Review: Tempting the Fire (ACRO #5) by Sydney Croft

EXTREME HEAT. EXTREME HUNGER.

A JUNGLE EDEN ABLAZE WITH TEMPTATION.

Deep in the Brazilian rain forest, a team of Navy SEALs has been nearly wiped out by something sinister and superhuman, sending shock waves through the Agency for Covert Rare Operatives (ACRO). Now ACRO agents Sela Kahne and Marlena West head to the world’s most unforgiving jungle to find and kill a mythical monstrosity with a taste for human blood. But to succeed in their mission, they will need the help of two men, each hiding his own dark secret.

Sela is an expert on cryptozoology with a sideline skill that could prove invaluable: When she makes love to a man, she engulfs his innermost thoughts. Teamed with Marlena, Sela makes contact with the lone SEAL survivor, Chance McCormack. Meanwhile, Logan Mills, the man who rescued Chance, leads his private company on a hunt that has nothing to do with saving lives. Soon, Sela will put her supernatural charms to work on Logan, determined to extract information about the creature they are seeking. But in this sweat-drenched realm of danger and deception, Logan is more than just a passive target. He has the power to lead a highly trained seducer into a jungle without any rules, without any limits—and with no end to the heat.

My Quickie Review:

Two agents from ACRO on a mission in the Brazilian rain forest, Marlena, Dev´s ex-secretary and now working as a Seducer, and Sela, a cryptozoologist. Rumour has it that Itor´s sub contractor has a deadly weapon on the loose, a Chupacabra, and now a whole team of SEALs has disappeared.

Marlena is supposed to seduce Logan, the owner of the weapons company, and Sela is supposed to find proof of the Chupacabra, but it doesn´t work out as they planned. Logan is more interested in taking care of Sela, and Marlena is soon tangled with a lost SEAL, Chance, who suffered from the attack and now is experiencing a change. Not to mention the urge to mate.

We also get to see more of Devlin and Gabe, the man Oz sent to help, and more from Annika and Creed and their struggle. More secrets are revealed and the suspense is high for the next and last book.

Sela and Logan didn´t really captivate me in the beginning, Marlena and Chance had more chemistry, but by the end you did root for them all.

Tempting the Fire features:

• backdoor play
• oral
• m/m

Rating: 4 Kisses