Hell Bent
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4.4 • 10 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Former Delta Force Operator turned CIA Ghost Ops Operative Cade Winters has been dodging his dysfunctional family for years. He isn’t supposed to have a family, it’s too dangerous, but Cade can’t let go of the only person he gives a shit about, his sister Veronica. When he makes his yearly call to her and finds out she’s receiving death threats from a homegrown terrorist group, Cade knows he has no choice but to go back to Texas to make sure she’s safe.
Fresh out of a six-year hitch in the Army, Cee Cee Logan thinks she’s finally earned her brother David’s respect when he finally offers her a job with his security firm. She quickly sees that isn’t the case when the job she’s hired for turns out to be that of the team secretary, a nice safe, desk job like he told her to get when she graduated college. Cecelia is frustrated, but takes the position because she is determined to prove to her chauvinistic and overprotective sibling once and for all she’s capable of so much more.
By the end of the first week, Cee Cee wishes she’d have just re-enlisted. Her body is stiff from sitting, her fingers sore and her mind numb, but what really makes her want to run back to Afghanistan where she would at least be respected by her colleagues is the company’s other new hire. Cade Winters, her ex-lover, is back in town and the hardhearted, hard-bodied operator is a man she definitely doesn’t know anymore.
When a trafficked woman’s repatriation clinic is attacked, and Cade’s sister Veronica, a judge, is in grave danger, Cecelia is presented with her opportunity to prove herself as an agent. But the question was, did she want it? Could she trust her partner to have her back when he seemed to be on a mission of his own to put a knife in it every chance he got?
Customer Reviews
Tragic, heartbreaking and realistic.
4 1/2 Star Review.....
Have you ever wanted to choke someone, and slap someone else up side the head too?
Well this was my reaction to Cade Winters and Cecelia Logan. Cade has spent years doing what he believes he does best and to hell with anyone who doesn’t like it. He’s arrogant, opinionated, a brute and downright nasty. But throughout the story you can’t help but see the occasional crack in his hard-earned status, and wonder what caused this hardened version of someone who was full of life.
CeeCee Logan spends copious amounts of time trying to win her brothers favour and cement her standing within his Deep Six Security team. But Dave doesn’t want his sister on the front line, letting her leave to join the military was bad enough, so he’s not encouraging her risk-taking tendencies. So secretary it is, well until he can push her all the way out the door.
Cade and CeeCee have history, and after two years of wonderful, everything fell apart when CeeCee enlisted without talking to Cade first. So six years later, many miles of distance and so much angst between them, this unlikely duo are thrust together for a common cause and forced to deal with issues they both thought better left in the past.
This is an extremely emotional story with the background of each primary character and the heartbreaking reality of human trafficking where the degradation and torture so many innocent women endure is unending. I really loved this story and while Cade came across brutish and hardheaded initially, and CeeCee had moments of immaturity, their growth and development throughout the story was wonderful.