Series: Hollywood Heat, #2
Tropes & Traits: forced proximity; hero is assigned to protect heroine
Genre/Setting: Contemporary; Suspense
Publication Date: 08.25.20
Heat Level: 3/5
Rating: 5 stars
Despite the perks of fame, L.A.P.D. detective Rowan Winchester wants nothing to do with his family’s celebrity. He never much cared for acting and became a detective as his way of atoning for the darkness in their pasts. Now with crime writer Evie Fleming poring over notorious murders in Los Angeles’ history, including ones that touch his own family, Rowan finds his attraction to and protectiveness of her all the more inconvenient.
While Evie is researching for her new book, her most important goal is to further investigate what she suspects to be an unidentified serial killer hunting in Los Angeles. She just has to convince her handsome police shadow that she’s right in her suspicions. With Evie and Rowan spending almost all their time together, the attraction between them evolves into an inevitable conflagration, but when Evie herself becomes the target of a killer eager to silence her, it quickly becomes apparent that the time to piece everything together is rapidly running out.
I wound up really enjoying this book. It took a bit for me to get into it, but once things got going, I couldn’t put it down. This had just the right amount of creepiness and suspense to remind me of why this was the subgenre that first got me into romance. Rowan was the dream hero: attentive, protective, alpha, but not overbearing and with no games. I loved how straightforward he was with Evie. For her part, I liked Evie as a heroine, although there was one instance in which I felt she was really just unfair to Rowan. Thankfully, this was resolved in a mature and realistic fashion with little drama, which I much appreciated. I loved how Evie and Rowan worked together as a team and really listened to each other. This was my first read from this author, but now I’d like to check out the other books in this series.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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