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Hot-blooded

by Karen Foley

Published 2010218 pagesISBN 978-0-3737-9567-3

"The able-bodied Marine has a real way with women! First Sergeant Chase McCormick isn't a chauvinist. But he does believe that women have no place in combat zones. Why? Because his men forget their training! They fall all over themselves trying to protect the women around them. As far as Chase is concerned, females belong in the bedroom, the home, the office. But not anywhere near Chase McCormick when he's on duty.Too bad nobody mentioned that to gorgeous Elena de la Vega. She's been sent to Chase's remote outpost in northern Afghanistan. After they'd shared a sizzling one-night stand! Elena can handle herself. It's Chase who needs a directive on how to deal with his own wildly undisciplined sexual attraction to the woman! Because her presence is making short work of his hardened soldier training ... and putting more than their hearts at risk"--Publisher.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction · Romance

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Urgent pace

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Who it may suit

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ToneBalanced
LuminousDark

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Hot-bloodedKaren Foley
Powerful4.6/5

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Before you choose

A quick reading snapshot

Edition facts and catalog signals to help you decide whether this book fits what you want to read next.

Reading lengthA shorter read218 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2010
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Romance
ISBN-13
978-0-3737-9567-3
Language
English
Edition record
OL25180368M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.