Jina is happy with her desk job, when her skill at video games sees her pulled aside and set to train with the GO-teams. And while she isn't exactly thrilled - these guys jump out of planes! - she's not going to give up. Levi is not happy about adding an outsider to the team, but he's determined that if she's there, she's going to be able to keep up. The only problem is it's distracting; he's adamant there's no fraternising on the team, but it's a rule he's hard-pressed to keep himself. Then comes a mission where it's up to Jina - team-name 'Babe' - to see if the training really will keep her alive, because this time, she's on her own.

This book follows on from Troublemaker, but can be read alone. Lots of action and humour, I found Jina quite relatable for her stubborn refusal to quit as expected, even though she doesn't really want to be doing some of the things involved with being part of a GO-Team, and her opinions on jumping out of planes). It felt like a lot of the focus of the book was on the strength of women - not just Jina, but also the villain Joan Kingsley - and it had me hooked, right through to the shocking conclusion.

Jina is a tough determined woman who always rises to a challenge and when she is sent off to join a Go-team, she succeeds through sheer grit and a deep seated desire to never quit. The descriptions of her training and how she powered through it were quite riveting, and the slow burn romance was also engrossing. Much of the suspense of the book was trying to imagine how Jina and Levi would manage to get together without compromising the team. A compelling read for lovers of romantic suspense.

Having Linda Howard romance can often feel lighter on the romantic parts than most authors in the genre. This one actually felt too light.
Waiting for half the book to be over before a first kiss, and then cramming the rest of the romance into the last few chapters didn’t work for me. Howard often has great military/ spy/ law enforcement heroes, and I did enjoy the spec ops setting and the hero. I enjoyed the heroines journey through her enforced training with said spec ops and the team leader hero, but......I would have to sell this book as an action, not as a romance. People buying Romance books generally want a little more, well. Romance.

Things I liked:
well written team dynamic.
The link to her previous book, Troublemaker ( which was much better with the romance part)
The fact that the heroine recognised how much she missed and needed the company of other women.

Not as satisfying as some of her others