Brute Force #1
By Lora Leigh
Release Date: Febuary 27th, 2018
St. Martin's Press
Source: ARC provided by publisher
Riordan “Rory” Malone is a force to be reckoned with. A member of the Brute Force Protection Agency and an operative working with the Elite Ops, Rory is the fiercest of warriors and protectors. Honed from the strong Irish stock of their grandfather and sharpened to a razor’s edge, Malone men live for one single purpose: to protect the women who own them, body and soul. From the moment he saw Amara Resnova, he knew she could be that woman.
But Amara, daughter of an alleged notorious crime lord, is a force in her own right. When she betrays her father, she’s finds herself in the arms of a man who is dangerous for her body and soul.
Can Rory keep Amara safe while protecting his own heart? Can Amara trust Rory not to break hers even as the danger mounts, threatening to take them and their passion to a breaking point?
*ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest and unbiased review*
I have never read a Lora Leigh book before, but I was excited to get stuck into this book, after reading the synopsis. But I will have to say, that even though the synopsis is geared towards Riordan, the Eliete operative, who takes care of Amara, the daughter of a Russian mobsters, but the story actually is more focused on Amara, with a whole bunch of shocking surprised that are rolled in.
I actually really enjoyed the book, but in parts it was very fasted, and I stuggled to keep up with the plot, so I urge you not to read it fast. But on the whole, the story was great, the characters were intriguing, and I for one, am looking forward to the next book in the series!
I give Collision Point 4 stars.
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Six months later
She’d been told that West Texas in the spring wasn’t much
different from West Texas in the fall, but as Amara Resnova pulled in the
driveway of the small house outside Alpin, she felt she had to disagree with
that summation.
Stretched out in front of the house with its wraparound
porch was a lush green valley fed by a lazily running stream winding through
it. Sunlight speared from the cloudless blue sky, bright and warm, spreading
its heat in a comforting embrace.
And the charming little house sat just beneath the warming
sunlight. Spreading out in front of it was the picturesque valley; behind it,
the normal West Texas part-grass, part-scrub, potential-desert landscape that
never failed to amaze her.
On a rising knoll stood a lone tree, thickly branched and
heavily leafed, shading what appeared to be a small cemetery. Rather than
looking desolate and lonely, that little plot of land with its surrounding
black iron fence, appeared instead to keep watch over the land below it. As
though those buried there kept a gentle eye on those who came after them.
As isolated as the property was, it should have appeared
stark. Instead, an air of contentment and peace lay over it. As though the
land, the house, the vibrant green of the valley, and the cemetery that
overlooked it all, knew all there was about life and love and had locked all
those secrets within it to sustain it.
Drawing in a deep breath to steady herself against the fears
she hadn’t been able to push behind her even in such a lovely setting, Amara
turned off the engine, forced her hands not to shake, and opened the door
before stepping into the warmth that filled the valley.
It wasn’t a blazing heat, but rather a gentle wave that
filled the air and wafted around her. And in it there was a strange sense of
familiarity. A “been there before” feeling that had her heart racing, her mouth
drying as she stared around and drew in the sights and whispered sounds of a
land as yet untouched by civilized life.
Here, a person could see the stars at night rather than the
city lights. The sound of the lonely coyote rather than the rush of traffic.
Peace rather than a hectic race.
Here, perhaps, she could find some answers. And maybe there
was a chance to find everything she’d lost.
Tugging the hem of her tank, she straightened it over the
band of her jeans beneath the light denim jacket she wore as she walked slowly
from the car to the stone path that led to the porch. The thick carpet of grass
stretched from the valley to surround the house, but she’d noticed as she
parked that it became sparser at the back. As though that carpet of green with
its lazy stream could only struggle so far to embrace the weathered home.
The dark blue pickup parked at the side of the house
attested that someone lived there. And she knew the vehicle belonged to the man
those in town called Grandpops Malone.
Riordan Malone Sr. was grandfather to Riordan Malone the
younger, she’d been told, when she stopped at the gas station and auto repair
garage outside town that bore the name MALONE AND BLAKE—SERVICE AND REPAIR.
There, she’d learned Riordan the younger was part owner but currently out at
his “grandpops’” place.
Riordan.
That name haunted her dreams, her fantasies. Though the man
in those dreams wasn’t an old man. The one who came to her in those nightly
images was tall, strong, impossibly sexy.
As Amara forced herself to walk to the porch, she looked
around, searching for the face, listening for the voice of a man she knew only
in those dreams. The man she’d escaped her father’s protection to go search
for.
Was he friend or foe?
#1 New
York Times bestseller Lora Leigh
is the author of the Navy SEALS, the Breeds, the Elite Ops, the Callahans,
the Bound Hearts, and the Nauti series.
