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Audra Grayson is part of the Ghost Project, a group of psychics employed by the military for esoteric ‘recon’ work. A strong-minded, sultry woman, Audra is tough enough to stand up to her military superiors and sexy enough to get away with it. Her particular gift is finding out people’s deepest secrets by touching them – a gift that seems more like a curse when she winds up with Captain Roark Craig.
Roark is the perfect soldier: strong, loyal, powerful, and dashingly handsome, with a voice that could make any woman weak at the knees. Entrusted with a veritable goldmine of top-secret military information, Captain Roark has reason to be wary of Audra’s gifts. Should she find out half of what he knows, she could put herself in danger. A woman like Audra could compromise everything, but ironically he’s unable to keep his hands off her…
By accident Audra discovers that the Ghost Project’s secrecy is in jeopardy: a dropped envelope leads to a terrible revelation, and to catch the traitors Audra must act as kidnapping bait. Torn between his fears for Audra’s safety, and his responsibilities within the military, Roark can only do his best to protect her from an unknown enemy.
The book is flawed by grammatical errors, and the writing is occasionally clumsy – but these problems don’t detract from the steaminess of the scenes, and what Lin lacks as a wordsmith she makes up for in the passion she conjures between the two leads. This book contains very graphic sex, mild bondage (impromptu restraints) and a slightly odd scene involving a bottle. It is fairly down-the-line erotica – there’s very little by way of romancing before Audra and Roark get together.
Sinful Touch wasn’t exactly my kind of book – I’m not a fan of military novels, and the plot was really far more complicated than it needed to be, especially for a story that short. While it comes billed as ‘paranormal’ fiction, the main concentration is on the military and top-secret missions. However for readers who like their men in uniform, you can’t really go wrong.
Reviewed by R.J. Astruc
for The Road to Romance
July 14, 2006
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