Grace Lockhart: Behind-the-scenes FBI agent. Shy, naive... and a sex kitten waiting to happen.
Logan Pierce: FBI field agent and the best of the best. Confident, cocky...and incapable of saying no to a beautiful woman.
The case: Agent Grace Lockhart has spent months developing a computer program that will put the city's biggest crime lord behind bars. And now that it's ready, all the FBI needs is somebody to smuggle it in to Harrison Mitchell's estate. Only, because Mitchell is notorious for surrounding himself with a harem of beauties, that somebody has to be a woman....
Grace Lockhart wants to be that woman, but she's anything but a femme fatale. But not for long. Because she's heard that her new partner, sexy superagent Logan Pierce, is an expert at "hands-on" training....
USA TODAY Bestselling author Julie Miller writes breathtaking romantic suspense. She's won a National Readers Choice Award and two Daphne du Maurier Awards among other prizes. She was also honored to receive a Career Achievement Award from RT BookReviews and has been a finalist for many national and international awards. Her books have appeared on the USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, Amazon and BookScan Top 100 Romances bestseller lists.
Writing about Kansas City cops, Julie has crafted bestselling, award-winning books for Harlequin Intrigue. In addition, Ms. Miller publishes romantic suspense books with a military twist. Millions of copies of her books have been sold in print and digital formats around the world.
4 Stars! ~ Grace has lived in her mother's shadow all her life. Inheriting her voluptuous body, and sultry voice hasn't prepared Grace for the undercover assignment that will make her career with the FBI. Unlike her mother, Grace has never learnt the art of seduction. An art that she's going to need to know to pull off her assignment; bring down a crime lord before he takes his operation coast to coast. Since his rookie partner got killed on their first assignment together, Logan's worked alone. When his boss asks him to work with Grace and teach her everything she's going to need to know to gain access to Mitchell's records, he doesn't want any part of it. But there's Grace, this woman hiding behind baggy clothes, blushing like a virgin, and chasing after him to prove she's got what it takes. Logan wants nothing more than to scare Grace off this assignment, but the more he teaches her the more he's learning to like having a partner again.
This is Ms. Miller's first Blaze and I've really enjoyed it. I think we can all find a little bit of Grace in ourselves. She's this shy naive woman wanting to shine for her own sake, not for her body or because she's her mother's daughter. Logan's the perfect teacher to show her her potential, only he's not supposed to get emotionally involved. I love how Ms. Miller gives us his thoughts and we see just how much Grace in effecting him. I recommend reading this one on a chilly night; this one will heat you up from the inside out!
I've always enjoyed Ms. Miller's Intrigues and I'm very pleased to see that she brings her remarkable talents to Blaze. I'm really looking forward to digging out her other Blazes from my TBR pile. This winter may just be a toasty one.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Reread - Part of the story was fun and the chemistry was steamy, but so much was dated and parts were implausible, so I will not be keeping in my Ebook Library.
When I found this Blaze book by Julie Miller, I moved it to the top of my to-read pile… and it didn’t disappoint. Logan Pierce is one of the best FBI field agents out there, so he’s pissed when his boss assigns him a new partner: Grace Lockhart, a computer expert, who’s never been in the field before. Logan is reluctant to partner up with her because the last time he had a field rookie with him, that agent was shot and killed.
Grace needs Logan’s help. She’s written a computer program that will infiltrate the records of Harris Mitchell (not Harrison, as listed in the blurb), wanted by the FBI for a slew of bad things. However, Harris is a known playboy who only surrounds himself with females, so Grace has to go undercover to install her program. Problem is, Grace doesn’t have a lot of experience with men, and she needs Logan – well known for loving the ladies – to help her become a femme fatale that Mitchell will hire.
Logan reluctantly agrees, not wanting to see Grace get hurt. He comes to realise that underneath the drab, baggy clothing, glasses, severe bun and endless note taking, Grace Lockhart has awesome curves and an even better personality. When he moves his lessons into the bedroom, she’s more than willing to learn, and the sex between them is hot. By the end of the assignment, Logan realises he can’t Grace go. Ever.
There’s an amusing sub-plot involving Grace’s mother, the delightfully named Mimsey, who is a b-grade actress in bad sci-fi movies. I’d also like to think that Grace is related to Hope and Harry Lockhart, from Julie’s Intrigue series 🙂