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Heat Seeker (Elite Ops)

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I have to say that I devoured this book in one night and was left wondering.... haven't I read this before?

Here you decide...

Two people are falling in love, the marrying kind of love that is ;) when the man is 'killed.' Now the woman is left to rebuild her life, but she is almost destroyed doing it, she misses her lover and how safe he made her feel. They knew everything about each other, wait didn't she sense a 'darker' side to him that he never unleashed but she secretly craved?

Next the man who was killed is reborn to a different identity and signed his soul away to a special secret organization, but wait... oh no! His woman (former woman) is in the middle of a case and is in trouble! He will risk his identity and love to protect her. While posing as her lover he actual gets back in to her bed for real. She is a woman and has these... womanly instincts, and so she knows it's her former lover! He wasn't killed! That bastard! But wait no I'm sure he has a good reason! She love him!

Then all hell breaks loose, followed by breaking out of that hell, followed by heart wrenching good byes, followed by everything working out.

So is it....

a.) Hidden Agendas? (no he didn't 'die' but he still left her)

b.) Wild Card?

c.) Heat Seeker?




You know what? I'm gonna let you answer.

The elite ops are a team of operations specialists who have all "died" and been "reborn" by Jorden Malone's efforts (team leader).

Heat Seeker is the code name for John Vincent who rose from the ashes or death of former Australian Secret Intelligence agent Trent Daylen. Before his "death" Daylen had been involved in an operation with Bailey Serborne, a CIA operative. The op ended and they spent one night together before Trent was blown up. Enter Malone who saves his life.

Both Bailey and John are on the trail of a domestic terrorist called Warbucks, an assassin she suspects murdered her parents and best friend and a man the elite ops team is tracking because he is selling weapons to the enemy.

Bailey has quit the CIA and presents herself as going rogue in order to draw Warbucks out. She and John meet up in Aspen where they both have identified four men as potential candidates to be Warbucks.

This sums up the plot. The book was disappointing to me in that the plot was convoluted, I guessed the identity of Warbucks almost right away, the steamy romance scenes often seemed to be manufactured for steam rather than plot advancement, and the book had very very poor editing. In fact as I was slogging through the book there were a few moments where I thought Leigh wrote the steamy scenes first and then crafted the plot around them. Here Bailey and John are in high danger most of the time, off in a country house that has cameras and bugs and whatever all over--and they can't keep their hands off of each other.

[...] Editing issues include:
* towards the end of the book Mary evidently becomes Jules. And if not, who is Jules? I found myself thumbing back through the book thinking I had forgotten the name in my boredom as I plodded through it.
* Bailey's last name was spelled differently twice I believe. Serbourne and Serborne.
* If I'm correct when Leigh adds 1 plus 5 she gets 5 instead of 6 (number of years Trent/John had been dead
* Missing quotation marks and some other grammatical issues

[...] It would give the plot more credibility and bring more depth to the stories.

I love Lora Leigh and I love the Elite Ops series but I didn't love this book. I liked it but... Issue number one was the whole "dead lover returning from the grave". We already had this story line with Bella and Noah/Nathan in "Wild Card".

My other big issue was with the editing. Who is Jules??? Is Mary Jules and Jules Mary? When you read the book you will understand but I'm thinking the Mary character was once named Jules in Lora Leigh's drafts and then the name was later changed. However that change didn't make it consistently throughout the book. If I'm wrong on this someone please let me know.

Overall, it was a good read with some minor 'issues' but I will be picking up the next book in the series.

I am a huge fan of Lora Leigh, whether the stories are very similar or not (the Elite Ops books certainly are). However, the editing was so bad, it was totally distracting from the story. From using wrong names to leaving out quotation marks, I was amazed to see so many errors in a printed book. I usually only see this in e-books.
However, Ms. Leigh's stories always make me want to cry and scream with the characters, and this one was no different. I loved Bailey and John, and I enjoyed reading more about the entire group of "dead" men. I do wish Bailey and Micah could have had the talk I kept expecting, just for my own piece of mind, but I guess these books aren't really written just for me! I will definitely read the next when it comes out.

I usually love Lora Leigh. But, this was just the same story she has written several times before with just different characters. I'm getting tired of the dead that aren't really dead. It's plausible once, but to have a whole group of men who were thought to be dead, not be dead is just ridiculous. The sex scenes were still smokin, like all Lora Leigh, but the plot was not enjoyable.

Another good elite ops installment. I didnt LOVE this but I liked it a lot. Heat Seeker is the story of John Vincent and Bailey Seborn. As with all in the elite series the agents are men that supposedly die. Their death allows them to assume a new identity without any entanglements and be more efficient agents.

