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Edge Security #2
Edge of Reason (Edge Security Series) (Volume 2) by Trish Loye
E.D.G.E. Security is a covert international organization that handles jobs most governments won’t. The operators are the elite of the elite, soldiers and spies, chosen for their skills and secrecy, and their ability to go beyond the edge. Captain Cat ‘Valkyrie’ Richards knows it’s easier to be alone. As a special ops soldier she’s worked too hard to achieve what she has to jeopardize it by having a fling with a fellow soldier. Besides, she tried that once and the results almost shattered her. Now she’s stronger and focused on the mission at hand. Nothing will distract her. As a Navy SEAL, Rhys ‘Lucky’ Lafayette knows how to achieve a mission no matter what the odds and when Rhys sees Cat he zeroes in on his target. She let him get close once before and he’s determined to make her see the benefits of it again. But when E.D.G.E. sends the pair to recover a senator’s son kidnapped by the Boko Haram, the simple rescue turns into something much darker and deadlier. Will Cat and Rhys be able to forge themselves into the necessary fighting force able to accomplish the mission or will they be pushed to the edge of reason.
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August 24, 2019
Gd book
Really enjoying this series. Full of drama and intrigue. Hot sexy alphas and equally capable and feisty females. Looking forward to the next book.
Really enjoying this series. Full of drama and intrigue. Hot sexy alphas and equally capable and feisty females. Looking forward to the next book.
June 19, 2018
Really enjoyed this story and look forward to reading the rest of the series.
April 5, 2016
Edge of your seat exhilarating
Cat and Rhys met during a battle more than a year ago. They worked along side one another during the temporary deployment that Jake and Rhys had went through to determine if they were truly interested in joking the EDGE team. Chemistry was sizzling between the two immediately, but with Cat's previous relationship with a teammate weighing on her mind, she decides not to give their romance a chance. Rhys is determined to make her his one way or another. After their first op together that is hard for the whole team, they each decide to move forward with their own plans of fixing the situation without telling the other. Once Rhys finds out what Cat is doing, his team takes off to help her. They end up saving each other, but Cat still cannot let herself go and decide to trust they feelings and trust that they won't let their relationship cause problems with the missions they will face. They finally end up together after a long hard road, but ever step they took to get there kept me on the EDGE of my seat waiting to see if they all were going to make it or not. I'm excited to see what else is going to happen for the teams. I've gotten attached to the whole team already and hope to see each of them happy like Jake, Dani, Cat and Rhys.
Cat and Rhys met during a battle more than a year ago. They worked along side one another during the temporary deployment that Jake and Rhys had went through to determine if they were truly interested in joking the EDGE team. Chemistry was sizzling between the two immediately, but with Cat's previous relationship with a teammate weighing on her mind, she decides not to give their romance a chance. Rhys is determined to make her his one way or another. After their first op together that is hard for the whole team, they each decide to move forward with their own plans of fixing the situation without telling the other. Once Rhys finds out what Cat is doing, his team takes off to help her. They end up saving each other, but Cat still cannot let herself go and decide to trust they feelings and trust that they won't let their relationship cause problems with the missions they will face. They finally end up together after a long hard road, but ever step they took to get there kept me on the EDGE of my seat waiting to see if they all were going to make it or not. I'm excited to see what else is going to happen for the teams. I've gotten attached to the whole team already and hope to see each of them happy like Jake, Dani, Cat and Rhys.
March 23, 2017
A disappointment for me personally because I had high hopes for how gender inequality in the military might be tackled here. Instead, there were so much posturing, overreactions and chips (or should I say boulders?) on the shoulder moments that just left me unable to enjoy Cat and Rhys together. Especially when mutual respect and understanding took a way long time to come.
If I thought Dani (the hr in the first book) was too strong to need anyone, Cat surpassed this particular benchmark by a hundred fold, which left me grimacing and wondering why she wasn't simply given a whole infantry of enemy soldiers to take on by herself, which seems to be just the way she likes.
