Savage Love

4.5 stars-impassioned and spicy story

4.5 stars SAVAGE LOVE is the third and final instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult SAVAGE erotic, romantic suspense trilogy focusing on former Green Beret and Walker Security specialist Rick Savage, and architect Candace Marks. The SAVAGE trilogy is a spin-off from the author’s NAKED and Dirty Rich series with the appearance of several characters from the author’s Walker Security series. SAVAGE LOVE should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after the events and cliff hanger of book one SAVAGE BURN. Lilah Love and Kane Mendez from the author’s Lilah Love series cross over with the current time line.

NOTE:If you have not read books one and two, there may be spoilers in my review.

SOME BACKGROUND: Eight years earlier Rick Savage destroyed Candace Marks’ heart when he sent a ‘Dear Candace’ letter while on assignment overseas but what Candace never knew was that Rick Savage was recruited by a covert CIA black ops unit, a unit whose former members are now in prestigious and powerful places in the US government. When a debt is called in, Rick Savage must face the inevitable including the woman whose heart he destroyed.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Rick and Candace ) SAVAGE LOVE follows in the wake of an attempt on Candace’s life, and the continuing investigation into the people and persons targeting our couple including the possibility of Candace’s current yet former fiancé. While Rick calls in help from Walker Security, Candace must make preparations to face the man who has quite possibly ordered her death. With her father missing in the Middle East, and her fiancé making a run for political office, our heroine struggles with issues of trust, including the man with whom she is still in love. What ensues is the continuing rebuilding relationship between Candace and Rick, and the potential fall-out as best laid plans fail when an unknown combatant / assailant enters the picture.

SAVAGE LOVE is the culmination of three instalments focusing on the who, how and why of Rick’s disappearance and his estrangement from the woman he loves; on the political machine that is US politics; and on the power, control and financial gain of murder, espionage, war and love. Lisa Renee Jones pulls the reader into an impassioned and spicy story that will captivate and seduce.

One final observation, with the appearance of Lilah Love and Kane Mendez, I am hoping their particular part of this story continues in the next chapter of the Lilah Love series or has a resolution in another series. As I have not read the fourth instalment in the Lilah Love series, I do not know if any of the Savage Trilogy has crossed over to the other side.