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Thanatos (Guardian Security Shadow World Book 4) by [Kris Michaels]

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It wasn’t until people started shooting at her that Eve Salutem had an inkling she was anything other than an elementary school teacher suffering from a rare form of cancer. Discovering she was a walking source of the vaccine for lethal bioweapons and that her previous twenty-seven years were based on lies, lies, and more lies, shattered her fragile world and threatened her sanity. She wanted to lock the doors, close the shades and hide in the closet, but he wouldn’t let her. According to him––a guy she’d first encountered next to the fresh fish case in the grocery store for Pete's sake––he was there to save her from some unknown bad guys and her own government.

He didn’t do personal protection––he assassinated people. He didn’t work domestic ops––he was strictly foreign. This babysitting gig in Rochester, Minnesota surveilling a woman who may or may not be an innocent victim was absolutely not in his job description. Dragging her ass across half of America on a forced road trip infuriated him even further. He didn’t need or want to spend days locked in a car with a sexy young woman whose bucket list included drinking champagne, getting a puppy and being kissed. How had this become his life? Her purity and goodness bordered on irresistible, but if he touched her, he’d leave a black smudge on her soul.

In Eve, he saw the goodness of humanity, and Thanatos would storm the gates of Hell to protect her; but a creature of purity and light could never belong to the assassin who was named after a God of Death.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B082LPG7H6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ KMRW LLC (January 28, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 28, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1371 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 318 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1947178709

Best Sellers Rank: #11,733 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #374 in Military Romance (Kindle Store)
- #394 in Military Romance (Books)
- #1,051 in Romantic Suspense (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 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 is 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

Flack

Sage

Declan

Ice

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

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Carolyn

Dolan and Eve

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 12, 2023

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This book is sooo good! Dolan, aka Thanatos, is very straightforward and he and his assignment, aka Eve, have a rough start. I loved the way their relationship evolved. Eve is total innocence and light and Thanatos is dark and tortured from his childhood. You need tissues for later in the book…just a warning. I enjoyed seeing Saint, Archangel and Bengal included. Once I started reading this one I couldn’t put it down.

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Debbie

Loved Thanatos (Dolan) but Eve not so much

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 16, 2021

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While I enjoyed Thanatos’ book because I really liked Dolan, I struggled with my feelings toward his leading lady Eve.

Dolan never got close to anyone. When he was ten years old, he witnessed his parents being assaulted then murdered, before he was assaulted himself and left for dead. He’d spent his entire adult life searching for the man responsible while performing his job duties as an assassin named after a god of death for Guardian. Dolan watched Eve as he was instructed, but he didn’t believe her innocence or naiveness. By the time he realized she really didn’t know anything, Eve was in danger and he was fighting the feelings he had developed for her.

At first I genuinely liked Eve. She had been dealt a horrible hand and was used and tested by the doctors that had lied to her for her entire life. She believed what she’d been told about having a rare cancer because she knew nothing else and had no reason to discount what the doctors had told her. When Eve learned how much danger she was truly in, and Dolan told her who he really was, I liked how she knew she could trust Dolan and how they became so close.

What I did not like was how Eve was adamant that killing was wrong and judged Dolan for protecting her and saving her life. The people he killed were trying to kill them, yet she acted all high and mighty and arrogant. At one point, there’s a man with a knife at her throat and Dolan has to quickly react to save her life. He was shot and stabbed in the process and nearly died, while several others lost their lives. Yet Eve’s response was to scream and back away from Dolan as if terrified of him because he didn’t allow the bad guys an opportunity to surrender. This was his job and so many lives were saved because of the people he eliminated. Eve was told the unbelievable things these men had done, yet she took months making Dolan feel bad about himself before coming back to him, but still giving him an ultimatum about never doing it again. Yeah, she was too weak for a man as strong as him.

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Cherlym

Depth

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2023

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This book had slot more depth, or I should say realism in how some people would react to the violence, even if sanctioned. Then to have been cloistered most of your life - double whammy. I was not enamoured of Thanatos in the beginning, but he grew on me 😍

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 6, 2023

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This book was definitely not your common romance. The hugh
age difference between lovers, the storyline completely original, and the action throughout the story was great!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2023

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Her in-depth characters and plots are also great! Lots of action suspense and steam. You won't be disappointed with this series!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 29, 2020

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This was my least favorite so far. I read the reviews after I read the book while I understand why people didn't like the heroine I tried to understand where she was coming from. She was raised in a research facility and then constantly watched so I can see where her feelings were coming from. Thanatos has intrigued me from the beginning of the Shadow series but I wasn't crazy about the plot of this story. It was a bit confusing for me and at times I had to reread parts of it to make sure I understood what Ms. Michaels was saying.

