Cutting Loose

by Tara Janzen

Book Overview

"She's the unsuspecting beauty with something everybody wants. He's the secret agent in so deep nobody can find him.Until now..." CIA operative Zachary Prade made his name taking out world threats.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440243858
• ISBN13: 9780440243854
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Cutting Loose is hitting my Keeper Shelf!

I love Tara Janzen's spin-off series to her Crazy... series! When she released On The Loose in October, I was thrilled. But I'm even more so with her newest release, CUTTING LOOSE. Now that I know what happened to the final missing Steele Street chop shop boy, the Crazy...series is complete on my Keeper Shelf! After eight years deep undercover handling drug dealers, El Salvadoran guerillas, and threats to American interests, CIA agent Zachary Prade's come home to face his biggest challenge yet...a sexy schoolteacher from New Mexico who trails disaster in her wake. Three weeks has passed since he first laid eyes on Lily Robbins, when she landed on his plantation doorstep steps ahead of an angry band of guerilla's wanting more than the pistol and jeep she stole from the band's leader. The documentary film she'd taken captured a lot more than the plight of the nuns in the area! Now, it seems Lily's left Central America with the key to an encoded file several governments would kill to get their hands on. Zach knows he's the only one who can protect Lily and bring the key in out of the cold. But keeping Lily close is no way to protect his heart! Lily trusted Alejandro Campos, the drug lord she'd met in El Salvador, even though she knew she shouldn't. He saved her from certain death in that Central American jungle. In fact, she can't put the delectable man out of her mind once he returns her home to New Mexico. But that trust is shaken when he shows up unexpectedly using another name, drags her out of her house in the middle of a gun battle with two assassins, and demands a key she doesn't have! Forced to race for safety with Zach in Charlotte, the Harlot, a 1968 Shelby Mustang Cobra GT500KR, she ultimately discovers all she can trust is her heart. Janzen hit her stride quickly with the second book in her series. Cutting Loose is fun, action packed, steamy hot, and chockablock full of delicious heroes, intriguing heroines you can relate to, and a muscle car some might consider trading for their firstborn. Throw some of my favorite guys and gals from Steele Street into the mix, as well as introduce some new, intriguing faces, and this reader is ready to run to the nearest bookstore for Janzen's next exciting novel in the series. Can't wait!

A homecoming for Zach

Zach Prade was one of the original chop shop boys who called Steele Street in Denver home. He was picked up as a teenager and found a home with the other Chop Shop boys Dylan, Creed, Hawkins, and JT. For the past eight years, he has been in deep cover as Alejandro Campos, a drug lord in El Salvador. In the last book, On the Loose, he meets Lily, a schoolteacher from New Mexico who is there to do a documentary on nuns. Instead she runs into trouble as she is a witness to murder, conspiracy, and espionage. He helps her get out of the country back to the US. From the first moment they met, there is a chemistry there that under the circumstances they cannot pursue. What do a drug lord and school teacher have in common? Fast forward three weeks and Zach (aka Campos) is no longer undercover. He is back with the CIA. There is a problem in that Lily may have a bracelet given to her by the dead pilot she met in El Salvador that holds the key to valuable encoded files. Everyone is after this bracelet and will not stop at anything to get it including kill Lily. Zach goes after Lily along with Charlotte, the Harlot, a suped up red Shelby Mustang that Zach helped rebuild when he was chop shop boy. They have to get away from New Mexico and back to Denver where Dylan and the SDF crew can help them. Along the way, they give into the hot chemistry they felt for each other since they first met. As the second book in the Loose series and the continuation from her Crazy series, Janzen gives us an exciting romantic suspense adventure in the world of espionage, terrorists, and the men sworn to protect. Lily is no shrinking violet and is the daughter of a Montana sheriff and a past sharpshooter champion. Zach is looking to start over and begin a different life. He goes back to the only place he has ever called home, Steele Street. The characters from her past books are involved in the story as well as new additions. Dylan, the head of Steele Street, his wife, Skeeter, the tech agent, and Red Dog are involved. Cherie Hacker is one of the newer characters and is a one of the tech agents associated with Steele Street and owns her own firm. Gabriel Shore is introduced as well and is Red Dog's brother and works for the government. These two computer nerds definitely have chemistry and potential for a future storyline. I can't wait for the next book in this series which comes out in Nov 2008. Until then, read Janzen's Crazy series and the 1st book in the Loose series, On the Loose.

The Last of the Lost Chop Shop Boys Comes Home!

Lily, a school teacher, first met Alejandro Campos in El Salvador about a month ago. She was there filming a documentary about the nuns at St. Joseph when all hell broke loose, she watched an American pilot die and before he did he gave her a macramé bracelet. She managed to flee the chaos and end up at Alejandro's estate. The notorious drug lord was a friend of the sisters. The immediate attraction between these two in On the Loose (Steele Street, Book 7)was palpable, but a case of the wrong place and the wrong time. After the 'war' was over, Alejandro flew Lily back to New Mexico. That was three weeks ago. Now he is back in the states and going by his given name of Zach Pride. The government in which he works for has given him an assignment... Get the bracelet from Lily. Once again Zach/Alejandro saves Lily and the two of them hop in is 68 Shelby Cobra Mustang and are on the run. There are people out there looking for Lily, the bracelet and looking for Gillian, aka Red Dog. The two purposes collide bringing the Steele Street guys and gals into the mix. This was a book that had something going at all times, never a dull moment. While getting us involved in this current story Ms. Janzen has a fabulous way with introducing characters and making us long for the next. Lily and Zach make an unlikely couple if you look at their backgrounds, but the chemistry between them, the attraction, is so real and believable, you can feel the heat. I don't remember Dylan Hart, the Steele Street boss, being so funny, but man he had me laughing out loud in this book. His comments about Cherie and Red Dogs brother, Gabriel, were hysterical. This is a fantastic read and I eagerly anticipate Loose and Easy, coming in November 2008. Enjoy!

A Must READ!!!!!

You will fall in love with her characters, main story and minor ones as well! I can't wait for her next developments.

ONE OF HER VERY BEST

I love this newest release. First and best Dylan and Skeeter are in it!!!!--NEVER ENOUGH DYLAN AND SKEETER! The main story with Zach and Lily is really wonderful. They are now my second favorites behind D & S. If you have read Tara before and had become disappointed around the time Crazy Sweet(not) came out then you MUST read this book. Its GREAT! Loose bring us up to date with all the chop shop boys AND it provides a lot of previously unknown backstory for them! I highly recommend this book to any fan of the CRAZY series.