Beyond The Limit by Lindsay McKenna

Major Pete Trayhern’s newest assignment is to build a power plant near the Afghanistan mountains. While the Marines have prepared him to overcome challenges such as the desert climate and problems with the Taliban, nothing has prepared him for his site project engineer, Calandra Roland. Cali has proven herself in several major construction projects in the Middle East and is ready for her next challenge, but the electricity between Pete and herself may prove to be their undoing. The only option open to Pete and Cali is to be strictly professional. But when the danger surrounding them escalates, can Pete and Cali stay professional or will their feelings for each other betray them?

The slow pace to this book leaves Lindsay to fully develop the characters and their feelings for each other. I spent half of the book screaming at the characters to speak what’s on mind so they could get together. But without the simmer of the first half, you wouldn’t have had the emotionally charged second half. Not every book affects me the way this one did. I hope it does the same for you too.

Score: Great

Details: HQN, December 2006