RS Review: Surrender: A Section 8 Novel (A Section Eight Novel) [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Surrender" the 1st book in her Section 8 series by Stephanie Tyler.

Product Description

Desperate, fearless, and hunted

For former Navy SEAL Dare O’Rourke, Section 8 was legendary. The son of one of its missing members, he grew up in the shadow of its secrets. All he knew was that it was a cabal of operatives discharged from branches of the military and reassigned to extremely dangerous, off-the-books international missions. And that their handler was as shrouded in mystery as the missions themselves.

Nothing can stop them. Nothing can break them

Now the handler of Section 8 has given extreme orders to kill any remaining members, along with their families. Dare must save his long-lost half sister, Avery, whom he was never meant to meet. Determined to fight for their lives and find their missing father, Dare and Avery bring together those who are in danger because of their relationship to Section 8 for one last mission — to avenge their families and to survive.

About the Author

Stephanie Tyler is the New York Times extended bestselling author of two previous military romantic suspense series, as well as the Eternal Wolf Clan series. Surrender is the first novel in the Section 8 series. Stephanie lives in New York with her husband, kids, and a crazy Weimaraner named Gus.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Signet (April 2, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451413490
ISBN-13: 978-0451413499

My Review:

Twenty years ago there was a off the grid black ops unit Section 8 which consisted of the very best men in military but they were mentally unstable.  Twenty years later most of the original members are dead and the ones still alive are being hunted.

Darius O’Rourke one of the original members had two children Dare and Avery but they had different mothers.  Dare didn't know about his half-sister and he has been in hiding after the last attempt on his life.  But another original member tells him his half-sister is in danger and needs him to get her to safety.  He does the right thing and goes after her.

Avery was raised by her bounty hunter mom who taught her how to take care of herself.  Then her mother is brutally murdered and when she takes vengeance on the men responsible for her mother's death she is in even more trouble.

Dare takes her to Gunner a tattooed artist with tons of secrets.  While at Gunner's she meets Jem a ex-CIA black ops who is a bit crazy in the head and his brother Key an ex-Ranger who saved Dare during the attempt on his life in the jungle.

Dare kidnaps Grace the step-daughter of the man who is trying to kill them all to use as leverage against him.  He finds out she also lived a life of hell and he's extremely attracted to her.

I really loved the romance between Dare and Grace because it was quite steamy, emotional, tender and you can feel how much they really care for each other.

I also like the love triangle between Avery, Key and Gunner (though I found out the second book is about Gunner and Avery).  In this book it looked like Avery was really interested in Key and I'm curious to find out how this is going to be resolved.

4/5

Thanks Penguin Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

RS Review: Night Moves: A Shadow Force Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Night Moves" the 4th book in her Shadow Force series by Stephanie Tyler.

Product Description

Anything can happen under the cover of darkness.

Kell Roberts has walked the thin line between life and death for so long that it now feels like home. He is a soldier, a survivor, and a loner. Still, Kell cannot turn his back on the beautiful woman caught in his firefight against the drug lords of Mexico. She says her name is Teddie, but Kell senses there’s much more to her story — and it’s about to pull him into a mission he didn’t sign on for: keeping her alive.

Teddie knows this lean, mean rescuer just saved her life, but the steel glint behind those soft gray eyes seem to be hiding something deep. The men after Teddie are deadly, but the man who holds her life in his hands and tempts her with his wicked touch is even more dangerous. He could make her dream about living and loving again. And if they can survive, maybe, just maybe, they can stop fighting the world and each other — and simply surrender.

About the Author

Stephanie Tyler is the author of the Shadow Force novels Lie to Me, Promises in the Dark, and In the Air Tonight, and the Navy SEAL trilogy: Hard to Hold, Too Hot to Hold, and Hold On Tight. She lives in New York with her husband, her daughter, and a crazy Weimaraner named Gus.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Dell; Original edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440423058
ISBN-13: 978-0440423058

My Review:

Kell and his best friend Reid are on a mission to assassinate a drug lord when a beautiful women crashes onto their site just when they are about to make their move.

Teddie Lassiter watched as her family was massacred and is out for revenge in Mexico.  She has been living in WITSEC program but has finally had enough.  She is on the hunt for the people responsible for the murder of her family.  She finally finds them only to be double-crossed and is now on the run with Kell and Reid to help her stay alive.  She's a photographer.

