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Live By The Team (Team Fear Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Cindy Skaggs (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
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Reads like a Jason Bourne type flick. -Typical Distractions

Ryder's love for his country runs deep, but when a top-secret government program leaves him and his elite Special Forces unit with devastating side effects, he's forced to make a choice: follow orders or protect his own. When a fellow soldier goes rogue, Ryder takes matters into his own hands and disappears underground with his new wife, Lauren.

Lauren thought she had it all with Ryder, but when he vanished without a trace, her world crumbled. Now, she's picking up the pieces alone, until someone tries to kill her. With nowhere else to turn, she's forced to trust the one man she thought was gone forever.

As Ryder and Lauren navigate the dangerous waters of betrayal and vengeance, the threats against her life intensify. But when Ryder calls in his disgraced team to protect her, they're faced with an impossible task: keeping Lauren alive while battling their own demons.

In this heart-pounding tale of love, loyalty, and sacrifice, Ryder must confront the consequences of his past and fight for a future with the woman he loves. Will Lauren be able to handle the truth about Ryder's dark past, or will their love crumble under the weight of his secrets? Don't miss out on this unforgettable story of one man's journey to redemption and the woman who stands by his side.

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    April 19, 2016
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This book reads like a Jason Bourne type flick on the big screen. --Typical Distractions

Never a dull moment. "It is full of twists, turns, suspense, intrigue and steam! Ryder and Lauren have a lot to deal with, but they are full of spit and sass and are fully capable of dealing with whatever is thrown at them." --Archaeolibrarian

"A fast-paced, gritty thriller." 4.5 stars. Splashes into Books. A "real page turner that keeps you enthralled. The characters are well developed, their dialogue believable and, at times, just so realistic that it is funny. The plot is so full of twists and turns it makes the journey a roller coaster that you're riding blindfolded."

StarAngels' Reviews said: "I couldn't put it down! Ms. Skaggs winds a tale of danger, love and so many other emotions that come to life on the pages. I loved these characters and how Ms. Skaggs used such descriptive and true to life words to make them come alive in my eyes! I can't wait to read about the rest of these Team Fear guys!"

"Gritty, harsh, real... love." 5 stars, author Beth Rhodes says, "the suspense, including the idea that man can alter another human being to make them "better," got me in the feels... [and] the chemistry between Lauren and Ryder jumped off the pages. Exactly why we read romance."

5 stars."Loved this fast-paced and suspenseful novel! The dynamics between the main characters were smoking hot!"

Like "Captain America gone bad, with fearlessness as the main enhancement instead of superhuman strength."

From the Author

Want to read more from Cindy?If you like fast-paced suspense, heroes that keep you up all night, and a love that endures, check out more of Cindy's works:
The Untouchables seriesNo one leaves the family, except by way of a body bag. How far will they go to escape the mob?
  • Untouchable (Sofia and Logan)
  • An Untouchable Christmas (Sofia and Logan's first Christmas)
  • Unforgettable (Vicki and Blake)
  • Unstoppable (Dez and Mick)
The Team Fear seriesMilitary trained, medically enhanced, designed to kill. You've never met a band of brothers like the men of Team Fear.
  • Live by the Team
  • Fight by the Team
  • Survive by the Team
  • Team Fear 4
  • Team Fear 5
Connect with Cindy:Website: cskaggs.comTwitter: twitter.com/CLSkaggsFacebook: facebook.com/CSkaggs

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01EKE78VU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (April 19, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 19, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4595 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 399 ratings

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Cindy Skaggs

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Cindy Skaggs started gambling because she needed a quick financial turnaround for an investment opportunity, and her father was right there to pony up the bankroll. She learned valuable lessons that night in betting, bluffing, and folding, until she’d turned a dollar in nickels into some serious money: twelve dollars for a middle school yearbook.

