Dangerous. Ruthless. Savage.
And she's the good guy.

Abby Sinclair had a desperate childhood until she was rescued and adopted by a retired army ranger who molded her into a master of self-defense. Now, she's a cunning and fearless assassin thrust into assignment after dangerous assignment, using everything she has-nerve, resilience, strength, sex-to come out on top. Her only rule: trust no one.

Abby's latest assignment is in Columbia: go undercover and snuff out a dangerous arms dealer active in the underground sex trade. But when Abby purposely blows her cover in a last-ditch attempt to free the helpless victims, deadly mercenary Kane Woodland is recruited as back-up. His mission: get Abby out of that hell hole.

The last thing Kane expects is to feel a primal attraction for Abby. But when she convinces him to join her on her perilous mission, their newfound passion could put the lives of their whole team at risk.

Review

Midnight Rescue, the first book in a new series by Elle Kennedy, takes the reader on a wild ride.

Abby Sinclair is an assassin. She has been hired by the Columbian government to kill a very bad man, but even Abby didn’t know just how bad he really was. When she finds out that there are young girls being held captive and that those girls would soon be part of an auction, she blows her own cover and allows herself to be tortured so that she can get closer to the girls and form a plan to get them out of the man’s clutches.

Kane Woodward doesn’t know what to think when his team is hired to rescue Abby. He does expect her to be grateful and is a bit taken back when she is angry at the team that rescued her. Abby is prickly and stand-offish, but that doesn’t stop Kane from trying to find out exactly what had happened and Columbia and how he can get through to Abby.

I liked the combination of Abby and Kane. They work well as a couple, because they are very different from each other. I especially loved how Kane quickly learned to handle Abby. However, I didn’t care for Abby that much. She is just so very damaged and her past made the romance hard to believe. She was raped repeatedly as a child and as an adult used sex as a tool. Yet when faced with Kane the feelings instantly change. She feels desire and almost immediately decides to act on it. I felt this didn’t really fit the character.

There is an abundance of secondary characters (I’m sure so that the series can have several books) and at times the story would focus on two or more of them and away from Kane and Abby. In fact, the major part of the story – the rescue of the girls – isn’t really even carried out by Kane or Abby. Kane is present, but Abby isn’t. All this lead up to a certain even and the heroine isn’t there. She’s off with her own drama that felt forced and a little out of place considering how important the girls had been to Abby and how she was supposed to have changed because of Kane.

I think that the series has promise, Ms. Kennedy is a very entertaining writer and the story moves seamlessly. I just couldn’t believe Abby’s changes and that the happily ever after would really last.

Reviewed by Carrie

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