Guest Review: Circle of Danger – Carla Swafford

In a follow-up to Carla Swafford’s sexy Circle of Desire, the agents of The Circle–a top-secret group of assassins–are back and on the hunt for a dangerous drug lord capable of bringing women to the brink of pleasure . . . and devastation.

Marie Beltane, a lowly data entry specialist for The Circle, resents being treated like a little girl and wants to help by proving she’s worthy of being a full-fledged operative. Disobeying Arthur Ryker’s orders to stay out of the way, she accepts a simple fact-finding assignment–only to have everything go horribly wrong. Now she’s been injected with the drug responsible for the deaths of four local women, a drug that puts her sex drive into overdrive.

Ryker wants nothing more than to keep Marie safe from the world. He’s already killed to protect her from one madman, and he may have to do it again. While on a search for an antidote to her mysterious drug, he falls into a trap and must fight a new evil. Now he must become the monster he’s always feared to save the woman he’s always loved.

Series:  The Circle #2
Release Date:  June 5, 2012
Publisher:  Avon Red
Source:  Edelweiss
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

Excellent Book!!!

Circle of Danger was an action packed adventure, romantic love story, tale of overcoming past trauma, and steamy sex scenes all rolled into one.

Our hero, Ryker, is a strong dashing one eyed alpha male with physical and emotional scars as a result of things that happened to him in his childhood.  Ryker is head of a an exclusive secret agency, The Circle, that handles multiple types of cases in a covert manner.  He and our heroine, Marie, were raised in the circle’s headquarters by a madman/pedophile intent on manipulating and punishing them and all others under his control.

Ryker kills the master, Theo, and takes over the organization.  He puts Marie in a safe position only to have her be disobey him and go out on a mission to collect data.  While collecting data Marie is captured and  injected with a drug that causes a person to desperately crave sex.   She is rescued but they have a problem because there is no cure until they find the wizard and develop an antidote.  Ryker moves Marie into a bedroom adjacent to his and makes it know that he is the only person that  will service Marie until an antidote can be found.

The adventure begins on their quest to find the wizard and is a nonstop roller coaster ride of betrayals, car chases, international travel, uneasy alliances, steamy sex at the most awkward times, and the forging of intimacy between two people that were destined to be together.

I laughed, cried, and found myself on the edge of my chaise hoping that they would survive and find the love that was there all along.  I loved these characters and you will too.