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In Monte Carlo, Maguire Security expert Rand Maguire knows his business and career ended with the celebrity wedding that he and his team secured. The guests apparently were drugged last night leading to an orgy of monumental proportions. The morning after has a bunch of angry remorseful celebs demanding answers that he cannot provide.

Lodestone chief Zak Stark sends top chemist Dr. Dakota North to investigate. She fears someone released Rapture, a drug she worked on with Rand's father in the lab; a magic pill that sent his dad to prison for the homicide of his mom and was allegedly destroyed in a lab explosion. Although their past is much more estranged and he does not trust her because of it, Dakota and Rand team up tracking who procured and tested Rapture as they fear more incidents will follow.

The latest Lodestone (see Hush) romantic suspense is an exciting and fabulous action-packed thriller with a fabulous late twist. Fast-paced from the opening morning after the wedding scene and never slowing down until the final confrontation, readers will not need a sixth sense to know this is a super storyline.

Harriet Klausner


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Afterglow Lodestone Cherry Adair 9781439153833 Books Reviews

I love when a book starts out with the hero and heroine having a past that didn't end well at all. Now they're thrown together in order to stop a drug from being used as a weapon of mass destruction, a drug that Dakota, our heroine, had a hand in creating two years ago. The couple had been engaged and their relationship ended on a horrible note with a lot of hurtful accusations, name calling and truths that weren't told and wouldn't have been believed at the time. Rand said some horrible things to Dakota during their huge fight. Little did both of them know that they were being played by a man who is sick in the head and wants this drug mass produced which will end up netting him billions of dollars.

We get a quick introduction, right at the start, to the drug that's central to the entire story. The drug when given in very small doses, makes people lose all their inhibitions and amps up their sexual need to the highest level. Orgies break out, it's all about sex and unfortunately for the people high on this drug, they'll remember every single thing that they did. When the drug is given in a slightly higher dose, it causes death, within mere minutes of being either ingested or inhaled. The drug itself and reading about the first scene where it's used made me think "ewwwwwww!" quite a few times. Since Dakota had a hand in developing the drug, she's called in to help Rand, who was running security on the wedding party that was the first group of victims the drug was unknowing tested on. Rand wants nothing to do with Dakota but when she comes clean about why she's working for Zak Stark (Hush) her sixth sense (touching an object and being able to find it's owner) helps them track the men who are in possession of the vials of drugs.

The first part of the story really left a bad taste. Rand can't stand to even look at Dakota for the majority of the time. He never gave her the chance to explain her side of what happened and it kills her to see his hate for her as plain as day in his eyes. Then they get a hit of the drug in airborne form and end up having sex, high on the drug and unable to stop themselves. This just didn't sit well with me. They have sex for the first time since breaking up two years ago and it's sex when they're high - I really wanted them to reconnect when they were both, um, NOT HIGH. I get that it was probably supposed to come off as kind of angry, hurting, hot sex and it didn't work for me. The middle of the story, when the plot picked up and the leads actually started talking about their past and things that were assumed but never discussed, the action really got good and I was pulled into the suspense of who the mastermind behind wanting to produce this drug was.

Ah, communication - it's everyone's friend. Nothing frustrates me more than when a hero and heroine will not talk about the things that need talking about. I'm all for angst, but the conversation that needed to happen between Rand and Dakota was a long time coming. Once they finally cleared the air, their relationship took on a sweet note, protective in the case of Rand to Dakota, and it was nice to see these two reconnect after outside forces were the reason they were torn apart.

I'm giving the book 3 ½ stars. The first part of the book didn't really set well with the whole `high on drugs/sex scene', but the middle and the end related to the suspense picked up the pace and had me fully interested in the outcome. My one other small issue - this book needed an epilogue...I needed an epilogue! With all that Rand went through with his security company employees and how they were all divided and dragged into the whole drug mess, I needed to know what happened to him and his business at the end. I like to think that he and Dakota head to Seattle, but the book ended abruptly and I needed a few extra pages to wind their story down.

*Sort of a series spoiler*
PS I'm not, I repeat, NOT giving up hope that Zak's brother Gideon is alive. There's no real mention of him in this book, but I would love to get back to him and bring Zak back to the forefront of the series.

Blog rating 3.5/5
Cherry never fails to blow my mind! Love this book so much. Non stop action. Disaster was about to fall upon Rand Maguire if he didn't fix things fast. Something had gone terribly wrong on a highly secret A list wedding. The last thing he wanted and needed was Dr. Dakota North in his life. The one woman who had betrayed him and had hated for the last two years. His father in jail, his mother dead and it was all her fault. Dakota has a special skill and no matter what, he needed her. The angst between them is so good, yet so attracted to each other still. There was a new drug in town called Rapture and made one lose total inhibitions.. Too much and it killed by sex. It's potent and deadly. As usual, there is running, shooting, wild monkey sex! So much fun. Two strong forces at loggerheads, yet so vulnerable and hurting. There is a fine line between love and hate. The past had turned their lives upside down and now they had to discover the truth no matter how damaging. Can they overcome the past to find each other again? One sweet dangerous ride of fun, dodging bullets, assassins and the most potent thing of all, their feeling for each other that can't be fought in the end. It's all a matter of trust.
In Monte Carlo, Maguire Security expert Rand Maguire knows his business and career ended with the celebrity wedding that he and his team secured. The guests apparently were drugged last night leading to an orgy of monumental proportions. The morning after has a bunch of angry remorseful celebs demanding answers that he cannot provide.

Lodestone chief Zak Stark sends top chemist Dr. Dakota North to investigate. She fears someone released Rapture, a drug she worked on with Rand's father in the lab; a magic pill that sent his dad to prison for the homicide of his mom and was allegedly destroyed in a lab explosion. Although their past is much more estranged and he does not trust her because of it, Dakota and Rand team up tracking who procured and tested Rapture as they fear more incidents will follow.

The latest Lodestone (see Hush) romantic suspense is an exciting and fabulous action-packed thriller with a fabulous late twist. Fast-paced from the opening morning after the wedding scene and never slowing down until the final confrontation, readers will not need a sixth sense to know this is a super storyline.

Harriet Klausner