Izzy Zanella wasn’t looking for another reason to butt heads with his Navy SEAL teammate, and nemesis, Danny Gillman. But then he met Danny’s beautiful younger sister, Eden. When she needed it most, he offered her a place to stay, a shoulder to cry on—and more. And when she got pregnant with another man’s child, he offered her marriage. But Eden’s devastating miscarriage shattered their life together—and made the intense bad blood between Izzy and Danny even worse.

Now Eden’s back, and she’s on a mission to rescue her teen brother, Ben, from their abusive stepfather. Even if she and Izzy can prove that their broken marriage is still in one piece, winning legal custody of Ben is a long shot. But they’re not alone: Danny and his girlfriend, Jenn, offer to help, and he and Izzy agree to bury the past and fight for Ben’s future.

As they plan their strategy, Izzy and Eden grapple with the raw passion that still crackles between them—while Danny and Jenn confront new depths in their own rocky relationship. But events take a terrifying turn after Ben befriends a girl fleeing a child prostitution ring. When the young runaway seeks refuge with Eden and Izzy, her pursuers kidnap Ben—and a deadly standoff begins. Now they must all pull together like never before and strike back, swift and hard, to protect their unconventional little family and everything they hold most precious.

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Troubleshooters
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Since her explosion onto the publishing scene more than ten years ago, Suzanne Brockmann has written more than forty books, and is now widely recognized as one of the leading voices in romantic suspense. Her work has earned her repeated appearances on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists, as well as numerous awards, including Romance Writers of America’s #1 Favorite Book of the Year - three years running in 2000, 2001, and 2002 - two RITA awards, and many Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Suzanne Brockmann lives west of Boston with her husband, author Ed Gaffney.

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After childhood plans to become the captain of a starship didn’t pan out, Suzanne Brockmann took her fascination with military history, her respect for the men and women who serve, her reverence for diversity, and her love of storytelling, and explored brave new worlds as a New York Times bestselling romance author.

Over the past thirty years she has written sixty-three novels, including her award-winning Troubleshooters series about Navy SEAL heroes and the women—and sometimes men—who win their hearts. In addition to writing books, Suz writes and produces indie movies and TV including the award-winning romantic comedy The Perfect Wedding.

In 2018, Suz was given the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America. Her latest projects are Blame It on Rio (Tall, Dark & Dangerous # 14), available in print and e-book from Suzanne Brockmann Books, and Marriage of Inconvenience, a six-episode LBGTQ rom-com TV series, streaming on Dekkoo in April 2023.

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Welcome Return to Old Friends

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2011

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This sixteenth story in the Troubleshooters series focuses on Izzy Zanella and Danny Gilman. It is action packed romantic suspense. It is hard to know what to say about this complex book. The story about Neesha being a child prostitute is heartbreaking.

The relationship between Zanella and Gilman has been personally adversarial throughout the whole series. They just rub each other the wrong way. While they respect each other's competence as SEALs and work well as teammates, they don't have compatible personalities. It doesn't help their relationship when Zanella falls in love with and marries Danny's younger sister Eden. Both Zanella and Gilman has romantic pasts of the "love em and leave em" variety. But now they have met women they don't want to leave and have to convince them that they are there to stay.

The Gilman family relationships make up a lot of the suspense and tension in this story. The goal in this one is to rescue Eden and Danny's younger brother Ben from his abusive stepfather. Ben is diabetic, gay and fifteen. The stepfather who is a drug using alcoholic who has found religion. In his eyes, being gay is wrong and he is determined to "cure" his son by sending him to an abusive retraining center run by his church. Eden and Danny are determined to save Ben and get him away. Eden and Danny don't have a good relationship either. Danny objects to a lot of the choices that Eden has made in her life. He thinks she is an immoral user. Eden is hurt by Danny's opinion.

Something quite different about this romance is that all of the characters are from the lower middle class. Money and money worries are on their minds too as they try to solve their problems. Danny has always sent the bulk of his pay home to his mother to take care of his younger brother. She and her husband have mostly used it to drink and drug themselves. Ben's diabetes and the need to house and shelter him will stretch Danny's budget. Eden has taken any job she can to try to support herself. She has found work as a stripper that pays well but doesn't help her self image and doesn't help in their quest to gain custody of Ben.

The romance and the romantic misunderstandings in this one were also intense. Zanella and Eden each love the other but the relationship lacks trust. They aren't sure they can depend on each other. Throughout this story they are trying to get to know and trust each other. Danny and Jenn are also working on their relationship. Jenn is very good for Danny because she brings stability to him. She is a quiet voice of reason who can help Danny forge new relationships with his sister and Zanella.

I thought this was an excellent entry into the Troubleshooters series. If you like action-packed romantic suspense, this may be the book for you. I think it would be a richer experience for those who have read other stories in the Troubleshooters series.

