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Jacob (The Kings of Guardian Book 1) by [Kris Michaels]

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The journey to love isn’t always a path you choose, sometimes it is a risk you must take.The CIA didn’t care if Agent Victoria Marshal lived or died in an Afghani hell-hole. Yet, she survived each torture session with single-minded determination, but human flesh has its limits. She knew her time was running short. Jacob King led a privately funded black ops group into that Afghani village to gather intelligence. He didn’t expect to find an American woman. He admired her brave humor in the face of her agonizing injuries. This kind of tough-minded woman was someone Jacob wanted to know, so he asked her for a date…same time, next year. He checked out of the hospital against medical orders to make that date. The bullet wound he nursed wasn’t going to stop him from meeting the woman who’d haunted his memory. The leggy, blond, bombshell in the red dress who showed up for their date blew his mind. Bullet wounds and battle scars were something Victoria knew how to recover from, and she had just the place for this sexy-as-sin southerner to rehab. Time, proximity and their natural attraction blossomed into something neither expected. In a world of shadows, deceit and dangerous covert missions, where people in Jacob’s line of work routinely vanish and living one more day is never a given, Jacob and his men disappear on a mission to rescue another team. To save Jacob and the men of Guardian, Victoria walks back into the profession that nearly killed her, but this time she was playing by her rules.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073Q8V8WT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ KMRW LLC; 4th edition (July 3, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 3, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1584 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1947178075

Best Sellers Rank: #6,614 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #60 in Action & Adventure Romance Fiction
- #218 in Military Romance (Kindle Store)
- #243 in Military Romance (Books)

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Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author, Kris Michaels is the alter ego of a happily married wife and mother. She writes romance, usually with characters from military and law enforcement backgrounds.

Kris was born and raised in South Dakota. She graduated many years ago from a high school class consisting of 13 students (yes that is thirteen, eleven girls, and two boys...lucky boys). She joined the military, met her husband, and traveled the world. Today she lives on the Gulf Coast and writes full time.

Kris is an avid people watcher and dreamer. The stories she writes are crafted around the hopes and dreams of a true romantic. She believes love is essential, people are beautiful, and everyone deserves a happy ending.

When she isn't writing Kris enjoys a full life revolving around family, friends, laughing, whiskey, and cold red wine. (Yes cold...don't judge.)

The suggested reading order of Kris' books are as follows:

Jacob

Joseph

A Backwater Blessing

Adam

Jason

Jared

Jasmine

Chief

Jewell

Jade

Anubis

Justin

Montana Guardian

Asp

Drake

Christmas with the Kings

Dixon

Lycos

Gabriel

Passages

Thanatos

Maliki

Tempest

Promises

John

Smoke

Jeremiah

Reaper

Hot SEAL, Silent Knight

The Siege Part 1

The Siege Part 2

Andrew

Phoenix

Frank

Zeke

Valkyrie

All other books are stand alone novels and can be read in any order.

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Grady Harp

“The Elders are fools. She is a filthy infidel! An American— our avowed enemy!”

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2016

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Author Kris Michaels has labeled herself as ‘the alter ego of a happily married wife of a cop and mother of two sons who loves to write erotic romance with a twist of military flavor’. Her books are fast reads with lots of military influence and even more frank erotica.

Kris Opens her book in an Afghani prison and sets the tone of her novel well – ‘Curled on the crude bench, Tori blinked and fought to keep her focus. She etched one more line into the soft plaster of her cell wall. The added line brought the total to sixty-seven white marks scratched into the dirty plaster. Her mind twisted, muddled by fragmented thoughts. The words that haunted her formed a familiar cadence. When would they come? When would the pain stop? Is it morning or evening? Will I die today? A door slammed at the far end of the corridor and the echo lingered in the cell. A low rumble of male voices reached her. She recognized the familiar tones. The guards. They no longer cared if she overheard them. Terror spiked through her. Please, God, let it be morning! Which guard remained? Was it Emad, the day guard, who slept at the desk at the end of the hall and moved only when someone knocked at the door, or Kassar, the night guard, evil incarnate? An uncontrollable shiver rattled Tori’s body. Just like Pavlov’s damn dogs, her body reacted to the sound of Kassar’s voice. Now just the thought of him induced the response. Kassar had held her head under water while another guard pressed glowing coals from a hand-rolled cigarette into the soles of her feet. The smoldering cinders seared through the ulcerated abscesses already branded deep into her arches from torture on previous nights.’

