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On Thin Ice (T-FLAC #6)

by Cherry Adair (Goodreads Author), Judy York (Illustrator)

4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 · rating details · 1,136 ratings · 58 reviews

With Kiss and Tell, Cherry Adair wowed readers and set their pulses racing. The breathless, adventure-filled books that followed transformed Adair into one of romantic suspense’s brightest stars. No,w in her long-awaited hardcover debut, the award-winning author thrills us with a wild ride through the frozen north, where there are dangers greater than the bitter cold–and p...more

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Published June 28th 2005 by Ballantine Books (first published 2004)

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Jan 12, 2012 Sabrina Van Goethem marked it as to-read

Shelves: romantic-suspense

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Even though this is still a very good romantic suspense book, and I enjoy reading about the Wright brothers very much, I didn't like it as much as the others in this series.
First of all, I have to say I liked the setting of the snow race, it was a nice idea and something totally new. But I think the author could have elaborated on this a bit more, it would have been nice to read about the scenery along the way and about what it's like to run a race like that. I know that's not what romances are...more

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Mar 30, 2011 Kathy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: action, mystery, sensuous, romance, special-forces

On Thin Ice
Lily Munroe, veterinarian, lives on a cattle ranch helping the cows birth calves, fearful of planes – her mother died in a plane crash, where her father was the pilot… her father remarried & his grown stepson is also a vet… she married Sean, a lying, cheating, con man – who only wanted her because his friend, Derek, wanted her first… he left her on their honeymoon night (having taken her virginity) to pick up a woman at the bar downstairs. She wanted to divorce him, but then he to...more On Thin Ice
Lily Munroe, veterinarian, lives on a cattle ranch helping the cows birth calves, fearful of planes – her mother died in a plane crash, where her father was the pilot… her father remarried & his grown stepson is also a vet… she married Sean, a lying, cheating, con man – who only wanted her because his friend, Derek, wanted her first… he left her on their honeymoon night (having taken her virginity) to pick up a woman at the bar downstairs. She wanted to divorce him, but then he told her he had terminal cancer and 6 months to live – and she, being her, could not leave him – it took him 3 years to die… Sean & Derek had purchased Diablo – a masterful bull whose sperm was worth a million dollars a canister - and Sean set up an international network to sell other bull’s sperm, forging her vet signature that the sperm belonged to Diablo – and with online gambling he lost millions weekly – he did set up an account in her name in the Caymans with lots of money. And Lily has raced the Iditarod 5 times, and raises and trains dogs to run the race.
Derek, TFLAC, owns a ranch in Texas, and Sean was his foreman… Sean begs & threatens Derek to purchase a ranch in Montana – the ranch Sean grew up on, and whose father kicked him off of, and for an unclear reason Derek did… and he allowed Sean to lie and say he owned the ranch and Derek was his foreman… Derek hires the right people who can take care of things in his absence, when he goes out on assignments… and when he sees Lily, he falls in love… they go on 3 dates, and they get carried away kissing against his truck – and Lily is overwhelmed by the passion she feels, and runs scared – right into Sean’s arms – Sean who reads people and says and does all the right things until their wedding night. And Derek isn’t with another woman – though he allows others to believe that when he goes out on assignment he is with women. And Derek spends as much time as he can to help Lily with Sean… trying to relieve her burdens…
Sean died 6 months ago, finally… Derek is investigating and breaking down the sperm con network, and he has decided Lily has spent enough time mourning… he spends time with her, teasing her – flirting with her – and he is also running the Iditarod, and plans to have her as his by the end of the 10 days… Lily found out 6 weeks earlier about the sperm con, overhearing 2 of the hands talking about business as usual… and they figure out she knows… she is concerned that Derek is a part of it, and figures to confront him after the race, after her PI has reported back to her… she does not want an affair with Derek, she does not want to risk her heart – sure he will leave her, that he isn’t a permanent kind of guy – so she argues with him, she tells him no, he calls him on his flirting, and yet she feels safe when he is near – training his dogs alongside her own to be sure that they will be ready.
There is a 3rd person who checks in every so often – one of the ranch hands who was offered $10,000 to kill Lily, and to make it look like an accident. And then, since this is afterall a T-FLAC novel, there is a terrorist threat in Alaska, location unknown, by Derek’s archenemy – one who is famous for using dirty bombs – so Derek is on alert.
The Iditarod begins, she is competitive – especially where Derek is concerned… He ties her to him with a gps locater and a microphone/headphones… On the 2nd morning, she goes to find a private place to void her bladder, and someone with a rifle starts taking shots at her – missing her, she struggles to roll around, pull up her pants, find cover – and the shooter is obviously an amateur and continues to miss her. Derek thinks this is related to the terrorist… the shooter was a 2nd ranch hand, and the 1st one comes up on him, is angry that they sent someone else to do his job and take his money – so he slashes his neck killing him… Derek tracks the shooter, finds him dead, recognizes him… and still ties it to his terrorist… brings his team in to clean up.