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Good Troubleshooters

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2014

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I read this book years ago, out of order and really enjoyed it, but reading in order with all the background of the other characters that make a small appearance really clears up a lot of those, "Huh, what's that about," moments. I have always liked Izzy, with his odd sense of humor, and I have never really liked Dan, but I came to realize that Izzy can be serious when he needs to be and I think like Dan a little more. Although I don't think I could ever be with a man that is that manipulative and I don't understand why Jenn married him, I think there may be hope for him. I would like to visit with them in about 10 years to see the changes.

Bottom line, I enjoyed this book. It kept my interest, the plot moved quickly and I like the characters. I'm a little sad to know that this is the end of Troubleshooters.

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Four and a half stars for Breaking the Rules

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2011

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This was probably Brockmann's best book in the last five years. Everything just came together, plot, characters, and angst so thick you could eat it with a spoon. A four and a half star read.

[...]SPOILER ALERT[...]

Izzy Zanella is spot on, true to all his earlier appearances and just as absolutely heroic as ever. I think he's my favorite SEAL of this series. His sense of humor is so twisted and addictive, yet his moral compass is dead on balls accurate. This guy is a rule breaker through and through and don't expect him to apologize for it! He starts out determined to get on with his life, as soon as he gets a little bit of closure from Eden. The questions of why she left and why she refused to see him are driving him nuts, and that's before people start shooting.

Eden is determined to rescue her brother from the hell of his life with drug and alcohol addicted mother and giant tool of a stepfather who intend to send him to anti-gay camp. Seeing Eden in action, fighting for someone she loved really changed my view of her from a spoiled self centered teen drama queen to a heroine worthy of one of team sixteen's finest.

Dan Gillman and Jennilyn are back and still struggling to get their love straightened out. Here's where the less than five stars comes in. While Dan is tortured in typical Brockmann fashion, both physically and emotionally, he never seems to actually deserve Jennilyn. Her faith in him is absolutely unshakable but I still felt as though he should have had to work a little bit harder for her devotion. After the way he treated her in the last book, I wanted to see him dig down deep, maybe even grovel a wee bit. Proving that Jennilyn is way less sadistic than this Jennifer Lynn ;-)

Brockmann's style is as bold and in your face as ever, enough to keep me up well past my bad time because I was craving more. Action packed and heartwrenchingly neurotic, this is definitely one for the keeper shelf.

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Romanfresser

Sehr emotionale Fortsetzung

Reviewed in Germany on March 27, 2011

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Viele haben vielleicht schon lange darauf gewartet: die Fortsetzung von Izzys + Edens Geschichte. Wer die Vorgängerbände nicht kennt, die Geschichte beginnt als Nebenhandlung in Into the Fire: A Novel (Troubleshooters) , und hat ihre Forsetzung in Hot Pursuit: A Novel - wer diese beiden Bände nicht kennt, hat es schwerer. Um es vorweg zu nehmen: dieser Band ist anders als die übliche Troubleshooter-Serie. Hier sind absolut die Emotionen und die Aufarbeitung von zwischenmenschlichen Problemen im Vordergrund, der "Thriller" Plot ist gering und gewinnt erst gegen Ende des Buches an Spannung.
Dennoch: ich habe das Buch verschlungen. Es bietet viele Aufklärungen und diese kommen ganz nach Art von SB häppchenweise und von Action-Handlungen unterbrochen.
Es geht um den homosexuellen, diabeteskranken, 15jährigen Ben Gillman, Bruder von SEAL Danny und Eden, die mit Izzy immer noch verheiratet ist, obwohl sie sich seit zehn Monaten nicht gesehen haben. Ben durchlebt die Hölle bei seinem Stiefvater und der alkoholkranken Mutter und Eden möchte ihn aus diesem Umfeld herausholen und die Vormundschaft beantragen. Sie ist aber erst zwanzig und hat kein gefestigtes Leben vorzuweisen, deswegen benötigt sie die Hilfe von Danny und Izzy. Es ist nicht gerade hilfreiche, dass Danny keinerlei Sympathien für seine Schwester hegt, die er für eine Schlampe hält und auch Izzy geradezu hasst (auch das zieht sich bereits durch sämtliche Vorgängerbände). Obwohl Izzy ihm das Leben in einem schweren Einsatz rettet, kommt es zu keiner Annäherung.
Um jedoch Ben aus den Klauen seines Stiefvaters, der nicht davor zurückschreckt ihn in Horrorr-Umgewöhnungscamp (offensichtlich gibt es sowas in den USA?) schickt, müssen sie zusammenarbeiten. Mit von der Partie ist auch Dannys Freundin Jennilyn, deren Beziehung auch noch alles andere als gefestigt ist. Es beginnt also ein Karussell von Gefühlswirrwarr, halbherzigen Aussprachen und Geständnissen, dass ich als Leser fast soweit war, alle Beteiligten an die Wand zu schlagen. Schritt für Schritt entwirren sich die Knoten, sie müssen alle gemeinsam am selben Strang ziehen, denn neben der Auseinandersetzung mit Bens Stiefvater und Mutter geraten sie auch noch in einen Menschenhandelring hinein.
Vier Sterne gebe ich für die spannenden Dialoge der Aufarbeitung zwischen Danny und Eden, Danny und Izzy, sowie auch Izzy und Eden und nicht zuletzt auch Jenni und Ben, denen hauptsächlich die Vermittlerrollen zufielen.
Für den 5. Stern fehlten mir ein wenig die anderen bekannten Personen aus dem FBI, SEAL-TEam 16 oder den Troubleshooters auch wenn ein paar erwähnt werden so haben lediglich Mark und Lindsey einen kurzen Gastauftritt am Schluss und Jules Cassidy ein kurzes (aber brillantes) Telefongespräch. Außerdem stört es mich ein wenig, dass ein paar Kleinigkeiten ungeklärt bleiben, beispielsweise warum Danny - der zeitweise als gewaltiger Dummkopf rüberkommt - Izzy so eine Riesenabneigung entgegenbringt - das erscheint mir, nur weil dieser ihn ab und aufgezogen hat und Witze gerissen hat, doch übertrieben. Offen bleibt auch, warum Edens Freundin in Deutschland Izzy bei seinen Besuchen nicht aufgeklärt hat, dass sie bereits woanders arbeitet bzw. wo der Brief, den sie ihm schrieb nie bei ihm ankam.
Für alle Leser/innen der Serie auf jeden Fall ein MUST Buy!

