A best friend, a stalker, and a bodyguard walk into a bar…
Current status: Living my best life. *Flips hair* What more could a girl want?
Just kidding.
My life has gone to shit. All the fun, late nights, and single life come to a screeching halt when I find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, thanks to my overbearing best friend, I’ve adopted a guard dog to keep me safe until they find the guy who attacked me.
Insert Tate Deveraux, my newest inconvenience. He’s brawny, not bad on the eyes, and a pain in my ass. Not only am I stuck with him until I’m out of danger, but he’s moving in with me.
He’s become a nuisance in my life and needs to go—stalker be damned. So do the urges to strip him naked and see if the rumors about hand size hold true. I blame my crush on booze and the kiss that should have never happened.
The simmering attraction between us is undeniable, but he’s made it clear I’m just a job. With lines being crossed and my life at stake, I guess I’ll find out if he’s better at keeping me safe or sated.
Mindy is a soft-core porn actress and bartender just living her life until the night she’s attacked leaving work. Luckily, a good Samaritan intervened, but it was a really close call. Now her bestie, Fay, wants Mindy to quit her jobs and move in, which just aren’t options, so Fay’s fiancée hires a bodyguard instead. Mindy is vehemently against this arrangement since she’s fiercely independent and also because she thinks it’s crazy overkill, but no matters what she does, she can’t get rid of Tate.
It soon becomes clear that Mindy has a stalker, and the attempted attack wasn’t an isolated incident so she should be happy to have protection, but he’s just hard to take. The two immediately butt heads but there’s also an undeniable mutual attraction complicating their strange new professional arrangement and it’s only a matter of time before they give in. Tate can’t get involved with a client. He needs to be professional and focused, yet he can’t keep his hands off of her.
Mindy has the same problem. Everything about this man drives her crazy but she can’t resist him at all (nor does she want to). Her acerbic wit and Tate’s ability to make her furious lead to some great banter and a lot of steam. There’s a little whodunit and a lot of will they/won’t they and I enjoyed it very much. I’d like to thank the author and The Author Agency for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