From this intro it seems unlikely that an erotic romance cold begin, but then Kris allows us a survey in her synopsis: ‘In a world of shadows, smoke, and covert black op missions—where people vanish and living one more day is never a given—falling in love is the last thing Victoria and Jacob expected. Victoria Marshall didn't cooperate by dying in the Afghani hell-hole like the CIA expected. Defying all probability, a privately funded black ops group led by a handsome, sexy-as-sin southerner pulled her out of the warlord's prison cell and brought her home. Even half out of her mind with pain Tori knew this man was special. She made a date with the commander to meet one year later at a restaurant of his choice. Keeping that date was the best thing she ever did. Jacob King found little physically attractive about the woman he saved from the warlord’s camp, though it was hard to see what lay under the filth and suppurating wounds she suffered from countless beatings. He admired her brave humor in the face of her agonizing injuries. This kind of tough-minded woman was someone he'd like to know as a friend. He never expected the leggy, blond bombshell in the red dress who showed up for their date. But then he never expected she would save his life, either. In a world of shadows, smoke, and dangerous covert missions, where people routinely vanish and living one more day was never a given, Tori and Jacob fight to build their happily ever after.’

Full of intrigue, action and, yes, plenty of erotica of the steamiest level. Kris opens this series with a winner – and it sounds as though it only gets better. Grady Harp, December 16

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Jackie Vila

This book was surprisingly good.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2023

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There was more than one anxious page. It started out very dramatic and just kept going. I think I’ll try one more in the series to see if it’s an addiction.

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Good military/spook black ops plotline - the details were amazingly realistic.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2023

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Some of the conversations weren't so great, though - for example, what born Southerner speaks without using contractions, especially when they aren't being guarded? Even high society, big money folks use contractions in professional settings.

Aside from the unnatural speech patterns, the story was solid. Four stars.

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Awesome job writing this book about Tori & Jacob ! This is first time reading your books & I am thrilled to say I will continue to read every book on KU that you have written! This one held my attention from the start ! You rank at the top !!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2023

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This was an interesting story. The characters were great to get to know. The author of this set of books writes a great story.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2022

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**MINOR SPOILERS**
This book is the first in the Kings of Guardian series. It can be read as a standalone. Several characters are introduced who will become main characters in other books in the series.
Jacob and Tori meet when he rescues her when she is being held as a prisoner in a foreign country. He admires her spirit during the rescue and when they are on the plane to Germany, he suggests meeting at a restaurant in Washington DC in a year. Despite that she severely injured, somewhat out of it, and later given meds, she remembers this and they meet up.
Jacob is tall, physically fit, and part of a SEAL like mercenary team for hire (the Guardians). Tori was working for the CIA when she was caught and she is tall and beautiful. Their attraction to each other is immediate and mostly superficial. When they meet again, they quickly and obviously are headed to the bedroom. Once they consummate their relationship several times, they declare they are in love with each other. Tori is very limber in the bedroom and Jacob is very large. That is the depth of what is important. There is little to no relationship development. The book often feels like a series of sex scenes with a bit of story between them.
When Tori eventually tells Jacob why she was caught, it was a stunning story of betrayal. I would like to think it would not happen. The reason for the betrayal did not seem to be realistic as Tori describes it. Jacob is determined to find out more about what happened and to make people suffer the consequences. However, there is no follow up after the initial reveal.
The author makes sure that we know Jacob is an alpha male. For example, early in the book, he and Tori meet at a restaurant owned by his brother. He asks the waiter for a special bottle of wine. When the waiter tells him that they do not have the bottle for sale, Jacob says “You’re new. Go find Justin King and tell him Jacob wants his damn wine.” When the waiter frowns and him and looks nervous, Jacob cocks an eyebrow and commands. “Do. It Now.” The waiter almost runs from the table and disappears to do what is asked. In addition, the waiter is described as small and bald just so you know he is a lesser being. Being an alpha male does not necessarily mean that you are rude or overbearing. There are several places in the book where Jacob is tough, etc. Physically he is a large man, and when he rescues Tori, he carries her six klicks or kilometers. This was, of course, no problem.
When Jacob passes out from an injury, Tori undresses him completely. While it was pretty obvious that they were headed for the bedroom, I think this is an assumption she should not have made.
After one night of sex, Tori decides to invite Jacob to her family ranch in South Dakota for his recovery. She does so by putting her father on speaker phone without telling him. She wants Jacob to hear directly from her father that it is ok for him to come. This is a personal no-no for me; I never put someone on speakerphone without telling them who is in the room.
Rather surprisingly, Jacob says that his whole team will likely follow him to South Dakota and they do. I did not think it likely that his team would not have lives of their own that they would need to get back to, but it could happen. Also rather surprisingly, the whole team gets three months off because Jacob gets 3 months off for his injury. It appears that they are well paid for what they do so they can afford to do it, but it seems unlikely that the company would forego the fees.
Despite having a gunshot injury that is supposed to keep him from working, Jacob arrives at the ranch and immediately begins helping with a round up. He also is able to lift Tori pretty much at will. He rides all day on a horse which is not something he is used to doing, but has no soreness. In addition, Jacob is the head of the international division of their company and there certainly could have been some desk work that he could have done while recovering from the physical injury. Later, he begins to do so.
Keelee, Tori’s sister, is sick with pneumonia and helps make dinner.
I do not plan to continue reading the series or the author. There were a lot of little things and a couple of big things that resulted in my not liking this book and for it to lose several stars.

