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Eve Carpenter, a broke, ex-popstar has had three years of hell thanks to the taxman and her greedy mother. She agrees to take part in a tv reality show and ends up paragliding into the Thames and being rescued by the lean, mean and moody Will Harper, who also happens to be a major in the army. In this alternative world, England is in the middle of a civil war and rather than being a major world power, it is somehow a third world country without the basics Eve is used to, such as computers and central heating among other things. She can’t believe they haven’t even heard of Shakespeare.
Major Harker has problems of his own. His ex-wife Saskia is his superior in the army and the twisted man, Harper holds responsible for a close friend’s violent death is desperate to do whatever it takes to get ahead. He doesn’t know whether this beautiful, ballsy woman he saved from drowning is a spy, or simply crazy, but what he does know is that she could be dangerous to him and the cause he’s so determined to fight for.
Harker is given a mission to capture a computer, something he’s never seen before and when he discovers that Eve not only seems to know what one looks like, but also insists she can work one too, he has no choice but to take her with him. She stands up to Harker, despite knowing that he could kill her if he chose to and although his ‘men’ don’t trust or like her very much, she agrees to help them and becomes involved in frightening situations that she could never have imagined having to deal with before arriving in this nightmare world.
Eve is feisty and tough, even when she’s terrified and Harper is a perfect hero, sexy, brave and always loyal to his ‘men’. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book where the heroine fell through a portal into another world, but it was gritty, at times dark and the growing sexual tension between the two main characters was wonderful. A great read with a hero I’m still thinking about two weeks after reading the book and that has to be good.
Rating: 8/10
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