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Men of Sanctuary #3
Bombshell
A one-night stand never appealed to Kailani Holokai, especially at a demolitions symposium in L.A., her first solo run. So, what are the odds that, after trying desperately to forget a volcanic romp with a nameless stranger in his hotel suite—a man who was totally her match in the sexual arena—petite, green-eyed Keko, explosives expert, would find him waiting for her at a podunk airport terminal in Maine, at the request of the FBI?
Former Navy SEAL Brian MacBride, sheriff of Catamount Lake, and Keko, the new owner of a successful demolitions company and its lead explosives expert, create sparks of the wrong kind as they struggle to avoid each other. Keko's job: to discover who hired a local recluse to build a special device—the same type of device that killed Keko's father—and why.
Can headstrong, unwilling Keko put aside her fear of a relationship with Mac long enough to discover the real plot, the plot that could rattle the nation's security at the highest level—when she can't bear to be in the same room with him?
However, being in the same bed is another story.
Former Navy SEAL Brian MacBride, sheriff of Catamount Lake, and Keko, the new owner of a successful demolitions company and its lead explosives expert, create sparks of the wrong kind as they struggle to avoid each other. Keko's job: to discover who hired a local recluse to build a special device—the same type of device that killed Keko's father—and why.
Can headstrong, unwilling Keko put aside her fear of a relationship with Mac long enough to discover the real plot, the plot that could rattle the nation's security at the highest level—when she can't bear to be in the same room with him?
However, being in the same bed is another story.
- GenresRomance
202 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 9, 2012
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About the author
Danica St. Como
19 books10 followersSt. Como, a Jersey girl born and raised, now writes at her farm in central upstate New York's dairy country, usually surrounded by a gaggle of Whippets under and around her oversized, over-burdened desk—while being stared at from across the room by a giant, malevolent treadmill. She puts her pen to several subgenres, including contemporary erotic romantic suspense, featuring any of the following: MFM and MMF ménage a trois, MM pairings, erotic historical, paranormal – all hot, all steamy, and all sexually explicit. In addition to stand alone novels and the Men of Sanctuary series, St. Como also writes erotic romantic suspense under the pen name Sophia Roslyn, author of Dragonetti's Mountain and Her Special Forces. – Loose Id bio
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June 21, 2015
I received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads
This is the third in this super hot series set i the wilds of Maine. These ex military men are so hot that I am surprised Sanctuary hasn't burned to the ground by now! I do think this would read well as a standalone, but really you would be missing some great stories if you didn't read the others too.
Whilst it is not the first time that a plot uses the device of an unexpected re-encounter with a one night stand, this one works so well, as the disbelief is both about the person and the role. It also plays very well into the multicultural slant that this series of books has taken. I like the level of mystery in these stories - enough to be exciting, but not too scary (I am a bit of a wus). And I most definitely like the level of hotness - scorching!
I believe Ms St. Como has once again written a really good story with a hot bite of pleasure for us to enjoy.
This is the third in this super hot series set i the wilds of Maine. These ex military men are so hot that I am surprised Sanctuary hasn't burned to the ground by now! I do think this would read well as a standalone, but really you would be missing some great stories if you didn't read the others too.
Whilst it is not the first time that a plot uses the device of an unexpected re-encounter with a one night stand, this one works so well, as the disbelief is both about the person and the role. It also plays very well into the multicultural slant that this series of books has taken. I like the level of mystery in these stories - enough to be exciting, but not too scary (I am a bit of a wus). And I most definitely like the level of hotness - scorching!
I believe Ms St. Como has once again written a really good story with a hot bite of pleasure for us to enjoy.
July 14, 2015
I received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads.
Sheriff's MacBride has a mystery to solve when a local is found murdered and bomb making equipment is discovered in his home. The FBI call in Keko, a hot, tough, intelligent bomb expert to help.
MacBride and Keko had recently had a one night stand and when they meet up again the sparks fly. There is fantastic chemistry between these two and lots of dirty talk.
Bombshell is a good erotic romance story mixed with action and is my favourite in this series so far.
Sheriff's MacBride has a mystery to solve when a local is found murdered and bomb making equipment is discovered in his home. The FBI call in Keko, a hot, tough, intelligent bomb expert to help.
MacBride and Keko had recently had a one night stand and when they meet up again the sparks fly. There is fantastic chemistry between these two and lots of dirty talk.
Bombshell is a good erotic romance story mixed with action and is my favourite in this series so far.
