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    Hard to Hold

    By Stephanie Tyler

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    THE SPECIAL OPS HERO FEARED NOTHING—
    UNTIL HE MET A WOMAN TOO HOT TO HOLD.…

    Lieutenant Jake Hansen has survived some of the riskiest missions known to man. But now the wounded Navy SEAL faces his toughest job yet: smuggling Dr. Isabelle Markham out of Africa without triggering an international incident. Not easy to do when the gorgeous hostage happens to be a senator’s daughter—and about as easy to resist as an oasis in the desert.

    If it weren’t for Jake, Isabelle would still be halfway across the world, where rebel forces left her for dead. The special ops warrior may have saved her life, but she doesn’t need him to protect her now. Tell that to the ruggedly handsome hunk in full battle fatigues who’s just been assigned as Isabelle’s personal bodyguard. Close quarters aside, Isabelle won’t let Jake anywhere near her heart—until danger throws them together again. And nothing in the jungles of wildest Africa could prepare them for a passion this wild. This crazy. This hot…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateNov 24, 2009
    ISBN9780440338840
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    Stephanie Tyler

    New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Tyler writes across many genres, including New Adult, Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance.  She also co-writes as Sydney Croft.  She lives in New York with her husband and kids and a crazy weimaraner named Gus.    

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    • 4/5
      Jake is definitely hardcore - loving that! Isabelle's character was good too. The two are thrown together from the start when he helps rescue her. Then the book just started to jump all over the place (his childhood, Cal's point of view, Clutch & Sarah's point of view, on and on.) I felt like it had such great potential - I was hooked - but it just missed the mark a little. Worth reading once...sure but no more than that.
    • 3/5
      I was happy enough when I was reading it, but a week later I can barely remember anything about it. Super tough macho ball of steel SEAL Jake Hansen rescues fairy princess, whoops no, doctor selflessly working for Medicine sans Frontiers (which is an excellent organization which I support) He kisses her, she kisses him, kisses are exchanged, and then he saves her and never sees her again, because he knows that rescuing has a psychological impact and isn't true love. Except... she still has the malevolent impossible to catch villain after her, so has to guard her, without letting her know why, so she starts to think.. what, that he likes her? that they could be friends? It was all a bit too crazy. The three seals were like teenagers in their rage and testosterone, and all too perfect in their cool hotness (or their heated coolness). Isabel, the heroine, was better, in that she was more real and more relatable and frankly more fun. The sexual tension worked. but this is a library loaner, not a keeper, and I don't think I'll take it out to reread again. So B -