"DRIVEN is one hot read!"

If you've read Megan's PASSION MODEL, you might remember the taxi driver who took Gemma and Declan to safety. DRIVEN is his story of finding true love.

Once again, Del is saving Linna Fortense. After working all night, the last thing she wants to do is walk, which is exactly what would have happened if Del hadn't offered her a free ride. At one point in time, Linna was of the ruling class in NewCity. That was before her violent husband "killed" her. Upon arriving in the hospital, she was considered legally dead and the doctor had an assistant he was training and decided to make Linna a "mecho", half human, half mechanized. With all the trouble the ruling council is creating for mechos, Linna decided to declare herself a Kompanion, a Pleasurebot if you will, made for sex. So far, Linna has managed to pull it off, but she knows her day is coming.

With the ruling council cracking down on off-world visas, Del knows his day is coming as well. Since he is from off world, Del doesn't make as much as a citizen of NewCity does. Del has been attracted to Linna for quite some time. However, as a Xanderran, Del knows once he has sex with any woman, he will be bonded to her for life, unable to have sex with anyone else. This is the reason he left Xanderra in the first place. His parents were trying to push him into a match he wanted nothing to do with, and so he left. Now he's on Earth, where drugs are legal and sex is the most widely used form of recreation.

Linna takes care of her personal needs and goes to sleep in the Kennel. When she suddenly wakes up, she realizes something is wrong. It takes her a minute to figure out all the power is off. She decides to go outside to see if she can find out what's going on. When she goes through the door, it automatically closes and locks, leaving her out on the streets. This is when she realizes there is no one else outside, everything is dark and the announcement being repeated over and over again is "Code Red". Linna knows Security Ops will be out soon and rounding everyone up. Where can she go? She eventually finds her way to Del's apartment and passes out. After she's had something to eat, the two of them begin to tell each other about their lives. The next thing you know, they find out the Security Ops is conducting a person by person identity check.

Will they be able to escape? Where will they go? How will they get off the planet and where will they end up? Will they become bonded?

DRIVEN is a fantastic science fiction story! Megan Hart has done a wonderful job of bringing her characters to life. I really loved Captain Lunavoss, a Saurian who lives for sex, and has the body to match. We have the unique opportunity of following these two and everything they face on their journeys. Of course, Linna ends up proving herself to Del repeatedly and her mouth creates a bit of a problem on Xanderra, where women are supposed to be meek and mild and let their mates protect them. This is a highly erotic ride across the galaxy that I highly recommend reading!

Reviewed by Chere Gruver
Courtesy Sensual Romance Reviews
Posted August 23, 2004

Summary

Linna Fortense knows any woman would be happy to have Del Tennvic as a lover. The problem is, the burly Xanderran doesn't know she's a woman. Del thinks she's a Pleasurebot, a KMPN-Model, and Linna's not about to tell him the truth. In Newcity, being something other than what you claim to be can get you terminated. When Howard Adar and the Ruling Council crack down hard on mechos, those citizens who aren't fully human and aren't quite machine, Linna has no choice but to tell Del the truth. Then the race is on to get them both out of Newcity before Adar's Security Operatives discover Linna's secret and Del's part in keeping it. Del has admired Linna for a long time. He knows she'd be more than happy to give him her body in return for his help in getting her Offworld. It's an offer Del desperately wants to accept. The trouble is, Xanderrans mate for life, and Del's not sure he's ready to make that choice. When an overly amorous space ship captain sets her sights on him, though, Del discovers he might not have a choice at all...