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List Price: $6.99 | | Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Salesrank: 27023
Released: May 3, 2005 |
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| Media: Mass Market Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
The daughter of a wealthy businessman, Jillian Kincaid grew up with bodyguards shadowing her every move-and she hated it. Now a TV anchorwoman, she refuses to let another hired thug follow her around. Not even when she begins to receive terrifying death threats. Not even when the bodyguard is the darkly seductive Nolan Garrett...
Trained in Special Ops, bodyguard Nolan Garrett has been hired by Jillian's father to keep her out of danger. But it's clear from the start that Jillian isn't going to make his job easy. Far from the spoiled princess he expected, Jillian is tough, independent, and totally sexy. And she's fighting him every step of the way.
As Jillian's stalker raises the stakes, Nolan must keep her close if he wants to keep her alive. But being so close can only turn up the heat that's been simmering between them-a heat that could explode into passion at any moment...
To the Edge (The Bodyguards, Book 1) Reviews:
Great, fast read, believable characters 
2008-08-03 - If the rest of the books in the series are written as well as this one, I'm looking forward to reading them all. Books like these follow a fairly standard template -- brooding alpha male comes to the rescue of woman in peril. Perils ensue but in the end they walk off into the twilight together. When you know the basic ending before you even read the first page, it makes it doubly important that the danger scenario that drives the story be well written and well paced, that it keeps the reader's interest. You want to be invested in the characters and immersed in the story. Gerard accomplishes both in this first bodyguards book. I'm looking forward to reading the rest.
To the Edge 
2008-07-19 - I enjoyed this book. I thought the characters were fairly well developed and I loved how Gerard made the main male character, Nolan so human. In my opinion many suspense/romance authors make the hero so tough and manly with no room for emotion except for the heroine usually. Nolan was so full of emotion before he met Jillian (the heroine) that he has to drown it out with a bottle of scotch. And Jillian is a little less developed but she's still understandable as well especially once you read the scene involving her mother. And I liked that she was the one to demand the relationship take place. The plot was good too, I didn't pick out the true villain until the showdown actually took place which is nice since it's sometimes really obvious. Also, Nolan's family business is personal security which is now he becomes Jillian's bodyguard. It also not so subtlety sets the stage for sequels for his brothers and sister but they seem interesting with all their own secrets. The romance area of the book is pretty satisfying though it mostly involves Nolan denying that he wants to be with Jillian. Like I already wrote, Jillian is the one that takes most of the initiative but then again thats not always a bad thing. Gerard makes you wait for the love scene but it was pretty steamy. The only problem I really had with the book was at the end Gerard tries to change of some of characters' character, like Jillian's mother and father; suddenly they have a whole new side/personality and we're supposed to feel sympathetic towards them? No. Overall though everything kind of works together to make for a good read.
Anyways, I would most definitely recommend this book and in fact I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series..they're sure to be just as satisfying!
Okay 
2008-04-28 - This was okay, I haven't bought anything else by her because it didn't wow me.
Just a really enjoyable suspense thriller and romance!
2007-10-17 - Nolan Garrett is a burned out Special Forces guy who reluctantly takes an assignment from his oldest brother Ethan who is the head of their family's security firm, E.D.E.N. It was started by their Dad a retired Florida cop and named for the four siblings in order of age Ethan, Dallas, Eve (Nolan's twin sister) and Nolan. Jillian Kincaid, an local TV anchorwoman who has been receiving death threats and work and home is the daughter of a high profile publishing mogul who has already asked her to move home to her parents' house or get a bodyguard but she is very independent. Nolan is to break-in to her apartment and "scare" her so she will realize how vulnerable she is and thus accept Nolan's services as bodyguard as hired by her father.
Nolan accomplishes his "scare" in spades by being in her bathroom as she steps out of the shower. Their relationship is adversarial right from the get-go even though later that night Nolan has to drag Jillian with him as he goes to help a member of her former Special Forces team who is in deep trouble at a nearby bar/dive.
While Jillian as she goes through her day as a newswoman and dinner at her parents' sees some side of Nolan that are not quite so scary, she is still not willing to work with him and constantly tries to find ways not to have him around. Nolan for his part begins to admire Jillian for her independence, brains and guts. However, there is a stalker out there who is upping the ante and definitely out to kill Jillian as she has some close calls.
Lots of suspense and excitement as the sexual and thriller plot lines comes to a climax.
A very enjoyable read!
Great reading
2007-08-07 - This is the first book I've read by this author and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The characters were believeable and the story held my interest. I finished reading the book in 2 days. I'm on to the second in the series.
