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SPOILER ALERT!!! Ok I have finally finished Deadly Desire the seventh installment in the Riley Jenson Guardian Series. I found this book slow until the end, then when it got really good and I could not put it down it ended. However I can not wait until the next installment in the series, it does not come out until October. Here is the excerpt from the back of the book.
Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time's no different. For it's no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that's exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a trail of female corpses used--and discarded--in a bizarre ritual of evil. With pressure mounting to catch one fiend, another series of brutal slayings shocks the vampire world of her lover, Quinn. So the last thing Riley needs is the heat of the upcoming full moon bringing her werewolf hormones to a boil--or the reappearance of a sexy bounty hunter, the rogue wolf Kye Murphy.
Riley has threatened Murphy with arrest if he doesn't back off the investigation, but it's Riley who feels handcuffed by Kye's lupine charm. Torn between her vamp and wolf natures, between her love for Quinn and her hots for Kye, Riley knows she's courting danger and indulging the deadliest desires. For her hunt through the supernatural underworld will bring her face-to-face with what lurks in a darkness where even monsters fear to tread.
Here is the real rundown. Riley is on the hunt for a vampire murderer using zombies to do their dirty work and comes across Kye's path (he was the guy that did some previous work for Anita's pack leader Blake) And at every crime scene he just keeps turning up and they both have to resist their desire towards one another. The case turns towards to two women who own a strip club. Riley has to go under cover as a stripper and get a job in the club where she can keep an eye on the two suspects and get a closer look at the club.
In the meantime Riley tells Quinn that he should take on other partners for blood because she has been feeling weak from al of the blood loss. Surprisingly this does not lead to an expected fight, he just says that he does not want to discuss it and that Riley is the only one for him.
Back at the strip club Riley runs across Kye again and they team up to get more info while resisting the increasing urge to be with one another. Riley and Kye sneak into an underground room where they find the place that the women conduct their sorcery and destroy their alter. They are immediately confronted by a half dozen zombies and the woman behind it all. Riley kills the woman but not before she shoots Kye. Riley was trying to get him to shift but he would not wake and then the second killer comes in and shoots Riley with a silver bullet. She wakens and is bound to a table with silver chains. She asks about Kye and discovers that he has bled to death and she suddenly wants to just curl up and die herself, which is shocking to her because she does not even like Kye. After a failed attack on the woman the door burst in an Kye shoots the woman dead. She is sooo relieved to see he is alive. The silver bullet in Riley's shoulder needs to be removed so Kye knocks her out to do the job.
When she wakes up she see Kye sitting in the comer of the room and tells him to go because she is calling in the Doctorate and he should not be there when they arrive because he is a hit man. He refuses to leave and tells Riley that before she calls it in they need to take care of some business. She knows that he wants to have sex and her urge so strong that she cant resist. Instantly they realize that they are soul mates. Riley does not know that to do because this is not what she wants so she just cries. Kye says that he does not want this either and that they should just go their separate ways. Anita agrees and they leave but she knows that it is not the end of Kye.
Anita has to go and tell Quinn that she found her soul mate and is afraid she will no longer want him anymore now that her wolf has found Kye. She hopes that her wolf half can have a soulmate and that her vampire half can have another. She does not tell Quinn right away because she wants to test the theory of two soul mates. As it turns out she is still attracted to Quinn and believes that she can have two soul mates if he is okay with her having another. She tells Quinn and he says that he has fought for her this long he had no intentions on stopping now, he just did not want to know who it was because he would kill him.
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The book was excellent, another hit from Keri Arthur. I look forward to the next one that comes out in October.
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This was another good addition to the series. The plot and pacing was pretty good, but had a few sluggish spots in the action and didn't seem as exciting as some of the previous books in the series. Seeing the relationship between Riley and Quinn deepen was great. The twist at the end (with Riley and Kye) and the anguish it causes is certainly going to create some great tension in the next book - coming out soon (October 27th). Looking forward to it!
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I have enjoyed all of this series so far, they are racey so I would not recommend them to younger teens. Great books!
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This was the seventh installment in the Riley Jenson, Guardian Series and I can honestly say that each time I finish each book in the series I tell myself 'oh that's definitely one of my favorites from the series!'. It's taken me this long to realize that I have declared this each time I have finished a novel by Keri Arthur. I absolutly love this series, and it's only getting better!
Riley Jenson is by far one of my favorite heroins in the paranormal world. She's always ready to kick butt, even if she has a zombie or hellhound chewing through her, which in this case she does! I have a perfectly normal love for zombies in paranormal books, so I was extremely happy to encounter them in the Riley Jenson novels.
Her men are extremely scrumptious too! I can't get enough of Quinn, her sexy vampire lover and now the ever so delectable Kye Murphy, all werewolf, who we will most definitely be seeing more of in the coming novels.
I could have sat down and read this book in one sitting if I had only more free time. I actually shouted at my sister and fiance for bugging me while I was trying to read it, and later felt bad, but it was just too good! I was also late for work because I couldn't put it down. Every time I read one of Keri Arthur's novels I feel like I'm in Australia with Riley, like I can see everything through her eyes, and I love that feeling when I'm sitting down with a book.
I can't wait for the next installment in the Riley Jenson, Guardian Series! Book number 8, Bound To Shadows is due out October 27, 2009.
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