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Enemy Husband
She was a trained thief for the FBI. He was in charge of the FBI's elite ANSIR squad, responsible for preventing the theft of top secret government assets. Bitter enemies within the Bureau, Special Agents Kansas Hawthorne and Stewart Rio weren't prepared for their next to pose as married crooks in order to steal a deadly nuclear trigger. But acting in love could prove to be mission "possible" when the passion between them starts feeling all too real....
256 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2006
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Nina Bruhns
73 books551 followersNew York Times and USA Today best selling author Nina Bruhns is an avid world traveler and adventurer with two graduate degrees in archaeology -- all great fodder for her stories, giving them broad dimension, vivid settings and characters that are out of the ordinary. In addition to hitting both the NY Times and USA Today bestseller lists, her novels have earned two RITA nominations, and won numerous other awards, including three prestigious Daphne du Maurier Awards of Excellence for Overall Best Mystery Suspense Novel of the Year, five Dorothy Parker Awards, several RT BookClub Awards and a National Readers Choice Award.
A native of Canada, Nina grew up in California and currently resides in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina.
A native of Canada, Nina grew up in California and currently resides in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina.
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February 9, 2012
This was such a SEXY read & I loved it. I am not kidding it was hot and the chemistry between the h/H lept through the pages.
The heroine is a thief actualyl she is a legal one, she works for the FBI and loves it and especially besting the FBI hero who is in a rival division who tries to stop thefts. The hero is a by the book agent and he doesn't like thief's it kind of goes back to his FBI agent dad being killed as a result of one. His plan is to retire soon he just needs to catch one more guy.
The heroine tricks him and beats him again & then is put in a situation where she has to go undercover for the first time with the hero, both of them hate the idea. The heroine is someone who has given up on a conventional life, whenever she tried it things went wrong, her mother & sister died, her thief father went to jail, so she tells herself she is happy with the job.
Once these two go undercover things become scorching & the line between pretense & reality blurs really fast with the lust turning into something deeper & the hero from going to she's not my type to screaming she's mine while the heroine still not ready to let go of her fear of something bad happening.
I loved the book, it was a scorcher & I have a tendency to enjoy books about opposites and especially where people have to go undercover as husband & wife.
This isn't a full five stars more like 4.5 but I will give it 5 stars because it was so sexy!!
The heroine is a thief actualyl she is a legal one, she works for the FBI and loves it and especially besting the FBI hero who is in a rival division who tries to stop thefts. The hero is a by the book agent and he doesn't like thief's it kind of goes back to his FBI agent dad being killed as a result of one. His plan is to retire soon he just needs to catch one more guy.
The heroine tricks him and beats him again & then is put in a situation where she has to go undercover for the first time with the hero, both of them hate the idea. The heroine is someone who has given up on a conventional life, whenever she tried it things went wrong, her mother & sister died, her thief father went to jail, so she tells herself she is happy with the job.
Once these two go undercover things become scorching & the line between pretense & reality blurs really fast with the lust turning into something deeper & the hero from going to she's not my type to screaming she's mine while the heroine still not ready to let go of her fear of something bad happening.
I loved the book, it was a scorcher & I have a tendency to enjoy books about opposites and especially where people have to go undercover as husband & wife.
This isn't a full five stars more like 4.5 but I will give it 5 stars because it was so sexy!!
January 11, 2011
Though this was a template-premise and plot Silhouette Intimate Moments/Romantic Suspense story with two "enemies" having to work together undercover to bring in the bad guy (You all know how that's going to end, don't you?), Ms. Bruhns created a nice, and explosive mixture of H/h to keep thins interesting, hot, steamy...And inserted in a nice little villain to keep them on their toes. Ad to that a mutual secret in the past, revealed at the most inopportune (and for that oh-so perfect) moment in the story, and you have yourself a winner.
Fast-paced, great characterization, wonderful suspense, and explosive chemistry. Loved it.
