EXCALIBUR (Sentinel Security 5) by Anna Hackett-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 28,2023

He never should have touched her.

She’s beautiful, sweet, and all sunshine. He’s too old, too rough, and too grumpy.

Now she’s pregnant with his baby and in danger, and there is nothing he won’t do to keep her safe.

All Adaline Harris ever wanted to do was escape her small town and make it as a ballet dancer in New York. But luck is never on her side. Just when she’s found the big, gruff man of her dreams, he ghosts her…leaving her with a broken heart, pregnant, and unable to dance. Oh, and added to that, someone is sending her creepy notes.

But then Bram O’Donovan walks back into her life, takes one look at her, and sweeps her into his brawny arms.

Bram “Excalibur” O’Donovan knows he’s rough, curt, and isn’t good with people. The military suited him just fine, and now, so does working for Sentinel Security. He never expected to have a chance with sweet, gorgeous Addie. The week he spent in her bed was the best week of his life…until she disappeared without a trace.

Finding her working in a bar and pregnant with his baby is a shock.

But after discovering Addie thinks he abandoned her and that someone is hunting her, Bram is determined to uncover what’s going on. Someone is trying to keep them apart, and wants her for themselves. Bram will go all out, and use all his dangerous skill set, to keep Addie safe, and claim her as his, once and for all.

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REVIEW: EXCALIBUR is the fifth instalment in Anna Hackett’s contemporary adult SENTINEL SECURITY erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on the men and women who work for Sentinel Security. This is Sentinel Security Agent Bram ‘Excalibur’ O’Donovan, and dancer turner waitress Adaline ‘Addie’ Harris’ story line. EXCALIBUR can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Sentinel Security is a spinoff from the author’s Norcross Security series.

Told from dual third person perspective EXCALIBUR follows Bram O’Donovan as he continues to search for the woman he loved. Weeks earlier, Adaline ‘Addie’ Harris walked out of Bram’s life and in the ensuing time Bram has never stopped looking . Bram’s visit to a local bar finds Addie working as a waitress, and very much pregnant but all is not well in our heroine’s life as Addie has a stalker, and someone at Sentinel Security may be helping behind the scenes. What ensues is the rebuilding romance and relationship between Addie and Bram, and the potential fall-out as Addie’s stalker is successful, and former CIA operative and owner of Sentinel Security Killian Hawke, calls in reinforcements from an unlikely source.

Months earlier, Addie Harris and Killian’s sister Saskia had been kidnapped and held hostage by a powerful Russian businessman.Upon their release Addie found herself falling for our story line hero but an assignment pulled Bram Donovan out of Addie’s life,weeks before Addie would discover she was carrying Bram’s baby. Weeks trying to make contact with one another ended with no response, both believing the other had ghosted without a word.

The relationship between Addie and Bram is a second chance romance . Addie lost everything when Bram disappeared leaving her pregnant,and on her own-her home, her job, her sense of self-worth but Bram’s return to her life coincides with a stalker getting too close, and a series of threatening letters that are dangerous and dark. Bram has been searching for Addie since he returned from a job but someone else was making sure Bram and Addie never reconnected. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

Several of the previous story line characters and couples return: Devyn and Killian Hawke; former MI6 agent Hadley ‘Striker’ Lockwood; hacker Jet ‘Hex’ Adler; CIA analyst Gabbi Hansley, and former Interpol agent Matteo ‘Hades’ Mancini, as well as Killian’s sister Saskia and Camden Morgan. We are introduced to former Ghost Ops Boone Hendrix, and Deep Cover CIA agent Cain aka Shade.

EXCALIBUR is a story of obsession and madness, forgiveness and acceptance, family and friendships. The fast paced premise is intriguing and entertaining; the romance is fated; the characters are determined, desperate and dynamic.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Wolf
Hades
Striker
Steel

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Reviewed by Sandy