Veena’s review of A Deadly Business (Vigilance, Book 3) by Desiree Holt
Romantic Suspense published by Lyrical Liaison 21 Aug 18
When Marissa’s cover is blown, she’s whisked away to safety to a small town on the Florida coast. She’s careful and cautious and continues to look over her shoulder, but her past finally catches up with her. Can her new friends at Vigilance keep her safe? Or does she have to disappear and reinvent herself again?
Marissa is dispatched to a remote luxury island off the grid with Vigilance operative Justin to keep her safe, until the CIA and Vigilance can figure out their strategy to neutralize the crime lord gunning for her. Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire, when said crime lord shows up on the island gunning for some of the other guests. Marissa, of course, is an unexpected bonus.
Marissa and Justin find their idyll interrupted as luxury resort and all the guests are taken hostage. Since they’re off the books, they find themselves free to move around the island and disrupt the proceedings. It almost feels like the movie “Home Alone,” as lights flicker and air-conditioning goes on and off and guards dispatched to handle the matter disappear. The author makes all the improbable coincidences fun and exciting.
Grade: B
Summary:
Someone to watch over her . . .Her life in beautiful Arrowhead Bay seems like paradise. But for former CIA operative Marissa Hayes, it’s a deep cover she’s forced to live under after daring to take down a powerful enemy with strong terrorist ties. Out of necessity, she keeps her emotions as guarded as her life, even as she finds herself drawn to Justin Kelly, the most arousing man she’s ever met. But when Marissa must find a new place to hide, the able-bodied Vigilance agent is the first man she turns to . . .
Justin can’t get close to Marissa, if he hopes to keep her alive. Which only makes sharing a villa with her at a remote island resort all the more challenging. The passion rising between them is exquisite—and excruciating. Even more so when terrorists infiltrate the island, putting Marissa in the crosshairs. Now Justin will do anything to protect the woman he cares about more deeply than he dares to admit. . . .
