Published: Sep. 27, 2010
Words: 69,276 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452425566

Short description

Award-winning author Doranna Durgin has over 30 published novels (MMPB, trade, and hardcover) and another 19 short pieces. Now available, Making the Rules is an original, stand-alone book in the former Silhouette Bombshell Hunter Agency series of action, suspense, and romance.

Extended description

Making the Rules is an original, stand-alone book in the former Silhouette Bombshell Hunter Agency series of action, suspense, and romance:

Hunter Agency operatives Kimmer Reed and Rio Carlsen, overseas and cut off from the agency on their first assignment together, face an old enemy who wants it all: political terrorism, theft--and revenge. Not only that, she knows just how to get it--by turning their greatest strength into their greatest weakness: their love for one another.

About Kimmer & Rio in BEYOND THE RULES: (Read more) Making the Rules is an original, stand-alone book in the former Silhouette Bombshell Hunter Agency series of action, suspense, and romance:

Hunter Agency operatives Kimmer Reed and Rio Carlsen, overseas and cut off from the agency on their first assignment together, face an old enemy who wants it all: political terrorism, theft--and revenge. Not only that, she knows just how to get it--by turning their greatest strength into their greatest weakness: their love for one another.

About Kimmer & Rio in BEYOND THE RULES:

"Doranna Durgin's BEYOND THE RULES is action-packed from start to finish. Kimmer is so strong that readers won't doubt for even a minute that she'll come out on top in the end. And Rio is a hero any woman could love."
--Romantic Times, Four Stars

About MAKING THE RULES, from Amazon:

"If you are looking for a story to help you fall asleep, don't pick this one. Kimmer and Rio are a good match, work well together, worry about each other and get the job done. Doranna Durgin has given us another great book." --Charles Thompson

Kimmer Reed is a Hunter Agency operative, a street foundling escaped from an abusive family and raised to be code-name Chimera--a fierce, savvy loner with a natural gift for reading people. Now on her first assignment with the one man she trusts--the one man she can't read--she finds herself overseas in the Basque countryside, framed for the theft of the very antiquity she has been sent to guard and doubting her ability to work with a partner at all--never mind the man she loves.

Rio Carlsen, former CIA field officer who left the agency with scars both physical and emotional, joins Hunter Agency field operations with reservations--and only because his partner is Kimmer. Now he's caught in the schemes of a woman from Kimmer's past. Political terrorism, antiquities theft, and revenge--this woman wants it all, and she's on her way to getting it.

Framed, cut off from the agency, and tangled in Basque Nationalist splinter terrorist groups, the biggest challenge Kimmer and Rio face is coming to terms with their pasts and with each other--so they can live through the day on the way to saving it.
(Less)

Tags

romance, thriller, suspense, adventure, spies, covert, revenge, romantic suspense psychic powers alice in wonderland romance amnesia paranormal romance, rio, basque, romantic adventure, silhouette, partners, romantic action, reprint, reprint of published work, bombshell, hunter agency, kimmer, kickass heroine, backlist book, backlist ebook, backlist ebooks, romanticsupsense, backlistebooks, durgin, backlistebook, backlist

Available ebook reading formats

Single purchase gains access to all formats. How to download ebooks to e-reading devices and apps.

Format	Full Book
Online Reading (HTML, good for sampling in web browser)	Buy
Kindle (.mobi for Kindle devices and Kindle apps)	Buy
Epub (Apple iPad/iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, others)	Buy
PDF (good for reading on PC, or for home printing)	Buy
LRF (Use only for older model Sony Readers that don't support .epub)	Buy
Palm Doc (PDB) (for Palm reading devices)	Buy

Reviews

Log-in to write a Review   Log-in to add a Video Review

Review by: adrianne on Oct. 31, 2011 :
Kimmer and Rio are back! If you fell in love with them in Exception to the Rules and Beyond the Rules, you know what a delight you’re in for. If you haven’t read the others, they can easily be read out of order. Making the Rules is a fabulous romantic-suspense novel set in the Basque region of Spain. The action never stops, and sparks fly fast and furious as bullets between Kimmer and Rio.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: natski on Oct. 05, 2010 :
Having read the 1st 2 books in the series i thoroughly enjoyed the further adventures of Kimmer & Rio. For me a good romance book is not always about the sex but the relationship and how it grows. In this story you get to see how Kimmer & Rio learn to trust themselves as partners when they are tested by outside forces. They know they are capable individually but this answers the questions of how they cope together. Great story, great characters, great author!
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review by: Karen Gould on Sep. 30, 2010 :
This book has a lot of action, great characters, and some romance (but not steamy sex scenes - if you're looking for that, this isn't the book for you). All this and an actual interesting plot too! I've been a Doranna Durgin fan for years, and she consistently delivers all the things I like in a book, and she doesn't disappoint in this, her first self-published book, either.

This is the third book in Durgin's "Hunter Agency" series. (Well, actually the fourth, but "Survival Instinct" didn't feature Kimmer and Rio as this one does.) It's been a while since I read the first two Kimmer and Rio books ("Exception to the Rules" and "Beyond the Rules", and I've forgotten some of the details, but I enjoyed this anyway. So, I think this book can be read without having read those two - but if you have read them, some of the details in this one are more meaningful. The first two were published as Silhouette Bombshells, and are available as ebooks from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. (Search on "Doranna Durgin")

On a personal note, I was devastated when they canceled that "Bombshell" line, because it's the only "category romance" line I'd ever liked. And I was quite looking forward to this book, as well as a couple of others. I'm glad it finally saw the light of... er, eInk!
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Reason for report:
— Select a reason — Book is or contains spam Book infringes copyright Same content is published elsewhere with different author (for ex., by private-label rights) Duplicate Incomplete work (such as sample or serial) Should be marked adults-only Category is inappropriate Poorly formatted Nudity or other inappropriate content on cover Nudity or other inappropriate visual content in book Inappropriate erotica content Cover image is improper Content is inappropriate Other violation of Terms of Service Other reason not shown above.

Additional details: