From the hellhole of a Taliban prison to sweet freedom, five brave military heroes have made it home—and they’re ready to take on the civilian missions no one else can. Individually they’re intimidating. Together they’re invincible. They’re the men of ARES Security. Rafe Vargas is only in Newton, Iowa, to clear out his late grandfather’s small house. As the covert ops specialist for ARES … specialist for ARES Security, he’s eager to get back to his new life in Texas. But when he crosses paths with Annie White, a haunted beauty with skeletons in her closet, he can’t just walk away—not when she’s clearly in danger…
There’s a mysterious serial killer on the loose with a link to Annie’s dark past. And the closer he gets, the deeper Rafe’s instinct to protect kicks in. But even with his considerable skill, Annie’s courage, and his ARES buddies behind him, the slaying won’t stop. Now it’s only a matter of time before Annie’s next—unless they can unravel a history of deadly lies that won’t be buried.
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I enjoy Alexandra Ivy’s vampire books so I gave this new series a try. Love this book even more! Five friends who escaped from a Taliban prison form ARES Security. Each book is a romantic suspense with a strong alpha hero and a heroine who is perfect for him.
A lot of these types of books out there, but Ms. Ivy’s books are fast paced, entertaining, with a good balance between the romance and the suspense. Oh yeah, and hot sex! Can’t wait for the others in this series!
How do you not love five hunky, gorgeous, alpha, talented male hero, special ops guys who come to the rescue of one lovely damsel in distress? Pretty impossible right?
Annie White is having dreams, actually, she’s had them her whole life, ever since her father killed seven women by slitting their throats, he was placed in jail and was murdered eight hours later. It is fifteen years since the serial murders but the dreams if anything are becoming more insistent, she needs to solve the mystery since she can’t remember much of what occurred. She returns to the sleepy farm town where it all took place only to find that women are once more disappearing. Since her father is dead, is it a copycat or is it possible her father wasn’t the killer? She needs to know, but knowing is about to make her the target.
Rafe Vargas is not happy to be in Newton, Iowa to clean out the effects of his detested grandfather’s house after his death, but he needs to sell it and then he’ll never step foot in Iowa again. He has a new business to launch, Ares, along with his five military brothers and this sidetrack is nothing but a pain in the ass. The last thing he expected is to meet Annie and be drawn into her troubles, but hell what’s a guy to do, she’s perfect and he can’t resist.
Well, that about sums it up, see if you can resist reading about Annie and Rafe and solving the mystery with them.
I’m glad that I waited until the first of 2016 to read this one because it started my reading year off with a bang! Romantic suspense is my new “go to” genre these days and I’ve found another amazing author that I’ll be following from here on out. Man. I’m a little irritated that I didn’t find Alexandra Ivy before now but it’s better than never!
Kill Without Mercy is a fast paced read with lots of action. From the very beginning, you’re thrown into the lives of Annie and Rafe and I just couldn’t get enough of either of them from that first page. I found myself quickly falling in love with Rafe (and his team … where everyone sounds amazingly yummy) and then also with Annie. The thing that I found with Ivy is that she’s going to make you feel something for her characters … you’re either going to love them or hate them (I never found an in-between) and you’ll respect the author even more because of this. She designed some awesomely full and complete characters that you’ll be wanting more of even after you finish that last sentence.
The story itself was engrossing. Even with all of my family Christmas holiday activities, I found myself counting down the minutes for when I would be able to pick this one back up and delve in even deeper. I didn’t find anything unbelievable or useless in the story … everything that was included on the pages was completely necessary and vital to what was going on or what would go on in the following pages. I appreciated the fact that the author kept things moving so swiftly. Because of this, the book really read as if it were a movie, playing in my mind as I read along.
Great book, great author and definitely one I’ll read again and follow forever. Fabulous start to the year.
* I received this novel in exchange for an honest review *