Cindy grew up on stories of mob bosses, horse thieves, cold-blooded killers, and the last honest man. Most of those stories were even true. With her love of storytelling and heroes, it’s no wonder she turned to books and stories after her father died. She skipped most of the eighth grade to bury herself in books while hidden in her closet because she was still looking for the perfect story and the last honest man. Her search took her around the world with the Air Force as well as around the world with her education. She’s visited more countries than she can remember, nearly every state in the U.S., and has more degrees than the Tin Man.

As a single mom, she’s still gambling, turning her lifelong love of storytelling into a career she loves. She writes 10,000 words a week in cafes and coffee shops, and some of those 10,000 words are even worth reading. She has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction), an MA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) has multiple jobs, two kids, a Pushcart Nomination, and more pets than she can possibly handle. She also plays the flute, makes crazy-good sculptures out of tortilla dough, and can wrangle the neurotic dog without getting mauled.

Facebook is her guilty pleasure, the Twitterverse her happy place, and her blog the one place she’s not telling stories (fictional, anyway). This time around, she’s holding out for the last honest man.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Could not put this book down.
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2019
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Continuous action with turns that were not expected. A wife who longs for her husband whom she thinks has diserted her left to help a team member and has not come back for six months. She thinks that after being told the house is foreclosed on by a slimy real estate sales man she succeded to pick up the pieces of her life. First on her list is to finish her doctorate in history. Currently she has moved in with her best friend so she has a roof over head. She also works at a bar near campus waiting tables to have enough money to get by. Her supervising professor is not pleased and is making her schooling difficult. Then she turns around at work and sees her husband and all her feeling surface just when she thought she would get over him. Ha! A very fast past read that held my interest all the way to the end. Can't wait to read the next book in the series.
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Whiskey in the Jar
4.0 out of 5 stars Action with mystery and suspense
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018
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This was in the script and had elements of Elite Ops - Lora Leigh (sexy times take over a lot), Hard Ink - Laura Kaye (military men having to band together to fight corruption), and Sin Brothers - Rebecca Zanetti (enhanced soldiers).

The enhanced soldiers aspect wasn't explained the best, not a lot of detail about how the hero's elite group was given a medical cocktail to not feel fear, just needed to be flushed out more to be grasped and willing to follow along. One of the hero's friends is featured a lot and the hero of the next book but the others in his group are introduced towards the end and that's all we basically get.

The hero and heroine's romance begins before the book begins (they are already married), so I definitely missed the falling in love aspect. The romance leans heavily on sexy times and "I can't live without you! But it's too dangerous to be together! But wait, I can't live without you!" that the hero ping pongs back and forth.

There's the main storyline of the hero possibly being in danger from the shady black ops company that medically enhanced him and his group and some foreclosure and meth lab criminal group that is endangering his wife. Yeah, the foreclosure/meth storyline felt a bit unneeded and as it was the most focused on plot, I can't help but feel what was really the point since we already have a pretty interesting super soldiers and shady government company being nefarious. Obviously, we'll get more about the shady government/super soldiers storyline in the next in the series but I still feel like I didn't get enough here.

This was interesting but the other series I mentioned that this had elements from kind of did it better and since those went for many books, I have a bit of fatigue about this plot. This was well written, lacked a bit in the romance department but was entertaining, a win for a Kindle Freebie download but not really anything that was new or makes me want to rush out to buy the next in the series.
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Jamie M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2020
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Pulls you in from the very beginning. You can not put I down, there are many twists and turns. A must read. Thumbs up.
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Pamela Devereux
5.0 out of 5 stars Military experiment
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2021
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Team Fear is a group of military men that were chosen for an experiment. These men were all about bleeding red, white and blue. Ryder was the leader. They scattered once two team members have died. Ryder needed to make sure his wife was safe. Only nothing is as it should be. Lauren is angry. She hasn't heard from her husband since he walked away. She is trying to finish her dissertation, keep their home and teach. Now she works in a bar to make money. Since Ryder showed up, all kinds of bad things have been happening. What it all boils down to, Team Fear is being extinguished. Families would be just collateral damage. So they have decided to hunt the hunters.

