Reviewed by Rhonda
TITLE: Desert Foxe (Skyler Foxe Mysteries #5)
SERIES: Skyler Foxe Mysteries
AUTHOR: Haley Walsh
PUBLISHER: MLR Press
LENGTH: 232 pages
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Out and proud high school English teacher Skyler Foxe and his posse of friends go to the annual Palm Springs White Party for a weekend of fun, frivolity, and luscious men. But there are boy troubles of all kinds ahead. Skyler’s boyfriend and high school coach Keith Fletcher has to endure an embarrassing number of Skyler’s former hook-ups, one of the SFC might be going solo, Skyler encounters unexpected and unwelcome participants at the party, and there’s a murder on the dance floor, literally at Skyler’s feet! Both Skyler and Keith are drawn into investigating more than murder when the FBI asks Skyler to do the unthinkable.
REVIEW:
At last!!! A book out of a series that the author claims can be a standalone novel that really is! Even if I hadn’t read one of the previous novels of this series, I would have been able to sit and read this book without wondering what was going on to get the characters here. Bravo! We also have a wonderful story with lots of sex, passion and intrigue that kept me up all night wondering what happens next.
We begin with Skyler Foxe, a high school English lit teacher and his FBI boyfriend, Keith Fletcher, head football coach and biology teacher. No, Keith isn’t undercover, just taking a break from the world of espionage and spending time with his man. They decide to go to the annual white party in Palm Springs that had already been booked and paid for earlier in the year by Skyler and his friends, Jamie, Phillip, Rudolpho and Dave. Despite misgivings and inner squabbling by some of the men, they pick up and head out for what they hope is going to be a weekend of cold drinks, dancing with sexy men and hot nights of passion. Seems like a fun filled weekend doesn’t it? Not so fast , they get there alright and strip down to their tighty whities and immediately encounter two of their sixteen year old students that have snuck in and are roosting like a couple of baby roosters at the party! They immediately arrange for their return home, unmolested by the crowds of gorgeous men. Next, a Skyler look alike collapses at Skyler’s feet. So much for a not so quiet weekend away from home. While at any other party it would just have been someone indulging in too much tequila, this man is stone cold dead. Enter the “not on hiatus” FBI men. Our dead guy was an agent on a mission to stop gun running on Indian land that the American government can’t legally stop unless they have actual proof in the way of pictures and audio before they can step foot on sovereign Indian land. They want Skyler to assume the identity already established by the deceased agent and help them as there is no time to get anyone else with such an uncanny resemblance to the dead agent in place. They need him and they need him now to help gather the evidence needed because the meeting has already been set up for that evening. They assure Skyler and Keith that it will be an in and out job and that he will be accompanied by an insider who knows the tribe and what is needed to shut them down. Enter long tall sexy Indian John Patencio, a member of the tribe who has made some mistakes and is now trying to put his life right. John is actually the man responsible for alerting the government to the criminals operating within the Indian community. Nothing goes as planned and the mission goes crazy and doesn’t go as advertised. To say that the mission reaches very dangerous levels is an understatement. Luckily Skyler and friends can handle the upsets as this isn’t their first time in the middle of chaos not of their making. Skyler seems to have the skills to handle just about anything thank heavens. I really don’t want to give to much more of the plot away but this book has so many interesting ins and outs and action between the mission and the characters that you just can’t put it down. It really is worth discovering on your own, and I recommend you pick it up. I can guarantee that this book does not bore!!
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