Welcome to my stop
on the Tasty Virtual Book Tour for FINAL EXIT by Lena Diaz. The Exit Inc.
series by Lena Diaz has been an amazing thrill ride filled with action, intrigue, and
steamy tension between characters, which have more than love to worry about - they’re usually running for their lives too. FINAL EXIT, Lena’s newest
installment, and the last of the three book spin-off series, is no disappointment even though I’m
very sad to see this series end.
***eARC provided by publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest
and unscripted review.
Blurb for FINAL EXIT:
Lena Diaz concludes her
sexy, suspenseful EXIT Inc. series as an FBI agent teams up with a beautiful
assassin to uncover a deadly government conspiracy...
After a tragic mistake nearly destroyed his life, Special
Agent Kade Quinn will do whatever it takes to save his career. His latest
mission? Track and capture the remaining EXIT operatives to determine if
they’re still a threat. But his next target—a stunning female assassin—is both
elusive and dangerously appealing.
Bailey Stark has outsmarted the FBI so far, but she’s tired
of running. Tired of watching her friends ambushed by government agents in
tactical gear and never seen again. She suspects they aren’t being
evaluated—they’re being exterminated—and she’s determined to convince Agent
Quinn his mission is a lie before it’s too late. Bailey doesn’t want to rely on
him. She definitely shouldn’t desire him. But she knows teaming up with the
skilled, sexy agent may be her only hope.
Kade doesn’t want to believe Bailey’s claims, but he
promises to keep her safe. Trusting one another is difficult. Fighting their
attraction is harder. And as they uncover the disturbing truth behind his
mission . . . staying alive will be nearly impossible.
Available now from Avon Romance
MY REVIEW:
Bailey Stark is on the run. She’s worried about her fellow Enforcers
and she trusts no one. She knows the man they refer to as the Ghost is tracking
her and he almost got her once, so now it’s time for her to take action and get to him
before he captures and kills her. The last thing she expects is to discover
that Kade Quinn is an honorable FBI agent who truly believes in what he’s doing. Only, what he thinks is happening is all a lie. Her attraction to him causes her
for the first time in her life as an assassin to want to protect someone other
than herself.
Kade Quinn knows he has the skill to catch Bailey but she continuously
eludes him even while she fascinates him. Determined to prove himself capable
of succeeding in his mission to round up the remaining Enforcers so they might
be retrained to run normal lives, discovering that what he’s been told is
happening might not be true is enough to make him question everything - including his attraction to Bailey.
Together, Bailey and Kade try to discover what the truth is, who is
behind it, and when the Equalizers pull them into their fold, know they now have
more to worry about than just themselves. Time is running out even as secrets
begin to unfold and the danger level increases.
FINAL EXIT by Lena Diaz is everything I expected from a book in this
series. Action-packed, filled with intrigue, deception, and steamy sexual
tension. With every turn of the page, FINAL EXIT treats us to so much more
going on than just Enforcers and Equalizers versus the FBI and those behind
EXIT Inc. and its secrets. Lena has woven a story where you’re always wondering
exactly who the bad guys are and how Bailey, Kade, and the Equalizers will
manage to survive it all.
If you have read the series from the beginning, you will recognize
most of the characters and enjoy their interactions with Bailey and Kade. If
you haven’t read this series, I seriously recommend starting at the beginning
and experiencing each amazing story which culminates wonderfully in FINAL EXIT.
Whereas each story can be read as a standalone, they truly work best read in
order and allow the action and backstory to pull you through to the climactic
end. I am very much going to miss these characters and the intrigue.
I highly recommend FINAL EXIT, book three of the Exit, Inc. series by
Lena Diaz to everyone who loves a good action-filled, intrigue-driven romantic
suspense thriller with great characters and tons of creative energy.
Happy Reading Everyone!
EXCERPT from FINAL EXIT:
Friday, 11:55 p.m.
It was a perfect night to catch a killer. A warm breeze blew
out of the south at about six miles per hour. Rain-heavy clouds covered the
half-moon, plunging the cliff where Special Agent Kade Quinn stood into
darkness. He was betting on the old cliché, third time’s a charm. And also
betting on the numbers—that his six, shiny new special agents could take down
one highly skilled, remarkably cunning, experienced assassin.
Not the kind of odds to go to Vegas over.
But he had to work with what he had. If things went as planned, Bailey Stark
would soon be in custody like the dozens of other EXIT Inc. Enforcers that his
team had managed to capture. The now-defunct company could never again fool the
public into believing that all it did was offer vacation packages, so-called
“EXtreme International Tours.” The clandestine organization’s true legacy as a
corrupt front for government-sanctioned murder would end with the capture of
the last few Enforcers. By the time his mission was over, every last one
functioning members of society.
