The Colonel's Daughter
by Amy Andrews
Publication Date: August 10, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
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Synopsis: Sign: Scorpio
The sting of this Scorpio is unforgettably hot...
Ivy Danforth is out from under her Colonel father's overprotective control, and she's making it count. Big time. She's taken the summer off to travel through Australia with her bestie and experiencing all that life has to offer—when you’re not under constant military surveillance. She wants to end her summer with some sexy fun, and she has just the hottie in mind.
Seth Rodrigo is ex-Special Forces working undercover and keeping an eye on Ivy as a special favor to her father. All he has to do is not give the game away and reveal who he really is. And especially not give into the hunger that's burning through his careful control...
Then they're forced into protective custody. Alone. Together. For four days.
And this time, the Colonel's daughter isn't taking no for an answer...
Excerpt
Ivy
pulled her T-shirt over her head and wiggled gently out of her pajama
shorts, placing them both
on the vanity. She looked at her reflection, something which she’d
avoided till this point, and eyed herself critically. Standing there
in nothing but her white cotton fig-leaf underwear it was the same as
it had always been.
“Never
going to be a Flamenco dancer,” she whispered.
Even
if she did have the figure for it and
knew
how to dance the damn thing, the world wasn’t ready for Snow White
the Flamenco Dancer with pink hair.
God,
her hair. Bed hair times 100. What a freaking mess.
She
raised her hand to push it back into some kind of order clipping the
glass tumbler on the way up, knocking it off the vanity. She cried
out, trying to reach it in time, but it was too late. She sprang back
as it smashed on the tiles louder than a sonic boom in the still of
the night.
Ivy
froze, staring at it dumbfounded, not even the bite of tiny splinters
of glass speared into her shins registering as she stared at the mess
blankly for long moments, her heart thundering.
Shit.
Dean.
Maybe
he hadn’t heard it?
“Ivy!”
The door knob rattled. “Ivy!”
Or
maybe he had.
Ivy
scrambled to bring coherency to her thoughts. To open her mouth and
say something. Tell him she was okay. That it was just a broken
glass. But nothing seemed to come out in those confusing seconds as
time slowed right down and she watched in horror as the door came
crashing in with a loud bang.
Dean
stood there like an avenging angel, his stance wide, knees bent, his
fisted hands held up and out from his body, the muscles in his
forearms and biceps coiled tight like a ninja primed to spring.
If
he was just a bouncer she’d eat her hat.
The
pain in Ivy’s hip faded away completely. Their gazes met and held
briefly before his dropped
lower,
landing squarely on her chest.
Her
very naked chest.
He
stared at it, the sound of his breathing loud in the silence, his
nostrils flaring as a tiny flicker of something lit his eyes. It
looked a lot like desire and Ivy’s nipples tingled and ruched
shamelessly in blatant response before she remembered she was
practically naked in front of him and
her
common sense returned with an almighty wallop.
“Dean!”
Ivy gasped her cheeks heating as she folded her arms over her chest
and turned her back to him. “Get out!”
My Review
Ivy Danforth is the daughter of Colonel Danforth. Ivy, who has grown up under a controlling father, is trying to break free, but of course when your dad is a Colonel he's bound to be a little over protective. In the case of Colonel Danforth, he goes the extra mile and sends in ex-Special Forces member, Seth Rodrigo, undercover to watch over Ivy.
When Ivy witnesses a murder, her and Seth are forced into protective custody where tensions run high and romance is in the air.
The Colonel's Daughter is straight-forward and fast paced. The book itself has a good plot and Amy Andrews is a wonderful author, but there were a few things that stood out to me. When Ivy witnesses the murder, her and Seth are taken to a hotel and locked up in protective custody. I thought this part would be more suspenseful and that as a ex-Special Forces member, Seth would be more worked up about the threat to them. It seems that Andrews somewhat ignores the threat and the danger of a drug lord being on the lose and that this was just thrown in to get Ivy and Seth in a room together.
The characters themselves are well written and I enjoyed Ivy's character a lot. She is a woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. Seth is a good guy and honorable and I admired that in him. As for the romance between Ivy and Seth, it's a slow-burn as Seth denies the possibility of anything between them for most of the book, but once things happen, the romance heats up.
All in all, The Colonel's Daughter is an enjoyable and easy read and a good addition to the Zodiac series.
★★★★
When Ivy witnesses a murder, her and Seth are forced into protective custody where tensions run high and romance is in the air.
The Colonel's Daughter is straight-forward and fast paced. The book itself has a good plot and Amy Andrews is a wonderful author, but there were a few things that stood out to me. When Ivy witnesses the murder, her and Seth are taken to a hotel and locked up in protective custody. I thought this part would be more suspenseful and that as a ex-Special Forces member, Seth would be more worked up about the threat to them. It seems that Andrews somewhat ignores the threat and the danger of a drug lord being on the lose and that this was just thrown in to get Ivy and Seth in a room together.
The characters themselves are well written and I enjoyed Ivy's character a lot. She is a woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. Seth is a good guy and honorable and I admired that in him. As for the romance between Ivy and Seth, it's a slow-burn as Seth denies the possibility of anything between them for most of the book, but once things happen, the romance heats up.
All in all, The Colonel's Daughter is an enjoyable and easy read and a good addition to the Zodiac series.
★★★★
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