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Summary: Awsome!!!!
Review: That was an awsome book. I had a hard time putting the book down. I never thought I could get that deep into a book! I also loved the characters. Yeah Seth was a rough person but that's what I liked about him... How he began to change his ways at the end how he relized he loved her. Raine I like because she is not a wild person, she has no experiance and she learns a lot from Seth. I can't really put this in good words. But all I know is that it was an awsome book and I highly recommend this book to anyone that likes romance/mystery!! I hope she writes a second part to that book, because Seth isn't done with Novak till Novak is gone for good.
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Summary: Exciting and sexy
Review: Seth Mackey has never thought of himself as a voyer--just a security expert who needs revenge for the brother he recently lost. But since Raine Cameron moved into one of target Victor Lazar's homes, Seth has been obsessed. When he's hired to manage security for Lazar, Lazar throws Raine at him as a bonus--a bonus that Seth knows exactly what to do with. The only problem is, he speaks better with his body than with his mouth and knows that he'll get in trouble soon. Especially when she finds out his secrets. Especially when he finds out her secret. Raine Cameron is haunted by psychic dreams of her father's death--and of her uncle, Victor Lazar's role in it. She's determined to discover the truth and has taken a job with her uncle using an assumed name. What she doesn't know is that she's playing with the big boys now. What she does know is that Seth Mackey turns her on more than any man she's never seen. Author Shannon McKenna writes a sexy action-thriller of a romance. Raine and Seth burn together--and also share horribly damaged upbringings--a history that will make them eternal enemies--or lovers. Still, they keep too many secrets and Seth, at least, has forgotten how to trust. When Lazar begins to open to Raine, she feels herself torn between loyalties to family and to her man. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is filled with sex, but it is also an emotionally satisfying story of two damaged characters who can only find fulfillment in one another, yet whose very damage may prevent them from taking the steps they need. With plenty of action (both sexual and adventure), DOORS is a winner.
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Summary: Blistering!
Review: The hero in this book is my type of man--he's ruthless but underneath it all, he's enough of a softie to make him irresistable to many of us females. Even more great sex scenes than Lori Foster (whose books I also love)! Finally some authors who write about the kind of great sex we women REALLY expect (and some of us are lucky enough to get) from men nowadays. Ladies, keep the wonderful stories coming, please! (A couple of the scenarios provide good material with which to tease your man if you run out of your own ideas.)
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Summary: Loved the book, but didn't like the main characters!!!
Review: Strange as it may seem, I loved the book, but didn't like the portrayal of the lead characters, especially in the beginning. Both Seth and Raine were initially so overdone that they were almost caricatures. Seth's caveman-Conan-the-barbarian-emotional/social-bull-in-a-china-shop routine was so over-the-top, a woman with even an ounce of self-respect would have laughed at him and kept on walking. Raine, on the other hand, was such a wimp, I wanted to pull my (or maybe her?) hair out. I was also frustrated that the characters were internally inconsistent. Raine, written in the alarmingly popular I'm-so-insecure-have-no-self-esteem-only-managed-to-have-sex-once-in-28 years-don't-realize-that-I'm-stunningly-gorgeous heroine mold, should never have appeared on Seth's radar. I suppose it's no accident that the only way Raine even came to Seth's notice was because he was deliberately spying on her. If they'd met under more normal circumstances, he would have looked right past her, because she was such a nothing. Similarly, we were supposed to believe that Seth, who was horribly insensitive, socially crass and inept (and happy to be so), was nonetheless sensitive enough to be a satisfying lover. Given that he had had no emotional relationship with a woman (including his mother) and only used them for sex, what would have motivated him to care enough to give a woman sexual satisfaction? Ego? I don't think so. This is a character internal inconsistency that is quite prevalent in the romance genre, especially for the hero. Although, like some of the other reviewers, I like my lead characters to be a bit emotionally messy, their "mess" should make sense. So given my issues with the main characters, I was happy to see them both evolve throughot the novel. Raine began to stand up to Seth, and he began to...actually, I'm not sure Seth ever truly evolved, although he did tell her he loved her before the end of the book. I found the other elements of the novel very well plotted and written. The plot was complex, but not overly so. And there were some very satisfying, unexpected plot twists. As all the other reviewers have noted, the sex scenes between Raine and Seth were sizzling. I really appreciated the realistic portrayal of their first sexual encounter, which was a bit physically painful for Raine. That was so refreshing when compared to the typical romance, where the virgin heroine's "first time" is always a breeze. All-in-all, I thought this was a good book, definitely worth the money. I look forward to reading Ms. McKenna's next release.
