Honor Guards

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Summary: Dramatic! Suspenseful! Heartbreaking!
Review: Fourth in a series that begin with Above All, Honor; Honor Bound; and Love & Honor; Honor Guards continues chronicling the daily lives of Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts and First Daughter, Blair Powell. As they continue to live their lives, forces unbeknownst to them begin to hatch sinister plots. What plots are being planned and for when? How many plots are there? Who will the plots be directed at? And why, all of a sudden, does someone feel the need to "out" the women's personal relationship?

When an unexpected attack is launched on Blair will Cameron be there to save her? How did no one know or see the clues pointing to the events unfolding? And how did no one in the Secret Service or the FBI know a traitor was in the midst of it all?

Told using a backdrop of the events leading to September 11th, 2001, Honor Guards is a tremendously fantastic, spellbinding story of life, love, heartbreak, and the devastating cost of loss of human life.


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Summary: Gripping Romance
Review: In the third of Radclyffe's Honor Series, Cam and Blair's love continues to deepen. It becomes more difficult for the Secret Service Agent to protect the president's daughter in the days preceding 9/11.
Against the backdrop of real life events, Radclyffe weaves a gripping page-turner. Blair Powell and Cameron Roberts' story begins in France where events are set in motion that will shatter the world around them.
Radclyffe's third in the series is the most suspenseful and the most sensitive. Those around Cam and Blair become players in this plot. We do not know who the good guys are all of the time. The author does an exceptional job of weaving the days preceding 9/11 into the plot. She subtly intertwines those events in snippets as to keep it in the background. The book is about Cam, Blair and the blossoming love of two previously secondary characters and how they "live" through these events.
As always, it is amazing that even in Radclyffe's action series, she can create the right blend of romance and suspense. In this book it is the love that the four main characters share that keeps them strong and may just keep them alive. Everything about Honor Guards is subtle but powerful. The fast paced action does not overpower the romance nor does 9/11 become the focus.
This book shows us why Radclyffe is the leading lesbian romance writer of our time. And we know that there will be a fourth in the series because the book does not really end. We know there must be more to the story.


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Summary: This One Will Leave You Begging For Book Five!
Review: In this, the fourth novel in the "Honor" series, author Radclyffe continues the story of the relationship between Blair Powell, the daughter of the president of the United States, and Cameron "Cam" Roberts, the Secret Service agent assigned to protect her. As with each of the previous books, HONOR GUARDS picks up where the last novel (LOVE AND HONOR) left off. When the novel opens, Blair has already given an interview to a reporter revealing her sexual orientation and her lover's identity, and she and Cam are waiting for the story to be printed and for the media blitz that is sure to follow. In the brief time before that happens, they are able to be together as lovers, luxuriating in one another's arms and trying to block out the rest of the world to focus on their relationship.

But little do they know that behind the scenes, malignant forces are at work, including a conspiracy to assassinate Blair. Radclyffe has set this book from August 16, 2001 and onward toward the inevitability of the 9/11 attacks. Interspersing the two lover's daily struggles with politics, privacy, and the paparazzi are brief details of the conspiracy to unseat the government by way of terrorism. Every step of the way, from the racy love scenes to the daily security worries weighing heavy on Cam's shoulders, the reader is aware of the oncoming disasters, even as we root for Blair and Cam to cement their relationship once and for all.

A secondary plot line involving Secret Service agent Paula Stark and FBI agent, Renee Savard, is interwoven into the story. Renee is still recovering from wounds suffered during a previous attempt on Blair's life, and Paula continues to be part of Cam's team protecting the president's daughter. Their relationship unfolds sweetly and delightfully, and Paula plays a critical role in the exciting events that unfold.

As usual with Radclyffe's books, the sex scenes are hot, the twists and turns of the plot are engrossing, and the action scenes build slowly and explode effectively. Best of all, at the end of this fourth book in the series, the reader is left wanting more, and there is definitely room for another novel. Highly recommended. ~Lori L. Lake, author of lesbian fiction and freelance reviewer for Midwest Book Review, Golden Crown Literary Society's The Crown, The Independent Gay Writer, and Just About Write.


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Summary: She's done it again!
Review: This is a good read. A page turner as most of Radclyffe's books are. Her writing is fascinating and literate.
I waited eagerly for Honor Guards, thinking that things would get tied up, but she's left me wanting more. Again!
I like the way Rad ties 9/11 into this book especially the way she uses the time line to hatch the plot to kill Blair.
the characters continue to develop as their love relationships blossom.
I'm really beginning to like Andrew Powell and hope that Rad can continue the story and find some answers without having him blunder into Iraq. He's quite a father. What kind of president is he?
The parallel romances flower naturally. My questions:
Will Blair and Cam find some peace? Will they be able to live together?
Will Stark and Renee stay together? How does her investigation of the assasination attempt impact their relationship and Renee's growing friendships with Blairs SS cadre?
Will Mac survive and come back to the team? If he does, will Felicia back away from her "no dating rule"? (It's a good one, especially since he's her supervisor and she's black and he's white, but it seems as if something special is happening between them.)
does Grant ever come back to the team?
Good job, Rad!

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Summary: Fabulous read - couldn't put it down
Review: This is the best entry in the Honor series. The 2 main characters have been increasingly captivating with each new book. The subsidiary characters have their own plot that is just as interesting. Excellent story telling.

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Summary: Good Sequel
Review: This is the fourth in the 'Honor' Series of books that follow Secret Service Agent, Cameron Roberts and the president's daughter, Blair Powell. Blair and Cameron's relationship develops, but they do have the usual and the not-so usual problems that crop up in this novel. There is a totally unexpected scare with Blair, but I won't give it away here. I love these characters and hope in a fifth novel we'll find out even more about their pasts. For instance, what woman hurt Blair so badly that she had such a hard time believing Cam's love? Can't wait for the next one...