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Dangerous | 
 enlarge | Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 5525
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
ASIN: B0037NB4IE
Publication Date: May 19, 2010
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Product Description
Tall, lean and headstrong, FBI agent Kilraven lives by his own rules. One of those rules includes keeping his hands off Jacobsville's resident sweetheart, Winnie Sinclair, no matter the temptation. Shy and innocent, Winnie couldn't handle a man like him--a merciless man with a haunted past. And this small town may hold not only the woman he fights to resist, but the answers to a cold case that is very personal.... Winnie has had her own share of sorrow and senses Kilraven's pain. Though she tries to deny it, the gentle 911 operator feels a connection with the darkly handsome agent. When he discovers that her family's unsavory past might have a bearing on his case, Winnie is determined to help him crack it...and the ice around his heart. As they combine forces, the stakes rise ever higher. Winnie's life is on the line and she'll need Kilraven more than ever. But if they are to have a future, her ruthless Texan will need to confront his past and risk it all for love.
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 Kilraven August 23, 2010
kittens2211 (AL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read about Kilraven in a couple of DP's books and was really looking forward to his book....I was disappointed....Dangerous did not do justice to the Kilraven character
 truly disappointed.. August 18, 2010
sj
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking forward to this book.. having read her others that involved Kilraven. but sadly this one lacked emotion and depth.. no real story. if you love Diana Palmer books.. I suggest you skip this one . sadly it just was boring and lacking in story. very cliche.
sj.
Bridget's Review August 15, 2010
bridget3420 (KY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is actually the first book of Diana's that I have read. While it wasn't one of my favorites it did have a good plot and fun characters. There were some corny parts but that's in every romance book. Overall, I would give it 3 out 5 stars.
First and Last Palmer so so bad August 13, 2010
M. Skulski (los angeles ca)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was my first Palmer book and boy what an experience! I can't even begin to site all the problems with this junk. But the main one is the fact that this arrogant jerk Kilraven has talked this silly soppy lovesick 22 year old who has a terrible crush on him to marry him for a while, have sex, interview a witness, then divorce and be on his merry way. Supposedly, he is just to traumatized by the death of his family 7 years before to ever really get married and have kids again. Although he sure doesn't mind using this senseless virgin for a while until he gets what he wants out her.Yes, that's the kind of hero I want to fantasize about! Lame Lame Lame. Winnie is so pathetic she agrees to this ridiculous scheme, in hopes that he really will see what a great person she is and want to stay with her. The characters are awful, the plot is boring and there are too many extra characters from past books. Too many references to past events and people that it was hard to follow. Don't waste time or money on this, not even from the library!
I enjoyed the book, but...... August 10, 2010
Avid reader (no longer in Texas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
not in the way DP probably intended. I had read all the reviews before the library notified me that my hold was ready to be picked up. I was so thrilled!!! To me, DP is the written equivalent of "Whale Wars"-unintentional comedy gold! I knew I needed to go to the airport and get my children after their visit to gramma, and I needed some light, brainless reading for the wait. "Dangerous" was perfect: no thought processes were needed to grasp the plot or the dialogue, which was perfect for shuffling through the TSA security lines at Denver International Airport at 0830 in the morning.
Once again our hero is a super-secret covert agent, with mad skillz in gaming, hand-to-hand, and all sorts of other stuff (to include foreign languages, like Arabic, Farsi, and things like that!), with a Tragic! Past! that he cannot forget. Or heroine is a young (but not so young as some!), virginal, blonde-haired doormat (initially, at least), who believes our erstwhile hero is "dishy". Blahblahblah temporary marriage/questioning suspects/secret brother/illegitimate child molester son....
As I have mentioned in other reviews, DP's egregious use of random historical discourses by characters is disconcerting, to say the least. Who cares, one asks? Why, DP does! She apparently wants everyone to know that she has a degree in History (so do I, several in fact. I can have many many letters in the English alphabet, with punctuation, behind my name should I choose). I want to know where Kilraven went to university, because I wasn't allowed to specialise in any single area (like Scottish history) until my Master's work.
The info dumps on EOCs and dispatchers bothered almost as much as the random history lessons did. But the book is humorous, nonetheless.
I think I shall continue to get the hardcover books from the library, and wait for the used bookstore or the paperback reissue from now on. It is less costly, and more fun to read the reviews then read the book.
***This started as a one-star review, until I realised that "Dangerous" provided much more entertainment than one would expect from a one-star book. Once I determined that few people would read this book as anything other than mindless fluff, I enjoyed the story significantly more. Gloryanne is still my favorite DP heroine, though. She had an education, an attitude, and a career! Was that book ghostwritten, since the subsequent books all tend to have doormat heroines. OK, maybe Alice Jones was another exception....
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