Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: To The Edge
Author: Cindy Gerard
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks/St. Martin’s Press
ISBN: 0-312-99091-X
Release Date: May 2005
Genre/Sub-genre: Romantic Suspense
Year/Setting: Contemporary, Florida
Series: The Bodyguards
Overall rating: 5.0
Sexual content rating: Sensual/Sexual (most is minimal – one scene is graphic)
Cindy's Website:
cindygerard.com
Jillian Kincaid grew up the daughter of a wealthy businessman, Darin Kincaid, and had very little freedoms because of the threats against their family. As an adult pursuing her own field of expertise, which also happens to be in the journalistic arena, she is determined to take control of her life and gain the freedom that she has never experienced. However, her father takes matters into his own hands, when she begins receiving threats at both her work place and her home, by hiring a bodyguard without consulting her. The bodyguard’s first order of business is to prove to Jillian that she needs a bodyguard and how easy she is to get to by someone who wishes to do her harm.
No ordinary bodyguard will do so Darin approaches E.D.E.N. Security for assistance. E.D.E.N. Security is managed by a family of special recon, green berets, and secret service personnel, which makes overachieving the norm and failure unacceptable. The youngest member of the family, Nolan Garrett, is struggling with his place in life due to his recent retirement from Special Forces. Darin Kincaid, as well as the remaining members of the security firm (Ethan, Dallas and Eve), feels that Nolan would be the best candidate to protect Jillian, while working to find the person issuing the threats.
All in all these are two people who would never have sought each other out, but the reality of the life currently being lived makes them see each other in new light. They share more with each other because of those close confines and begin to see that there is more than meets the eye.
This book is truly one of the best written I have read in quite some time. Cindy Gerard masterfully takes the reader to places they wouldn’t have dared to go on their own. Her imagery and characterizations are so well written that visualization is automatic and vivid. The reader becomes a part of the scenes and the story unfolding before them. I don’t want to give anything away because the mystery involved is quite well done but the ending didn’t go where I had mentally predicted it would. To me, that is always the sign of great writing. I am really looking forward to the remaining books in "The Bodyguards" series as well as future books by Cindy Gerard. Well done!!
Lori
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