Lise Fuller

3.5 Stars! The review that follows is a partial review. To read the full text, please visit:
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Action, adventure and intrigue combine together with a second chance at love to create a wild ride. Be warned, Intimate Deceptions is not a walk in the park, but rather a complex story that is sure to be a hit!

What would you do for the ones you loved? For your own child? Elena would do anything, anything to get her young daughter back safe and sound. When her ex-husband takes her over the boarder, she chases after, intent on catching him and bringing her daughter back alive—and him in handcuffs (she's a bounty hunter). But she never expected that Mannie would be in so deep; what should have been a fairly easy in-and-out mission turns into a long and dangerous one. Will she get her daughter out of there alive?

Brodie never planned on seeing Elena again, not after the heartbreak she dealt him 8 years ago. But when her daughter is taken, his heart melts a little, and he realizes that despite everything, including time and space, he still loves her. But does she love him---or is she still playing him like she did all those years ago? He'll find out while he helps her to track down her ex (and his former best friend) and daughter. But little does he know that Janie isn't Mannie's daughter...but rather his own. Deceptions run high in this book, and not all of them are from the hero and heroine...


While I didn't love this book quiet as much as Lise Fuller's previous one (On Danger's Edge), I did still enjoy it. Intimate Deceptions is full of suspense and fast-paced action. The journey is full of intrigue and deceptions, lies and cover ups. I'll be honest—there were more than a couple of times when my head was spinning a little from all the games and secrets the characters were hiding. I may have even gotten lost a time or two, though I quickly found my way back.

And while those are all good things, this story had so much going on that I think the romance was lost. Elena and Brodie already had a past relationship (years ago, never seen just mentioned many times in the book), so this is their time for a second chance. But they were both too head-strong and stubborn (and a bit stupid, if I'm to be honest) and wouldn't tell each other the truth, even after saying, again and again, how sorry they are for the lies in the past. I wanted to bang their heads together a time or two and tell them to get over it, work it out, and get it on already! :) And, eventually, they did, though it took well over ¾ of the book to do so. And even then, I know they had a ways to go in their relationship, trying to show the other that they can indeed trust in one another.

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