He gets ahead of her, to a steep down where one needs switchbacks… she talks him through it, and is 10 minutes behind him… he decides to wait for her at the first pull out… and as she gets close, he hears an explosion, and a mini avalanche catches her… a dozen pages on how the dogs, and him, and her work together to unbury her, the sled & 2 dogs… again, he thinks it’s his terrorists… hmmmm … He takes her to safety, makes camp, and puts her together with him in his tent… and though they are both exhausted, they do share some passionate kissing… she wakes up in his arms… the barriers are dropping, the sexual tension is growing…
They spend another 16 hours, and then end up in a town where he has made reservations for a shared room – 2 beds… they exchange looks, but he assures her he will stay in his own bed… and she takes a shower while he goes for food… when he makes it back up, she is sleeping… an hour later she wakes up, and invites him to have sex – maybe it would help her to relax & get him out of her system… she’d be happy enough … and he decides to take her up on it, but not to hurry through it… she asks if he has a condom, he says yes, but he hasn’t bee with a woman in 6 years, and has a clean bill of health… she tells him she was more worried about Sean, and his history and what she might be carrying… and she confesses she only had sex with Sean once on their honeymoon, and learned of his cheating ways then… Derek realizes that she is a virgin for all practical purposes, and slowly makes love to her, insuring her pleasure…
The next day, he is behind her, wanting to protect her… his plan to get her to the next stop whener his people will take her in a plane to safety (yeah, right, does he know this woman?)… he hears a snowmobile tracking them, he is on the phone with his TFLAC crew – and with her… and she timidly asks him to confirm that he did not know about the sperm con… he admits he did, but that he was investigating it and had put some people away and was still working on closing it down… when he realizes she knows, he realizes she has been the target all along… he warns her to find cover as he lost the sound of the snowmobile… she is traveling down a frozen river, and before she can go back up the bank, the shooter shoots at the ice in front of her, causing cracks… another dozen pages describing how he dogs avoided the cracks, but that black ice broke, and she went over a bump, and she fell off the sled into the water… Derek gets to her, but can’t reach her hands without falling in the ice himself – she uses her knife anchor the ice, pull herself forward, finally getting close enough to reach for the belt he tosses her and pulls him to her… and then he works quickly to warm her up… and they ultimately end up having sex…. Ahhhh
He goes after the shooter (who thought he had been successful)… and tells Lily not to trust anyone… He returns on the guys snowmobile, she doesn’t recognize him, she tries to shoot a warning shot, but her rifle jammed… and as he gets near her (and he doesn’t know she doesn’t know who he is) she swings the barrel of the gun at him, knocking him out… once he regains consciousness, one eye is swollen closed. Then his people call him with a location of the bomb – set to take out a new surveillance station near Nome … and a storm is there which prevents his crew to get there in time – he needs to take the dogs and get there himself… he tells Alex about being TFLAC (to which she responds cool) and she forces him to take her with him – both to keep her safe, and so that she can be his eyes…
They get to the base … there’s an old plane, she takes refuge in it with the dogs… he takes out the 1st wave of terrorists, gets to the bomb, but can’t see well enough to diffuse it – he calls for Lily to help, he tells her which wire to cut – working the way through the other wires delicately and then he defends them against the 2nd wave – getting a shot in the arm… he forces her back on the plane, and takes off (shooting at the 3rd wave) – and she is terrified & almost passes out… and when she starts to calm down, she notices Derek has passed out… she manages to get into the pilot’s chair… and doesn’t want to know what to do… but then along side her is one of Derek’s men, in a helicopter – on his way to the base and seeing their problem… he talks her through the landing…
In the hospital, she gets 3 stitches where she was grazed… and he gets through surgery… she meets his brothers & others of the TFLAC crew and some of their wives… and she breaks down, crying – too much had happened, and now she is certain she has lost Derek… she sleeps, she wakes up with Derek sitting next to her – she tries to noble with her goodby, he tells her he loves her and doesn’t want to go – she sends him away – he accuses her of letting her fear of abandonment skew her faith in him… she insists she needs space.
A miserable week passes – she doesn’t speak with him… she goes to his barn when Don, one of the hands, calls for her – she can hear him & his brothers & wives in the house having dinner… in the barn she is confronted by Derek’s arch enemy – and he wants her to call him to the barn so that he can kill him… she dials his phone from her pocket, and they all mobilize immediately… the bad guys are caught/killed, and she is in his arms… he takes her upstairs to shower (she has the bad guys blood on her) and tells his sisterinlaw to leave them alone for 24 hours… she admits she needs him, she was afrais, and she jumps into his arms, telling him this is her leap of faith…

