An Unexpected Distraction (Richter)
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An Unexpected Distraction (Richter)

Paperback – November 30, 2021

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Price
$6.92
Format
Paperback
Pages
365
Publisher
Montlake
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1542029568
Dimensions
5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
Weight
12.8 ounces

Description

About the Author New York Times , Wall Street Journal , and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee has written thirty-five books that have collectively sold more than eight million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. Raised in Washington State, Bybee moved to Southern California in the hope of becoming a movie star. After growing bored with waiting tables, she returned to school and became a registered nurse, spending most of her career in urban emergency rooms. She now writes full time and has penned the Not Quite series, the Weekday Brides series, the Most Likely To series, and the First Wives series.

Features & Highlights

  • Family secrets and fresh romance collide in this heart-pounding Richter series installment by
  • New York Times
  • and
  • USA Today
  • bestselling author Catherine Bybee.
  • Jacqueline “Jax” Simon knows how to expose secrets: she’s a skilled operative with MacBain Security and Solutions. When Jax hears her parents are divorcing, she races to London to find out why. She’s determined to learn the truth, especially when her investigation uncovers why her parents sent her to Richter, the German military school that made her a fighter.
  • Andrew Craig collects Jax at Heathrow Airport as a favor. He’s heard she’s a handful, but he didn’t know she’s dangerously gorgeous too. His instant attraction could change his life…or end it.
  • Jax doesn’t want to fall for Andrew, but soon he’s worming his way into her life. Together, they infiltrate Richter to discover if it has returned to its covert purpose: training children to be spies and assassins and blackmailing parents to look the other way. As the attraction between the two intensifies, so do the secrets exploding all around them. How deadly are those secrets―and who will survive?

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Great book, great series!

The third book in the Richter Series by Catherine Bybee, this one answers many questions for Jacqueline 'Jax' Simon. Not knowing exactly why she was sent to Richter, the private school that educates its students on much more than academics, her parent's issues soon show her what happened and why.

Jax is a take no prisoners operative for a security firm, a typical alpha, although female, not male. Go in, get the job done,, and take names kind of person. Andrew is more of a softie...I loved some of his responses when Jax had to get 'real' with the bad guys! He is in awe of Jax and the perfect fit for her!

There are many twists and turns in this book and while it can be read as a standalone, I think the story works best when you have some background from the previous books.

When we think everything is tied up in a pretty box, the girls from Richter that we know from the previous books have all made their matches and are in healthy relationships, and we're sighing as we watch two people get married...the last 4 paragraphs of the epilogue let us know not all is as it seems. GAHHHH...

Can't wait to see what happens next!!
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Kept my interest

Well written-1st book I’ve read by author
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Great

It was just as good as the last 2
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Charged, colourful, and enticing!

An Unexpected Distraction is a smart, seductive, sinister tale featuring the talented Jacqueline “Jax” Simon who, after receiving a call from her brother informing her of their parent’s abrupt separation, returns to England, where she is quickly swept up in uncovering the underlying cause of her parent’s troubles, discovering how the military-like boarding school she attended in Germany may play a part, and accepting a helping hand from her brother’s handsome best friend, Andrew, who she reluctantly seems to have more than a passing fancy for.

The writing is steamy and intense. The characters are skilled, loyal, and reliable. And the plot is a seductive, mysterious tale of undeniable attraction, familial responsibilities, deception, corruption, secrets, danger, tender moments, and swoon-worthy romance.

Overall, An Unexpected Distraction is a menacing, alluring, edgy addition to the Richter series by Bybee that’s got all the elements we’ve come to know and love in her contemporary romance/romantic suspense novels, including a fierce heroine, a sexy sidekick, and a highly entertaining, adventurous storyline.

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