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    The Challenge

    By Susan Kearney

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    Domination. Desire. Destiny.
    He rules a future in which women are helpless, obedient, and always willing. She comes from a past in which a woman's strength, brains, and courage are unquestioned. The challenge between them is timeless.
    Secret Service agent Tessa Camen took a bullet meant for the president. She regains consciousness three hundred years in the future on a spaceship, naked in the arms of Kahn, a fierce warlord from the planet Rystan. He's been expecting her. Tessa was whisked forward in time because her fighting abilities include a psychic talent like none other. Only she can defeat an enemy who threatens Earth. The fate of her home hangs in the balance. Once again, she's called on to serve and protect her nation.
    In Kahn's world, women are meant to be ruled but also protected. He can seduce Tessa, but can he own her heart and mind? Can he put aside his beliefs about women to help her train for a brutal intergalactic test, The Challenge? If she loses, so does Earth.
    Tessa and Kahn are caught in a war of wills set in a future where survival is a skill, power is an aphrodisiac, and love is a challenge that could destroy everything they cherish.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBelleBooks
    Release dateMay 24, 2013
    ISBN9781611943092
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    Susan Kearney

    Susan Kearney used to set fire to herself four times a day. Now she does something really hot — she writes romantic suspense for Silhouette Intrigue. While she hasn't performed her signature fire dive from a 10-metre platform in years, she started diving at age 10. By age 12, she'd won the New Jersey State Championship, and by college, she was a three-time All-American Diver. While attending the University of Michigan, she earned a business degree that led to her diverse careers as, variously, a partner in a barter business, a real estate appraiser, a mover and renovator of houses, and owner of three hair salons. Finally, in 1995, she sold her first book and became a full-time writer. She's currently plotting her way through her 14th novel. Of all her careers, her favourite is wife and mother. She married her teenage sweetheart and lives with her husband, two children, and Boston terrier in sunny Florida. She now beats the heat not by diving into cold water, but with her new hobby — figure skating. Susan also enjoys writing science fiction, screenwriting, boating, and travelling to foreign countries.  

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    • 5/5
      The challenge. Like very much the heroine and hero of the novel. |And the others characters were really good too, and plot.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book! For a book written in the 90s, it was a lot less alpha male cringey than most 21st century books, because Tessa is a fantastic character - strong, smart and methodical. Khan is an ignorant Neanderthal, whose only good qualities are he is hot and he eventually listens to Tessa after every decision is proven wrong, and she literally saves his life in front of his friend.

      The premise is Tessa is a secret service agent pulled through time to represent earth in a kind of hunger games situation so they can get access to a federation of planets. Tessa is a martial arts master, worldly, smart, strong, and a virgin due to the untimely death of her lover she is still mourning. Tessa's hunger games trainer is Kahn a hot backward ignorant male with little understanding of other cultures despite the fact that he has been to other planets. He doesn't answer questions, he doesn't ask questions, and instead of doing research about Tessa or her world, he is apparently training her to access psychic powers using sexual frustration, which is apparently how it works with adolescent children on his planet - gross. Kahn is the worst.

      Now this book walks the line between sexual assault and entertainment, because Tessa is so strong and methodical. She is never a victim. She is a woman from the 1990s and she knows how to deal with ignorant men. So she chooses her battles, goes along when necessary, and has a back up escape plan all along.

      Kahn doesn't really get better or wiser as much as he is just dumber and less strong than Tessa, which makes him unknowingly become the Beta to her Alpha. It's pretty hard to argue your wife isn't making your dinner, when she single handedly saved her planet from starvation.... in her free time completely separate from The Challenge.

      The actual Challenge doesn't happen until the last three chapters of the book! So I guess the real "Challenge" is dealing with Kahn... whom I still hate. She can do better than Kahn, and maybe some day she will. She doesn't need to be a submissive radioactive cave wife. And she's still got a lot of accounts Khan doesn't know about.
    • 5/5
      great book, complete, and detailed. left me wanting to read more.
    • 4/5
      A very enjoyable read.
      I am dismayed however that I can't find the other series (Book 2,3,4).
    • 3/5
      One minute Tessa is protecting the President of the US and the next she wakes up naked in the hands of a hunk called Kahn and it's 200 years or so later. By awakening her psychic powers he's going to get full membership of the galactic league. He's convinced that the way to do this is to frustrate her sexually.Oh yeah, this one is a humdinger, I've read worse but I've also read much better. It hits all the cliches and just manages to irritate me on a regular basis. I have little patience for people who are one minute strong and resourceful and in the next can't breathe without permission from their alpha male other half. It reads somewhat like the author wrote a string of sex scenes for the characters and strung them together with a vague plot. Yes it has a better plot than some others in this genre but I really want a little more plot and character consistency sometimes.

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