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Partners (Vegas Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Mimi Barbour (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
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Suspenseful and fast-paced, this revamped short story will introduce you to crime in Las Vegas and to the people who fight that crime, Detective Aurora Morelli and Detective Kai Lawson. These are the same characters who star in the full-length sequel "Roll the Dice" and in the complete box collection The Vegas Series.

Forced to take on a new partner, after a serial rapist attacks her former one, annoys Aurora big time. Especially when he's the kind of cowboy hotshot she normally stays as far away from as possible. But… because they both want this creep more than anything else, they ignore the irritating explosions they set off from one another. Finding and making the slimeball pay for his sickening crimes becomes their ultimate goal.

Roll the Dice – Book #2 Two detectives with differing agendas, yet after the same rapist, will keep you riveted. Kai, the bald-headed, blue-eyed, purse-carrying cowboy tries to wrestle control from his new partner, gorgeous yet grumpy Aurora. Right till the shocking end she fights him… and then things really deteriorate.

Vegas Shuffle – Book #3 Pregnant, and furious at Kai Lawson, the missing fool who got her in this condition, Detective Aurora Morelli grudgingly accepts a new gal to be her partner. And… she’s met charming, Jeff Waters. Can he replace her baby’s daddy - is he man enough?

High Stakes Gamble – Book #4 Being a new mom has made all the difference to Aurora getting over the pain of Kai’s abandonment. Until some wacko steals her baby. Rather than shoot Kai when he shows up at her door - though to it was close - they work together to save their daughter.

Spin the Wheel – Book #5 A wedding, a bank robbery and a night of hot sex all take place in this short bridge story between High Stakes Gamble and Let it Ride. Lisa Jordan has become responsible for her orphaned three-year-old nephew, and no man can come between her and that obligation. However, the casino tycoon, Jeff Waters, makes her question that decision.

Let it Ride – Book #6 Lisa Jordan’s life has drastically changed; her new female partner is a pit-bull, her sister passes on and leaves her as a guardian for her three-year-old nephew. And… she sleeps with a millionaire casino owner who’s kidnapped. How can she refuse to take his case? Her heart wouldn’t let her refuse.
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Editorial Reviews

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"Detective Aurora Morelli is my kind of gal. No one pushes her around and no one gets in her way. Particularly when she is out to get the vicious rapist who hurt her partner. Enter the hunky Kai who is as cocky as Aurora is sassy and just as determined to get the bad guy. Great chemistry in a fast paced Las Vegas style mystery thriller with two hot protagonists make this a book you'll gobble up and hurry to buy the sequel. A don't miss!" ~ reviewed by windigo


"Aurora Morelli is as tough as they come. Ultra feminine yet wielding a big stick and a bigger attitude. When her partner is brutally hurt, she is determined to crack the creep who did it. Her interrogation tactics squeeze the truth out of a wuss of an informant, but she meets her match in her new partner, a sexy, arrogant purse-carrying cowboy, Kai Larson. When he covers her during a gunfight, sparks fly in more ways than one and chemistry simmers. This is a short story to introduction to the series." ~ reviewed by Clare Chu


"Not disappointed at all! On my way to book number 2. I have to know about the slime ball Rhondo! I'm not going to spoil anything, your just going to have to read for yourself and Yes! It is worth the ride of not being able to put your book down until it's done! Worthy! So get it and start reading. You won't regret it!"~ reviewed by A. Drahos - addicted reader

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Suspenseful and fast-paced, this short story will introduce you to Aurora Morelli and Kai Lawson; the characters who star in the full-length sequel "Roll the Dice" (to be released September 15, 2012). Forced to take on a new partner, after a serial rapist attacks her former one, annoys Aurora big time. Especially when he's the kind of hotshot she normally stays as far away from as possible. But, because they both want this man more than anything else, they ignore the irritating explosions they set off from one another. And finding this slimeball becomes their ultimate goal.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008ZXDZTC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sarna Publishing; 1st edition (January 9, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 9, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3364 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 62 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 198 ratings

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Mimi Barbour

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NYT & USA Today, best-selling, award-winning author, Mimi Barbour, has nine romance series to her credit.

The Vicarage Bench Series

Angels with Attitudes Series

Elvis Series

The Vegas Series

Holiday Heartwarmers Series

Undercover FBI Series

Mob Tracker Series

Single Title Series

The Best in Romance Series

She also has many single titles and a huge number of box sets – her own and multi-author collections.

Mimi lives on the East coast of Vancouver Island with her new puppy, Charli, and writes her various romances with tongue in cheek and a mad glint in her eye. She’s been known to say: “If I can steal a booklover’s attention away from their everyday grind, absorb them into a fantasy love story, and make them care about the ending, then I’ve done my job.”

**Visit her website at https://mimibarbour.com

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Her reviews are numerous and incredibly positive:

"Love Mimi Barbour, love her books. When you can read a book that within just a few words, you are brought right into the book. You feel, taste, see everything going on. Great storylines. Fantastic characters, fantastic plots, storylines like real life both honest folk and of crooks. Humor that will have you giggling then full-on belly laugh. You may even shed a tear or two. All in all, Mimi never disappoints." ~ Reviewed by Shirleen Miller

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Peggy Twigg
5.0 out of 5 stars Great first book, with a cliffhanger!
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2016
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When Aurora’s partner gets raped and beat up by a serial rapist, she is given a new partner, Kai. He’s starts out right, when their first call together involves the serial rapist that attacked Aurora’s partner. This is a short book that’s is a great start to this series. I can’t wait to see what happens between Aurora and Kai. I would recommend this book. Ok, I’m off to read the 2nd book in this series!
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Dorothy McFalls
4.0 out of 5 stars A taste of what's to come...
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2012
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Mimi is starting a hot new romantic suspense series that is different from her usual fare. I'm looking forward to seeing where the story takes us. Partners introduces us to the underworld of Vegas. Aurora has a new partner. And she's a he! Aurora is not happy to be working with a new partner and she doesn't like the handsome hunk she's been matched up with. She quickly learns that Kai, her partner, has personal reasons for wanting to work on their current case together. (Aurora has an axe to grind, too. The villain hurt her former partner.) The two are going to have to learn to work together and keep their feelings out of it, or else someone might get killed.