And innocents like Abby would never again
become the victims of killers like Bailey.
Between the nightmare of his wife’s death
and the near-constant ache in his ruined left leg, Kade had his own, very
personal, debt with EXIT. And he planned on collecting. He scanned the tree
line. Past the red oak and Ponderosa pines, the Colorado Rockies squatted like
dark sentinels watching over tonight’s operation. Below him, in the middle of a
wide, nearly treeless valley, was ground zero, the two-story cottage that
Bailey believed would be her sanctuary. Instead, it would become her last
stand. A quarter-mile-long driveway connected a two-lane highway to this remote
property. At close to midnight and an hour’s drive from Boulder, the road was
essentially deserted. Kade couldn’t have asked for a better place to launch an
ambush. And if his intel was correct, Bailey should arrive within the next half
hour.
Only a few minutes later the two-way radio
on his belt crackled to life. “Big Bear to Lone Wolf. Come in.”
Kade rolled his eyes and pressed the
transmit button. “Kade here. What’s the situation report, Nichols?”
“You’re ruining my fun, boss.” He shook his
head but played along. He had to pick his battles. “Lone Wolf to Big Bear.
What’s the sitrep?”
“Much better.” A chuckle sounded through the
radio. “A beat-up, dark blue Camaro just turned off the highway. One occupant.
Looks to be our target. She’s heading toward the cottage.”
“Use the SUV to block the road behind her.
If she gets spooked, I don’t want her doing a one-eighty and making it to the
highway.”
“Affirmative. Big Bear out.”
Kade clicked off the mic and belatedly
wished he’d downed a handful of antacids before driving out here. Being
assigned these eager, raw newbies had to be his penance for his breakdown after
the accident. They were also the reason he was here in person rather than
monitoring the mission remotely per the usual protocol. Tonight’s target had
already tricked his team and gotten away—twice. Kade was here to make sure that
didn’t happen again.
“Cord,” he said through the two-way.
“Sitrep.”
“You mean you aren’t going to call me Little
Bear?”
“Do you want me to?” He was half-afraid of
the answer.
“Hell no. I’m not in junior high.”
“You guys know I can hear you, right?”
Nichols chimed in.
“Sitrep,” Kade growled.
“She just passed my ten o’clock,” Cord
announced. “Dom should have her in his sights in a few seconds.”
“Already do,” Dominic confirmed. “The car is
pulling up to the house. We’re all set.”
“Radio silence in three, two, one.” Kade
clicked off the transmitter.
They couldn’t risk the sound of static or a
mistimed transmission alerting their target. Or at least, that was the official
reason for breaking communications. Unofficially, he needed a few moments of
silence to get his impatience under control. What had happened to the bureau’s
standards? Big Bear, Little Bear? Hell, two of his agents—Dom and Jack—had
tattoos. Since when had the FBI allowed tats? Quantico was going soft.
He looked through the binoculars. Instead of
driving into the attached garage as expected, Bailey did a three-point turn and
parked the Camaro pointing down the driveway. Was she suspicious? Had she
purposely positioned her vehicle for a quick getaway? His hands tightened
around the binoculars. The driver’s door opened. A petite woman in dark-colored
shorts and a white T-shirt emerged. A pistol was holstered at her waist and her
shoulder-length, curly red hair reflected like flames in the soft glow of the
porch light. Even at this distance she had the kinds of curves that made men
pay attention—including Kade, much to his chagrin.
He had more reason than most to despise Enforcers,
and yet his breath caught every time he looked at one of her photographs in the
case file. He couldn’t imagine the effect she’d have on him if he ever got
within a few feet of her in person. It was bad enough that his pulse quickened
whenever those deep green eyes gazed back at him from her pictures. But what he
hated the most was the odd feeling of kinship he felt toward her, a tug of
empathy when he saw the shadows in her eyes, the same shadows he saw every time
he looked in a mirror. He couldn’t help wondering what had happened to harden
her and make her look so lost, so sad, so incredibly . . . alone.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Originally, from Kentucky, romantic
suspense author Lena Diaz also lived in California and Louisiana before
settling in Northeast Florida with her husband, two children, and a Shetland
Sheepdog named Sparky. A Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® finalist,
she's won the prestigious Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in
Mystery/Suspense and has been a finalist for the National Excellence in Romance
Fiction Award. She loves to watch action movies, garden, and hike in the
beautiful Tennessee Smoky Mountains.
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