New Release Review: Riding the Odds by Lynda K. Scott

[Eva Millien]

Blurb:

An act of desperation 

and the beginning of seduction... 

Spaceship captain Tara Rowan has her secrets. One is her Rider, Zie. Zie is an organic symbiote—like a living tattoo—that enhances Tara's physical abilities, including superhuman strength and reflexes. The other is the past she's tried so hard to leave behind her. But it's not until oh-so-sexy Trace Munroe decides to blackmail Tara that she realizes her secrets aren't so secret after all...

Trace is a Holy Knight who does everything by the book. Desperate to find a missing princess, he'll do whatever it takes to rescue her and bring her kidnappers to justice. Including blackmail. Yet something about the feisty ship captain draws Trace in and stirs his desire—even if she is a wanted criminal. Because the last thing he needs is any complications...especially when he has his own secrets to hide.

My Review:

Desperate to find a missing princess, Trace will do whatever it takes including using Tara’s secret past to blackmail her but something about the feisty ship captain stirs his desire – even if she is a wanted criminal in this tantalizing sci-fi fantasy romance.

The characters grab the reader’s attention from the very beginning, Tara as the feisty spitfire heroine with a past that she desperately needs to keep hidden and Trace is the strictly by the book Holy Knight who breaks all of his rules to find the missing princess. The reader can’t help but get caught up in their romance as they both learn some hard truths and trust while trying to stay alive and with the explosive chemistry between them makes for some very entertaining clashes. While their attraction may burn hot their relationship will takes lots of give and take to even have a hope of achieving an HEA which provides quite a few chuckles for readers along the way in this steady to fast paced and smooth flowing adventure of a romance.

Lots of excitement ensures that there is never a dull moment whether it is because of the romance, finding the princess, Zie’s charming insistence, their fiery clashes or trying to stay alive and lots of twists and turns keeps readers wondering what will happen next. The well written scenes and detail paint vivid images that capture the imagination and bring the story to life and the fascinating new world draws the readers and ensures that they can’t put the book down until they have read every last word.

This story had me completely enthralled from the very beginning with its interesting and different elements and I loved all the intriguing characters and fascinating creatures, especially Zie and including the lion ant…even if it did try to eat Tara and Trace. I don’t know if Lynda K Scott intends on writing more books in this tantalizing world but I certainly hope so because I would love to go on more adventures with these characters and their charming riders.

Purchase Links:

A: http://www.amazon.com/Riding-Odds-Lynda-K-Scott-ebook/dp/B00S57KA6Y...

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/riding-the-odds-lynda-k-scott/11210...

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i: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/riding-the-odds/id957499134?uo=8&a...

BAM: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Riding-Odds/Lynda-K-Scott/Q209164908...

K: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/riding-the-odds

A-UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Riding-Odds-Lynda-K-Scott-ebook/dp/B00S57KA...

A-CA: http://www.amazon.ca/Riding-Odds-Lynda-K-Scott-ebook/dp/B00S57KA6Y?...

Entangled Otherworld Select, February 2 2015, 394 pages, ebook

http://www.entangledpublishing.com/riding-the-odds/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24467261-riding-the-odds?ac=1

About Lynda K. Scott:

In my family of Kentucky 'ridge runners', oral tales were a tradition that even the children participated in. I well remember the nights my brother and cousins and I would sit in the dark with a candle or just the moonlight drizzling in through a window and tell each other tall tales hoping to scare the bejeezus out of each other. As I grew up, my stories became a low level sort of fan fiction loosely based on the old Star Trek TV series but with new, exciting characters. I'd entertain my girlfriends with those stories and, once, on a class trip, the guys and gals took the pages and acted the story out. After that, they wanted more but, alas, we were on the verge of moving on to college or adult life and we had to leave those things behind...except I didn't. I kept writing even when I went to college. I wrote when I began working and when I married. I wrote when my first child was born. While these life happenings may have slowed me down, they never stopped me. I've enjoyed meeting each of my characters and learning about them and, yes, from them. And I hope you do as well.

Currently I live in Michigan with my dear husband and my big old fluffy cat, Wookie Baby, who helps me write and helps run my contests with a furry paw, Skye my beautiful Golden Retriever who is learning to be Wookie Baby's minion and eventually working as a therapy dog with me...plus a thousand characters each clamoring for their own story to be told.

Where to find the author:

http://www.lyndakscott.com/

http://www.lyndakscott.blogspot.com/

http://www.twitter.com/lyndakscott

http://www.facebook.com/lyndakscott

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4433943.Lynda_K_Scott

Books by Lynda K. Scott:

http://www.lyndakscott.com/books.html

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4433943.Lynda_K_Scott