I really enjoyed the deep friendship that Kell and Reid have for each other.  Loved learning their background and both have family issues.

I didn't really feel a connection between Kell and Teddie other then sexual attraction.

4/5

Other books in series:

1.  Lie With Me
2.  Promises in the Dark
3.  In the Air Tonight
4.  Lonely is the Night - March 5, 2013

RS Review: In the Air Tonight: A Shadow Force Novel (Shadow Force Novels) [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "In the Air Tonight" the 4th book in her Shadow Force series by Stephanie Tyler.

Product Description

With danger closing in, all they have is each other.

Haunted by a mission he barely survived, Delta Force operative Mace Stevens still carries a soldier’s burden. Running a small bar in upstate New York, he remains a stone-cold warrior who guards dangerous secrets and stays ready for anything. Anything except beautiful, vulnerable Paige Grayson, who shows up at his door, demanding answers about her heroic stepbrother’s death under his command.

Paige bears burdens, too. She’s plagued by demons unleashed by an older brother who committed mass murder before her eyes. But here in this snowy haven with Mace, she almost feels safe from the menacing promises of her insane sibling. As a nurse whose hands can read the deepest thoughts of anyone she touches, Paige knows that Mace needs her as desperately as she needs Mace. And when a faceless killer begins unleashing fresh terror, Mace proves just how far he will go to save the woman who means everything to him.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Dell; Original edition (August 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440423031
ISBN-13: 978-0440423034

My Review:

This book opens up with Cael dealing with memory loss or amnesia when the mission he and his team goes very wrong with the death of a teamate. Mace Stevens who was the commanding officer of the mission is assigned to take care of Cael until he regains his memory.  He also owns a bar outside of New York.

Paige Grayson suddenly appears in the bar when she is chased away from the hospital she works at after being attacked.  She doesn't have anyone to turn to and she wants answers what happened during that mission and how he brother died.  So she seeks answers from Mace since he was best friends with her stepbrother.

Paige has a horrible childhood because she has a evil older brother who killed all her friends in front of her during high school.  He's currently in a psychiatric prison and Paige has a condition called psychometric if she touches a person or certain objects she can read their history.


Vivi the girl that Cael loves has found out he has returned so she heads up to New York to help him remember.  Kell and Reid pop in as they also deal with the aftermath of the mission.  We also see Dylan and Zane, Cam, Noah and the bartender Keagan with the motorcycle gang past.

Everyone also has to deal with mysterious deaths, rogue motorcycle gangs and maintaining a bar in New York.

This is a very fast paced military read with well written characters and a great storyline.  All the subplots blend very well with the main storyline.

4/5

Thanks Alison from Random House for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

Other Book in Series:

1. Lie With Me
2. Promises in the Dark
3. Night Moves - Oct 4/11

Promises in the Dark (Shadow Force, Book 2) [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished reading "Promises in the Dark" the 2nd book in her Shadow Force series by Stephanie Tyler.

Product Description

On the run, in each other’s arms, with one last chance to survive

A rugged Navy SEAL, Zane Scott was part of a failed mission to rescue Dr. Olivia Strohm from abduction by the terrorist group Dead Man’s Hand — and her anguished screams have haunted him ever since. So when he gets word that the beautiful physician has escaped from her captors in Africa, he’s got personal reasons to storm the continent and save her.

Like her would - be liberator, Olivia carries the burden of a dark secret from her past. Ruthless and relentless, the DMH has threatened to hunt her down —and to systematically hurt anyone she’s close to. The last thing she wants is to be rescued — even by someone as shockingly handsome as Zane. Yet the hotheaded special ops hero has come for her, and together she and Zane just might have a shot at not only stopping DMH’s reign of terror, but also saving what’s left of their souls.

About the Author

Stephanie Tyler is the author of Lie with Me and the Navy SEAL trilogy: Hard to Hold, Too Hot to Hold, and Hold On Tight. She lives in New York with her husband, her daughter, and a crazy Weimaraner named Gus.
 
Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Dell; Original edition (November 23, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440245974
ISBN-13: 978-0440245971

My Review:
 
I highly recommend this series if you love hot and sexy alpha males with tough as nails females with alot of hot steamy action.
 
