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Colby Agency #34
His Secret Life
Find the hero who doesn't want to be found.
A wealthy businessman who won't rest until he repays the man who saved his family from a car crash--and fled the scene.
Jane Sutton, former army counterintelligence officer, is the proverbial "plain Jane." Smart, tenacious, tough as nails, but longing for love. Didn't bargain for the danger that surrounds her target, Troy Benson…or her irresistible attraction to him.
Supervisor's On the lam from witness protection, Troy lives with a devastating secret from his past and trusts no one. Unwilling to let Jane help him reclaim his true identity. Reluctant to believe that what she really might find is the hero of her dreams.
218 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2009
About the author
Debra Webb
557 books2,503 followersDEBRA WEBB is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 180 novels, including reader favorites the Finley O'Sullivan and Devlin & Falco series. She is the recipient of the prestigious Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense as well as numerous Reviewers Choice Awards. In 2012 Debra was honored as the first recipient of the esteemed L. A. Banks Warrior Woman Award for her courage, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. Recently Debra was awarded the distinguished Centennial Award for having achieved publication of her 100th novel.
With more than ten million books in print in numerous languages and countries, Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go. Visit Debra at www.debrawebb.com.
With more than ten million books in print in numerous languages and countries, Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go. Visit Debra at www.debrawebb.com.
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
September 20, 2009
Meh. Two plots running parallel to each other is never a good sign.
The first plot: A Colby Agency investigator, Jane Sutton, is trying to locate a man that doesn't want to be found. Troy Benson had saved a woman and her child and then promptly disappeared. Not the woman's husband wants to thank him properly, but first they have to find the hero and corroborate he doesn't have a criminal past.
Troy Benson is an eighty-something living the life in a nursing home. The thirty-something Troy Benson that Jane Sutton has found took on the old man's identity four years ago and is in hiding. Unfortunately Jane's investigation appears to have brought his past charging back and Jane is probably the only person who can help him. Pity he doesn't want her help...Or anything to do with her or the agency she works for.
Rather weak plot with more holes than a chunk of Elemental, bland characters, and rather banal action scenes.
The second plot: Someone wants to kidnap the granddaughter of Victoria Colby-Camp, the owner of the Colby Agency. This someone is apparently a bad guy from her (and her son's) past.
This second plot was obviously tied into the series and, since this is the first book of this series I've read, I had absolutely no clue as to what was going on. Victoria's son had been kidnapped in the past, apparently brainwashed into becoming a ruthless assassin yadda yadda yadda. Huh? Come again?
Anyway, the second, "kidnapping" plot was (though only three chapters long), distracting and had absolutely nothing to do with the bigger picture (involving Troy and Jane). Though it was strongest than the first, the fact that it brought up more questions than answers didn't sit well with me at all.
Forgettable.
The first plot: A Colby Agency investigator, Jane Sutton, is trying to locate a man that doesn't want to be found. Troy Benson had saved a woman and her child and then promptly disappeared. Not the woman's husband wants to thank him properly, but first they have to find the hero and corroborate he doesn't have a criminal past.
Troy Benson is an eighty-something living the life in a nursing home. The thirty-something Troy Benson that Jane Sutton has found took on the old man's identity four years ago and is in hiding. Unfortunately Jane's investigation appears to have brought his past charging back and Jane is probably the only person who can help him. Pity he doesn't want her help...Or anything to do with her or the agency she works for.
Rather weak plot with more holes than a chunk of Elemental, bland characters, and rather banal action scenes.
The second plot: Someone wants to kidnap the granddaughter of Victoria Colby-Camp, the owner of the Colby Agency. This someone is apparently a bad guy from her (and her son's) past.
This second plot was obviously tied into the series and, since this is the first book of this series I've read, I had absolutely no clue as to what was going on. Victoria's son had been kidnapped in the past, apparently brainwashed into becoming a ruthless assassin yadda yadda yadda. Huh? Come again?
Anyway, the second, "kidnapping" plot was (though only three chapters long), distracting and had absolutely nothing to do with the bigger picture (involving Troy and Jane). Though it was strongest than the first, the fact that it brought up more questions than answers didn't sit well with me at all.
Forgettable.
February 3, 2022
This romantic suspense novel has more twists and turns than corkscrew pasta. It kept me guessing up to the last page, and I couldn’t go to bed until I had finished reading.
March 10, 2010
Not actually a romance book. Included in a series and a little hard to follow the overarching story. Guy on the run, woman investigator finds him for completely different reason. Bad guys show up and they're both on the run.
July 12, 2021
This is another good one by Debra Webb about the Col by Agency. Victoria is worried about the threat against her granddaughter and Jane is looking for the hero who saved a wealthy man's family after a bad accident.
An action packed book that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
An action packed book that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
September 12, 2019
Enjoyed.
May 11, 2020
Conspiracies that were unexplained. It had a parallel plot that was irrelevant. Not great.
January 25, 2012
needed a break from the other book. This should be a quick easy read.l
December 7, 2015
Meh, pretty lackluster. 2 kidnappings in a book this small is rediculous.
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