Susan Grant How To Lose An Extraterrestrial In 10 Days

How To Lose An Extraterrestrial In 10 Days

Susan Grant

Harlequin HQN, Aug 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 9780373772414

As a child on Planet Sandreem, the Captain abducted Eriff and insured his emotions were stripped from him so that he could be turned into a cold hearted killing machine mechanically enhanced as REEF, the universe's greatest assassin. His latest assignment is to kill Cavin Far Star in California, but Reef fails for the first time. Instead extraterrestrial Major Cavin and his fianc e State Senator Jana Jasper defeated the ET invaders. Cavin also hides Reef in the safest place he knows of in the entire galaxy, the suburban home of his fianc e's sister Evie Jasper Holloway, a divorced mother with children.

Evie is outraged that the killing machine that should be dead is placed with her and her family; she informs her future ET brother-in-law this will be for ten days no more. However, she begins to change her mind about Reef when he risks his life to save her and her children as the mob, the Feds, and the men in black assumes her new Internet chocolate business is a sweet laundering deal. As Reef and Evie fall in love, his handlers need their "perfect" killing machine back on the job, starting with killing the soccer mom and her brood.

The latest Jasper science fiction romance (see MY FAVORITE EARTHLING and YOUR PLANET OR MINE?) is a wonderful science fiction suspense tale as super killer and supermom fall in love. Reef is a fascinating protagonist who showcases how talented Susan Grant is as she changes him from vile villain to caring suburbanite. Ms. Grant scores another winning golden goal with this terrific outer space meets the burbs.

Harriet Klausner