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Justice: Athena Force (Silhouette Bombshell)

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Though a graduate of the prestigious Athena Academy, Police Lieutenant Kayla Ryan has doubts about sending her daughter to this institution ever since someone hired assassin The Cipher to kill her best friend Rainey Carrington. The Cipher is dead, but few clues have surfaced as to who hired this professional hitman and why and what happened to Rainey's missing child.

Detective Peter Harkey informs Kayla that Rainey's spouse archeological professor Marshall is under suspicion because he seems to be involved with smuggling. Kayla has trouble accepting the professor as a smuggler or that his actions led to her best friend's murder. Still she made the "promise" back when she, Rainey, and others were students at the academy. She will continue to dig though she feels someone is watching how close she gets to the truth.

New readers would be better suited to read the previous novels in the series first to help understand all that is going on (see PURSUED by Catherine Mann and DOUBLE CROSSED by Meredith Fletcher, etc.) in this exhilarating suspense thriller. Still this is a strong police procedural romance with the emphasis on the suspense. The story line is action-packed with plenty of subplots (that is why the reading the predecessors would help) though Kayla makes a terrific lead with her obsessive tenacity to uncover the truth.

Harriet Klausner

I have never been so disappointed in a Continuity series....EVER. I bought the bundles, silly me. I should've waited to ask my daughter, she would've told me how bad she found the whole series. I am new to the HI world, as I used to be a trashy love novel snob, only full length trashy's for me (ha ha). However, I now find that I don't have the patience for long and involved anything. So I purchased this bundle with some excitement that I can have the best of both worlds! Even better is the list of authors who I have read in other genres, good authors.

As my daughter said, "that's what you get for thinking." The storyline begins confusing and while all the Sisters are supposedly united they are all really not and it just goes downhill from there. I am quite surprised some of the authors didn't beg to have their actual names removed from the titles. I can live with the whole Sci Fi aspect of the story. I can even live with the whole "I am woman hear me roar." I cannot live without a defined HAPPY ENDING!!!! Some of the titles are not defined. I have to live with real life every single day, I don't want to pay to see it or read it. If it were a perfect world Romantic Suspense, in any form, wouldn't be so popular. I don't pay to read books where there is any chance of an unsettled ending and some of the books in this series are definitely not defined and unsettled. Life isn't a box of chocolates, but the books I buy darn well better be!!!

Not only is Kayla hot on the trail of her friend's murderer, she has to contend with unanticipated feelings for fellow detective Peter Haden and the unwelcome news that her daughter's father wants to be part of her life though he has never even seen his daughter. This sixth book in the Athena Force series (followed by Deceit by Carla Cassidy)takes us deeper into the convoluted plot surrounding the mysterious death of Rainy, leader of the the Cassandras, the six students who became a team and best friends during their years at the Athena Academy.

The author does a credible job of writing and keeping up with the increasingly complex plot, but her writing is plodding and wooden. She belabours Kayla's feelings rather than letting us feel them ourselves. However, if you're hooked on the series, be sure you read each in order which means you're stuck with reading this one as well. Not the worst book, by any means, that I've read, but this author can do much better.