Susan Grant has quickly become a favorite author. I'm so glad to have discovered her books!

Funny how a story arc's, I was cheering for Cavin against the REEF in Your Planet or Mine. It was puzzling when REEF started to malfunction and we saw bits of the man he once was.

Who wouldn't fall for an alien ex-hitman who had his whole life taken away from him. Ms. Grant brilliantly portrays REEF recovering his humanity.

Eriff was kidnapped from his home world at a young age. His mind was wiped and his body implanted with bio-engineered enhancements. He was the first child to become a REEF - Robotically Engineered Enemy Fighter - an assassin.

His last mission failed. He is stranded on Earth. His computer system was trying to terminate him. Whether he had succeeded or failed the last mission did not matter. Clearly, his employers wanted him dead. He is rescued and, ironically, offered a chance at a new life by his former archenemy, Cavin of Far Star. REEF is renamed Eric Sanders and he is sent to the suburbs of California. His cover is to be a Secret Service Agent protecting Evie Holloway and her children in light of her family's elevated role dealing with the Coalition. His internal computers may be offline, but Eric still has his training and instincts.

Evie Jasper Holloway told her senator sister that she did NOT want the Terminator as her bodyguard. How could she trust an unstable REEF with her own life, much less her two kids'? Eric shows up anyhow. When the bullets start flying, Evie becomes grateful for the protection, REEF or not. It is not long before Evie comes to realize that Eric, without the computer system controlling him, is very human indeed ... and very attractive.

***** This is the REEF from book two (My Favorite Earthling). During the second book I cheered the Jasper family to victory and hoped the REEF would die. When I learned that this assassin was to be the hero of book three, I laughed. I was positive that there was no way the author could make me feel anything but disgust for this futuristic terminator. But oh how I ate those words (thoughts?) within only a few pages of the story. Author Susan Grant proves her writing talent as never before! Her poisoned pen did more than make these characters seem real to me; Susan Grant brought these characters to vivid life. Now if only the daughter, Ellen, could get a story. *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

Reef was the best assassin the Coalition Government had ever produced, being half computer helps make him perfect and having an excellent success rate proved that. After a lifetime of being trained to be the consummate hitman, his body is hard and toned to perfection and the secrets in his eyes chill people to the bone. Now Reef has to deal with failure and finding himself without his powers. His bosses want him dead, and the lowly humans just keep helping him. Don't they know they should fear him? Don't they realize he doesn't belong in `suburbia'?

Every day, Evie Jasper Holloway puts everyone else before herself, and she needs to learn to set limits. Becoming a chocolate entrepreneur should make her fantasy of no longer being the `black sheep' of the successful Jasper family, a reality. Now she just needs to deal with the mob, her interfering ex-husband and the alien assassin her sister dropped on her plate, for the next 10 days, What's a soccer Mom to do?

How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 days is a cute, sexy, well-written romance. Susan Grant weaves a tale with a superb mix of background characters and descriptions that is a joy to read. Evie's personal growth is very appealing to watch develop. Her passionate outrage and attempts to bring attention and help to slavery (most especially children's slavery) from across the world is wonderful to read. Reef's acceptance of his own actions and his dealing with the consequences of those actions improves him as a person and a hero. Both Evie's and Reef's character development helps the reader find themselves rooting for Evie and Reef's relationship to develop. I found myself believing in love at first sight when reading How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 days,.and I Joyfully Recommend this book for any time a person wants to sit back and relax with an excellent book.

Barb
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

With a title like `How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 Days' this book is just asking to be read! The cover also doesn't hinder any woman to pass this one up! Although how do you manage to lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 days? The best way to find out is to read this book!

Susan Grant brings cold hearted killer `Reef', a character from the first `Otherworldly Men' title `Your Planet or Mine,'and gives him his own story for her third book in the series. Turning a villain into a hero is something that the author likes doing and in this book she manages to make him into something extraordinary.

In this work of fiction Grant manages to focus on a real life issue. The slave trade is not just singled out to Africans but every race on our planet. Here we see how the slave trade effects the life of Eriff aka Reef. How it has changed him and made him what he is today. Even if that isn't what he wants to be. However this book also has its fair share of politics within the pages making the reader feel like the author has something to say.

Mother of two Evie Holloway is just wants a simple life but has to dodge the publicity her family makes for itself and an ex-husband all the way. Trying to get a chocolate business up and running she also manages to make more trouble for herself and suddenly needs a bodyguard. So when her sister asks her to take in an alien for a while. She is extremely skeptical about how things will work out. So skeptical that she gives the guest 10 days before he is gone.

Reef's internal computers are off-line and his former employers want him dead. Without and cyber powers, Reef is as weak as an Earthling. He has tried to kill most of the humans he has met so he quite worried about being placed inside a nice home with 2 children. Will he be able to go undercover and behave human enough?

Reef turns out to be incredibly sexy and ten days living with an alien turns out to be more interesting than Evie first thinks. Between the gunfire and political problems Evie and Reef both end up getting more out of the arrangement than they thought they would...with some love that is out of this world!

The prologue is a little off putting and long but once things get started and the main story begins the twists and turns just don't stop. This book is a must read for any Grant fans and anyone who loves Sci-fi with some romance thrown in. With its unique alien story line mixed with everyday troubles that a lot of women can relate to this is a good read for a lie on the beach this summer or by a cozy winter fire..