Cindy Dees, The Medusa Prophesy

The Medusa Prophesy

Cindy Dees

Silhouette Bombshell, Jan 2007, $4.99

ISBN: 0373514360

Captain Karen Tucker is the tallest, biggest and strongest of the Medusas, the Marines first all-female Special Forces team. To prove their worth to doubting foreign military allies, the six-woman team is in the Arctic on an exercise against a pursuing all-male Norwegian Defense Special Command squad intending to take them out. Karen is the only Medusa who defeats her male opponent, Norwegian Lieutenant Anders Larson in hand to hand combat, which sets up a physical rivalry between the two of them over the next few weeks.

As the joint team continues their trek with respect obvious on both sides, they discover a secret drug lab that produces a dangerous mind-altering elixir. Karen, already struggling to believe a hunk like Anders would be interested in a giantess like her, suddenly has new issues as she is exposed to this concoction. Her teammates and the Norwegian soldiers including the one she loves are in danger from her; as she struggles with her sanity; a calm Karen can defeat almost any person regardless of gender in a fight; but a berserker raging Karen would prove impossible to stop.

With the front line blurred, female soldiers have been placed in combat situations (think military police for instance) making this thriller's prime concept genuine. The storyline is action-packed though it goes over the edge of the world with the drug scenario. Still Karen is a terrific amazon who cannot believe a hunk her size would want a female who would pin him anytime they wrestled. Her competitiveness vs. Anders makes THE MEDUSA PROPHESY a fine military romance.

Harriet Klausner