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Marie P

To hell and back...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 3, 2022

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....they are both so strong, but together they are unstoppable.
Tori is awesome, she is a warrior at heart and will fight to the death for what is right or for anyone she is protecting, but she is also strong enough to accept help when she needs it. She and Jacob are both strong personalities and could easily clash, but they don't, they just click, each allowing the other to take the lead when their strengths are better suited, it is beautiful to watch.
I love them as a couple, and as the first couple of the second generation of Guardian they are perfect. Whilst I am sad Gabriel is trying to take a step back, I am under no illusions he will ever fully relinquish all control and I am excited to see the changes to Guardian going forward as each of the Kings find their 'one'.

C. Reyne

My favorite series!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 24, 2020

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This is the first book in the King’s of Guardian Series and it is awesome.
I was hooked from the very beginning and at no point did it disappoint.  Tory is saved from a fate worse than death by a man who changes her world. Their relationship is explosive, hot and utterly heart wrenchingly amazing. Not only does she become his whole world, with them ending up working together, but she also saves him and members of his team when they come under fire on a mission.
Jacob is an alpha male through and through who loves with his whole body and soul, will do anything to keep his woman safe but is man enough to not feel threaten by her independence, sharp mind and great skill sets.
Becoming a member of the Guardian Security family means being woven into a fabric of a very close knit family unit, friends who become brothers and sisters, and experiencing a love so deep it will penetrate your soul.

This is only the first book in the series and I’m already looking forward to reading the next one — it is that good.

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Essem Sween

WHAT AN AWESOME, AMAZING INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF 'THE KINGS OF GUARDIAN'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 2, 2016

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The Kings in question, are a family of 5 boys (well men really), and 3 girls, and the Guardian is a global security firm. Not all of the family work for or with the Company which immediately opens up the door to each book being different. We won't get the same basic love story regurgitated -" just change the names"!

I'm not going to precis the book here (I personally HATE reviews that try to tell you the story before you buy it), but what I will say is that this is an incredibly well written, well plotted, character laden thrill of a read. I have never read a novel by a new , to me anyway, (and these Guardian books are all I could find on Amazon.co.uk) writer, that so cleverly and brilliantly lays the foundations of the series' they want to create.

This isn't just boy meets girl, but in a thrilling, in places heart stopping series of circumstances you meet the central characters of this book, then the wider family both of blood and work that will people and star in those following; and, before the end of this book you will WANT to know about them. How did the trials, torments and torture leave their mark, how they're going to pick up the pieces and carry on; If there are even any pieces left to pick up? The writing leads you smoothly and lightly in a joy of tight dialogue and description, without resorting to banality or unnecessary crudeness, even in the hottest and heaviest love scenes; and there are some hot & heavy love scenes, alongside the adventure and heartache there are endless hours spent waiting and wondering, uncertainty that you feel with them, the sacrifice and exhaustion, it's all there; but it's seamless, your pulse is picking up almost without you realising it.

Yes, the hero & heroine got very serious very quickly (a complaint in some reviews) if you call a year quick but I bought both of the next books before I finished reading this one, that makes it a total 5 Star read to me.

Oh and just as a quick FYI 'a deuce and a half' is a 2 1/2 ton military vehicle that gained it's nickname in WW2, Happy Reading.

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Excellent read - romance with a twist of military action

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 24, 2021

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No plot spoilers
There are some potential triggers relating to torture and a fade to black rape scene.
There are no grammatical or editorial errors
This book marks the start of the world of Guardian security and it is a fabulous example of Kris Michaels writing style, the characterisation is outstanding both lead and supporting characters.
The plotline is engaging and ensures you keep turning the pages.
There are some sex scenes and some swearing.
The whole series is one of my all time favourites and I can't recommend it enough.

Lynn-Alexandria McKendrick

Absolutely Amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 7, 2016

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Victoria has been through hell. Tortured brutally by her captors, she's rescued by a team of men led by Jacob King. Jacob and Victoria make a deal to meet one year after her rescue for a date. One year later, their date turns into something much more. Jacob wasn't expecting to fall for Tori as hard as he did, but he sure as hell wants to get to know her better and he has a chance when he and his team are invited to take some downtime at Tori's Father's Ranch. As love blossoms, the world they are both involved in separates them when Jacob is sent on a mission overseas. Tori must call on every talent she has from her past to bring home the man she loves and the men she has come to consider family.

Let me say this first. I started reading Jacob on a Monday afternoon at about 2pm. By 4pm on the Tuesday afternoon, I had finished all four books in this series. Holy crap. These books are absolutely amazing, the characters are well portrayed and the men are hot alpha males that will go in the book boyfriend hall of fame. The story flows in such a way that you can't help but continue turning the page. The book is one that you will not be able to put down and I guarantee you will fall in love with the men and women in this book. You will also need to keep a fan close too as the love scenes are white hot, you won't want to use your kindle as that means you'd have to stop reading.

Kris Michaels has written a killer first book for this series and you're in for an absolute treat with the others.

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