The Dead Man's Hand (DMH) terrorist cell kidnapped Dr. Olivia Strohm to teach a lesson to those who defy them; the doctor blew up one of their illegal organ transplant facilities. They tortured her and pumped drugs into her in order to keep her under their control while warning away other opponents. However, they failed to anticipate her inner strength as she escapes from captivity.
 
After witnessing and being powerless to prevent the violent abduction of Dr. Oliva Strohm by the terrorist organization DMH (Dead Man's Hand), Zane Scott has been haunted by her cries for help and a picture of her that he holds close. Zane's brother Dylan, has finally gathered enough intel to enable Zane to find Olivia and bring her home. Zane therefore takes leave from his duties as a Navy SEAL and travels to Sierra Leone, a place that for him holds traumatic childhood memories.
 
Back home in the US, Zane's brother, Delta Force operative Caleb Scott and his team have received intel indicating software developed by computer genius Vivienne Clare's father has come into the hands of DMH. The software has the potential to cause catastrophic events at home and abroad if used by the terrorists. Caleb therefore follows orders and brings Vivienne in for interrogation, and while it seems she has no knowledge of DMH or that they have come into possession of the software evidence suggests otherwise. Vivi isn't at all what Caleb expected and despite being involved in a dangerous mission with DMH breathing down their necks he is sexually attracted to her and she to him.


We are also introduced to Dr. J., a missionary with military background who runs a number of clinics throughout the country offering health care to the people in the surrounding villages. Additionally, he recruits mercenary soldiers who are sent to defend the clinics from any number of threats. Dr. J's right hand man is Tristan, a former Army Ranger with a traumatic history related to his youth and discharge from the service. Tristan is tough, lethal and sexy as hell. Though he has not formerly attached himself to anyone or anything, Dr. J has earned his allegiance and Tristan has established relationships with the people in the neighboring villages. Rowan is also introduced into the mix, newly discharged from the Army where she served as a medic in Iraq. Rowan is a widow having lost her husband years earlier under the most horrific of circumstances (9/11).   These two people are humanity's walking wounded and they act on an instantaneous attraction and find love under the worst, most dangerous of circumstances.

I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend this series!  Alot of high octive action through out the whole book from the first page to the end of the book.

Really loved how the romantic elements were handled in the book though I wish that Caleb and Vivi had their own book.  Hope to see both in future books plus Tristian and Rowan and Dr. J.

4/5

Lie with Me: Shadow Force Series, Book 1 [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Lie with Me" the 1st book in her Shadow Force series by Stephanie Tyler.

Product Description

Forced together by fate, bound together by desire

Framed for a double murder, Delta Force operative Cameron Moore is given a new lease on life by the CIA — provided he pays them back by doing their black ops dirty work. But now Cam is ready to renegotiate the deal, and he thinks he’s found the perfect bargaining chip: Skylar Slavin, bestselling author of espionage thrillers and the daughter of the CIA man who saved Cam from a prison sentence.

Skylar has been living in anonymity, never suspecting that someone so dangerous — and so desirable — would plunge her into a world as treacherous as one of her spy novels. But how can Cam go through with his plan to kidnap Skylar when just the sight of her sets off an explosive attraction he’s never experienced before? And when Skylar falls prey to an even more perilous threat, this special ops soldier must call upon all his combat skills to protect the one person who can help him win his freedom — and the only woman he’s ever loved.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Dell; Original edition (October 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440245966
ISBN-13: 978-0440245964

My Review:

Gabriel Creighton rescued Cameron Moore from a life sentence for two homicides when the he was just  nineteen. In payment, the CIA agent demanded Cam join Delta Force, which he did and work for him when he was not out on assignment. Cam has been loyal for over a decade doing his savior's bidding, but now thirty, he wants out as he has started to find out what happened to his father and him eleven years ago with the biker gang. However, no one walks out alive on Gabe.


Cam survives a helicopter assault, but decides he needs a miracle to get his former mentor off his back. Special Ops Dylan Scott owes his life to Cam so he informs his friend that Gabe has a daughter. Cam goes after Skylar Slavin, who has had a recent kidney transplant. He insists her dad sent him to protect her, but she has doubts until he saves her life from intruders. On the run, they are unaware that her father has been abducted by the Dead Man's Hand terrorist cell. As they fall in love, he knows he must reveal why he detests her father, but hesitates until too late she learns the truth from another source.

3.5/5