Suspense of the deadly variety
The Darkest Corner By Liliana Hart
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Released: May 23, 2017
Publisher: Pocket Books
Series: Gravediggers, Book 1
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Liliana Hart’s first book in her suspenseful Gravediggers series, featuring an elite group of mysterious men who might be dead to the world, but are also tasked with saving it—and no one can ever know.
The Gravediggers aren’t exactly what they seem. They’re the most elite of the world’s fighting forces—and all they have in common is that they’ve been betrayed by the countries they’ve died for. Because they are dead. To their country, their military, and their families.
Sometimes the dead do rise…
Deacon Tucker is a dead man walking. A former black ops agent, he was disavowed and stripped of all honor before being recruited as a Gravedigger. But his honor and good name no longer matter, because no one knows he’s alive, and he’ll never get the recognition he deserves. His mission is simple: save the world or die trying. And for God’s sake, don’t ever fall in love. That’s a rule punishable by death. The kind of death a man can’t be brought back from.
Tess Sherman is the only mortician in Last Stop, Texas. She has no idea how Deacon Tucker ended up in her funeral home, but she’ll eat her hat if he’s only a funeral home assistant. Deacon is dangerous, deadly, and gorgeous. And she knows her attraction to him can only end in heartache.
Deacon is on a mission to stop the most fatal terror attack the world has ever known—what’s known as The Day of Destiny—a terrorist’s dream. But when he discovers Tess has skills he can use to stop them, he has to decide if he can trust her with secrets worth dying for. And, most important, he has to decide if he can trust her with his heart.
Reviewed by Jean
Suspense of the deadly variety
I do so love a good romantic suspense series with hot alpha men and kick butt heroines. Oops, guess I should qualify that last bit… kick butt doesn’t always equate to the physical side of things.
In the case of Tess, we’re talking more tempered by the hard knocks of life with a side of bravissimo. Life isn’t always easy when you’re born to a woman with deplorable morals, a love of gossip and a gambling addiction that will eat everyone around her alive. Thankfully (?) Tess spent her formidable years being raised by her grandmother, the wife of a Russian mafia boss. Is it any wonder that Tess chooses to keep her circle of friends limited, preferring to spend her days speaking to the dead? Now she has her hands full with a passel of totally unnecessary, overkill employees fobbed off on her by the new owner of the mortuary she manages. Speculation is rife in this small town on just how many of the hotties she might be sleeping with. That would be a big fat zero… not that she isn’t tempted by the tough ruggedness of Deacon Tucker.
If life has been challenging for Tess it’s been over the top deadly for Deacon. A career in the CIA ending in disgrace and dishonor wasn’t what Deacon had planned when he started his career. Now he’s a monkey on a string for a clandestine international black ops organization out to save the world from terrorism… a job that isn’t exactly copasetic to romance, marriage or family life. That doesn’t stop this tough alpha male from yearning for a sweet mortuary director. When he’s ordered to get Tess’s cooperation on their current mission no matter what methods he has to use, no one knows just how well those orders play into Deacon’s cravings.
The Darkest Corner is full of suspense and hot steamy romance, a combination I love. The Gravediggers series promises to deliver plenty of action, adventure, intrigue and romance for those of you who really appreciate great romantic suspense novels. I’m looking forward to reading Gone to Dust which publishes on June 20th.
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O Factor: Spicy
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Liliana Hart is a New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of more than fifty titles. After starting her first novel her freshman year of college, she immediately became addicted to writing and knew she’d found what she was meant to do with her life. She has no idea why she majored in music.
Since publishing in June 2011, Liliana has sold more than five-million ebooks. All three of her series have made multiple appearances on the New York Times list. Liliana is a sought after speaker and she’s given keynote speeches and publishing workshops to standing-room-only crowds, from California to the Library of Congress to London.
Liliana can almost always be found at her computer writing, or giving workshops for SilverHart, a company she founded with her husband, Scott Silverii, where they provide law enforcement, military, and fire resources to writers, so they can “write it right.” When Liliana and her husband aren’t working or spending time with their children, they’re traveling to the places that interest them most.
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