Lindsay Cross

Operation Mayhem Box Set

Nicola Sarah Brooks

A new series which branched off from the original Mercy books and what a great read!

Still the same action, adventure and romance but our heroes this time around have been experimented on and their DNA "tweaked", giving them all a few little added extra gifts. 

Reaper may have signed his team up to the experiments but they were not what they were expecting. His men are dying from these experiments and when they finally break free they now need a new source of serum to prevent them from reaching meltdown.

Whilst on the hunt for Grenier and the serum, Reaper finds Caroline and rescues her from the pits of experimentation. She has been slowly bled for her blood to be used in synthesising the serum. On their break out attempt Reaper gets injured and for the first time ever someone is taking care of him for a change!

Caroline may be a bit of a princess and her previous entitled existence is now a distant memory. Led to safety by Reaper, she quickly realises there is more to the giant warrior and falls under his spell. As they evade Grenier the passion ignites between them and there are some very hot scenes! 

Mayhems Desire
Hicks and Whitney don't have the smoothest of introductions.

Whitney has a rather clandestine relationship with a Senator. His odious bodyguard makes her skin crawl but it's a means to an end. But when her life & her job are threatened and her apartment trashed, she reaches out to the only person who always has her back, her sister.

Melissa is the wunderkind doctor who is looking after the Mayhem team and trying to undo some of the damage inflicted upon them. When he hears the Doc's sister is in trouble, Hicks volunteers to scoop her up. But when he makes a snap decisions about who and WHAT she is, he is right back in his troubled childhood and the attraction between him and Whitney is stalled.

Hicks may be a bad-ass soldier, with certain enhancements, but that doesn't stop him planting his huge foot in his mouth! Whitney may be the polar opposite of her sister and deemed "average" by her parents but she has a huge, caring heart and just wants to relieve some of the suffering in the world.

Fab storyline, great chemistry between the characters and I loved the little glimpse of Melissa and a certain team member!

Mayhems Hero
Diggs is still suffering from the self imposed guilt he feels at letting down his team mates. He feels he let Quantum and Crenshaw down when he couldn't save them. But he was lying near death himself but he just can't see past his guilt. He also feels that his enhancement is bit of a non starter - being the teams bloodhound is not exactly earth shattering!

Audra is in a state of shock after the death of her brother. She needs to take care of his former K9 partner but he has been sent to their father instead. When she arrives she finds Trigger missing and she knows that he is at the mercy of the man who made her life a misery. But when she finds Trigger, she finds a huge man looming over him and snaps! Poor Diggs almost comes a cropper! He finally gets her to calm down and they return to the compound to save Trigger.

But all the military talk and their compound put Audra on edge and she makes off with her furry charge! But she soon finds herself in real danger and has to accept that she jumped from safety into the volcano! 

Diggs is so down on himself - unusual in a such an evidently alpha man. But his esteem has really taken a knock and when he finds out something reprehensible about a former team mate - he falls deeper into his own personal hell! Audra is stubborn and determined but she did take a while to warm up to! She was so naive sometimes, especially when she flees the compound with Trigger, that I really wanted to slap her for being so dense! 

There are a couple of surprises in store and they are HUUUGE! We realise that the mind games didn't just stop at turning Mayhem into a killing machine. They truly mucked about with their brains.

Operation Mayhem Box Set

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