Island Heat

by Susan Kearney

Book Overview

Former screen siren Shara Weston lived on an exotic and private South Pacific island as a recluse until disturbingly masculine and captivating Cade Archer fell out of the sky and into her life.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076535666X
• ISBN13: 9780765356666
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

New direction for Susan Kearney

As has been noted, this is a new-ish direction for Susan Kearney. Many people are familiar with her other sci-fi series (The Challenge, The Dare, The Ultimatum and The Quest). This book is a little different, in that is set here on Earth, and the aliens come are the minority. Cade is from a planet where any children that are no the first-born sons are essentially slaves. When his first-born brother shoots him out of the sky and he lands near Shara's private island, things change. Cade is here to open a portal to his planet and make some kind of trade agreement between our world and his. Shara is on the island to escape from her movie star past that ended with a scandal. One of the things I like best about Ms. Kearney's books is that she gives real reasons behind why people do the things they do. Motives are real, actions ring true. I like that Cade and Shara behave in the ways you might expect them to (assuming we can guess how an alien and a movie star would act). The story is different and the world-building is done well.

fantastic science fiction romance

Two years Jamar waited for this moment that will end the rebellion. He fires the missile at the other vessel in which his enemy his brother Cade and some special cargo ride. However, to his rage, though the missile destroys the ship, Cade escapes with his cargo just prior to contact. On the isolated Pacific island that she bought and retreated to five years ago, Shara Weston hears the sonic explosion that reminds her of her Hollywood days when she and late husband Bruce Langston snorted and drank every night. Shara sees a man fall into the water and saves his life. Cade Archer tells her nothing claiming top secret security. As he heals, Cade and Shara are attracted to one another. Still she has doubts as her last loving relationship proved destructive to her and her late spouse; he has even greater concerns as he has a mission to send needed resources through a portal he must create on her island so that his people will be able to free themselves. The portal means threatening the life of his beloved because Jamar will be aware of its opening and arrive to kill him, his witness, destroy the door to his home planet, and perhaps the entire planet if need be. ISLAND HEAT is a fantastic science fiction romance starring two likable protagonists falling in love at a time that it is an expendable emotion. Cade knows his people's freedom must come before his personal needs, but also fears his efforts to help his planet could destroy the orb of his beloved. Shara also believes that earth must come before her desire for this strong alien, which might mean stopping him from opening the portal. Though one must wonder why Jamar went solo at the beginning even if macho ego is implied, Susan Kearney writes a terrific thriller that grips readers from start to finish wondering whether the third planet from the sun will be Mars. Harriet Klausner