Bailey is continuing her crusade to find the men/man responsible for her parents death. She has quit the CIA to focus on her own investigation and has gotten close enough that she will catch the killer. In comes the elite ops. John is sent in since he has had a relationship with Bailey in the past before his "death". He must work with her to bring the killer to justice. Whats different in this novel from Maverick and Wild Card is that the hero doesnt have as much baggage as Micah and Noah. He has managed to maintain his happy persona and readers are not given the emotional and traumatic issues from the prior heroes. I was more caught in the mystery and suspense aspect of this story than the romance between the heroine and hero. Not due to any fault of Leigh, the story was just that compelling because it continues the trail of Orion from Maverick. I really enjoyed Bailey's character and she had a lot more strength than Risa(obviously) and Bella, who could barely function after her husbands "death". This story was more upbeat and it didnt take long for Bailey to learn who John vincent really was although I think she fought the knowledge to avoid accepting that he walked away from her in the past. Worth the read, continues the story line and Leigh fans will enjoy. There are still a couple other "dead" agents to cover and I'm very curious to find out who Tehya was in her "past life"

Micah and Noah are still tops in my heart

Jeez, what a struggle it was to finish this one. I was determined though, despite warnings from other reviewers but also because I was such a fan of Lora Leigh's previous Elite-Ops/Tempting Seals books. I felt confident that I'd be able to see through the anticipated bad editing and `soul' searing sex scenes, I'd just suspend belief for a couple of days and enjoy another great addition to the series...

So, two weeks, one spread sheet and several graphs later--which I used to keep track of all the alter egos assigned to our Ops (up to 3 each), the infinite number of secondary characters and oh lets not forget Jules!? It was with a huge sigh of relief that I finally finished.

This is book #3 in the Elite-Ops series or book #8 if you count the Tempting Seals. In all my other reviews I started by raving about the sexy, alpha heroes, the erotic love scenes and the ensuing beautiful love story. Unfortunately with Heat Seeker we get none of these things and a word that keeps coming to mind is vague. Everything about this is vague; story, characters, dialogue, completed ideas. Essentially its just rehashed plotlines from every other book in the series in particular; WILD CARD, MAVERICK, and HIDDEN AGENDAS theres nothing new here. And when you combine that with the bad editing, too many confusing characters and a bland couple that except for having hot sex in the shower never really gave me the feeling that they were in love, the whole thing is well, boring.

I also have no real idea of what our couple looked like or where most of this took place, because except for the brief mention of Aspen and all the sweaters and leather jackets being removed it's never described. Bailey and Trent spend 90% of the book attending parties in mansions with big maze like gardens and knife wielding guests.
Here's the plot as near as I can figure; we begin in Australia with CIA agents Bailey Serborne and Trent Daylen getting it on (Lora Leigh style) during a thunderstorm. The couple has just finished working a case together and they're in love and celebrating. However the party is short lived as by the end of the chapter Trent has been `killed' in an explosion set by the worst named bad guy ever, Warbucks.

5 or 6 years later (depending on your math skills) Bailey has quit (or been fired) from the FBI. She is now seeking revenge and trying to locate Warbucks, the man responsible for killing her wealthy parents (and a cousin I think) as well the love of her life Trent. Bailey is getting close to his inner circle when her plans are thwarted by a group of mercenaries. They are of course the Elite-Ops who also have Warbucks in their sights.

The agents team up with Bailey and for whatever reason it becomes imperative that she pose as John Vincent's lover, something to do with securing a missile launcher and weapons of mass destruction which Bailey has the codes for!? Now John looks very familiar to Bailey even though he doesn't have an Australian accent or say "Love" anymore but she's pretty sure she knows who he is. And isn't that also her long lost cousin David Abijah aka Micah Sloane aka Maverick aka Jerric Abbas lurking about? Just who the hell are these guys?

Trent Daylen aka Heat Seeker aka John Vincent might be a dead man but he's never been able to get Bailey out of his soul and now after all the great sex they've been having in the shower he's also never been cleaner or more complete. Theres just no way he's going to let her go again once this mission is over even if his grumpy leader Jordan Malone owns him for the next 6 or 7 years (depending on your math skills.) Yup its good times with Lora Leigh

So BLACK JACK is up next and I'm hopeful that it will be better but I'm keeping my spread sheets and graphs ready just in case. Cheers.

honestly this is not my favorite series form this author. the concept of all these guys coming back from the dead and all that their women have to put up with and forgive is too much. the heroines are undersetimated treated like they are stupid and become emotional punching bags. im exhausted and wrung out from attempting to read. give me a breed any day. lately the chicks in all the series are having a rough go whats up lora is everythimg ok

I've read all of the books in this series and most of the author's other books. I found this one to be boring, repetitive and poorly edited - a real disappointment.

The plot on this one was just too hard to follow. Too many characters, and I just wasn't clear on who was undercover...did John Vincent and Raymond Greer work together???...it was the first novel by Lora Leigh that I gave up on and couldn't finish. I agree with some of the other postings that say it lacked the emotion and connection of other books. I am still a fan of Lora, this is the first book that I've ever read by her that I didn't like, so I'll just move on to the next. Reading this one was just too much work for me.