Maybe I'm just picky about the sort of kickass women I'd love to support in fiction, but I simply thought much of the exposition was spent defending Cat's (sometimes unreasonable) behaviour and her uber-feminist perspective that it skewed quite a few of the other (male) supporting characters as narrow-minded misogynists, which I couldn't entirely appreciate.
If I thought Dani (the hr in the first book) was too strong to need anyone, Cat surpassed this particular benchmark by a hundred fold, which left me grimacing and wondering why she wasn't simply given a whole infantry of enemy soldiers to take on by herself, which seems to be just the way she likes.
Maybe I'm just picky about the sort of kickass women I'd love to support in fiction, but I simply thought much of the exposition was spent defending Cat's (sometimes unreasonable) behaviour and her uber-feminist perspective that it skewed quite a few of the other (male) supporting characters as narrow-minded misogynists, which I couldn't entirely appreciate.
March 17, 2016
I loved this book so much. I especially like books with a strong independent heroine who can kick ass just as well if not better then the boys. If thats what you are looking for this book is for you. The characters are all well thought out and the story gives you an idea of what its like when you have to follow orders even if you know its not the right thing to do. The push and pull of Cat and Rhys's relationship and its development is done at a good pace for these characters and is not rushed. Plenty of action for those of you that need more then just the romance story to keep you interested. Though I did love Cat my favorite character from Trish's Edge Security Series is still Danni from the first book but you can only re-read a book so many times before you can actually recite it word for word so this way you can still check in with your favorite characters while getting a better scene of others that were just secondary characters in other books. Overall another hit by Trish Loye.
February 21, 2016
I don't read books to balance out equality in a male dominated world, as some reviews have been disappointed with this book. I also don't only read military books - in fact this in only my 3rd set of military series. I also haven't read anything by this author b4 - other than edge security book 1. I can choose a book to read just on the book cover alone - I can b shallow like that.....However, for me.... this book was ace! I have to concentrate enough as I'm not military savvy and there's lots of twists and turns in this book. Fundamentally you are reading a series about dominant men who happen to find dominant women who want to fix shit by blowing stuff up, fighting and shooting guns at the bad guys!! Always a HEA what's not to love! Am downloading book 3 straight to my kindle - enough said - over & out ;0)
November 8, 2015
Nice series
I am really enjoying this series. I loved Rhys in the first book. His ready smile and Cajun accent were too adorable to resist. He was exactly what Cat needed. When Cat was on a mission, her Valkerie persona took over, and she was completely confident and ready to kick butt. When not on a mission, Cat lost that confidence and suffered from insecurities about her femininity and ultra tall and well muscled form. Fortunately, Rhys was practically a giant and appreciated the toned body and killer legs Cat sported. On the negative side, he struggled with being able to view her as a commanding officer because he wanted to protect her. In the end though, the only way her could protect her was to trust her to lead and to even protect him.
I am really enjoying this series. I loved Rhys in the first book. His ready smile and Cajun accent were too adorable to resist. He was exactly what Cat needed. When Cat was on a mission, her Valkerie persona took over, and she was completely confident and ready to kick butt. When not on a mission, Cat lost that confidence and suffered from insecurities about her femininity and ultra tall and well muscled form. Fortunately, Rhys was practically a giant and appreciated the toned body and killer legs Cat sported. On the negative side, he struggled with being able to view her as a commanding officer because he wanted to protect her. In the end though, the only way her could protect her was to trust her to lead and to even protect him.
November 11, 2015
Edge of Reason
Edge of Reason. This was a great adventure. Being a female Veteran, Cat hit the nail on the head discussing the challenges we faced. I can't wait for the next book.
Edge of Reason. This was a great adventure. Being a female Veteran, Cat hit the nail on the head discussing the challenges we faced. I can't wait for the next book.