The book does follow the others in that the Shadows come out into the light. In this case, both the hero and the heroine have had something taken from them, perhaps in Eve's case several somethings. Her whole life was controlled and even when she thought she was free she wasn't, not really. Thanatos' life is very similar to hers in that way.

Eve did act like a selfish bitch but she has a strong moral compass and she was torn. She was lead to believe that she was going to die but then her world imploded and all that she knew was taken from her. In a way, it was like being born again and having to learn things all over again.

We were introduced to Tempest whom everyone thought was dead. His story I hope will be a good one because well there are so many questions that need to be answered and can he recover from the torture and whatever else he has been through.

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Death meets innocence

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2020

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I eagerly await each of Ms Michaels stories and consume them like a starving person at a buffet. Thanatos delivers another Shadow from darkness to light. The storyline was interesting and while rooted on damsel on distress syndrome does deliver a unique version.

Things that were not my favorite with this particular book...

The repetitive scenes - its nice to see both POVs in some scenes but when the actual dialog is repeated verbatim, it is confusing ro me and I wonder if the author made an error or if I missed something. Luckily it didn't happen but a couple of times but between Chps 18 & 19 I questioned if there was a error in editing. It is just not something I like an noted.

I had a hard time liking Eve. I get that she led a sheltered atypical life, but her my way about life/death is the only acceptable outcome just turned me off.

The quick way things wrapped up and they got their HEA just seemed out of place with all the detail before - especially since it didn't really seem that Eve truly accepted Thanatos as he was. Again, the way I processed the story.

Stratus seems to have taken a back burner since Dixon - which is fine, but with so much time passing that storyline is getting less plausible and makes me wonder what was the point.

So 4 stars because on its own is a well told story. It just seems to be a bit superficial in areas compared to other books in the Guardian World Ms. Michaels has created.

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Marilyn Gamble

Great book as always

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2023

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This was another great story. I love this set of books. This is a great author that cannot be beat.

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K. G. A. Alavi

The live and die in the shadows

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 9, 2020

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Another great book in Guardian's Shadow World series. I honestly do not know if I like this series better or the main series. Kris Michaels just seem to write next book better than the last so my opinion keeps changing.

A great story as usual great characters and character development. I like the was main characters from other books return as side or supporting characters in the current book.

Out of all the characters from the previous books I thought these two were the least compatible, part of the reason Thanatos had been in the shadows much longer than the other, with an even darker origin, and motive making Eve was the complete polar opposite to him.

It was also great to see Thanatos on action on an op not just living off his rep in the book. So many threads and characters still to go. I can't wait to see what happens next.

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Tornado 1

A series that keeps on giving

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

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I do so love sitting down with a story from Kris. Once again characters you root for though not so sure I bought into using her as a Bio weapon / saviour. Guardian would never be able to protect her I don't think. The drug companies would want to harvest Eve for sure as their most valuable asset. ( see the debate you have started Kris?) The dichotomy between the two characters is striking and the outer and inner conflict Thanatos has towards his parents killer and his rapist had me tearing out my hair. I'm afraid I was for avenging him myself( I wanted to tear the person limb from limb, and I'm a sweet old grand mother) I would have preferred if he'd have got justice for them , Eve was being totally unrealistic and I wanted to shake her, she needs to come out of her bubble. Maybe in the next book she can come to realise that in order to destroy the evil that men do you sometimes have to pick up arms to defend those you love. Thanatos has saved a fellow shadow operative, he needs to heal mentally and physically I can't wait to read his story because I feel another storm is coming and Guardian will need everyone to bring their A game to bring several entities to justice. I'm getting excited just thinking about it

Kindle Customer

Disappointing ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 2, 2020

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I enjoyed this book until the final chapters, then I thought the story lost the plot. Thanatos saves the life of the F/L by killing someone who has a knife to her neck and she thought he should have given the guy a chance to surrender, so she rejects Thanatos because, to her, life is sacrosanct. I know it's fiction but instead of the hero feeling bad and letting her make conditions for her coming back to him let's have him telling her to push off and then he finds someone who accepts all of him and they are happily ever after instead

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Mrs Si Stevenson

Older meets innocence.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 20, 2020

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Thanatos believes he is 'dirty' from all the killings he has done. Eve is soft, malleable and innocent. She has been used and lied to from when she was born. Thanatos explains everything to Eve after he rescues her from a clinic where they want to keep her against her will.
He realises she has done nothing in her life and tells her to make a list of what she would like to do now she knows she will live.
People are chasing them. So called 'friends' say Eve has been kidnapped instead of being in protective custody.
Thanatos and Eve get very close until they rescue Tempest. It is then predictable. Loved the story though.

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Not the best

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

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I wish I could give this book more stars,but I can't. I was really looking forward to this book, unfortunately it wasn't the best of the shadows books. What spoiled it for me was the female lead character. I found the author made her a really annoying whining character. That being said, loved thantnos. Hope Thempest is better.

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