Review: Lie with Me by Stephanie Tyler

Genres: Romantic Suspense

Casee‘s review of Lie with Me by Stephanie Tyler.

Framed for a double murder, Delta Force operative Cameron Moore is given a new lease on life by the CIA—provided he pays them back by doing their black ops dirty work. Now Cam is ready to renegotiate their deal, and he thinks he’s found the perfect bargaining chip: Skylar Slavin, bestselling author of espionage thrillers and the daughter of the CIA man who saved him from a prison sentence.

Skylar has been living in anonymity, never suspecting that someone so dangerous—and so desirable—would plunge her into a world as treacherous as one of her spy novels. But how can Cam go through with his plan to kidnap Skylar when just the sight of her sets off an explosive attraction he’s never experienced before? And when Skylar falls prey to an even more perilous threat, this special ops soldier must call upon all his combat skills to protect the one person who can help him win his freedom—and the only woman he’s ever loved.

Jake first came in Hard
When Nick came he was always on guard
Chris seemed to always be delivering a baby
Then Cam came along to seduce and kill some lady
Yet somehow they didn’t all end up in the graveyard

This is my way of saying that I didn’t really like Jake. Nick was really closed off, but not in a bad way. Babies always wanted to come out when Chris was around, which was really a crack up. Cam’s initial idea was to find Skylar seduce her for information and then kill her if necessary (but we’ll get to that later). Why the exercise? As I was considering my review, I was thinking back on Steph’s heroes and I realized that each one was better than the last. Cam’s the best hero yet. And that’s that.

This series really revolves around undercover work. ATF, CIA, and all the other three letter abbreviations you can think of. Cam was the son of an ATF agent that had gone deep undercover. So deep that it seemed he was never getting out. When the bust finally came, Cam’s dad told him to run. Cam ran. Then he was arrested for the murder of two FBI Agents. Cam was in jail for two years before he was pulled out and offered a deal he couldn’t pass up. Gabriel Creighton put him in Delta Force, but that was a cover for the jobs that Gabriel had Cam do on the side. Every few years, Gabriel would let Cam go but he would always come back for him.

Cam finally has something on Gabriel. A daughter to hold over his head. With the help of a friend (Cam is still surprised he even has a friend), he goes after Skylar Slavin with the intention of seducing information out of her. Namely the whereabouts of her father. Skylar is nothing like what he expects. (Are they ever?) He plays it off like Gabriel sends him, which she buys. He immediately finds out that she has had a recent kidney transplant. It also becomes apparent that she has no idea where her father is. That puts him in a strange position. Does he stay or does he go? That question is answered when a couple of men arrive to take Skylar.

Skylar doesn’t know what to think or who to trust though she instinctively trusts Cam. Skylar knows that her father works for the CIA and has lived with it all her life. The one time that her father came out of the shadows was to give her the gift of his kidney. After a brief recovery, he left and she hasn’t seen him since.

Insert major terrorist organization and a secondary romance and this is an action packed book. Not too packed though. The pace was good. Not too fast, not too slow. Cam’s struggle between getting revenge on the man that used him as a weapon and helping the man that was not just the father of the woman he loves, but that man that also saved her life was apparent. Crystal clear even. In the end, love wins out, as it always does.

4 out of 5.

This book is available from Dell. You can buy it here or here in e-format.

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