Title: Hard to Kill
Author: Wendy Byrne
Review: Sabrina Shaw and her two brothers were raised
with a less than normal up bringing- they were trained assassins by the infamous
Goren Petrovich. Sabrina and her
brother’s escape and now work for an organization called the Alliance. They specialize in jobs that no one else
wants. Think Phoenix Foundation from the TV show MacGyver expect the woman has
the ability to take down grown men, escape using her wit and sassy mouth vs
using a little red knife and duct take to make things go boom.
When
the daughter of a prominent politician disappears everyone calls her a runaway
but Sabrina uncovers the girl was kidnapped and taken into sex trafficking.
Sabrina does everything she can to bring the girl home but to destroy the
operation that took her.
Hard to
kill is action packed from page one to the very last page never really giving
the reader a moment of down time. Sabrina never once stops to think through the
situation or formulate a plan of attack which makes me wonder how she has
survived all those years but then when the reader question her abilities the
author reminds you of her past as a child assassin. Kane the undercover FBI
agent helps Sabrina escape the sex traffickers only to find her being
hunted. The author created Kane Travis
as the All American Hero. When the story gets dark because it is based around
human sex trafficking Kane gives the light and humor to the story. So much works
in this Romantic Suspense that will keep readers going until they find they
finished the book in the middle of the night and want to start back over in the
morning.
The
story has romance but it doesn’t over shadow the main story but helps create a
flow that will take the reader to the very end where the author leaves you with
a few questions about Sabrina's past and her future as well. Hard to Kill is the
perfect mix of mystery, action, romance for a great pool side read. I can’t
wait to read another from this author - Wendy Byrane.
I was
given an advance copy exchange for my honest opinion.
Thanks
Heidi for this review
ISBN: 9781940371344
Page
Count: ebook
Quick
Review: 5 out 5 stars –
Why I
Read this Title: I was given an advance copy in exchange for my honest opinion.
Synopsis: Trained as children to become an assassins by
the infamous Goren Petrovich, Sabrina Shaw and her two brothers have had a
less-than-normal upbringing. After escaping his clutches, Sabrina and her
brothers have tried to make a normal life for themselves. Now Sabrina works for
an organization called The Alliance, specializing the kind of jobs that no one
else can or wants to do. Her current assignment: find the daughter of a
prominent politician who has disappeared, categorized as a runaway by the
authorities. It seems simple enough, until Sabrina uncovers the girl may have
been the victim of a kidnapping that goes far beyond ransom requests. Now
Sabrina must put her training to the test as she infiltrates a sex trafficking
ring operating in Europe in order to find the girl...all while dodging a
mysterious FBI agent and the demons from her own past.
Author
Information:
Wendy Byrne was born and raised and still makes her home in the Chicago
area. She’s married and has two grown
sons, a great daughter-in-law and two adorable grandchildren.
Wendy has a Masters in Social Work and worked in the
child welfare field for twelve years before she decided to pursue her dream of
writing. She joined Romance Writers of America in 1999 where she met an
incredible group of women who shared her passion and helped her learn her
craft.
Her first published novel Fractured was released in
2011 and was picked up by a major book club and made available in hardcover.
Her second book, Mama Said…., was released in 2012 and was a finalist in the
Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence Contest in the romantic suspense category.
She self-published The Christmas Curse in 2012. Her
book, Bad to the Bone, will be out in 2014 from Entangled Publishing and Hard
to Kill will be out 2014 from Gemma Halliday Publishing. She plans to
self-publish, Accused, in Spring 2014.
Between teaching college classes, trying to get her morbidly obese cat to slim
down and tempering the will of her five-year-old granddaughter, who’s
determined to become a witch when she turns six so she can fly on her broom to
see the Eiffel Tower and put hexes on people—not necessarily in that
order—somehow Wendy still manages to fit in writing. She spends the remainder of her days
inflicting mayhem on her hero and heroine until they beg for mercy.
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