And two days later is his fatgher’s wedding… during the toasts, he says something for his father, then to Lily, inviting her to the library, where he has set up candles & theminister, so that thye can be married also… ahhhhh…
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Sep 25, 2010 Jane Stewart rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: romantic-suspense

I’m torn between excellent action and suspense writing and problems with the heroine.

I loved the plot and events which included bad guys, the Iditarod race and sled dogs. It was well done with good writing. Lily is a vet and trains sled dogs for the Iditarod races. Both she and Derek are participants in the current race. I enjoyed the story around the Iditarod. Other plots included Lily overhearing a conversation about illegal activities. As a result, bad guys are trying to kill her. Derek lives...more I’m torn between excellent action and suspense writing and problems with the heroine.

I loved the plot and events which included bad guys, the Iditarod race and sled dogs. It was well done with good writing. Lily is a vet and trains sled dogs for the Iditarod races. Both she and Derek are participants in the current race. I enjoyed the story around the Iditarod. Other plots included Lily overhearing a conversation about illegal activities. As a result, bad guys are trying to kill her. Derek lives on a ranch near Lily’s hometown. Derek is a secret agent for T-FLAC, a privately funded black ops antiterrorist group. There is a terrorist threat which ends up involving both Derek and Lily.

I did not like Lily’s attitude and decisions. Six years earlier, she had three dates with Derek. She was so drawn to him and liked him so much that she broke up with him because she was afraid he might hurt her by breaking up with her. Then she marries someone she doesn’t love just to get away from Derek. After her husband dies from cancer, Derek wants a relationship with her, but Lily is rude, critical and insulting to him. She does not want a relationship with him for the same stupid reason as before.

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During the race, Derek saves Lily’s life more than once from assassination attempts. They begin a passionate relationship. As soon as the race is over, she leaves him, telling him she needs space. He told her he loved her but she didn’t believe him, and she continued to fear that he would break up with her. I couldn’t handle her stupidity.

In addition to Lily’s emotional stupidity, a few times in the book, there was a little too much pondering in Lily’s mind as to what to do.

Sexual language: moderate. Number of sex scenes: four. Setting: current day Montana and Alaska. Copyright: 2004. Genre: romantic suspense.

To date, I've read one other book by Cherry Adair. My 1 star review for her book "Kiss and Tell" Copyright 2000 was posted on 2/22/08.(less)

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Sep 10, 2010 Mom rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-during-2010

Lily Munroe thought she had married an honest, dependable man, but she was painfully mistaken. It didn’t take long for her once-loving husband to become a secretive stranger–mixing with shady people and even shadier dealings. Although Lily nursed him through a sudden terminal illness, her marriage was over long before he passed away. During that difficult time, only her passion for the exhilarating Iditarod race across Alaska gave her something to look forward to–and she channeled her emotions i...more

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Sep 08, 2010 Ladiibbug rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No One

#6 T-FLAC

DNF - Quit after 10 pages

I enjoyed the earlier T-FLAC books, but quit reading On Thin Ice a few weeks ago ... just SO unbelievable and downright stupid. In the first ten pages, a rookie female agent (gorgeous, of course) is deemed to be vital to the team's success in a super important mission against an very bad man.

