Review: Deceiving a Raider by Ana Night

Title: Deceiving a Raider

Series: The Black Raiders: Book Two

Author: Ana Night

Length: 266 Pages

Category: Contemporary, Suspense/Thriller

At a Glance: In this action packed, exciting and tension filled sequel we get up close and personal with this quirky Black Raider team as they come together for a rescue mission.

Reviewed By: Maryann

Blurb: Detective Cole Banks is finally getting his life back on track, courtesy of the man always by his side. He’s determined to rekindle his relationship with his former Marine squad, The Black Raiders. But as his brothers come back into his life, so does a long list of questions they’ve spent years trying to find the answers to. It doesn’t take much to figure out those answers lie with the CIA.

For Detective Cade Lawson, things are running smoothly for once. Having Cole in his life has made him happier than ever before. Then a case leads them to believe someone has been searching for Cade. Someone who’s out for revenge. Cade thought the CIA had buried his past—a safe forty feet below the ground. But the past has a way of surfacing when you least expect it.

Cade is confronted with his past, the one he fought so hard to leave behind, but it might just be what saves him. It also might be the thing that tears them apart. Is their relationship strong enough to survive all the lies and deceit?

**Warning – Possible Triggers: violence, death, torture**

Review: Cade Lawson and Cole Banks aren’t exactly in the closet at work, but they are becoming more than working partners for the police department and try hard to keep their relationship on the down-low so they won’t have to deal with new partners.

Cole’s Black Raider squad, family, and friends have come to town to visit. As Cade gets to see Cole in this new setting, especially with the children, he finds himself falling harder for Cole, and it’s more than noticed by friends and family how they both feel about each other. And so Cade, in a roundabout way, takes an important step in their relationship—but all the good feelings come crashing down around Cade when he finds that someone from his past has been stalking him.

Cade’s sister Grace knows about Cade’s past and his history working for the CIA. To keep his family, friends and the person he loves safe, Cade has no choice but to let himself be taken by the enemy. And for Cole, there is no choice but to go after the man who has stolen his heart, with the support of the Black Raiders.

In this action packed, exciting and tension filled sequel we get up close and personal with this quirky Black Raider team—Dom, Tank, Davin, Franklin and Axel (aka Mad Dog)—as they come together for a rescue mission. The returning characters—Grace, Cade’s sister, who gets into the action, and Lara along with her daughter, Morgan—add a strong female representation element to the storyline. The camaraderie with Cole and the acceptance of others delivers a lot of heartfelt and humorous moments. Cole and Cade have a chemistry that leaps off the page, and there is no gray area when it comes to the matters of the heart, especially with Cole. He lays his heart on the line, and the emotions make it difficult for Cade to even think he could live without him.

I highly suggest reading book one, A Detached Raider, first. There are secrets galore, and some of them are revealed in this sequel. What really got me going on the Black Raiders series is that you never know who is working for what agency and when they’ll pop up. I’m hoping that Ana Night has another installment in the works, because there seems to be even more secrets to reveal in this intriguing series.

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