Chicago, Illinois, and Mexico - Present Day

As a top Network agent, Hunter Savage strives to feel nothing. The Network is a covert organization where duty is everything and falling in love is punishable by death. Hunter's desire to be more machine than man is understandable, but for him, seemingly impossible. Hunter knows of other high ranking Network agents who have secretly found a way to be together, but no matter how often Hunter finds himself involved in a sexual relationship with a female agent, in the light of day she is as cold as Chicago winters, as if they were never joined as one in the darkness of the night. A cold blooded, unfeeling machine is all that Hunter longs to be, and to capture Rex Kovac, the Black Pope, the notorious leader of one of the worlds most dangerous terrorist organizations, R.E.D. Kovac has been impossible to capture, but Hunter has finally pinpointed Kovac's location. Hunter soon realizes that the information that led him to Kovac is a trap, and the target, Hunter's beloved sister, Celine, a brilliant doctor, who also works for the Network.

Injured and determined, Hunter becomes a renegade, turning his back on the only life he has known in order to rescue his sister. And what of Tanya Kovac, the Black Pope's beautiful wife; is she the key to saving his sister? Is Tanya Kovac the key to fulfilling that part of Hunter who, no matter how hard he tries, longs to lay in the softness of a woman's arms for all time?

RENEGADE'S ROSE is the sixth book in Ms. Wiesner's intriguing and suspenseful Incognito Series, and the most romantic and sensual out of all the stories. While most Network agents desire to feel something other than a sense of duty to their job, Hunter is a hero who feels too much. Sexual, sensual, devoted to his sister and the Network, Hunter longs to cut off the best part of himself. He is passionate, capable of great love and loyalty. Tanya Kovac is not what she seems, all beauty, softness, and vulnerability; it is only as RENEGADE'S ROSE progresses that readers remember that roses, although renowned for their beauty, can survive in even the harshest climates.

With plenty twists and turns, and two main characters whose need for each other sizzles, it is only as the action builds towards the end of RENEGADE'S ROSE, that the plot's believability is stretched too thin. Ms. Wiesner is a skillful writer, but even she could not completely save the moments in RENEGADE'S ROSE that were too hard to swallow. Nevertheless, I recommend RENEGADE'S ROSE for its multi-layered characters, romance, and hopeful tone.

Nickole Yarbrough