"Finally Philip's Story!"
Hope's Folly
By: Linnea Sinclair
Posted: April 2, 2009
When we last saw Philip he was pretty banged up but at least he was still alive. Now he's been given a ship and a rag tag crew to help fight the Imperial Forces. Unfortunately the ship he is given is an old cruiser that had been used as a cargo ship. Of course, beggars can't be choosers.
Rya Bennton is ex-ImpSec and really doesn't know what to do with herself now that her father has been killed. She decides to join the Alliance against the Imperial Forces and go to Seth to see if she can serve on board her father's old Stryker. Little does she know that Philip Guthrie will be the commander of the ship, the same Philip Guthrie whom her father brought home when she was nine and she tossed peas at. She had been half in love with Philip since then even though he was years older than she was.
HOPE'S FOLLY was action packed from beginning to end. In the midst of all the action, there's Philip's and Rya's story. It's not a pretty one but it certainly is intriguing. I was on the edge of my seat with this one and even though I dreaded reading The End because the story would be over, it still did not make me slow down reading this book one iota! Linnea Sinclair is one author on my keeper shelf and her books are always rereads for me!
Book Summary
It's an impossible mission on a derelict ship called HOPE'S FOLLY. A man who feels he can't love. A woman who believes she's unlovable. And an enemy who will stop at nothing to crush them both.
Admiral Philip Guthrie is in an unprecedented position: on the wrong end of the law, leading a rag-tag band of rebels against the oppressive Imperial forces. Or would be, if he can reach his command ship—the intriguingly named Hope’s Folly—alive. Not much can rattle Philip’s legendary cool— but the woman who helps him foil an assassination attempt on Kirro Station will. She’s the daughter of his best friend and first commander—a man who died while under Philip’s command, and whose death is on Philip’s conscience.
Rya Bennton has been in love with Philip Guthrie since she was a girl. But can her childhood fantasies survive an encounter with the hardened man, and newly-minted rebel leader, who it seems has just become her new commanding officer? And will she still be willing follow him through the jaw of hell once she learns the truth about her father’s death?
by: Linnea Sinclair
Romantic Space Opera Bantam
March 1, 2009
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Featuring: Rya Bennton; Phillip Guthrie
448 pages
ISBN: 0553592181
EAN: 9780553592184
Mass Market Paperback