Cloaked in Assassination
by Rebecca Savage
The Wild Rose Press - Crimson Rose
Genre:  Romantic Suspense
Pages 252
Heat level: Hot but not explicit
e-format 7/18/2008
Print 1/16/2009
ISBN: 1-60154-252-6


Blurb:
Hunter’s an ex-Navy SEAL turned Secret Service Agent extraordinaire. He’s never failed a mission, and he doesn’t plan to: especially his mission to conquer Rene’s heart.

Rene’s an assassin for the CIA who is being blackmailed to kill the current U.S. president, the former presidents, and a candidate in the upcoming election. She has no intention of doing so, but if she doesn’t, her self-proclaimed boss will kill her family…the family whose identity should be anonymous, but has somehow been discovered. She’s been found, identified, and marked, and she’s not having it.

Rene’s mysterious ‘boss’ wants the presidents dead and his own candidate to win, for reasons known only to him. He threatens Rene and her family, secure in the belief she’ll do as she’s told. Instead, she sets a trap for him, stages their deaths, and in the process, finds love in the midst of danger.

Review:

Cloaked in Assassination is the second in a trilogy by Rebecca Savage.  I have read the first book Fueled by Instinct, and this second book definitely lives up to my expectations.  Ms. Savage is very skilled at writing romantic suspense, knows how to keep her readers on the edge of their seats and still manages to give you the happily ever after most romance readers crave.

CIA assassin Rene’s cover has been blown.  Ordered by an unknown boss to take out all past living presidents, the current president and one of the candidates for the upcoming election she knows she can’t handle this alone.  Warning her sisters that they could be in danger Rene sets out to make her plans to catch the “boss” and keep everyone else alive.  Asking for help is not in Rene’s vocabulary but she doesn’t have much choice in this one, there is too much riding on the success of her counter-mission.

Hunter is a secret service agent and ex-navy seal.  He’s had more than his share of clandestine missions and knows just the team to help Rene with this mission.  But nothing is as easy as it seems and trying to assist Rene is almost impossible, and falling in love with her is like running head first into a wall at 55 mph.  But that doesn’t stop Hunter and he’s determined to sway her to his way of thinking.

True to the book’s title, Rene was cloaked well and slipped in and out of places like the ghost she was trained to be. Born to due her duty to her country she definitely found her match and mate in Hunter.  But would it would take everything in her to take the chance on a relationship with him.

Ms. Savage delivers big with Cloaked in Assassination.  From the first page I was on edge, and just as good suspense should be with more than enough twists to put knots in your stomach.  I definitely recommend this story – as well as the previous story in this series. I look forward to the next book about the last of the triplets.

~ Reviewed by Lynda Warnock

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