Love and Let Spy (M&M: New Recruits 6) by Lexi Blake -review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 24, 2026

Canadian operative Ben Parker met the woman of his dreams while working undercover in Australia. That operation, to take down Emmanuel Huisman, was the singular focus of his life until he met Maggie. Now the hunt for his former childhood friend turned international terrorist often feels like what he does in between chasing the magenta-haired American spy he can’t stop thinking about. She’s the woman of his dreams, when she isn’t being the stuff of his nightmares. Sometimes she is sweet and deliciously responsive to him, and other times she pushes him out of a plane without a parachute.

Kenzie Taggart knew Ben Parker was the one for her the minute she saw him. Unfortunately, he didn’t meet her first. He met her twin sister, Kala, and they had to keep the secret. No one outside of their team knows they’re twins. Everyone believes the operative known as Miss Magenta is one person. Kenzie can’t tell the man she’s falling in love with who she really is, but she also can’t afford to lose him.

When faced with certain death on a joint operation in Nepal, Kenzie reveals the truth about “Maggie” and they spend their last minutes alive in each other’s arms. It was perfect, and then a miraculous rescue leaves them in a difficult situation. Kenzie couldn’t be happier that Ben knows the truth, but so does Huisman. He’s determined to burn down the world, but not before he ruins his old friend and his newfound beloved. As Ben and Kenzie cross the globe in their quest to stop the madman, they might have to choose between saving the world and saving each other.

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REVIEW:LOVE AND LET SPY is the sixth and final instalment in Lexi Blake’s contemporary, adult MASTERS AND MERCENARIES: NEW RECRUITS erotic, Dom/sub, romantic suspense series set in the author’s numerous interconnected Masters and Mercenaries series. This is CIA agent Kenzie Taggart, and Canadian CSIS agent Ben Parker’s story line. LOVE AND LET SPY should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up after the events of book five SPY WITH ME, as well as the ongoing premise throughout the series. Several characters cross over with, or are mentioned from the author’s numerous Bliss Colorado series.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from several omniscient third person perspectives including Kenzie and Ben, using present day and events from the past, LOVE AND LET SPY is the culmination of several instalments wherein the family owned McKay-Taggart Agency is circling the globe searching for a man who is determined to destroy Ian ‘Big Tag’ Taggart. With her identical twin sister safely recovering at home from a near death torture, Kenzie and the team continue their search for Dr. Manny Huisman, an experimental scientist, a monster who heads an organization to disrupt the world’s systems. From torture to drugs, misogyny to underaged Russian assassins, Huisman is the target of many international agencies but Huisman’s history and connections to CSIS Agent Ben Parker is troubling for the team at McKay-Taggart but none more so than our story line heroine. Kenzie fell in love with Ben months before but as spies, she and her sister would often go undercover as one another, and in this, Ben struggles to trust, to accept the truth, and n the end, Ben pushes Kenzie out of his life, willing to trust a madman before he can trust the woman with whom he was falling in love.

The world building follows several pathways, introducing a new Masters and Mercenaries team house in London, England. As the McKay-Taggart team travel the world, they will discover a mutual distrust of one another, but an equal determined to rid the world of madness and mayhem.

The relationship between Ben and Kenzie is fraught with issues of trust, betrayal, secrets and lies. Kenzie and her sister Kala would often interchange identities, and in this, Ben is left wondering if he ever knew the woman that called to his heart. Unable to accept the betrayal, Ben is willing to push Kenzie out of his life but never expected to face an entire village of people willing to destroy his life for hurting our story line heroine. The $ex scenes are provocative and seductive without the use of over the top, sexually graphic, language and text.

Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of familiar, charismatic and dynamic secondary and supporting characters with powerful personalities and a history with the man in charge.

LOVE AND LET SPY is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, heart break and trust, family and relationships, forgiveness and love. The character driven premise is detailed, dramatic, edgy and raw; the romance is limited but fated; the characters are determined, desperate and charismatic.

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Reviewed by Sandy

NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog in the world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance and urban fantasy that she found the stories of her heart. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome, or foursome may seem.

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