WHITE HEAT

Author: Cherry Adair ISBN: 0345476441 7/2007 SUSPENSE Publisher: BALLANTINE

When Emily Greene's mentor and father figure mysteriously dies, it's ruled a suicide. But then her mentor's son, T-FLAC agent Max Aries, shows up, claiming his father's death may have been murder. And there's no denying that this now­dead master of renaissance art restoration was ensnared in a dangerous and tangled web of intrigue. To make matters more complicated, Emily has neither forgotten—nor forgiven—the way Max dropped into her life a year before, stole her heart, and just as abruptly vanished again. Now, like it or not, Emily will have to trust Max if she wants to stay alive. After a wave of mysterious deaths and an orchestrated blitzkrieg of bombings, Max and Emily have only each other to turn to. With explosive violence escalating across the continent, they put their lives on the line—and their true feelings to the test—racing against time to halt an act of ultimate terror... whose repercussions could rock the globe.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

With an incredibly scrumptious hero and relentless, lightning-fast action, Cherry Adair certainly knows how to enliven a story. WHITE HEAT, the latest in Ms. Adair's T-FLAC series, roars out of the starting gate at a fast gallop and never breaks stride in a thrilling, no-holes-barred roller coaster ride of heart-pulsing suspense and hot romance featuring a delicious, to-die-for hunk of male meat.

The prime, macho, mouthwatering Max Aries is just the icing on the cake. Ms. Adair knows how to write an incredibly sexy hero who sets female hearts aflutter, and Max Aries is one of her best.

The equally engaging Emily Greene is more than a match for the supremely talented Max. These two intelligent, capable (Emily wields a mean cast iron skillet), vivid personalities crank the heat index of an already scalding WHITE HEAT up a notch or two.

Ms. Adair skillfully weaves an exciting tale of explosive action sprinkled with twisty surprises around a sensual love story laced with gobs of fiery desire. A must for readers who like their romantic suspense hot... and the heroes even hotter!

Debbie Jett