As the mission is in a critical stage, the female rookie agent disobeys her team leader's orders, does some TSTL things, then freezes in fear, all of which endanger the miss...more

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Mar 09, 2008 Kathrynn rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Romantic Suspense Readers

Recommended to Kathrynn by: Auntee

Shelves: own, series-tflac_adair, romance-suspense, 2008, favorites, hot, theme-uniform, reviewed

Wonderful book! Set in Alaska at the time of the Fur Rendezvous (festival) and the Iditarod sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome. I enjoyed the animals included in this book, the dogs, moose, more on the dogs ;-)...great main characters and did I mention the dogs?

A favorite for This Reader.

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May 13, 2009 Maureen rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: stinkers

I've been making my way through Cherry Adair's T-FLAC series and while I wouldn't exactly call them high literature, I have to admit they have been fun to read. Predictable and formulaic, but enjoyable. Until this one.

Sorry, On Thin Ice is a stinker. I can not stand stupidly stubborn, fearful, distrustful and irrational heriones, not to mention the tedious repition of the internal dialogue reflecting the stupidly stubborn, fearful, distrustful and irrational thoughts of said stupidly stubborn, f...more

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Jul 21, 2011 Jenn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance

I guess this book would be romantic suspense, and although I really enjoyed the suspense part and even the two main characters, I am done with this series. The T-FLAC series has worn out its welcome - they are essentially all the same. The part of this book that really made me want to quit the series is the wishy-washiness of the woman, Lily. She wallowed a lot in fears based on a past relationship to a real jerk, and failed to see that the hero, Derek, was not the jerk from before. This went on...more

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Feb 23, 2009 farmwifetwo rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: cherry-adair

The Heroine is a whiner and TSTL at times. She does not deserve the hero at all.

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Mar 22, 2012 Cindy rated it 5 of 5 stars

This story might take place in ice cold Alaska, but it is scorching HOT! In true Cherry Adair fashion it's full of action and hot romance with sexy TFLAC agent Derek Wright and veterinarian Dr. Lily Munroe in the middle of the wilds of Alaska's annual Iditarod race. Trying to uncover who is running the sale of illegal bull sperm on their ranch sends and assassin after Lily with Derek as her only protection and of course there's some terrorist that plant a bomb and they are the only two around to...more

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Apr 27, 2013 Pat rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, romance, suspense-thriller, series-r-us, series, always-worth-re-reading, favorites

4.25 stars actually
This entry to the T-FLAC series boasts the interesting backdrop of the Iditarod. It can brag that it has one of those yummy Wright Boys you can read about (& drool over) all day long. It can preen that is has clever action set pieces and the comfort of home on the ranch. But nope - we get to spend too much time with Lily as she tries to convince both Derek and herself that they can never work. Oh. The. Drama. Of it all.
That annoyance aside, a few years and a lot of histor...more

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Feb 14, 2010 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romantic-suspense, ebook, 2010

6th in the T-FLAC series. Last of the Wright brothers' stories. Derek is Kane's twin and the last single brother.

Derek and Lily have had chemistry from day one. She's been running from it and he's been waiting her out--through her marriage to his so-called best friend, to her mourning his death. Now he is ready for her to be ready. She still wants to run, though. She's finding out her husband wasn't what she thought he was and now she wonders who Derek really is, too.

I really liked most of this...more

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May 05, 2013 Stephanie rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Feb 27, 2008 July rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: home-library

I must say that I enoyed this book alot better than the last two Wright brothers books. Derek Wright fell for Lily Munroe 6 years ago but stepped aside when she fell in love with his best pal Sean. But when Sean and Lily married, Sean started stepping out on her and Derek wanted to say something until Sean was Diagnosed with terminal cancer and given 6 months to live. But 6 months actually turned into 3 years. Lily stood by Sean during his cancer. And Derek Loved her more because of it.
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Mar 05, 2012 Leslie Mesmer rated it 5 of 5 stars

I must admit I have read this book before. When I am struggling on the current book(s) I will read this just to have a fast read.
I love the interaction between the two main characters and the thrill of the hunt and the chase. A little romance, stalking and terrorists mixed up with the Alaskan Iditarod and it's just impossible to resist.
It is permanantly a keeper on my shelf.

