If you enjoy steamy romance, suspense, mystery, and twisted sadistic villains then you’ll appreciate Hard Target…I sure did! ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
With a body to inspire a second Trojan conquest—of the latex variety—FBI agent Alexandra Valentine could be Simon Jakes’ match made in heaven. If only she weren’t the reason his career as a CIA hacker ended in a pile of ash.
When Alex returns after six years, it’s with a proposition he can’t refuse. Work with her or return to prison. Compared to negotiating the powder keg of their relationship, the job should be simple. Take down a criminal organization run by one egomaniacal billionaire and try not to get killed along the way. The problem is, with a woman as sexy as Alex by his side, Simon has trouble keeping his mind on the mission and out of the bedroom.
At their darkest hour, each has a decision to make. To trust despite the fog of lies and deception being spun around them, or to fail because a second crack at love proved the hardest and most impenetrable target of all.
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Wow did this book every get my blood pumping, my heart racing, and my mind questioning 
everything! Leave it to Tibby Armstrong to write an amazingly sexy reunion love story and fill it with action, intrigue, and deception. From beginning to Hard Target kept my attention and made me think and while some might question if this is truly a romance book, I’ll assure you it is and this couple has to deal with a lot. They bicker, they insult, they spar, and there is no denying there is a thin line between love and hate and these to cross it over and over in some of very interesting ways.
Alexandra Valentine is an FBI agent on the rise and determined to get the career recognition she deserves. She’s smart, tough, and doesn’t plan to let anything get in her way until she’s once again forced to work with her ex-boyfriend Simon Jakes, whose career as a CIA hacker came crashing down while they were together. Simon blames her for his incarceration and doesn’t trust her; she plans to prove him wrong.
It was easy to see the hurt between these two from the beginning of the book. It was also easy to see that despite the nasty words coming out of their mouths towards each other there were intense feelings of longing and even love. I found it fascinating to watch them come to grips with what happened in the past, to watch what they believed to be true unraveling, and to accept that things aren’t always as they seem. There are some nasty, ugly outside forces working against them and in addition the FBI isn’t being completely forthright with what they want from Alex and Simon. While Simon and Alex work on a case filled with one problem after another they also find it impossible to not revisit their relationship of the past, these moments are often frantic and wild and sometimes hurtful as they try to sort through everything that has happened between them. While their relationship is a big part of this book it’s not the only thing, there is a suspense and mystery element to this story as well and it all blends into an incredibly complex and well written story.
I finished this book with my heart still pounding because although the ending was perfectly satisfying, I know this isn’t the last we’ll see of these characters and I can only imagine what twisted plot Tibby has in store for the next book. If you enjoy steamy romance, suspense, mystery, and twisted sadistic villains then you’ll appreciate Hard Target…I sure did!
4.5 Stars
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