Deadly Games [Paperback]

Jaycee Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2005

The stakes are higher ... the risks are steeper ... the chances more fatal....

Rori Maitland has lived her life the way she’s wanted it. After retiring from MI6, she’s her own woman, few friends, no husband and that is the way she bloody well prefers it. After all, her job is hardly normal.

Ian Kinncaid, master of disguise, has been estranged from his family for well over a decade. With his deep cover blown, he now needs a safe place to put the little girl he saved from the Prague underground. But the shadows cloak enemies and trust comes at too high a cost.

When Rori’s latest mark goes awry and she finds herself helping the intense man--instead of killing him--she’s thrown into a world she'd hoped to leave behind. Now Ian and Rori must work together before someone marks them both for death and kills everyone they both hold dear.

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About the Author

Since she was a child, Jaycee Clark has liked to tell stories. Some people have a hard time outgrowing childhood habits, apparently. She enjoys creating new plots and characters, spending hours, weeks and months spinning the web of a story so that it’s well told in the end, or so she hopes.

Growing up, Jaycee didn’t know she wanted to be a writer. She told stories, used to spend hours with her best friend coming up with everything from a black panther named Palemino to their junior high plots of murder and mayhem. While in college, she married her high school sweetheart and they’ve never looked back. They now have two kids, a prissy, know-it-all cat and a blue heeler the cat thinks is far beneath her. Oh and the plants she convinces herself she can save with her imaginary green thumb.

Jaycee is a member of several romance writers groups, including Romance Writers of America, and a couple of critique groups. She recommends joining a writing group to anyone wanting to find their place in this competitive business. She’s an avid reader of just about everything from the Classics and nonfiction to gritty best sellers. Jaycee discovered romance several years ago and realized, this is what I want to do. Somewhere in there, while struggling with her first novel, she calls her horrible historical, she realized a love story was not enough for her, the plot needed danger and intrigue. Then, she started a new manuscript, a contemporary romantic suspense and hoped to get published. New Concepts Publishing has helped that dream to come true.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: New Concepts Publishing (November 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586087215
• ISBN-13: 978-1586087210
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,044,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jaycee writes romantic suspense whether it's in a contemporary setting, a historical setting or a paranormal one. When she's not writing, she spends time with her family, enjoys snow skiing and just getting outside. You can visit her website at http://www.jayceeclark.com.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best by far, December 2, 2006

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C. Woodward (Lometa, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadly Games (Paperback)

Deadly Games is definitely my favorite in the Deadly series. Ian's story is amazing. You can really feel the connection between Ian and Rori. I absolutely loved it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great romantic suspense; Deadly-series 4, August 3, 2008

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S. Fischer (Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadly Games (Paperback)

Ian Kinncaid had to leave his family behind years ago after an argument with his father escalated. He joined the rangers and later became an undercover agent. For the last five years he has worked in Eastern Europe against a crime organisation that deals in drugs and prostitution. But then sadistic and aggressive Elianya Helinski, the crime lord's sister, starts into child pornography, which goes too far, even for her brother's taste. When he decides to have Ian take her out, she sends an assassin after him. That assassin is former secret service agent Rori Maitland, aka The Raven. When she starts to suspect that Ian is an undercover agent, she decides to help him. While trying to find and kill Elianya, Ian discovers her 'film set' and Darya, a five-year-old girl who was sold to the child-porn ring. After she had to witness her sister's rape and murder she is traumatised. Ian and Rori decide to take Darya with them and to go to the USA to protect the little girl and Ian's family, who might be at risk since his cover was blown. Rori and Ian, who have spent many years on their own since they couldn't let anyone in on their lives, seem to have found the perfect partner in the other. But Elianya wants revenge after Ian destroyed her source of income and she comes after him and his family...
This book, like the others in the Deadly-series, is simply impressive. The author writes very convincingly and with a lot of depth about difficult topics, be it child pornography and abuse and its effects on the victims, or the difficulties of being an undercover agent. As all her books, this one is very intelligent, well-written, suspenseful and the romance is great, too. It can be read on its own, but it's more fun to know the rest of the series, of course. The titles would be: Deadly shadows, Deadly ties, and Deadly Obsession. There seem to have been plans for a fifth book, but that one hasn't been published yet. Since this one doesn't leave you hanging, that's not too frustrating, but I hope that Quinlan Kinncaid will get his own book sometime. At the moment, the books are difficult to get (the publisher is selling only directly and doesn't deliver to internet shops or distributors), but hopefully that will change again. It's definitely worth buying, as is the rest of the series. The quality reminds me of J. D. Robb, but it's original / different, too.

Angel EyesDeadly ShadowsDeadly TiesDeadly ObsessionNaked in Death (In Death)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm getting the rest of the series, September 7, 2007

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Anne Parson (NorCal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadly Games (Paperback)

This was the first book I read in the series. It hit every emotion, the characters personalities were consistent throughout and it was very easy to like the two characters and want to see them together.
The pace was fast and I liked the fact that the author let the physical tension build instead of them "getting together" immediately in the book.
I have already placed an order for the rest of the books (I had to go directly to the publisher website since for some reason Amazon isn't still selling them all).