Deadly Games

By Jaycee Clark

    Ian Kinncaid's life take a radical turn the day his father throws him out of the house. Thirteen years later, we meet Dimitri Petrolov who is known as "The Reaper" by the Czech Republic underground. "The Reaper" is just one of many identities that Ian has assumed as an undercover agent. Ian decides that this is his last operation and that he wants a more normal life. Rori Maitland retires from MI6 and establishes herself as an "assassin for hire" known as "The Raven." An unknown client has requested her services and her assignment is to kill "The Reaper." Before she accepts the assignment, Rori decides to learn more about her target. Her research tells her that "The Reaper" is a highly skilled assassin who is drop dead gorgeous and has a "smile that could coax angels to sin" but he has no documented past. Rori and Ian are thrown together during an operation that goes awry and she ends up saving Ian from being shot. Now Ian's cover is blown and he is on the run with Rori, and a little girl that he saves from the Prague underground. Ian and Rori must work together to save the little girl because the bad guys are after the both of them.

     Deadly Games is the fourth book in Jaycee Clark's Deadly series about the Kinncaid family. The characters are well-defined and the relationship between Ian and Rori absolutely "sizzles off the page" despite the plot which is somewhat predictable and the occasional violent and graphic sexual references. Jaycee Clark has found a perfect niche for her writing in the contemporary romantic suspense genre. I highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy a book of this type, and I plan to read the others in this series.