Yes, I know, I’m a glutton for punishment. I can’t seem to help myself, though! I’m a Linda Howard fangirl through and through, which means I love her – even when I don’t. I haven’t been impressed with any of her releases since Kiss Me While I Sleep, but that doesn’t stop me from lusting after this book. I want and I want now!
In Linda Howard’s gifted hands, second chances, unexpected romance, and unrelenting action combine into a riveting new novel of suspense. In Death Angel, bad girls can wake up and trust their hearts, bad guys can fight for what’s right . . . and dying just might be the only way to change one’s life.
A striking beauty with a taste for diamonds and dangerous men, Drea Rousseau is more than content to be arm candy for Rafael Salinas, a notorious crime lord who deals with betrayal through quick and treacherous means: a bullet to the back of the head, a blade across the neck, an incendiary device beneath a car. Eager to break with Rafael, Drea makes a fateful decision and a desperate move, stealing a mountain of cash from the malicious killer. After all, an escape needs to be financed.
Though Drea runs, Salinas knows she can’t hide–and he dispatches a cold-blooded assassin in hot pursuit, resulting in a tragic turn of events. Or does it?
Left for dead, Drea miraculously returns to the realm of the living a changed woman. She’s no longer shallow and selfish, no longer steals or cheats or sells herself short. Both humbled and thrilled with this unexpected second chance, Drea embraces her new life. But in order to feel safe and sound–and stop nervously looking over her shoulder–she will need to take down those who marked her for death.
Joining forces with the FBI, supplying vital inside information that only she can provide, Drea finds herself working with the most dangerous man she’s ever known. Yet the closer they get to danger, the more intense their feelings for each other become, and the more Drea realizes that the cost of her new life may be her life itself–as well as her heart.
This book is available from Ballantine Books July 1, 2008. You can pre-order it here.
See, I’m really not sure about this one… I’m not sure I would like Drea’s character. So for once, I’m going to wait. yes, wait, I know… almost a foreign word… 😛 I still haven’t read Up Close and Dangerous… so I figure out, I don’t really need this one.. yet 😛
ME WANT ME WANT ME WANT!!
I have nothing more to say.
HA! I know exactly how you feel Holly, I just keep hoping the magic will be back, so I keep buying … or checking them out at the library at the very least! 😉
Nath,
I know what you mean, but I still want it.
KB,
Sing it, girl.
Zeek,
Exactly!
It was the one where the heroine came back in time – no heat, no passion, nothing. Bored to tears. So I’ll wait for the reviews cause I want her back as much as anyone!
Looking forward to your thoughts.
Cindys
I’m so on the same train here. I want it but I feel dumb for wanting it. *sigh* I haven’t totally thrown in the towel so I’m sure I’ll be in the store July 1st looking for this.
I want this but not immediately. Her last one left me wanting more and so did the last one before that and the one before that as well…I love LH earlier books. Where did she disappear to? Why is it that the authors I always loved reading has taken such drastic changes with their writing? i.e. Julie Garwood, Judith McNaught, etc.
I ran to the bookstore and read the excerpt of it on back of Up Close and Dangerous.
*deep breathe*
I want it. I just pre-ordered it. So it Bookbinge do a giveaway of it, I will be VERY UPSET.
*tick-tock-tick-tock*
mph
You know, I hadn’t considered doing a giveaway of it, but I guess we could…
😛
*Kate pops up*
Giveaway?!
*azteclady pops up right next to katie(babs)*
Magic word?
erm…
Giveaway?
(I have no shame, sorry)
Hmm…I’ll consider doing a giveaway. Not promising anything, but maybe…
…although I am rather disappointed in the lot of you lazy bloggers for not participating in the Summer Books and Bag contest. Perhaps I’ll offer this book as a consolation prize to those who enter THAT contest….
…just saying.
You know the 5 stages of grief? I’m caught between 2 and 5.
mph