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Author name: Lora Leigh

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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780312945794
ISBN number: 0312945795
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: August 26, 2008
Publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 1353
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It was supposed to be simple. All Navy SEAL Nathan Malone had to do was rescue three young girls from a Colombia drug cartel, then allow himself to be captured just long enough to draw out a government spy. That was before his mission went disastrously wrong…and before his wife, Bella, was told that Nathan was never coming home.



Bella’s mourned her husband’s death for three long years. But she has no idea he’s still alive. Forced to assume a new identity, the man Nathan was is now dead. If he can get back to his wife, can he keep the secret of who he really is…even as desire threatens to consume them? And as danger threatens to tear Bella from Nathan’s arms once more?





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User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - A 4.5 review
I simply loved this story. Guy finds love of his live, is forced to be dead, lives his life on automatic pilot. He is finally forced to reenter her life when she's in danger and they fall for each other again.

If you don't like slightly weepy stories, this might not be for you, but its hot and emotional. A good read.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - 4 1/2 stars - of drama, heat, and anguish.
Wild Card by Lora Leigh
4 1/2 stars

Lora Leigh has a reputation for writing books that are so steamy it is a wonder your hands don't singe while reading her books. This book while not as erotic as some of her books sure packs a lot of heat, too! In this novel, Navy SEAL Nathan Malone goes on a mission to rescue 3 girls but the mission goes wrong and he is tortured and maimed. When he is finally rescued he has changed into a man dark and ashamed. He decides not to contact his wife, who already believes he died. After reconstructive surgery, Nathan, now known as Noah, finds his way back to his wife where he is involved in another mission.
Bella does not realize Noah is actually her husband and feels guilt over her attraction to him. But soon Bella realizes that Noah is her husband. However, she knows that Noah intends to leave her again once his mission is completed. As you can imagine there is a lot of tension between the 2 until the confusion of the situation resolves itself. This novel has a lot of drama, heat, and anguish. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it!


Reviewed by Steph at Bookaholics Romance Book Club



Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Sex with a small side of plot
Readers familiar with Leigh's "tempting seals" series will remember the character of Nathan Malone, who remained true to his wife while enduring the most horrific conditions imaginable when held captive by a drug lord who had him so doped up on an aphrodisiac (think PCP mixed with Spanish Fly) that he opts to remain dead to his family rather than return half a man with sexual issues brought on by the many months of captivity and restraint.

It has been six years since Nathan "died" and he now works for a clandestine group knows as the Elite Ops and goes by the name of Noah Blake. When a white supremacy militia group in his hometown has engaged in murderous "hunts" and now is targeting his former business as a great place to launder their ill gotten gains (thus endangering his wife Sabella), he is reluctant at very first to take the case. But in the end he does and comes face to face with the independent woman that his wife has become (or was she always like that and he just didn't see it?) He discovers that she has never really gotten over the loss of her husband, and has dated in frequently, while her home is still a shrine to Nathan. He suddenly finds that he is jealous of ... himself? Working undercover at his garage, he's in a position to investigate and protect. But just how deep is the organization in the small town that he loves? As much as Bella fights her attraction to yet another alpha man, she notices some similarities between her new lover and her husband.

Leigh had mee hooked and hungering for a story about tortured SEAL Nathan. A man so unwilling to be untrue to his beloved wife that he "died" rather than have her see him half a man. But unfortunately, this story just did not do the character of Nathan justice.

When is too much sex too much? Well, in Leigh's case, it's when the sexual passages outnumber the rest of the plot to the point where they detract from the story. While I usually love Leigh's passionate storylines, this one was just ridiculous - I finally started to skip them altogether because they were so numerous and redundant. I felt like I was reading a horrible Shannon McKenna novel which are virtually plotless. And all that dirty talk just made me want to tell them to hush already and get it over with. The plot itself was pretty interesting (what little there was of it), but all the licking, sucking, talking, nipping, tugging, petting, talking, growling, mewling, takking, spanking, and other assorted verbs just subtract from the flow of the story.

© Tracy Vest, September 2008


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - INTENSE EXCITEMENT
Lora Leigh has done it again! Wonderful, exciting, intense read. Buy it, steal it, trade for it, whatever...AN EXCELLENT SOMETIMES FRUSTRATING TALE but certainly worth your time.


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Love Lora Leigh but Not in Love with the One
I was so excited to read this book but what I found was that I just couldn't fall in love with it.
Nathan, a Navy SEAL, goes off on a mission that goes very badly. He leaves his wife beyind, Sabella, who is mistakenly told that he is dead. She begins mourning him. Two years later he is rescued from his torturous existance and decideds at that point not to return to his wife, but insead to start a new existance as Noah. (This was the point in the book when I started not liking Noah.)
A mission sends Noah back to his small town in Texas where he gets work, with his new face and identity, working for Seballa who is now running the former Nathan's garage.
It is a really fascinating premise but what I found is that in addition to Leigh's trademark love scenes, and no one does them better than Leigh, the characters have the same conversations over and over agian. They must have the same arguement ten times in the book and it just seems to go on and on. We await Sabella's revelation for 3/4 of the book and her reaction just doesn't seem realistic.
If you love Leigh, as I do--especially her Breed series, you won't love her any less after this but it is not my favorite.

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