June 13, 2015
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4.5 stars
Holy $hit, Danica St. Como can write a HOT, sexy book! I thought the cover was pretty cheesy but what’s inside is definitely NOT. The story is engaging, the plot is convoluted and suspenseful, and the sex is smoking hot with two characters who are totally into each other but somehow didn’t get each other’s names. And we’ve got a front seat to to the action when they meet up again for the second act. Hot damn! Who doesn’t love a sexy alpha ex-S.E.A.L. who’s taken a job in a rural Maine town and teamed up with two other ex-military men in smoking out the bad guys?
Or is it just me?
Keko Holokai’s father John Larsson was an ex-S.E.A.L. and explosives expert who’d built a business building explosives. He’d included Keko from the ground up, and she’s been running the business since his death. Attending a conference in LA when word came that a bomb with the same signature as the one that had killed him had been found, she and her assistant Kamaka immediately rerouted their flights going home to Boston to head to rural Maine to examine it. They needed to study it for its unique features. If there was a bomb out there with a second timing switch, that would be incredibly destructive to the whole LEO community at large, military and civilian.
While at the conference in LA, Keko’d had a crazy, balls-to-the-wall one night stand with a handsome guy. She’d snuck out of his room in order to make her flight, and thought she’d never see him again. And they hadn’t exchanged names–they’d kind of been in a hurry. And drinking. Well, apparently fate had another thought. When she arrived in Maine at the site of the explosion, she was stunned to find the one-night stand of her dreams there–and his name was Brian MacBride.
So now Keko not only has to battle the FBI, the local law enforcement, and all the men who don’t believe that the demolitions expert from Larsson’s company is a WOMAN–she’s got to battle her own explosive feelings of attraction to this big lunk of a law enforcement officer who’s determined to get in her way and “protect her.” Which absolutely boils her blood. She can protect herself, dammit! Plus, they’re all trying to find out what group is trying to build a bomb with a second kill switch so that they can stop them before they are successful.
Our national security is in jeopardy…
I haven’t read the others in the series, but I don’t think that it hurt my enjoyment of this book in any way. But I’ll tell you, I enjoyed the heat and intensity of this one so much that I’m planning on buying the other two as soon as possible so I can catch up. Great suspenseful writing, hot smoking sex scenes, and character development that makes you feel like you are invested in the story. Thanks Danica!
4.5 stars
Holy $hit, Danica St. Como can write a HOT, sexy book! I thought the cover was pretty cheesy but what’s inside is definitely NOT. The story is engaging, the plot is convoluted and suspenseful, and the sex is smoking hot with two characters who are totally into each other but somehow didn’t get each other’s names. And we’ve got a front seat to to the action when they meet up again for the second act. Hot damn! Who doesn’t love a sexy alpha ex-S.E.A.L. who’s taken a job in a rural Maine town and teamed up with two other ex-military men in smoking out the bad guys?
Or is it just me?
Keko Holokai’s father John Larsson was an ex-S.E.A.L. and explosives expert who’d built a business building explosives. He’d included Keko from the ground up, and she’s been running the business since his death. Attending a conference in LA when word came that a bomb with the same signature as the one that had killed him had been found, she and her assistant Kamaka immediately rerouted their flights going home to Boston to head to rural Maine to examine it. They needed to study it for its unique features. If there was a bomb out there with a second timing switch, that would be incredibly destructive to the whole LEO community at large, military and civilian.
While at the conference in LA, Keko’d had a crazy, balls-to-the-wall one night stand with a handsome guy. She’d snuck out of his room in order to make her flight, and thought she’d never see him again. And they hadn’t exchanged names–they’d kind of been in a hurry. And drinking. Well, apparently fate had another thought. When she arrived in Maine at the site of the explosion, she was stunned to find the one-night stand of her dreams there–and his name was Brian MacBride.
So now Keko not only has to battle the FBI, the local law enforcement, and all the men who don’t believe that the demolitions expert from Larsson’s company is a WOMAN–she’s got to battle her own explosive feelings of attraction to this big lunk of a law enforcement officer who’s determined to get in her way and “protect her.” Which absolutely boils her blood. She can protect herself, dammit! Plus, they’re all trying to find out what group is trying to build a bomb with a second kill switch so that they can stop them before they are successful.
Our national security is in jeopardy…
I haven’t read the others in the series, but I don’t think that it hurt my enjoyment of this book in any way. But I’ll tell you, I enjoyed the heat and intensity of this one so much that I’m planning on buying the other two as soon as possible so I can catch up. Great suspenseful writing, hot smoking sex scenes, and character development that makes you feel like you are invested in the story. Thanks Danica!
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