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Targeted is one of those romantic suspense books with stupid villains and main characters that act in ways that contradict their supposed feelings. If the book hadn't worked for a team challenge, I would have dnf it.

Let's start with the hero, a Marine sniper, who is recruited by the NSA for a new Black Ops team. One of the conditions of joining said team is changing his name and having plastic surgery. Huh?
1. Why change his name? Isn't he supposed to be doing undercover work and/or Black Ops job? When undercover, you obviously give a false name and when doing Black Ops, nobody asks your name.
2. Why plastic surgery? This is a man who grew up in the foster system so he has no family or friends, except for an old girlfriend. In the places he's going, nobody's going to know who he is.

As this doesn't make sense operationally, the reason for these changes is so that the old girlfriend wouldn't recognize him when he came back to her life. This is one of those couples who supposedly loved each other forever and ever but something bad happened and they went their separate ways and never tried to contact the other. Huh? If the hero loved her so much, wouldn't it have made sense to give her some space for a year or so and then reach out to her? But no. The hero went on his merry way and when offered the chance to get a new identity, he accepted without compunction.

The whole suspense plot doesn't make any sense either. The heroine gets proof of gun smuggling in her job. The bad guys have no security whatsoever so she's able to get in and out. And even though they know she was in there (they saw her car license's plates), they wait until the next day to do something, in the most elaborate way possible. Why not go to her house that same night and kill her?

The bad guys, knowing that their operation has been compromised, do nothing whatsoever to even move to a different hangar. Instead, they waste time chasing the heroine and trying to kill her. Why not set her up to take the blame for some crime? Maybe dump a body in her house and accuse her of being a murderer/pornographer/you name it?

And you won't believe the reason why the bad guy needed to step foot in Miami, to be snatched up conveniently by the authorities. To get a guy to sign some papers! Why couldn't he send one of his goons with the papers and then have them delivered to him where he was safe?

I won't even go into the relationship between the characters, which was totally blah. I didn't feel any chemistry whatsoever.

Sophie Eastlake did a good job with the narration but even she couldn't save this. Definitely not continuing the series and not reading this author again.