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Oct 14, 2012 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the last of the Wright series. Derek Wright is in love with Lily Munroe but Lily is terrified of her feelings for Derek. She ends up marrying his best friend. When she decides to divorce her “bad guy” husband, he’s diagnosed with cancer. His short time to live ends up being 3 years. Read the book to find out how Lil and Derek got back together during the Iditarod Race in Alaska. This may be the only time that it’s actually hot in Alaska!

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Mar 03, 2012 Hollie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow...On Thin Ice was a book that I will be reading again and again.. I loved Derek and Lily and how she fights the attraction between the two and how Derek is always there for her. I love the winter weather so the scenery of the Iditarod was perfect for me. Cold and snow and hot sex...a perfect winter read!

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Sep 21, 2009 marlene rated it 4 of 5 stars

The last two books in this series changed so much. The first five had some seriously hard laughs in them. the last two, not so much. i miss that, but it doesn't make these books any less good. just different. these are a more serious romantic suspense. though this one did have a pirate reference.

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Oct 08, 2012 Amanda Fowler rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book was AMAZING! So full of passion and adventure. My favorie from Cherry Adair....I think :) so many great reads when you are talking about Mrs. Adair. If you haven't read her books yet, its a must do so put down what you are reading and check this out

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Nov 17, 2011 Applefruit rated it 1 of 5 stars

I hated, hated, HATED this book. Lily is one of the worst heroines ever. She's mean, rude, and flat-out stupid. I hated the hero simply for loving such a witch and for being wimpy enough to put up with the constant rejection. Ugh.

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Apr 19, 2012 Mandi rated it 5 of 5 stars

Who would've thought somewhere so cold could be so hot?! I instantly loved Lily and her dogs, Derek too! What a cool tale about the iditarod, the research that Cherry does in each and every one of her books simply amazes me!

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Nov 22, 2011 Netanella rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance-suspense

More than halfway through the novel, and I am enjoying it. This despite the fact that I can't seem to understand the attration between Derek Wright, our T-Flac brother, and Lily Munroe, country veterinarian and Iditarod champion musher. For a medical doctor, Lily's about as thick as a can of spam. She runs away from Derek years ago because of "the heat" (what??), she marries a man she discovers is cheating on during the honeymoon, and decides to stay with him for three more years as he dies of t...more

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Aug 23, 2012 Mskchick rated it 2 of 5 stars

2-1/2 stars. There were too many outlandish scenarios in this one. It's like someone dated Cherry Adair to see how many improbable things she could fit in one tale. And Lily was annoying

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Aug 31, 2012 Morana rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance-military, pfft

The only thing which is interesting is the race. And the dogs. This is probably the last one for me. I just realized I never gave more than 2 stars to previous books.

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Jul 25, 2011 Mary rated it 5 of 5 stars

Great book. Who dosent love a cowboy to e rescue.learned some interesting things about the alaskain iditarod would definitely read again

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Oct 28, 2009 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance

First book by this author and I was a big fan. The love story was very cute, and the mystery and suspense was realistic.

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Jul 05, 2012 Tina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-all-time-fav

I just read this again....for I don't know what number of times and it is still one of my favorite Cherry Adair books.

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Oct 09, 2012 A rated it 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed the author's descriptions of Alaska and the quick pace of the plot.

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Feb 08, 2012 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars

I like her work. she's gritty and always has strong heroines.

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Feb 26, 2010 Rebecca rated it 4 of 5 stars

I feel like this book returned, for me, to the TFLAC books that I enjoyed so much in the beginning.

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Always an adventurer in life as well as writing, New York Times best-selling author Cherry Adair moved halfway across the globe from Cape Town, South Africa to the United States in her early years to become a interior designer. Now a resident of the Pacific Northwest she shares the award- winning adventures of her fictional T-FLAC counter terrorism operatives with her readers.

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