive warships. From there, she followed her father to sea.
Candace is married to her favorite soldier, a former US Army Combat Engineer. They live in the American Midwest, where the Army/Navy football game is avidly watched and argued over every year.
Go Navy; Beat Army!
Candace also writes gritty military thrillers under the name Candace Irving—just add the "g"!
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August 30, 2018
3.5
Jared Sullivan quit the CIA for reasons, and has been languishing on the ranch he inherited from his much hated grandfather. Sam Hatch shows up and practically begs him to take the mission to go to Rebelia, rescue Dr. Alex Morrow and figure out what the evil dictator is trying to accomplish by stealing all those gems. Jared very reluctantly agrees. The rescue itself goes off without a hitch, except that Jared soon discovers that Dr. Morrow is not what he seems...he is in fact a she in disguise. She is also keeping multiple other secrets with affects Jared's ability to trust her, even though he is crazy attracted to her and even likes and respects her quite a bit. Neither is Jared very forthcoming about his past and his issues, but the two become closer and some of these secrets start coming to light. But Jared's big secret is one which will keep them apart if he has his way.
Lot of secrets happening here. Jared is an interesting character who feels borderline paranormal with his photographic memory ability. He also unfortunately received genetic testing which indicated that, like his mother, he has the marker for . So he's isolated himself and quit his job in anticipation of this happening. And I admit, I was intrigued because it seemed this story would be one of the very few in which the HEA was going to be a Happy-for-however-long-they've-got. Of course, then the deus-ex-machina comes along and reveals that the test results were faked, so he has no worries at all and can have his HEA. In retrospect, I'm not sure which ending I would have preferred. The first would have been less happy, but more realistic - but the second one felt more contrived.
Alex is something of a genius and also remiscent of a paranormal or something. She is the one that really pushes for more with Jared and resents his keeping secrets, which is ironic considering the secret that she keeps from him. And this secret is one that prevents Jared from trusting her. And yeah, she has a bad experience of revealing this issue and that person having broken her heart as a result, but her obsession with keeping this absolutely, completely and totally secret from Jared seemed ridiculous. I couldn't understand why she wouldn't have revealed it immediately...it's not like she was trying to attract him at the time or anything...I mean, she'd originally been dressed as a man. It seemed a bit of an overreaction.
The strength in this story is the relationship between the characters...they have some sexual chemistry, but it's their platonic chemistry that really works well for them. They just work well together and they were pretty enjoyable to read about.
Jared Sullivan quit the CIA for reasons, and has been languishing on the ranch he inherited from his much hated grandfather. Sam Hatch shows up and practically begs him to take the mission to go to Rebelia, rescue Dr. Alex Morrow and figure out what the evil dictator is trying to accomplish by stealing all those gems. Jared very reluctantly agrees. The rescue itself goes off without a hitch, except that Jared soon discovers that Dr. Morrow is not what he seems...he is in fact a she in disguise. She is also keeping multiple other secrets with affects Jared's ability to trust her, even though he is crazy attracted to her and even likes and respects her quite a bit. Neither is Jared very forthcoming about his past and his issues, but the two become closer and some of these secrets start coming to light. But Jared's big secret is one which will keep them apart if he has his way.
Lot of secrets happening here. Jared is an interesting character who feels borderline paranormal with his photographic memory ability. He also unfortunately received genetic testing which indicated that, like his mother, he has the marker for . So he's isolated himself and quit his job in anticipation of this happening. And I admit, I was intrigued because it seemed this story would be one of the very few in which the HEA was going to be a Happy-for-however-long-they've-got. Of course, then the deus-ex-machina comes along and reveals that the test results were faked, so he has no worries at all and can have his HEA. In retrospect, I'm not sure which ending I would have preferred. The first would have been less happy, but more realistic - but the second one felt more contrived.
Alex is something of a genius and also remiscent of a paranormal or something. She is the one that really pushes for more with Jared and resents his keeping secrets, which is ironic considering the secret that she keeps from him. And this secret is one that prevents Jared from trusting her. And yeah, she has a bad experience of revealing this issue and that person having broken her heart as a result, but her obsession with keeping this absolutely, completely and totally secret from Jared seemed ridiculous. I couldn't understand why she wouldn't have revealed it immediately...it's not like she was trying to attract him at the time or anything...I mean, she'd originally been dressed as a man. It seemed a bit of an overreaction.
The strength in this story is the relationship between the characters...they have some sexual chemistry, but it's their platonic chemistry that really works well for them. They just work well together and they were pretty enjoyable to read about.
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March 17, 2013
Too many plot holes in this one to like it much. I still don't see how they weren't exposed as agents sooner.
April 24, 2014
Prequel #3 in the Family Secrets Collection.
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