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Izzys Buch - der vorerst letzte Troubleshooter-Roman...

Reviewed in Germany on April 4, 2011

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Endlich ist er da.... und er ist 'leiser' als die anderen Romanen, dadurch aber nicht schlechter.
Es gibt eine Menge aufzuarbeiten im Leben der Gillman-Geschwister, damit die Beziehungen zu Jenni und Izzy wieder bzw. überhaupt funktionieren können. Und Danny und Izzy müssen ja schließlich auch lernen, irgendwie miteinander zurechtkommen.
Da wird eine Menge geredet, da kommen traumatische Kindheitserlebnisse ans Licht und es wird geheult - und nicht nur von den Frauen !

Mir hat das Buch trotzdem/deswegen sehr gut gefallen, ich konnte es schwer aus der Hand legen.
Mrs. Brockmann verknüpft vor der lange angekündigten Schreibpause alle losen Enden. Natürlich gibt es Sachen, die nicht komplett geklärt worden sind.
Das finde ich persönlich aber nicht tragisch, so dass ich der Schreibpause gelassen entgegen sehen kann (ich hatte da nach '"Infamous"' so meine Bedenken).

Mrs. Brockmanns lockerer, direkter, teils flappsiger und teils belehrender Stil (Thema Homosexualität !!) ist wieder voll da und gegen Ende kommt auch wieder Action in die Story.

Ich freue mich schon jetzt auf evtl. weitere Troubleshooter-(und/oder TDD-) Romane. Und vielleicht tauchen ja auch die anderen Mitglieder der Truppe mal wieder "'in the flesh"' auf !

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Nefret

Letzter Teil der Reihe

Reviewed in Germany on June 8, 2013

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Izzy Zanella liebt immer noch Eden, die ihn verlassen hatte, nachdem sie ihr Kind verloren hatte. Jetzt braucht sie wieder seine Hilfe und Izzy ist sofort zur Stelle.
Edens Bruder Dan, der wie Izzy ein SEAL ist, reist ebenfalls nach Las Vegas um Eden und seinem kleinen Bruder Ben zu helfen. Mit dabei ist Jenn, seine Freundin.

Suzanne Brockmanns Bücher der Troubleshooter-Serie muss man der Reihe nach lesen. Denn die Liebesgeschichten sind nicht auf ein Buch beschränkt, sondern ziehen sich durch mehrere Bände. So haben Izzy und Eden sowie Danny und Jenn schon vorher ihre Auftritte gehabt.

Auch wenn Izzy und Eden ein turbulentes Paar sind, an Sam und Alyssa oder Max und Gina nicht heran. Deren Liebesgeschichten waren herzzerreißend und ich habe jedem ihrer Bücher entgegengefiebert. Bei Izzy und Eden fehlte mir das Kribbeln. Vielleicht liegt es auch daran, dass im Buch einfach zu viele Probleme gewälzt wurden. Edens Bruder und dessen Bekannte mussten immer wieder gerettet werden. Dabei geht es außerdem u.a. um häusliche Gewalt und Kindesmissbrauch.

Dan ging mir mit seiner Doppelmoral auf die Nerven. Bevor er Jenn kennenlernte, wechselte er seine Freundinnen wie Unterwäsche, wirft aber seiner Schwester vor, dass sie zu leicht zu haben sei – um es mal freundlich auszudrücken.

Mit „Breaking the Rules“ ist das Kapitel der Troubleshooters abgeschlossen. Weitere Bücher wird es in dieser Reihe wohl nicht mehr geben.

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Jenifer Mohammed, Author of Resurrecting Cybele

Great story!

Reviewed in Canada on March 28, 2014

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I was surprised at how sympathetic a character that Eden turned out to be. She had always seemed so untrustworthy that I never really understood what Izzy saw in her beyond the physical. Now, I'm glad that she and Izzy get a HEA. Good coming together of Jenn and Dan as well. Overall, a good story.

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Breaking the rules

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