Hades (Sentinel Security 2) by Anna Hackett-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 20, 2022

He’s a gorgeous former Interpol agent.

Tall, dark, and Italian.

He’s way out of her league, but when danger explodes around them, she finds herself on the run with the sexiest man she’s ever met.

CIA analyst Gabbi Hansley has a plan—escape her dysfunctional family, excel at her job, and build a safe, stable life for herself. Boring? Maybe, but she likes boring. When tasked to meet a security contractor and give him an encrypted drive, a quick, simple job goes terribly wrong.

Gabbi didn’t expect her contact to be the hottest man she’s ever seen. Nor was she expecting the bad guys who turn up and spray the restaurant with bullets.

After years of wading through the muck, dismantling mafia crime syndicates in Italy, former Anti-Mafia officer and Interpol agent Matteo “Hades” Mancini likes his job at Sentinel Security. He also knows he has nothing permanent to offer any woman, so he keeps things fun and temporary.

But when his dangerous past rears its head, he finds himself trapped with the tough, no-nonsense Gabbi, and on a second glance, he sees past her sensible exterior to the tempting woman beneath.

Now Gabbi and Matteo are in a race for survival. While they work to track down who’s after them, attraction burns hot and bright. Gabbi knows a man like Matteo won’t be interested in her for long, and she asks him to show her all the things she’s been missing in the bedroom. But the possessive need to keep her safe is growing in Matteo, and soon he has two mission objectives: take down the bad guys, and convince Gabbi Hansley that she’s his.

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REVIEW:HADES is the second instalment in Anna Hackett’s contemporary, adult SENTINEL SECURITY erotic, romantic suspense series- a spin off from the author’s Norcross Security series. This is CIA analyst Gabbi Hansley, and former Interpol agent Matteo ‘Hades’ Mancini’s story line. HADES can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Gabbi and Matteo) HADES follows in the wake of an attack against our story line hero. Gabbi Hansley was on her way home when a fellow analyst asked for a favor, a favor that would place Gabbi in the direct line of fire. Matteo Mancini had made many enemies in his life but none more so than when he worked for the DIA-Direzione Investigative Antimafia group, a group known for hunting the mafia syndicates. With a target on their backs, Gabbi and Matteo are forced to work together in an effort to uncover the people responsible for the attacks, working together is about to push our couple together. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Gabbi and Matteo, and the potential fall-out as Gabbi struggles with issues of low self-esteem, believing to be a minor convenience for our story line hero.

Gabbi Hansley isn’t a CIA operative; she doesn’t do field work but finds herself working with the team at Sentinel Security. Betrayal from someone close forces Gabbi to choose sides in a war she knows nothing about. Matteo Mancini prefers to work alone but Gabbi refuses to stay behind when Matteo continues to place his life in danger. Falling for Gabbi was easy but Matteo must find a way to convince our heroine what they have is real.

The relationship between Gabbi and Matteo is one of immediate attraction but an attack by four gunman leaves our couple running for their lives. Forces to stay with the team, and of course, Matteo Mancini, Gabbi finds herself falling for a man whose own life is spiralling out of control. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are re-introduced to Nick’s fellow Sentinel Security specialists: boss Killian ‘Steel’ Hawke; former US Navy SEAL and CIA agent turned security specialist Nick ‘Wolf’ Garrick: former MI6 agent Hadley ‘Striker’ Lockwood; hacker Jet ‘Hex’ Adler and Bram ‘Excalibur’ O’Donovan, as well as the introduction of CIA agent Devyn, Cain aka Shade, and British billionaire Bennet Knightley. The requisite evil has many faces.

HADES is a story o betrayal and vengeance, power and control, espionage and danger, family and friendships, relationships and love. The fast paced, character driven premise is intriguing and captivating; the characters are powerful, determined and charismatic; the romance is seductive and passionate.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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I’m a USA Today bestselling romance author who’s passionate about fast-paced, emotion-filled romantic suspense and science-fiction romance. I love writing about people overcoming unbeatable odds and achieving seemingly impossible goals. I like to believe it’s possible for all of us to do the same.

My parents are to blame for my insatiable need to mix action, adventure, and romance. When I was young, I raided my mother’s romances and my father’s action adventure thrillers. I love being exhilarated and left just a little breathless. I’m a sucker for that moment when the team is walking in slow motion, shoulder-to-shoulder heading off into battle.

-I’m an Australian
-I live in Perth, Western Australia
-I am the mother of two busy little boys
-Before I became a full-time author, I worked as a mining engineer at mines all around the world
-I love action movies
-I love sci-fi movies and TV shows
-I have always been a romance reader