HEX (Sentinel Security 6) by Anna Hackett-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 15, 2023

She’s the genius hacker known as Hex.

He’s a ghost—the deep-cover spy known only as Shade.

They generate a dangerous level of white-hot sparks, but he needs her help on a deadly mission.

Jet “Hex” Adler loves being a goddess of all thing tech. She provides her team at Sentinel Security with intel and comms, and she’s good at it. No, brilliant. Sure, sometimes it’s hard to be stuck in the office while her guys are in the field, but computers, tech, and drones are her thing. If only she had the same luck with men.

And that does not include a certain hot, cocky, annoying spy.

Cain aka Shade is dedicated to his country. He does the hard, dangerous work so others don’t have to. He came from nothing, he’s alone, unattached. A man like him has nothing to lose. For Cain, life is always about the mission. It can never be about a certain small, smart, feisty hacker.

But now he needs Jet for an important assignment to stop high-tech drone schematics falling into enemy hands.

Of course, Jet will do anything to help save the world…okay, not the entire world, but a lot of innocent lives. Even if it means going undercover with the man who knows how to push every one of her buttons. But as they work together, dodging danger and bad guys, their scorching attraction explodes…and Cain will realize that for the first time in his life, someone is more important to him than his mission.

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REVIEW:  HEX is the sixth (and final?) 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 operative Cain ‘Shade’ Cavanagh and thirty-one year old, hacker Jet ‘Hex’ Adler’s story line. HEX can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from omniscient dual third person perspectives HEX follows Jet and Cain as they are tagged to take down a suspected buyer for a next generation drone technology. Going under cover in Paris, France, with several members of the Sentinel Security team by their side, Jet and Cain ferret out the man responsible but not before Jet finds herself a target of an abduction, and threats against her life. Working together Cain struggles to keep his distance from the woman with whom he will fall in love, a woman who is determined to prove that Cain is worthy of his own happily ever after. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Cain and Jet, and the potential fall-out as the team finds themselves trapped when their assignment is discovered and plans are diverted.

The relationship between Jet and Cain is one of mutual attraction but Cain considers himself a lone-wolf, always working the next assignment, a man who has killed to protect the country he loves. Jet battles between head and heart knowing Cain believes himself unworthy but Jet is hoping that working together as a couple proves there is more to life than working as a spy. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of familiar and energetic secondary and supporting characters including many of the previous story line couples and heroes, and Vander Norcross (Norcross Security). We are introduced to Dante and Colton Fury, two of five powerful brothers with a questionable reputation. I am going to presume the author has plans for a series focusing on the Fury siblings.

HEX is a fast paced story of power and control, greed and vengeance, family, friendships, relationships and love. The premise is edgy and dramatic; the characters are animated, sassy and dynamic; the romance is sensual and seductive.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Wolf
Hades
Striker
Steel
Excalibur

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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.

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