Fast-paced, great characterization, wonderful suspense, and explosive chemistry. Loved it.
July 9, 2013
This one's a REALLY HIGHLY ENJOYABLE READ for a Silhouette Contemporary and the chemistry between the two characters, both special agents Stewart Rio and Kansas Hawthorne was just WOW! shivers still running down my spine and my skin as I 'reminisce' their fun, exciting, full of tongue-in-cheek romance while I'm doing this review. I just love both of the characters, they we're just
incredibly perfect and right
both as individuals and as partners, very likeable and well matched characters and may I say again that the chemistry was just so intense, thick and powerful that I could taste it and slice it from here :D ~.^. It was just highly charged and to exaggerate(and because it's an understatement), I've never felt the 'same shivers running down my spine feeling again' after the last time in any other books that I read 'following that' not until this one 'came up', EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT IN ITS OWN RIGHT(for my taste that is LOL). It was
nicely and neatly done and written
and the 'amount' of Alpha-dominance-tough-macho persona for Rio was just right because he could also be the caring-sweet-protective-macho type and Sass was also a kick-ass bad-ass type that won't take defeat but at the same time, who knows how to be a 'woman' on how to be soft and pliant but not the absurdly and ridiculously 'flirty' and
slutty
kind who is 'fast and furious' to have sex or make love that I kinda believe 'typical' of a secret or undercover agent to 'get her way easily in' to some 'difficult situation'(if you catch my drift :D), she was actually nervous, anxious and agitated around Rio and was uncertain and reluctant when they have to make love the first time. The story is fast-paced, never a dull boring moment, there's always suspense and the story is easy to 'pick-up to' and the dialogues were witty and were always 'in-tune'.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one and to tell you the truth, I COULDN'T STOP READING IT, it kinda makes me want to believe that "OPPOSITE REALLY ATTRACTS" :3 and I'm very happy to say that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ^_^
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one and to tell you the truth, I COULDN'T STOP READING IT, it kinda makes me want to believe that "OPPOSITE REALLY ATTRACTS" :3 and I'm very happy to say that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ^_^
This is my gorgeous blue-eyed, sexy and hot as hell brunette Secret Agent, Mr. Stewart Rio
And my equally gorgeous green-eyed, beautiful and absolutely sexy blonde Secret Agent, Ms. Kansas Hawthorne
July 11, 2010
The Thief…
Rookie Special Agent Sass Hawthorne has breaking and entering down to a fine art. There’s nothing she can’t—or won’t—steal for her beloved FBI. But Sass has a big secret, and iron bars around her heart. And she’s made damn sure no man will ever get past those.
The Enemy…
Stewart Rio, legendary by-the-book Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s elite anti-theft squad, lives and breathes his job—which is to lock up every thief in the country and throw away the key.
The Masquerade…
Sparks fly when Sass and Rio are ordered on a top-secret undercover op together—forced to masquerade as husband and wife. Their mission: to retrieve a stolen nuclear trigger about to be auctioned off to terrorists.
There’s no doubt they’ll ace their mission. The question is, will they survive each other?
Rookie Special Agent Sass Hawthorne has breaking and entering down to a fine art. There’s nothing she can’t—or won’t—steal for her beloved FBI. But Sass has a big secret, and iron bars around her heart. And she’s made damn sure no man will ever get past those.
The Enemy…
Stewart Rio, legendary by-the-book Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s elite anti-theft squad, lives and breathes his job—which is to lock up every thief in the country and throw away the key.
The Masquerade…
Sparks fly when Sass and Rio are ordered on a top-secret undercover op together—forced to masquerade as husband and wife. Their mission: to retrieve a stolen nuclear trigger about to be auctioned off to terrorists.
There’s no doubt they’ll ace their mission. The question is, will they survive each other?