Mimi gave us a taste of what's to come with this short, fast-paced story. I look forward to seeing what comes next. In addition to Partners, there's a teaser first chapter of "Roll the Dice" that will hook you, too.
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shamanalix
3.0 out of 5 stars Choppy but interesting
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2021
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The narration and the characterizations were quite choppy too often. That took away from the book. Still, some of it was promising. Worth eventually for me to move on to Book 2, though I'm not inspired enough to rush there.
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Hendrik Witmans
5.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction!
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2012
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They say that everything in Las Vegas is fast: the traffic, the people, and the money-- fortunes can be gained and lost in minutes. Detective Aurora Morelli is no exception to this rule. Driven by a seething, unrelenting anger about what happened to her partner Debbie, she moves through the story like a dervish, trying to find and apprehend Earl Rhondo, the man responsible for Debbie's rape. Partners is not something one wants to read as a bedtime story, since it would certainly keep one awake. The adrenaline flows freely, like the hot blood in Aurora's veins. Yet despite her almost macho attitude to get things done, Aurora still finds time for personal feelings of longing and want, and right from the start we can see the chemistry building between herself and her unexpected new partner Kai Lawson.
This is an excellent introduction to Ms. Barbour's new novel, Roll the Dice. The characters are alive and believable, and one definitely wants to learn more about them. Judging from this preview, the full story will be a treat, and very much worth waiting for.
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Carrie J. Bylina
2.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete Short Story
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2017
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I almost gave this a one rating because I felt deceived by the author (who is by all accounts well read and respected) with an incomplete short story that was a teaser (prequel if you please) to the first book in a series. This teaser just stopped. It was incomplete. It was well-written and that saved it from being the first one-star I would have ever given a book, but the characters in the timeframe given felt one-dimensional and the reason for the one female detective's reason for leaving the force to set up another pairing for the series seemed more than a little contrived. It did not inspire me to read the series.
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LadyPage
5.0 out of 5 stars Woohoo...
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2013
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Not disappointed at all! On my way to book number 2. I have to know about the slime ball Rhondo!
I'm not going to spoil anything, your just going to have to read for yourself and Yes! It is worth the ride of not being able to put your book down until it's done! Worthy! So get it and start reading. You won't regret it!
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Nyssa
4.0 out of 5 stars What Happens in Vegas...
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013
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Detective Aurora Morelli unexpectedly loses her partner to maternity leave, and to her surprise her replacement partner is not only a male, but a very attractive male named Kai Larson. One huge thing he's got in his favor besides the attractiveness is the fact that he's joined the LVPD to go after the same bad guy that Aurora has been after, a bad-ass perp named Earl Rhondo who beat up and attempted to rape her ex-partner. For Aurora it's personal, and she has been using every trick in her cop repertoire to find him and put him behind bars for a long time. Now she's got a hot tip on where Rhondo will be and hopes that having to break in a new partner is going to be a help in bringing the guy down rather than a hindrance.

This short story is meant as an introduction of the characters and situation to be covered in a new series of novels. At the beginning it seems to be setting up a tough, hardcore cop action story, but by the end it begins to sound more like a romance novel with guns as Aurora has trouble resisting her new partner's sex appeal. The action and police portions of the story were much stronger and more compelling than the introduction and distractions of the possible budding romance portions. Depending on the emphasis of the cases versus the romance in the coming entries in the series, it may be worth following. If the author turns more to romance at the expense of the hardcore cops and their tracking down the bad guys, it will fall into a trap better avoided for the long-term good of the series.

Recommended as a quick sampler of possibilities to come.
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blessings
1.0 out of 5 stars Just an intro to a book
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2013
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This is not even a short story. You meet the characters and are given a preview into the series. Yes, this is a buy the next book if you would like to know how this plays out.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good suspense
Reviewed in Canada on August 27, 2022
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I always like a book with suspense and a bit of hmour . The fast rythme is another thing I prefer. Short and sweat.
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Patricia
5.0 out of 5 stars Every book
Reviewed in Australia on February 18, 2018
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I just do enjoy everything written by Mimi. Even if I get them out of order,they are always fantastic.Thank you Mimi x
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kev dilks
5.0 out of 5 stars Partners mimi Barbour
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2014
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My first book by mimi Barbour introducing the Vegas series very enjoyable story interesting characters leading into the first full story will be downloading the next book.kev dilks
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Father Ted
2.0 out of 5 stars "Here we go again"
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2020
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This is the first book I've read by this author. I checked out the five romance series and I guess she's found a ready market; providing comfort food for the easily-pleased reader. If this was supposed to develop another income stream from people who take their thrillers seriously then It's doomed to failure. Even if it had been a whole story, rather than a ploy to encourage people to buy the next book, this didn't deliver.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great pace. Story good but no ending
Reviewed in Canada on September 7, 2014
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Great pace. Story good but no ending...What happens? Do I have to read book 2?
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