Heat Seeker (Thorndike Romance) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Lora Leigh (Author)

Book Description

Series: Thorndike Romance | Publication Date: February 17, 2010

John Vincent has always led a life of danger‚ and now he has every reason to want to remain as dead as the obituary in the Australian papers had proclaimed him to be. Bailey Serborne is still tormented by a past she can’t change and a man s

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Leigh’s pages explode with a hot mixture of erotic pleasures.”—Romantic Times BOOKreviews

"Lora Leigh brings the heat and plenty of intrigue. HEAT SEEKER is aptly named because you'll hear and feel the sizzle every time you turn these pages. Filled with adventure, suspense, action and lots of hot loving, this one's a definite keeper!" --Night Owl Romance (Reviewer Top Pick!)

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

A former Elite Ops captain with a dark past meets his match in a female ex-CIA agent who’s dead-set on revenge. And this time, the action—and the attraction—is more adrenaline-pumping than ever…

 

DARE TO DESIRE

John Vincent has always led a life of danger, and now he has every reason to want to remain as dead as the obituary in the Australian papers had proclaimed him to be. He’d left nothing behind in the life he had once led—except for one woman, and one night of unforgettable passion. Now, both will return to haunt him…

 

SEDUCE TO DESTROY

Bailey Serborne is still tormented by a past she can’t change and a man she hasn’t been able to forget. A man who was supposed to dead.. But now, a stroke of fate has revealed that sometimes, a woman is given a second chance to heal her heart—and exact the sweetest revenge…

 

“Leigh’s pages explode with a hot mixture of erotic pleasures.”

—Romantic Times BOOKreviews

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 502 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (February 17, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 141042376X
• ISBN-13: 978-1410423764
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,637,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lora Leigh lives in the rolling hills of Kentucky, often found absorbing the ambience of this peaceful setting. She dreams in bright, vivid images of the characters intent on taking over her writing life, and fights a constant battle to put them on the hard drive of her computer before they can disappear as fast as they appeared.

Lora's family, and her writing life co-exist, if not in harmony, in relative peace with each other. Surrounded by a menagerie of pets, friends, and a teenage son who keeps her quick wit engaged, Lora's life is filled with joys, aided by her fans whose hearts remind her daily why she writes.

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Customer Reviews

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58 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars New Characters same romance, September 4, 2009

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Jessie Potts "Book Taster" (Terre d'Ange) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heat Seeker (Elite Ops) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This elite ops book lacks some heat, September 11, 2009

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Deborah Verlen "Deborah" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heat Seeker (Elite Ops) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but ..., September 1, 2009

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Kidniki (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Heat Seeker (Elite Ops) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.