March 7, 2020
Not only do we have a seriously HOT Navy SEAL in Rhys ‘Lucky’ Lafayette, but we have a KICK-ASS special ops heroine too! Captain Cat ‘Valkyrie’ Richards has had to prove herself time and time again to chauvinistic pricks in her line of work. Even when her team helped out Rhys's team in Afghanistan six months ago, her ability was doubted. But not in the bedroom of course. Rhys had no doubts about Cat when they hooked up back then.
Now he's joining the top secret E.D.G.E specialists, and Cat's just been announced the leader of his new team. Stepping in when he thinks she's in danger, not following orders and generally pissing Cat off along the way probably isn't the way to get her to agree to a date. Especially with their two other team members firmly against the two of them getting together.
When their mission to rescue a senators son is done, but in the rescuing they had to leave behind women and children who have been kidnapped and are repeatedly being raped and abused, Rhys decides to get his old SEAL team together and go off the books to rescue them... Cat also has the same idea. But what Rhys doesn't know, is he isn't invited on her black ops mission. But he was all set to include her.
I liked these two characters. I understood where Cat was coming from, especially as her original team members Zach and Marc weren't happy about them, but really? The woman was an absolute force in the field so it was never going to affect her job. Just more men doubting her ability! You stick it to 'em Cat!
Liked the action, well written.
Will definitely read more of this series.
Now he's joining the top secret E.D.G.E specialists, and Cat's just been announced the leader of his new team. Stepping in when he thinks she's in danger, not following orders and generally pissing Cat off along the way probably isn't the way to get her to agree to a date. Especially with their two other team members firmly against the two of them getting together.
When their mission to rescue a senators son is done, but in the rescuing they had to leave behind women and children who have been kidnapped and are repeatedly being raped and abused, Rhys decides to get his old SEAL team together and go off the books to rescue them... Cat also has the same idea. But what Rhys doesn't know, is he isn't invited on her black ops mission. But he was all set to include her.
I liked these two characters. I understood where Cat was coming from, especially as her original team members Zach and Marc weren't happy about them, but really? The woman was an absolute force in the field so it was never going to affect her job. Just more men doubting her ability! You stick it to 'em Cat!
Liked the action, well written.
Will definitely read more of this series.
July 29, 2020
I like how much military detail the author includes in this series. It makes their missions more interesting and more real. Romance, however, hardly happens in this story.
September 26, 2019
Cat (Valkyrie) is the total opposite of me and I love her! This book is gritty with an alpha female and male who have some great chemistry going on. It has some heartwrenching moments and some heart-in-mouth moments - all in all, a page turner.
My only suggestion to Ms Loye would be to have a Glossary of the military terms.
I can see me re-reading this.
My only suggestion to Ms Loye would be to have a Glossary of the military terms.
I can see me re-reading this.
January 27, 2022
This is the second book I've read by this author and I enjoyed it. The tension and conflict between the two characters was realistic and believable. Loved how kiss-ass Cat was and how Lucky loved her for it instead of being intimidated by her awesomeness. The plot was well-thought out and current. Will read by more this author.
April 2, 2025
Getting the job done
The E.D.G.E Alpha team is a great mix of the elite. Getting them to trust each other was interesting. Challenge accepted by all, they take on a mission that is successful but not complete. The decision to complete it would be where the team bonds together. This is a great series. A great mix of suspense, action, and interesting characters.
The E.D.G.E Alpha team is a great mix of the elite. Getting them to trust each other was interesting. Challenge accepted by all, they take on a mission that is successful but not complete. The decision to complete it would be where the team bonds together. This is a great series. A great mix of suspense, action, and interesting characters.
June 20, 2017
Loved this book, great series!!
June 26, 2017
A very hot romance lying just beneath the story with a military foundation.Knowing words used by soldiers in advances is a plus but not necessary.
September 30, 2017
Love it! Not just American military but also Canadian. Love that!!! Good story line.
December 17, 2017
Pretty good read- definitely quick for me.
June 14, 2018
Edge of Reason
Another wonderful story. Reading about what happens in other countries and that it's happening still today adds to the vision of your books.
Another wonderful story. Reading about what happens in other countries and that it's happening still today adds to the vision of your books.
