BOOK REVIEW- SPECIAL AGENT KANDICE

Special Agent indeed, Kandice Warner is everyone’s best friend. Talk about a Barbie doll! This female might have the same pretty-girl looks but even though she has a tender heart, she also has the resilience needed for a very successful FBI Hostage Negotiator. Feelings of inadequacy constantly force her to prove that she’s tough, and she demonstrates her courage when dealing with a murderous bank robber and a desperate jumper. But her tender heart can get her in trouble and she needs to grow a thicker skin. Almost impossible when her obstinate new boss, for reasons of his own, interferes in everything she does. 

Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division in Washington, Dan Black is as hard as they come. With the grit of a street youth stiffening his resolve, he’s worked his way up through the ranks, his personal space shields as strong as ever. Until he sees the sweetest things on two legs! A girl from his past. The one he’s never been able to forget. Working undercover in the Seattle bureau, he tries to protect his childhood fantasy but she refuses to stay put or take orders. Faced with a woman like that, what’s a mere man to do?   AMAZON 5 STARS

Great, great story.   I loved every minute of it. And Kandi?  Loved her too.  She was a different kind of Agent.  Both in personality and looks. She's a really good agent and the unusual ways that she approached problems in the field worked for her.  Good thing because she was often found right in the middle of  whatever was going on.  She has some really close friends that she adores in her unit.  Bobbi and Wes, are both Agents who have a trustworthy but also at times humorous relationship with her.    And her father is an eccentric, genius who loves her beyond everything!  It was fun to get to see his overprotective ways too.  

Dan Black is in over his head when it comes to Kandi, and he knows it.  He may be in charge but she's about to give him an ulcer if she keeps up her normal ways.   I can see how that would happen, because the action never really stops.  Everyone around Kandi acknowledges her unusual skills as a negotiator but that still didn't keep them from wanting to protect her.  Dan was a man who came from some pretty harsh beginnings, who got a hand up from someone who saw who he could become.  I really liked him and how careful he tried to be around Kandi.    Oh, yes he wanted her but he was just afraid she was just a dream to him.  He stayed in the background as much as he could but Kandi's antics didn't let him stay there long.  He hadn't got over her after all these years and he was really afraid to press it.  If he let her into his life and she left, he knew he'd never recover. 

I found this to be a fun, interesting, action story with several twists towards the end of the book.  

I received a ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.