Now he has to not only protect Jilly, but find out who is betraying his grandfather. What he finds is that his grandfather’s organization is rife with betrayal and secrets. Telling himself that it’s for no other reason than the fact that they’re related by marriage, Reno goes back to Japan even though his powerful grandfather has forbidden him to return. Having no idea what she’s walked into, Reno feels personally responsible for Jilly’s safety. Unfortunately for her, Reno is sticking to her like glue until he can get her safely out of Japan. Reno is far from the man of her teenage fantasies. Not being the type to lie to herself, Jilly admits that he is the reason she’s in Japan. What she finds instead is Reno, the man whom she has had a crush on for years. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing b/c the ending was just as powerful, just in a different sort of way.Īfter a botched attempt to shed her virginity, Jilly Lovitz flees to Tokyo wanting nothing more than her sister. When the her heroes come to the realization that they love the heroine, it is powerful stuff. That’s what makes the endings of her books so great. What’s that saying “the bigger you are, the harder you fall”? That’s how Stuart’s heroes are.

No, this is a “you got it my way, I may have to kill you” sort of way. And I don’t mean in an “oh you’re so annoying” sort of way. One thing that I’ve come to expect from an Anne Stuart novel is that the hero thinks about killing the heroine multiple times. Now Reno and Jilly are pawns in a deadly tangle of assassination attempts, kidnappings and prisoner swaps that could put their steamy partnership on ice. They’d met once before and the attraction was odd- tattooed Yakuza punk meets leggy California egghead-but electric. Her rescuer is Reno, the Committee’s most unpredictable agent. Instead, she’s snatched away on the back of a motorcycle, narrowly avoiding a grisly execution attempt meant for her sister and brother-in-law.

She’s expecting to cry on her sister Summer’s shoulder, then spend a couple months blowing off steam in Japan. In the wake of a failed love affair, brainy beauty Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo.

Ice Blue by Anne Stuart