Nothing can go wrong in this book - all the right mixture is in it!Įx-Army Special Forces, Tattooed, Impressive Biceps, Hard Chest, Intelligence, Super Adorable, Hot, Delicious My first book and I am in love with her writing and this series! A great combination of romance, suspense, mystery and action involving former members of Army Special Forces.

Overall I really enjoyed this, and is a series I'm keen to follow. This may not bother most readers, but it simply doesn't work well for me in contemporary romance. They're making out within hours of meeting, smexing within a day or so and declaring their undying love within a week. There isn't an instant attraction/love between Nick and Becca, but it comes close. Though the romance happened very quickly in Hearts in Darkness, the sexual tension made it believable. I wasn’t captivated by it like I was for example, with Ms Kaye's Hearts in Darkness, a novella, and my favourite of hers. Where this let me down slightly was in the actual romance.

The next hero, Shane McCallan and his heroine are introduced here and their story is up next in Hard as You Can. The other team members are described in delicious detail and hopefully each will get a story. Though there is a conclusion to this story, an arc to uncover the mystery of the ambush and the five survivors' discharges from the military, looks to continue in subsequent books. I enjoyed seeing the bond holding this band of brothers together, along with Nick's brother, Jeremy and their relationships playing out. Nick realises that he needs help tracking down Charlie, finding out what he knows, and the link with him and the other four survivors of his team. Charlie, Becca's brother, a computer specialist may have stumbled across a conspiracy involving their late father, an Army Colonel who was killed along with six of Nick's men in Afghanistan in an ambush. Too often in suspense the heroine acts superior, and stupidly ignores the hero’s good advice, or the obvious facts. Nick Rixey is the resulting lovechild.īecca is smart, likable and listens. Here she has combined the appeal of the tattoo artist with a Special Forces hero. She writes realistically, her alphas never come across as over-the-top caricatures. Characterisations are one of Ms Kaye’s strengths. Nick (and the rest of the team!) is no exception.

I’ve never met a Laura Kaye hero I haven’t loved. With his brother, Jeremy he now owns and works the Hard Ink Tattoo. Nick, former Army Special Forces, has been out for a year with an Other Than Honorable discharge from the military. When Becca Merritt's brother, Charlie disappears leaving only the above message for her, she seeks out Nick Rixey. Find Rixey, the Colonel's team, Hard Ink Tattoo.

Hard as it gets by laura kaye