Bodyguard /Husband: Ultimate Agents (Harlequin Intrigue) [Mass Market Paperback]

Mallory Kane (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin; First Thus edition (November 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373227388
• ISBN-13: 978-0373227389
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 3.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #887,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

In the number one position of Mallory Kane's list of favorite things, which includes paper dolls, chocolate, kittens and snuggling, are books and stories. Once she convinced her mother to teach her to read--at age three, that was that.

Her mother was a librarian and her dad came from a long line of southern storytellers. Mallory aspires to be as good a storyteller as her father.

When she's not writing, Mallory creates and designs greeting cards because-- well, she never got over playing with paper dolls. She lives in East Tennessee with her husband Michael and their three cats. For more information about Mallory and her writing, visit her website at www.mallorykane.com or write her at [e-mail]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful new voice in Romance, June 22, 2004

By 

Deborah MacGillivray "Author," (US & UK) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Bodyguard /Husband: Ultimate Agents (Harlequin Intrigue) (Mass Market Paperback)

Mallory Kane impressed me with her strong voice. Some writers come by this instinctively, other work at it, some never find it. Kane is a strong in this area so she makes this tense tale very enjoyable. She is also very strong in creating character that leap of the pages, so I see more enjoyable tales from this fresh writer. I will be ordering her other works due to the strength of this book.

Holly Frasier's life is clouded in troubles. Her husband died mysteriously, and then years later, a fiancée vanishes. Warning bells really sounds when the detective investigating the situation dies too. It's enough to bring in the FBI to protect Holly.

Making a target of himself Jack O'Hara goes through a fake marriage with Holly. The detective who died was Jack's good friend. Before his death he and contacted Jack about the case, but Jack had been too busy to get involved. So he is not only
out to protect Holly, but avenge his friends murder.

Holly is attracted to the sexy FBI man, but resents her presence in her life. She does not want to believe some man - a man she knows - is killing anyone who loves her.

Kane is a clear, polished writing signaling she is a writer to watch.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars taut romantic intrigue, November 7, 2003

By 

Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
(#1 Hall OF FAME REVIEWER)    (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Bodyguard /Husband: Ultimate Agents (Harlequin Intrigue) (Mass Market Paperback)

The stalker seems to be able to do anything he wants to Holly Frasier no matter what safeguard she employs. He kills those she loves with three dead in her hometown of Maze, Mississippi and he knows her every move. He silently enters her house without leaving any incriminating evidence except what he wants left behind. The culprit steals anything that Holly cherishes while also leaving her disturbing poetry of adulation insisting that she belongs to him and notes signed "Forever, Yours."

Desperate for the offender to be stopped before the perpetrator kills her as she expects, Holly agrees to what seems to her is a harebrained scheme. She will pretend to be married to FBI agent Jack "Ice Man" O'Hara. However, not long after they begin their sham of a marriage, Jack and Holly fall in love, but so far the wrongdoer continues his unabated terror campaign with Jack now being a target of his ire as just the latest person she loves that he must destroy.

Title aside, fans of taut romantic intrigue with a strong accent on the suspense will immensely enjoy BODYGUARD/HUSBAND. The lead couple is a delightful pair struggling to survive against a clever murderer while falling in love with one another. The transformation of Jack from frozen heart to loving protector is realistic and quite thrilling to observe. The story line is loaded with action and though the killer is obvious from even before the beginning, Mallory Kane provides a strong police procedural romantic suspense that never slows down until the final confrontation.

Harriet Klausner

5.0 out of 5 stars Not as predictable as I was anticipating., September 6, 2011

By 

Andrea S. (AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bodyguard /Husband: Ultimate Agents (Harlequin Intrigue) (Mass Market Paperback)

I ended up reading this during a stay at a hospital and I found myself hooked. I had very low expectations, but I was happily surprised by this story. I honestly didn't know who the suspect was until it was revealed, and I loved that.
It was a fun read, and it made my stay at a hospital easier to deal with.