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Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: I like the different kind of romance Review: I started out as a fan of Ms. Webbs by reading Keeping Baby Safe. I absolutely loved the book and it got me hooked on the Colby Agency novels. I've waited for this one since I heard it was coming out several months ago and I wasn't disappointed. The romance between Lucas and Victoria was wonderful, the circumstances that defined both their lives made you want to shed a tear for them. But in the end it all pays off, big time. It was definately worth the wait! I was also intrigued by the budding romance between Seth and Tasha, I hope Ms. Webb incorporates more of their story into future books. Seth is the kind of tortured character you love to hate. He's evil but in a good way and you want him to be able to get past his demons and live life to it's fullest with the woman he's realizing he loves. Then there's that final twist that makes you think about what you know and what you think you know. All in all Striking Distance is a five star book and it's made me a fan of Debra Webbs for life.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Wonderful things come to those who wait! Review: I started out as a fan of Ms. Webbs by reading Keeping Baby Safe. I absolutely loved the book and it got me hooked on the Colby Agency novels. I've waited for this one since I heard it was coming out several months ago and I wasn't disappointed. The romance between Lucas and Victoria was wonderful, the circumstances that defined both their lives made you want to shed a tear for them. But in the end it all pays off, big time. It was definately worth the wait! I was also intrigued by the budding romance between Seth and Tasha, I hope Ms. Webb incorporates more of their story into future books. Seth is the kind of tortured character you love to hate. He's evil but in a good way and you want him to be able to get past his demons and live life to it's fullest with the woman he's realizing he loves. Then there's that final twist that makes you think about what you know and what you think you know. All in all Striking Distance is a five star book and it's made me a fan of Debra Webbs for life.
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: I like the different kind of romance Review: I thought the mystery was good. I liked the Seth being young and vital. Tasha was exciting to go a job. I liked the strong young woman being able to kick (hide). It is different from many of the romances out today and I found it worth reading and enjoying in one sitting. I am online today to order the authors other books.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: This book is AWESOME!!!! Review: I've been a long time fan of Debra Webb's Colby series and couldn't wait to get my greedy little hands on this one. The book was definitely worth the wait. Webb seamlessly marries suspense and romance, and the combination in this book made for an action-packed, gut-wrenchingly emotional read. This hero is TO DIE FOR. He's dark, he's tortured, he's dangerous, and God, is he sexy. Like all of Webb's books, this one is a keeper.
Rating: ![2 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-2-0.gif) Summary: One good romance, the other iffy Review: The romance between Victoria and Lucas was quite good, and it saves the book from a much lower rating. I guess I should've been forewarned about the Tasha/Seth romance -- from reading the blurb on the back of the book as well as having read some of the author's other books. Like lots of other romance readers, I started out reading the old 70's novels where the hero is a real jerk or even an outright rapist, but after a few of those, I moved on to what I would consider healthier, more romantic, and more interesting storylines. While the hero in this story has reasons to be as screwed up as he is, I really don't find the sex scenes with him romantic or sexy. That's not to say he's not interesting -- he is, in some ways. I think the author needed a couple hundred more pages to deal with the subject matter in a more effective way. I borrowed this book from a co-worker, and I'm glad now that I didn't spend money on it, because more money given to Harlequin for this type of storyline means they'll make more of them.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Lucas and Victoria...finally! Review: Though not part of the Harlequin Intrigue category, this book continues a story that is on-going within that line. However, this part of the Colby Agency saga was just too good to try to whittle down to 75,000 words. So it emerges as a single-title novel which will hopefully be found by Webb's Colby devotees who may be left wondering, Hey, when did that happen? After all, this is the all-important and much anticipated story of Victoria and Lucas, and also solves the mystery of what really happened to Victoria's son, James Colby, Jr.. But since this book is so stand-alone excellent, let me try to talk about it on its own.
There are really two sets of protagonists in this story, Victoria Colby and Lucas Camp, and the mysterious assassin named Seth and green CIA agent Tasha North. Usually this kind of multi-plot in a romance takes away from the overall appeal and suggests that neither couple is strong enough to have carried the book. However, that is certainly not the case here, and the way the Colby series developed makes this approach all the more satisfying.
Victoria Colby is a hunted woman. Readers have never really known until this book why she has been stalked all these years by Errol Leberman. All we have known is that Leberman was responsible for the kidnap, torture, and murder of Victoria's husband, James Colby, and that Victoria believes him to also be responsible for the kidnapping of their child, James Colby Jr., a child she believes has been dead for eighteen years.
Leberman's grudge extends to Lucas Camp, James Colby's close friend, and a friend and confidant to Victoria all these years that she has dedicated herself to making her late husband's private investigations firm, the Colby Agency, the best in the business. Lucas's background is varied, heroic, and more secret than the mere CIA. He's currently involved in Mission Recovery, Webb's spin-off series from Colby, in which he recruits only the best of the best for his covert operations. All these years that he has stood by her, Lucas has been waiting for Victoria to be ready to put away her grief and move on. And it seems, at the beginning of Striking Distance that she is finally ready to put the past behind her and act on her long-suppressed feelings for Lucas.
This, of course, makes it the perfect time for Leberman to launch his ultimate plot against Victoria. He has an assassin waiting in the wings, ready to finally take her life now that she is finally ready to live it again. An assassin who calls himself Seth, and who is cold, ruthless, and just as dedicated to Victoria's destruction as Leberman himself. An assassin Leberman has been training these past eighteen years...
Lucas knows that Leberman has an assassin following Victoria. He knows that in Leberman's twisted mind, this would be the perfect time to strike. And yet he doesn't know why the assassin hasn't yet made a move against her. He needs someone to get close to the killer. Someone who would qualify as the best of the best, and yet, someone who is not so versed in field operations that Seth won't spot her as an agent right away.
Enter Tasha North. Not your typical Harlequin heroine. She's not shy and retiring, she hasn't been so focused on other things that she doesn't have any experience with men. This is a woman who knows that she'll need every weapon at her disposal to eliminate the threat against Victoria Colby and earn herself a spot on the Mission Recovery Team. She knows her assets and she's not afraid to use them.
The relationship between Tasha and Seth seems impossible given Seth's nearly inhuman qualities. But the sort of challenge that presents to the heroine and the author makes it all the more appealing. Webb handles their relationship in a way that is believable under the circumstances, rather than falling into the trap of creating some sudden, implausible about-face in one of her characters as so many authors are wont to do.
I found Striking Distance to be an excellent read, as well-paced as a Robert Ludlum adventure, but with better characters and believable romantic entanglements. Definitely worth any extra trouble to obtain, especially for Colby Agency fans.
If you haven't read the Colby Agency series, start with Webb's Safe By His Side (ISBN: 0-373-22583-0), Harlequin Intrigue #583.
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