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Summary: Great Debut - 4-1/2 stars
Review: I picked this one up expecting something totally different and got a lot more than I bargained for. Let's see - an action-packed plot, a sexy, flawed alpha-male hero and a heroine who finds reserves of strength she didn't know she had. This is a great read and as noted by the other reviewers, the action is exciting in bed and out. Come to think of it, not all of the sex was in bed but you know what I mean. I recommend this one to anyone who likes their romantic suspense well-written and uncensored - the language and action in this book is for adults only.
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Summary: A Good Effort For A Debut Full Length Novel
Review: This was a good effort for this author on her first full length novel. The storyline was very good, and the main characters were well developed and believable. Both Characters are not polished and they both come to their relationship with plenty of emotional baggage. In my opinion it made reading about them falling in love all the more pleasent. If you like Lori Foster then you will like this author as well. The love sequances are not for the faint of heart but they are good. The suspense and the different twists and turns the story makes will keep you turning the pages! Don't miss this debut full length novel from this talented author. I look forward to reading her next novel!
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Summary: Whew! This was almost too hot!
Review: This was a great read. Shannon McKenna wrote a wonderfully erotic suspensful story. I thought it would get boring because it was a long book, but noooo way! Hot romance, delightful characters that are well written and with just the right mix of suspense. I'm looking forward to Shannon's next book which, I hear, will be based on the characters of Conner and Erin from Behind Closed Doors and will be released next August. Can't wait!
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Summary: WARNING: READ IT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Review: "I am not a nice guy and never pretended to be one." Seth Mackey, the surveillance expert tells it straight to his love-interest Raine Cameron. In fact in Shannon McKenna's debut full-length erotic romance novel, the untainted pair are saints compared to the miscreants. One by which is Raine's uncle Victor Lazar, multimillionaire businessman who harbors a mad passion for collecting murdering weapons from the past. His latest whim takes him to threatening his associate Kurt Novak with a video-clip flashing his heinous murder of a model and his lover and his murder weapon. Novak is also responsible for the death of undercover agent Jesse Cahill, Seth Mackey's brother and thanks to his surveillance expertise, he is able to infiltrate Lazar's corporation as an employed surveillance expert to catch him and Novak red-handed with the help of his allies, the McCloud brothers. Mistaking Raine as Lazar's mistress, he keeps close tabs on her and the detection edges close to an obsession for voyeurism. Behind Closed Doors he engages in his private fantasy until he meets her in person - and Raine is caught up in a web of sensual passion and animal attraction. Think the book is sleazy with sex? Absolutely not when Ms. McKenna's passion strips bare her characters' insecurities and vulnerabilites with tragic intimacy. Raine is haunted by dreams the past seventeen years of her father's death; Seth loses the sole kin who offers him love in a cynical environment controlled by his abusive father. It is sensuous erotic passion that shines over the clinical and perverse carnal acts between Lazar and his secretary. Raine and Seth engages in a fierce battle of power-play through sexual connection, offering a refuge for them built with quiet love, isolation and protection. Ms. McKenna's characters are brutally honest like her overt passionate scenes - and this is what makes them strongly evocative and endearing. It is not a fairy-tale, bed-of-roses romance but a powerful love starkly devastating in its scale through the mistrust, dangerous obsession, voyeurism and frenetic pursuits from Novak's cronies to capture Raine. There is absorbing and jolting suspense, surveillance research and familial hell in the story. Yet all these is secondary to the tender and poignant love scenes between the oddball couple. Each passionate play is lusciously sexy and steamy - only because of the emotional undercurrents. It is thus advisable to read it behind closed doors - for the erotic scenes sizzle and fog the mirror.
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Summary: If you love Foster, you'll love McKenna!!
Review: great book-Love all Lori Fosters books, I will now buy Shannon McKenna too. All keepers-especially of you like steamy books....
looking forward to the next one.
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Summary: Superb Erotic Romantic Suspense
Review: I bought this book after read Shannon's edition in All Through the Night and was not disappointed.. Its full of hot sex - and thrilling to read. This is a book that I shall read again and again... and I shall be watching out for more of Shannon's Books
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