Midnight Alias (Killer Instincts #2) by Elle Kennedy
Publication Date: February 5th 2013 by Signet
Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
About the book:
She’s smart, seductive, and in way over her head.
He’s her only way out.
An undercover DEA agent has gone off the radar. Suspecting an internal mole, the government needs Luke Dubois and his elite team of operatives to recover their man, and the New Orleans native thinks he’s found his way inside the dark underbelly of Manhattan: Olivia Taylor, the girlfriend of a mob boss and the sexiest woman he’s ever laid eyes on. His new mission objective? Get past Olivia’s defenses and convince her to take a chance—on him.
All Olivia wanted was to finish law school and live a normal life, but that dream was shattered when one dangerous night put her deeply in a mobster’s debt. Now Luke and his team will help her escape—in exchange for intel on the missing agent. But Olivia doesn’t anticipate her intense attraction to the reckless Louisiana charmer or that she’ll be forced to risk everything—including her heart.
My
Thoughts:
Midnight Alias
continues the story of Jim Morgan’s mercenary crew and Noelle’s chameleon assassins
teamed up again in another thrilling mission. We get Luke’s romance this time
and who’d have thought the sexy, charming ladies man would fall so head over
heels for a woman so quickly, but Olivia drew him in like a moth to a
flame.
Olivia went to work as a dancer/stripper when her mother got
sick with cancer and her work at a restaurant wasn’t paying the bills. Angelo,
the club’s owner and unknown to Olivia, mob guy, zeroed in on her when she
started working, but she was always able to fend off his advances. Unfortunately,
the situation turned from bad to worse since Angelo took advantage of a
situation and now has Olivia under his thumb. She became his “girlfriend”, more
from him saying it was so, and now has to think of ways to keep him at bay and
not sleep with him. Olivia’s is hemmed in a suffocating position closing in all
around her. But she’s is biding her time, saving her money to make her escape. She
gets more than a chance to escape when Luke crashes into her life and into her
heart.
Luke, the sexy Cajun operative in Jim Morgan’s band of
mercenary soldiers is part of the unit assigned by the DEA to track down their
undercover agent gone missing at Angelo’s club.
The club is partially a front to launder money for the mob in their drug
dealing business, and unknown to Olivia, Angelo is an integral part of the
operation. When Luke meets Olivia as “Livy Lovelace” her nervous fear sends up
red flags and also a potential in with Angelo and the inter-workings of the
club, but Luke sees Olivia as more than just an asset to their case. He’s taken with her the first moment he lays
eyes on her and as he gets to know her, the attraction burns even brighter.
Midnight Alias is
my third book in the Killer Instincts series by Elle Kennedy while it was my
least favorite of the series so far, it still was an action packed, enjoyable
read. I think the situation with Angelo,
the current villain creeped me out and was a bit unbelievable. I mean, what mob boss would allow his
girlfriend, a stripper, put him off and delay sex for more than six months? At
any rate, Luke and Olivia’s romance was hot even if a little sudden. I have to say Trevor and Olivia’s chapters
caught my attention more than the main couple’s romance and I was a bit crushed
by the ending. No worries, though, I
just finished the next book, Midnight
Games, Trevor and Isabel’s story, and it did not disappoint! It’s my favorite of the series so far. Maybe tied to Midnight Action (my review), Noelle and Jim’s story, but more on
that to come soon.
If you’re a fan of romantic suspense, the Killer Instincts series is not to be
missed. Elle Kennedy is a pro at sucking
you into a story and making it impossible to put down. Danger, excitement,
suspense along with a wickedly hot romance is the standard for this series.
3.5 Suns
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