Willing

WILLING is the second book of the Mercenary trilogy. Josie McCall, is a highly trained mercenary, who has decided to get out of the profession and into computer programming. She has never known any other life as her father owns a Mercenary school and trains soldiers making sure Josie was one of the best. Daniel (Nitro) Black Eagle is a highly trained explosive expert and a fellow mercenary, who has bought into the school and is her fathers partner. Daniel has the hots for Josie and is so sexually frustrated around her that all he does is snap and growl at her. Josie on the other hand feels that Daniel hates her and cannot understand why but at the same time does not understand why her body goes on alert whenever he is around. Josie may be an excellent mercenary but has no clue when it comes to relationships of the male-female kind. When an explosion levels the school with her father in it, and she gets him to the hospital, only to have him go missing, Josie and Daniel must work side by side to bring down the extremists, and find her father. It is while on this mission that they discover that they are hot for each other. Daniel takes great pleasure in bringing out Josie's feminine side, in an explosive, exciting way. Josie knows that Daniel is called Nitro for a reason, and when she finds out the reasoning behind it is not only there to help him work through a lifetime of doubts but hopefully can help him forge a future. This is an action packed, suspense romance with so much heat between Josie and Daniel that it is a wonder the pages don't disintegrate. Can they find her father in time, and bring the culprits to justice? Is Daniel WILLING to take a chance on the future? Lucy has again penned a terrific read and one well worth reading.

Jossie is a "retired" mercenary, her father is the owner of a training school for soldiers. But when his school is burnt to the ground in an explosion she has to go for one last mission. Daniel "Nitro" is a loner mercenary that just recently made partners with Jossie's dad at the school and is Willing to help her in finding out what happened and who did it. This is a story of growing respect and trust. One where you will find yourself sighting, loving the way the author describes feelings and conflicts. A story with the sensual side of a romance, and the barriers that the characters due to their careers and upbringing have to overcome. As a follow up story this book can be read alone, but you will have a better understanding of some facts if you read Ready first. This one reminds me a little of The real Deal and as usual you can never go wrong with Lucy's books.

This trade paperback book by Lucy Monroe is the story of Josette McCall (Josi) who is the daughter of a Vietname vet who now spends his time doing freelance training of mercenaries at his school in Oregon. After losing her mother at a young age, Josi was raised solely by her father and taught all the skills he knew in his determination to never have his daughter at anyone's mercy or have her endure some of the horrors he saw through his tours of duty. In her mid-twenties and after a serious injury, Josi has at last decided to leave the mercenary way of life and explore a career in computers. Her father had just taken on a partner in his business in the person of brooding and dark explosives expert Daniel Black Eagle (Nitro). When her father's compound is torched and her father disappears from the hospital she had taken him to, Josi finds herself partnering up with Daniel in an effort to discover who had destroyed the merc school and just where her MIA father has disappeared to. This partnership throws these two old aquaintances together where we discover that their assumed mutual dislike was actually covering a great deal of sexual attraction and chemistry between the beautiful merc woman and the modern day Sioux warrior. Their hot tempers and assumptions about their own natures and desires cause them no end of trouble as well as great pleasure during the mission they are both determined to complete. --------------------------------------- I enjoyed this book quite a bit and it may well be my current favorite of Lucy's books. Josi was a very strong heroine and Daniel was a very caring but possessive alpha male. The sex scenes were a great balance of hot and detailed without being overly technical - I didn't need to get out the Barbie and Ken to visualize what was going on. I really enjoyed Josi going through the effort to enjoy "girlie" things and her childlike delight in them at the same time Daniel is trying to convince himself that he's not a fit long-term companion for her. I think I liked this second book in Lucy's Merc series more than the first book. The characters felt more 3 dimensional to me and I was able to really get into the head of Josi and Daniel.

Willing by Lucy Monroe is an emotional, all out sexy and wickedly fun read. All Josie McCall knows is being a trained solder. She realizes there is a life outside of being a mercenary and breaks away from her dad's training school. But someone has bombed the school and her dad barely escapes with his life. Now Josie's dad is missing from the hospital and she needs the help of her dad's business partner. Only bad thing is Daniel Black Eagle sets her heart and soul on fire. Daniel Eagle has fought his attraction to Josie from the start. She is always in his thoughts one way or another. Now with her father missing Daniel is all set to protect her around the clock. He has his work cut out for him getting independent Josie to agree to have a bodyguard. Being with Josie all the time is playing with fire. Once Daniel learns Josie's feelings are the same, watch out. Willing is jammed packed with high stakes intrigue, deep-seated emotions and smoking desires. Daniel and Josie both are shaped by their upbringing and it takes the strengths of both of them to forge a future. Their attraction is one of the most sensual books I have read in a while. You can feel both their inner turmoil's on many levels. I can't wait to read the final book in this series, Able.

In Oregon, Tyler McCall runs a mercenary training school that he thought his best student would one day want to take over the operation. However, his daughter Josie is tired of soldering and wants nothing to do with the school; instead she switches to computers. In the meantime Tyler starting to feel his age, needs a willing partner so offers a sweet deal to Daniel Black Eagle, who accepts though he worries about the Josie connection. However, someone blows up the school with Tyler inside. He is rushed to the hospital as he new partner and his daughter go there to see if he is okay. Not only is he not there, Josie wonders if Daniel, better known as nitro for his skills with all types of explosives, planted the bomb that devastated the mercenary school that she called home. She plans to find her dad, uncover the identity of the culprit and deal with that person accordingly. However she may be the best combat soldier in the world, but when it comes to the bedroom she is an amateur; Daniel wants to be her loving instructor even as he accepts she probably can take him in a fight. The second Lucy Monroe exhilarating mercenary soldier romantic suspense is a fast-paced thriller that grips the reader once the explosion rips apart the school. Daniel is an interesting hero who has some childhood scars that make him doubt commitment, but knows he wants Josie at his side forever. While he defies the macho mercenary male when he accepts that his beloved is no pussycat and probably the superior fighter; Josie is a captivating mix of feminism and military toughness. Readers are READY and WILLING for the final tale to appear. Harriet Klausner