January 19, 2011
This is one of my faves:-)
September 18, 2021
This was an interesting spy story. I voluntarily chose to review this story, and I've given it a 4*. This has a bit of violence in it and a lot of sexual content, it is not for the under 18 readers. However, there is a lot of action between the undercover spies and the bad guys. I did like how a lot of loose ends were tied up and answers to a lot of questions, plus a happy ending.
April 14, 2019
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December 6, 2017
THIS IS LITERALLY MY KINK
February 21, 2013
I love stories like these in which the Hero and Heroine are rivals in their work. And this is true of Kansas/Sass and Rio. Sass is a rookie FBI Agent but she is the best at stealing things for the FBI. She has also won the trophy for a contest of sorts between her and the squad that Rio is in charge of. Both are good looking and never date other agents. Sass never works with partners and Rio hates thieves because of a past incident related to the death of his father. Nonetheless, Rio and Sass must work together, closer than the normal partner work because they will have to go undercover as the married couple Rafe and Gun.
Sass and Rio were great together. I loved how they teased each other especially. It was nice seeing them begin to trust one another and start realizing their feelings for each other. Rio was more confident in their relationship working out after their undercover work was over. Sass wasn’t. She believed that she is a jinx because of the things that have happened with her family. It did become a little annoying when she always brought that up but I liked that this reason was chosen as one of the conflicts between them because even though jinx seems like a very trivial, crazy reason, people actually think like that in the real world.
There was a little unbalance between the actual undercover work and their romance. For a large part of the book it seemed like there was less action more of them having to “act” like a married couple. There seemed to be less danger than is found in these books, maybe because Dawson and the other visitors weren’t given lengthy parts or lengthy dialogue. I was really glad that the author didn’t have Sass get stuck at the end in their host, Dawson’s, bedroom at the end when she goes to steal the trigger that they have come for. Usually in these forced to be couples undercover type books, the heroine goes to search the villain’s room and either has to pretend like she will share a night with him or gets caught and is almost forced by the villain on the bed and the Hero has to come save her. Dawson in this case had a bed with all kinds of equipment attached to it for those kinds of purposes but she is not found in that position which was a positive for me.
There was one incorrect information in the pronunciation of the name Gun. Gun is described as being pronounced as Poon in Punjab. Punjab is actually pronounced just as it is written, pun, with less emphasis on the letters p and n with n almost but not really being silent.
Overall, good book. I liked how Sass’s and Rio’s lives converge at the end and how caring and sweet Rio becomes towards Sass throughout the book.
Sass and Rio were great together. I loved how they teased each other especially. It was nice seeing them begin to trust one another and start realizing their feelings for each other. Rio was more confident in their relationship working out after their undercover work was over. Sass wasn’t. She believed that she is a jinx because of the things that have happened with her family. It did become a little annoying when she always brought that up but I liked that this reason was chosen as one of the conflicts between them because even though jinx seems like a very trivial, crazy reason, people actually think like that in the real world.
There was a little unbalance between the actual undercover work and their romance. For a large part of the book it seemed like there was less action more of them having to “act” like a married couple. There seemed to be less danger than is found in these books, maybe because Dawson and the other visitors weren’t given lengthy parts or lengthy dialogue. I was really glad that the author didn’t have Sass get stuck at the end in their host, Dawson’s, bedroom at the end when she goes to steal the trigger that they have come for. Usually in these forced to be couples undercover type books, the heroine goes to search the villain’s room and either has to pretend like she will share a night with him or gets caught and is almost forced by the villain on the bed and the Hero has to come save her. Dawson in this case had a bed with all kinds of equipment attached to it for those kinds of purposes but she is not found in that position which was a positive for me.
There was one incorrect information in the pronunciation of the name Gun. Gun is described as being pronounced as Poon in Punjab. Punjab is actually pronounced just as it is written, pun, with less emphasis on the letters p and n with n almost but not really being silent.
Overall, good book. I liked how Sass’s and Rio’s lives converge at the end and how caring and sweet Rio becomes towards Sass throughout the book.
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