She seems like everything he despises–until her beauty challenges his warrior’s heart.When fashion designer Jennifer Dyhr loses her lead actor for a video-game commercial, a replacement literally drops from the sky. Reluctant to let him leave, she hires him as a model for her studio. But when terrorists attack their flight home, Jen must awaken powers she didn’t know she had to protect them … protect them both. Now will she be able to keep her heart safe from the sensual man beside her?
When space ops warrior Paz Hadar falls through a spatial rift onto Jen’s set, he soon realizes she is essential to his mission. Not only must he protect her, his success depends upon her special powers. But as they struggle to stay one step ahead of the enemy, he discovers that fighting his attraction to Jen is as much a challenge as keeping them both alive.
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Award-winning author Nancy J. Cohen is back with Warrior Rogue, the second book in The Drift Lords series, and this story is another marvelous mix of myth and magic with everyday people suddenly deep in not-everyday action, adventure and sexy romance.
I was worried about Paz at the end of Warrior Prince, the first book in the series, because he was nowhere to be found. Had he been captured? Was he dead? But I needn’t have worried. At the beginning of Warrior Rogue he just drops in, naked, on the shoot for fashion designer Jen’s video game commercial. He’s handsome and hunky and has some undefinable, irresistible pull for her, so she assumes he’s the actor she hired. He knows he’s not that actor, but he’s on a mission and he has a feeling destiny may be playing a part in his and Jen’s meeting.
To refresh your memory: the Drift Lords are galactic warriors sent to Earth to seal a dimensional rift opened by an ancient enemy. To defeat the evil beings, they must join forces with a special group of Earth women whose legendary powers are just awakening. Just so happens a kiss from one of these women protects the Drift Lords from a confounding mind spell. Not that anyone needs an excuse to kiss.
Jen realizes pretty quickly that Paz isn’t really the actor she hired – they are attacked mid-air by aliens, after all – but their attraction is steamy and undeniable (remember he’s handsome and hunky and maybe he’d like to model for her sometime in the future?) and as the danger, action and violence ramp up, Jen starts to feel her power. I already liked Paz. But Jen? At first she’s pushy and stubborn, spoiled and a snob, and won’t listen or believe the danger is real. Paz hides his true identity from her and it’s driving her crazy that he’s “just a repairman” when she thinks he could do so much more with his life. But as they are pursued by the Trolleks and the team is back together in Florida and Jen learns more about her powers and possible future, I could see them as a team and stopped wanting to strangle her.
Warrior Rogue is an exciting, wild ride, sometimes like Romancing the Stone with exotic locations and flamboyant characters, and sometimes like Rumpelstiltskin with the Dwarf Smitty turning bricks into gold. Words and phrasing are dramatic, sometimes over the top. And it’s fitting because this is science fiction soap opera at its finest. It is sometimes absurd but an always charming story. In fact, at one point Jen asks Paz if his plan doesn’t sound a bit absurd, and he fires back with, “We’re on a magic ship that unfolded from your pocket. We met a dwarf who turned a nail into gold, a serpent who swallowed us then spit us out, and a dog who changed into a man. Oh, not to mention a dragon who’s afraid of water. What would you call those?”
I would call those fantastic characters in a fantastic story, what I have come to expect from this fantastic author. I was given a copy of Warrior Rogue in exchange for an honest review. I have read and thoroughly enjoyed everything she has written, and all opinions are my own. I recommend The Drift Lords series without hesitation, and while you’re at it, read the Light-Years and Bad Hair Day Mysteries series, as well as anything else to come.
In this second book of the series we meet Jen Dyhr, a costume designer working in Tokyo. While on set she soon learns that her main actor hasn’t shown up and she is in need of a replacement. In pops Paz Hadar, a Drift Lord, who has no idea how he has ended up in this confusing time. All Jen can see is the perfect replacement for her missing actor but Paz is looking at things in a totally different way. He thinks its real life and has no idea that he’s playing a part. Jen soon learns the part that she is playing and that the world is counting on her to harness the powers she never knew had. Can she look past the act that she is perpetrating and help Paz save the world or will she let her own doubts get in her way. This was a great read staring a couple who pushed and pulled each other the whole way through. They were amusing and you just wanted to shake them and say open your eyes which in the end they did!
Paz and Jen go on a wild adventure. When Paz awakens in another country, he is glad he isn’t dead, but can’t imagine how he got there. A man is terrorizing a village and he has to stop him. Only it is make believe. Jen can’t believe the actor who stumbles on to the set naked, but they have to get the shot. Then he goes after the other actor. She realizes that he is hurt and volunteers to take him to the hospital for treatment. After that, everything changes. They are being chased by strange beings and their plane goes down. Paz and Jen both need to get to Florida, but it is a rough, roundabout trip. Who can they trust? They both ave family issues. Can they make a life together?