November 12, 2018
Love it
Book 2 was just as good as book 1. I a. Super excited to have stumbled upon this series. It’s amazing and worth the time.
Book 2 was just as good as book 1. I a. Super excited to have stumbled upon this series. It’s amazing and worth the time.
August 26, 2019
Loved it! Great read!
April 4, 2020
As we have come to expect from Trish Loye and the Edge Series, great story and plot and strong characters and more sexy seals saving the day.
February 26, 2017
Not sure why I skimmed this one.
I really enjoyed Dani and Jakes book but for some reason I found myself skimming a good bit for Cat and Rhys book...and I can't put my finger on why.
Maybe it was all of the attention put on Cat's personal dating life and how men treated her like crap...ok I get it...being a woman in a mans career field is tough...but every single guy (outside her team) thinks she's inferior? Seemed a bit of an overkill to me...but just one persons opinion.
I think I'll read another author for now and maybe pick up this series again later with a clear perspective.
I really enjoyed Dani and Jakes book but for some reason I found myself skimming a good bit for Cat and Rhys book...and I can't put my finger on why.
Maybe it was all of the attention put on Cat's personal dating life and how men treated her like crap...ok I get it...being a woman in a mans career field is tough...but every single guy (outside her team) thinks she's inferior? Seemed a bit of an overkill to me...but just one persons opinion.
I think I'll read another author for now and maybe pick up this series again later with a clear perspective.
December 12, 2016
Valkyrie and Lucky
I am always excited when I find a new series that pulls me in and doesn't let go. Book One is a great standalone series opener with an HEA and introduces the main characters and the shadow agency they work for. This book follows in it's footsteps.
Valkyrie is a captain and team leader at EDGE who helped extract a SEAL team in enemy territory as book one begins. Lucky was one of the SEALs she rescued. He finished out an assignment before accepting a job with the shadow agency, acting on a strong attraction to the warrior who more than lives up to her call name. But he is assigned to her team, giving her the perfect excuse to put a stop to any ideas he might have about picking back up where they left things when he returned to his SEAL team. Or is it herself she's concerned about? So when her long time teammates express their concern about the attraction they see simmering between the two and whether it could have a negative impact on an op, Valkyrie leaves Lucky behind when she will need all the help she can get. She just doesn't comprehend how stubborn a SEAL can be when someone he cares about is in danger.
I am always excited when I find a new series that pulls me in and doesn't let go. Book One is a great standalone series opener with an HEA and introduces the main characters and the shadow agency they work for. This book follows in it's footsteps.
Valkyrie is a captain and team leader at EDGE who helped extract a SEAL team in enemy territory as book one begins. Lucky was one of the SEALs she rescued. He finished out an assignment before accepting a job with the shadow agency, acting on a strong attraction to the warrior who more than lives up to her call name. But he is assigned to her team, giving her the perfect excuse to put a stop to any ideas he might have about picking back up where they left things when he returned to his SEAL team. Or is it herself she's concerned about? So when her long time teammates express their concern about the attraction they see simmering between the two and whether it could have a negative impact on an op, Valkyrie leaves Lucky behind when she will need all the help she can get. She just doesn't comprehend how stubborn a SEAL can be when someone he cares about is in danger.
April 21, 2016
Hard-edged thriller
Excellently written, this is the second book in a series of what look to be awesome stories. Cat is a strong woman, confident in her abilities as a soldier yet constantly challenged by men who clearly suffer from an inferiority complex, leading to a nonp-existent dating life. Rhys is a strong man, confident in his abilities as a soldier yet struggling to see Cat as his superior and equal instead of a woman to be protected. Coupled with the raging attraction he has for her and her determination for 'keeping things professional' they must overcome their personal issues in order to complete the mission.
Very strong characters and storyline, hope the series continues.
