Review: Danger Zone – Dee J Adams

Danger Zone by Dee J Adams
Series:  Adrenaline Highs #2
Release Date:  February 2012
Publisher:  Carina Press
Source:  NetGalley
Buy the book at: Amazon

In her ten-year career as a stuntwoman, Ellie Morgan has experienced her share of thrills. None compares to the rush of being behind the wheel of a race car for her latest movie shoot. Certain she was born to race, Ellie’s ready to shift gears—but a secret from her past holds her back. 
Quinn Reynolds is tired of being in the driver’s seat of his family’s company, Formula Racing Design. He’s ready to sell—if he can get his co-owner and brother, Mac, to agree. Quinn’s not sure what he wants to do with his future, but almost as soon as he meets Ellie, he knows he wants her to be part of it. 
Though Ellie tries to resist her attraction to the charming businessman, she’s quickly in danger of losing her heart. But after narrowly escaping “accidents” both on and off the set, it becomes clear that getting involved with Quinn could be downright deadly…

Quinn Reynolds has lived in his brother’s shadow and despite feeling like a huge disappointment, he’s done what’s expected of him.  But now he wants to figure out just what he wants to do instead of being told what he should do by his brother.  To do that, Quinn has to fly to California to confront his brother on a movie set for the filming of his brother and sister-in-law’s story.  His goal is to get his brother to agree to selling their company and getting on with his life.  Problem is, someone doesn’t want Quinn selling the company.


Ellie Monroe is a woman with a huge secret.  While she may be an awesome stunt woman and able to handle a race car like a professional driver, she often feels like she’s a complete failure because of the secret she keeps.  She keeps herself closed off from everyone, except her best friend, but soon she finds Quinn Reynolds breaking through her protection barrier.


I really liked Quinn and Ellie.  Both of them had a load of emotional baggage to deal with, not to mention Ellie’s bias on Quinn’s motives for being with her, but they were to characters that drew you in immediately.  And if there baggage and how they dealt with it didn’t draw you in, Quinn being their for Ellie while she dealt with a crushing emotional blow slapped right into love with Quinn.


While the mystery around who was after Quinn for trying to sell the company wasn’t much of a secret, the lengths the villain went through kept you wondering what he was going to do next.


I was a bit disappointed that Mac came off as such a jerk when dealing with Quinn.  I would have like to see a bit more closure between the brothers.  I’m pretty sure a punch to the jaw wouldn’t fix all the issues they had.


While this story didn’t revolve around racing, like Dangerous Race did, it was still exciting and definitely a sexy read.