Lisa Marie Rice – Reckless Night – Read for #LLC2015

Book 3.5 in the Dangerous series, published November 29, 2011.
Genre: romantic suspense
Cover: nice




Victor "Drake” Drakovitch used to run a criminal empire, but he gave it all up for the woman he loves. Now his only wish is to live a long life with his beautiful wife, Grace. But how to thank the woman who has given him everything?
This Christmas, Grace already has what she wants – unquestioning devotion, fierce protection ... and the best sex a woman has ever had.
Grace, an accomplished artist, abandoned the life she knew in order to be with the one man she could never live without.
Until terror strikes and Grace realizes that the best gift of all is a dangerous husband.


When an assassin came too close to eliminate Drake in his own high security apartment in New York, the former weapons dealer faked his own death and fled with his wife to a private island, where they live in luxury, but seclusion. He has never known anything but danger and high stakes living, until he met Grace, and he fell in love. Keeping her safe and happy are his only intentions now.
Grace is an artist, and she fell in love with Drake the moment she met him, at gunpoint in an alley where he saved her life. She has given everything up to be with him, and she regrets nothing. She doesn’t want expensive jewellery, fur coats or other priceless items, she just wants him.
But now, he has given her a Christmas present she loves. A long weekend in Sydney, Australia, where they will visit the opera, the theater, restaurants. Everything she used to love doing in New York even when she was could not afford it.
Drake is confident they will remain anonymous. He never did much business in Australia, and after his plastic surgery, even facial recognition programs won’t recognize his face.

But danger still finds them ...


A little novella, and I loved it from the very first page. The story sucked me in at once. A bad guy who is retired, but not reformed. All he wants is to make his wife happy, and all his expensive gifts are insufficient. He admires the gifts she makes for him, as she is truly an amazing artist. And now she has thrown him his first birthday party ever. He doesn’t even know when he was born. He survived somehow on the streets of Odessa and became a very successful killer and businessman. And now he has found love. He learns to see beauty in things, because she does.

Yes it is a short story, but I absolutely adored it, and I am even gladder that he was not killed after coming out of hiding, as would have happened perhaps in romantic suspense.

9 stars.







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