Looking forward to the next book.
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Rural Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars Their Code: God, Country and Family
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2019
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It's true that Staff Sargent Ryder voluntarily participated in an classified experiment to make soldiers better warriors. However, he never agreed to being forced out of the army as a Section 8, and to have the normal life he thought he would have with his wife ripped from him.

Considering how much her war-widow mother effected her upbringing with her bitterness, Lauren Ryder still married a soldier. She was head-over-sexy-boots in love with Ryder. What she never agreed to was for her hot husband to disappear. She was even less prepared to confront him six months later when he suddenly resurfaced.

Live by the Team is a very well written military romance by Cindy Skaggs. It is rough and tough, as well as gritty and gutsy. The plot teeters between believable and unbelievable. The chemistry between Ryder and Lauren is steaming hot and off the charts. This engrossing story is a stand-alone novel with both an immediate danger, as well as an over-arching mystery. Although the immediate danger is averted, the deeper danger flows into the next book. The “happy ending” is more a suggestion than a reality. Also, each book features a different romance between one of Team Fear's members and his chosen heroine as they too face the team's nemesis.

Lastly, I really enjoyed this book. Not only because of the plot, but also because of the exceptionally well developed characters. That said, I can only recommend this book to mature readers who are not offended by vulgarities (including religious expletives), explicit sexual content and some descriptive violence.

Otherwise....Happy Reading.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2021
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This was a good start to a new series. Would have given it 4 stars if there was more storyline than sex scenes. I will try the next book in this series.
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Beth
5.0 out of 5 stars Gritty, harsh, real... love
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016
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Gritty, harsh, real...

The suspense, including the idea that man can alter another human being to make them "better", got me in the feels. The team itself might think they are free of fear, but the book shows us that fear comes in all different varieties... and to be human is to fear. To fear but then overcome the fear to do good is the courage that creates heroes.

The chemistry between Lauren and Ryder jumped off the pages. I really enjoyed their journey as much as I enjoyed the plot twists that kept them both from giving in to the emotions that would make them succumb to the HEA. Wonderfully done by Cindy Skaggs. Exactly why we read romance... we want them to work for it!
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Connie M
5.0 out of 5 stars Fearless!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2020
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Ryder is the product of a lethal experiment. A soldier without fear, a man on the edge afraid of killing those he loves. To protect his wife Lauren he disappears from her life only to return when she is threatened. As Ryder tries to keep her alive it soon becomes apparent that mortgage fraud is the least of their worries. With psychotic killers on there trail Lauren needs to convince the man she still loves that she is safer with him and his squad then on her own. That she can truly be a part of Team Fear and "Live by the team, die by the team" That they need to be in this together for the long haul. Because together Team Fear wouldn't fail.Together they are better. Together they are FEARLESS! A brilliant introduction to a series where nothing is as it seems and the line between good and evil is forever blurred.
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Ellen Hall
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written
Reviewed in Canada on June 9, 2017
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My first book by Cindy Skaggs and it was a doozy! The story line was great, it kept me flipping pages on my e-reader. The characters are well written and the back story helped keep track of the current time frame. Enjoyed it and I'm happy it's the weekend so I can start book Two!
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Ruby
4.0 out of 5 stars Whoa. Intense, violent, fast pased, romantic but NOT your typical romance.
Reviewed in Australia on July 4, 2017
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Fantastic novel. Really loved the characters and plot; so much depth. Please be aware there is some serious and significant violence in this novel. If it were a film it would be R rated. There's some steamy sex and language too, but I definitely found the violence shocking. With that caveat, I still recommend the book. Very well written, exciting story about military intrigue and cover ups. Definitely "part 1"; you're going to want the second and probably third books (I haven't read them yet).
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Dina
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in Canada on April 12, 2017
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This was a pretty good story and I enjoyed reading it. Main character was a total alpha and the heroine was very strong.
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