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Investigative journalist Amanda Miller, AKA Andy Baker, has one thing on her mind: Who killed her stepbrother and why? When the mysterious and hot Hugh Donaldson comes poking his...uh, nose around in asking the same question, she's wondering who he is and why he's investigating the same mystery. How can she focus when she's swept up in his twenty-inch biceps? Hugh Donaldson must atone for his troubled past by playing the good guy. Can he convince Andy he's here to help? Or will she figure out who he really is?
Genre: romantic suspense
Publication date: January 2023
Mature content: yes
Review: I really wanted to like this book, and some parts of it were good, especially the dialogues and the funny banter between the two main characters.
But honestly, a huge part of the story was too unrealistic to be believable, the mystery/suspense too confusing and the romance, deep down, is almost non-existent. By the time Andy looks at Hugh and decides that because he looks so soft he must be trustworthy (when it was already obvious he wasn't - neither soft nor trustworthy), I was ready to just quit it. I ended up skimming a few pages to get to the end and see if they would at least have a happy ending - to be left at a cliffhanger instead.
Also, scenes jump from one place to the next, and you receive no explanation as to how and why the characters ended up there. Once or twice I felt like I was reading a movie scrip, not a full length novel.
So, despite the raving reviews at Amazon, I just can't bring myself to recommend it.
Happy readings otherwise!
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