BOOK REVIEW- Beachcomber Investigations- Ex-special ops legend Dane Blaise is desperate to recruit Shana George away from Scotland Yard to partner with him in his new venture, Beachcomber Investigations. She has impressive skills and if he’s honest, he needs her to keep him grounded. But most of all, Dane wants to keep Shana on the island of Martha's Vineyard because he can't get past his insane longing for her.
Shana’s boss David Young forces her to decide on the spot when he assigns an important case to Beachcomber Investigations. She chooses to partner with Dane, going with her gut--or more accurately her heart--rather than her brains. They may be good partners in crime-fighting, but they are all wrong for each other in every other way possible. He's soulless and lost and likely has more wounds from his past than the bullet and knife scars scorching his body. But she's crazy. About him.
Their big assignment is to protect Dane's old special ops buddy, Acer. They need to find whoever paid a sniper to take a shot at Acer--before the sniper takes another shot and doesn't miss.
Dane and Shana need to be on top of their game to keep Acer alive, and not on top of each other. But each of them is secretly worried whether that’s possible--and worried about what will happen if it’s not. AMAZON 4 Stars
This is where it all started and I started out by reading another book in this series further down the line. But I did enjoy this one as well, the relationship and the tension between Dane and Shana is a bit different than what you normally run into in other books. Both of them were over the top skilled in their professions but the trouble really seems to come when they try not to cross the line when it comes to the personal level. They are so busy doing their jobs, almost afraid to be friends because that's to close and could lead to being lovers. That's a rule that they don't want to break because if they do they aren't sure that they can survive it. The secondary characters are necessary to the story and add color to it. Color, and a differing kinds of skills and friendships. Sometimes, Shana feels a bit like an outsider because she is a newcomer when it comes to this group of men and they have been part of a unit for quite a while. There are mysteries with plenty of twists and turns, with Dane all the while playing it cool and seeing things that others probably would have missed. He had a people radar that served him well. I liked Dane, even when he was being a total jerk because we got to hear the inside thoughts, feelings and fears that others didn't know about. Shana was able to kick butt and you still ended up being able to like her too. Her and Dane were well matched, no matter how hard they fought with each other.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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