My Review:

Whoa! This book was so good and so completely different from everything that is out on the market right now. First the setting: wilds of Africa, tracking wild dogs. Then the suspense story line: It continued to surprise me with the many twists and turns. Then the romance: Love, LoVe, LOVED Claire and Simon together! OMG! This was such a good book.

Claire is a veterinarian who works with a charity organization in Africa. During a wild dog transport where she was in the back monitoring the sedated dogs, the vehicle she is in is hijacked. She was never supposed to be part of the scheme, but suddenly finds herself as a captive. She names each of the men in her mind and the one that works to keep her safe is Alpha. BUT Claire is pretty smart and manages to save herself before Alpha has the chance....that event takes place though after the two have made an incredible connection. Then it's up to Claire to sort out whether she truly had feelings for the man after the fact. A man that she she may have left for dead (she sedated him) or condemned to death with the other men when she escapes. That's all she knows for 6 months as she tries to recover and find a center in her life again...but then he shows back up.

*gah* This book was so good. It has a super-high emotional drama because there is so much riding on everything that is going on between these two...life and death, careers, etc. This is not JUST about their feelings. This thing between them has far-reaching affects and neither one of them are sure how much of what they are feeling is true vs. it just being something that can be accrued to the fact that they were in extremely unusual high-stakes circumstances. This is the kind of story that I love and Nikki Logan wrote it extremely well.

And that's just the romance. The suspense was equally amazing. I had NO IDEA where this story was going to go and it continued to shock the heck out of me with its many twists and turns. I loved how Claire continued to use her brains, while at the same time, I was cursing Simon for not sharing more with her up-front about what was going on. She doesn't ever get the true story of what/why this is all happening to her either until Simon FINALLY reveals it to her. I do have to admit though that I LOVED Mac's actions at the very end of the novel to help bring everyone together. LOVED that part of the story.

This is a great example of romantic suspense done really well. This is only my second book that I've read from Entangled Publishing's new Dead Sexy line, but I have to admit, both books I've read have blown me away. *Note to self: add more of these books to my TBR pile.