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To the Limit
by
Cindy Gerard
romantic suspense in Paperback edition that was published by St. Martin Paperbacks on September 2005 and has 352 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Deadly Promises, Show No Mercy, Take No Prisoners, Whisper No Lies, Feel the Heat, Risk No Secrets, With No Remorse, Last Man Standing, To the Edge, To the Brink, Over the Line, Under the Wire, Killing Time, The Way Home, Running Blind, Taking Fire
Second in The Bodyguards romantic suspense series revolving around members of the Garrett family in West Palm Beach. The couple focus is on Eve Garrett and Tyler McClain.
My Take
It’s the poor little rich girl, although Gerard does give it an interesting twist with how Tiffany has gotten herself into trouble. You can’t help but feel for her even as you can’t believe how stupid she is. Lucky for her, she has a few good friends.
It’s an interesting subplot as well with someone after Eve. Intent on taunting her, until they decide to finish her off. Lucky for her that a little illegal entry brings her back to another man in her earlier life, who also did a little, ahem, “illegal” entry and pops back in the nick of time. I do like the twist Gerard gives to the “woman wronged” scenario. She has Eve use it on several levels. And all to the good, of course. *bats eyes innocently*
And yet another reason why parents should be licensed. All that money and none of it could find love for a child…disgusting with no excuses!
Oh man, I can’t figure out if I’m morbidly fascinated or appalled at the club Katrina and Sven drag Eve and Mac into…oh, boy… It’s certainly a picture in my brain.
“Too funny when Mac needs medical treatment and has some suggestions of his own from ‘the Boy Scout manual. Chapter ten. Page sixty-nine’.”
It’s a story of playing both ends against the middle, over and over.
The Story
A friendship struck when she was guarding Tiffany Coleman, a billionaire’s daughter, on the president’s orders. Now Eve Garrett is worried about her young friend.
Desperate for love, Tiffany will hook up with anyone. And finds more than her match in Reno Lauren and his buddy Abe Gorman.
It’s a very cold trail Eve is trying to follow and one that will take her through the highs and the lows of nightclubs and bars, crisscrossing the country.
The Characters
Eve Garrett is still angry over the way her career in the Secret Service ended; she hadn’t deserved that. But she’s making a name for herself as a doer at E.D.E.N. Security, Inc., the firm their father, Wes Garret, a former policeman, started and the siblings now run. Nolan is her twin brother.
Tyler “Mac” McClain, the guy who took Eve’s virginity in high school, is desperate for money to get his fledgling private detective agency, Discovery Unlimited, up and running and pay off his divorce settlement to Angie to ensure he gets to see his little girl, Ali. Blair is Angie’s new hubbie. Dave Johnson is Mac’s former police partner back in the Chicago PD.
Ethan Garrett, former Special Forces Green Beret, has been divorced from Darcy for five years, and he’s their brooder with a cherry Life Saver habit. Dallas, a Marine in Force Recon, is the negotiator; they are the twins’ older brothers. Nolan, a former sergeant in the Airborne Rangers with a passion for root beer, is back, with the firm, and full of life with his new wife, Jillian Kincaid (see To the Edge, 1), a news anchor at KGLO TV. Bud Winchell runs a T-shirt shop in Key West and a security/investigation/missing persons agency hidden within the shop; he’s also the Garretts’ uncle through their mother, Susan, and Wes’ mentor when they were both on the force. Kim Creighton is E.D.E.N.’s new receptionist.
Tiffany Clayborne is a billionaire’s daughter who is unloved and unwanted. Jeremy Clayborne is her reclusive father, in name only. Richard Edwards is Clayborne’s right-hand man, with a weakness. Jazelle Taylor is Edwards’ executive assistant.
Margaret Reed is Tiffany’s former nanny; almost the only mother she’s known. Katrina Hofsteader is her best friend from her riding days. Sven Jorgenson is Kat’s boyfriend with a passion for skiing.
Lance Reno is the band’s leader and Abe Gorman plays bass for Dead Grief, a band in which Tiffany takes an interest. Frank Leoni owns Club Asylum. Billie Campbell is a songwriter and plays guitar. Miriam and Jasper Campbell are Billie’s parents; they run Canyon Rim Trail Rides outside Parowan, Utah.
Bob Gleason was her supervisor and is still Eve’s mentor and friend with the Secret Service. Petrov Yanev and Stayon Georgiev were two kidnappers who tried to take Tiffany fourteen years ago. Son and son-in-law of Alexandrov Yanev, the head of a Bulgarian arms-trafficking organization. Bianca Georgiev is Stayon’s widow.
The Cover and Title
The cover is a lot of deep red with a flash of fire behind Eve, highlighting her in her tiny print miniskirt as she races across the pavement, McClain standing in the shadows in the foreground.
I’m not sure what the title is about. That Eve and Mac will go To the Limit to find Tiffany?
