Review: Shot in the Dark

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If there’s anything zoologist Josslyn Benoit abhors more than guns, it’s poachers. When an African “fact-finding” mission with a wildlife conservationist group goes horribly wrong and one of their members is shot, Josslyn and her team must flee for their lives. What’s worse? Josslyn must call in a favor from her older half-sister…the First Lady of the United States. She returns to D.C. to hunt down a major importer of illegal animal products and the last thing she needs on her tail is a gun-toting, testosterone-fueled hottie who’s too sexy for words and too bossy to tolerate.

After suffering an injury in the line of duty, Adam Lockett, commander of the Secret Service’s elite team of snipers, is sidelined on a boring protective detail—guarding the First Lady’s wild-child younger sister, who’s hell-bent on ditching her detail. He’s biding his time until he can return to the job he loves best, and no tree-hugging, animal saving smokey-eyed beauty is going to ruin his perfect protection record. But when Josslyn’s leads heat up, it’s her own skin on the line, and she’s become much more than a job for Adam.

Can two opposites find happiness, or is it just a shot in the dark?

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: February 2019

Mature content: yes

Review: Overall Shot in the Dark is a great book, both from the romance and the suspense perspectives. There were a few holes in the plot and a couple of situations I found less than realistic, though. And the fact that both main characters had met before seems of great importance at the beginning of the book but then there's little follow up. In any case, the action and the unexpected twists and turns keep you turning the pages right until the very end.

 

Shot in the Dark is book two in the Men of Secret Service series. I haven't read the first book in the series and although I confess I'm curious about that particular story, it didn't affect in any way my understanding of the characters and plot of book two. I do intend to go through the other two books in the series, though, and I'll post reviews of those soon.

Happy readings!

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