Excellently written, this is the second book in a series of what look to be awesome stories. Cat is a strong woman, confident in her abilities as a soldier yet constantly challenged by men who clearly suffer from an inferiority complex, leading to a nonp-existent dating life. Rhys is a strong man, confident in his abilities as a soldier yet struggling to see Cat as his superior and equal instead of a woman to be protected. Coupled with the raging attraction he has for her and her determination for 'keeping things professional' they must overcome their personal issues in order to complete the mission.
Very strong characters and storyline, hope the series continues.
September 16, 2015
I enjoyed this economy book in the series more than the first one,Edge of Control, but I wouldn't have discovered her if not for the first book.
Edge of Reason seemed more fleshed out than Edge of Control. There was more interaction between Rhys & Cat, allowing their relationship to grow. Jake and Dani's story just seemed too fast, without time to develop.
I do like that romance is mixed in with adventure and intrigue. I also like that they have real missions requiring the use of their many skills. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.
Edge of Reason seemed more fleshed out than Edge of Control. There was more interaction between Rhys & Cat, allowing their relationship to grow. Jake and Dani's story just seemed too fast, without time to develop.
I do like that romance is mixed in with adventure and intrigue. I also like that they have real missions requiring the use of their many skills. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.
December 2, 2015
This is the second book in the Edge series and I enjoyed it as much as the first. I have the Third book to look forward to and will start it very soon. I really knew nothing of SEAL, the mystery and intrigue of overseas missions, terrorist activity etc. but Trish brings it all to life in this series.
A very compelling read, hard to put down once you start reading. Having a bit of romance thrown in is nice too. I love the way the different characters from each book show up and tie things together.
A very compelling read, hard to put down once you start reading. Having a bit of romance thrown in is nice too. I love the way the different characters from each book show up and tie things together.
September 29, 2015
OMG
Anything or where to start with this book I loved it loved it characters really well written put together and just really wild . Finally author who isn't afraid of using strong woman as a character with just enough softness to remember she's a woman . Thank you thank you thank you I just can't say enough to let readers know how much I enjoyed this book. Intertwining reality with romance.
Anything or where to start with this book I loved it loved it characters really well written put together and just really wild . Finally author who isn't afraid of using strong woman as a character with just enough softness to remember she's a woman . Thank you thank you thank you I just can't say enough to let readers know how much I enjoyed this book. Intertwining reality with romance.
October 16, 2015
Truth
I am so glad that you have written this series. Being able to read about the real threats that our elite military and undercover ops agencies are there to protect us from is refreshing. Even though we never truly know what they are doing. I know they don't do it for praise, being from a military family, they do it because they want to. Thanks for all they do. Keep the series going.
I am so glad that you have written this series. Being able to read about the real threats that our elite military and undercover ops agencies are there to protect us from is refreshing. Even though we never truly know what they are doing. I know they don't do it for praise, being from a military family, they do it because they want to. Thanks for all they do. Keep the series going.
December 27, 2015
Could not put down
Cat is the team leader of Alpha squad at EDGE. She is a no nonsense strong women. Rhys is a Navy Seal assigned to the EDGE team. These two have some major chemistry and fight it as much as possible. They are sent on a mission that goes wrong. Rhys is having a hard time not wanting to protect her which is messing things up.
These two have to figure out how to make everything work and save the ones counting on them.
Cat is the team leader of Alpha squad at EDGE. She is a no nonsense strong women. Rhys is a Navy Seal assigned to the EDGE team. These two have some major chemistry and fight it as much as possible. They are sent on a mission that goes wrong. Rhys is having a hard time not wanting to protect her which is messing things up.
These two have to figure out how to make everything work and save the ones counting on them.
August 19, 2015
Great series
I have a set of authors who I read exclusively, found this series & fell in love immediately!! Needless to say added Trish Loye immediately!! Geat action, great characters & strong women. The women aren't whining,babbling dummies but what really make the books great!! Can't wait for #3!!
I have a set of authors who I read exclusively, found this series & fell in love immediately!! Needless to say added Trish Loye immediately!! Geat action, great characters & strong women. The women aren't whining,babbling dummies but what really make the books great!! Can't wait for #3!!
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