Successful defense lawyer Brynn needs a bodyguard when it gets apparent that a felon she helped prosecute is on a revenge trip after he escaped prison.
Eric, former military and CIA, works for Liam Wolfe’s Security Company (readers of Laura Griffins’ Tracer novels will remember Liam from “Shadow Fall”) as a team leader. With his five colleagues he protects Brynn and her co-worker as well as helps solving a mystery and, of course, falls in love.

While the story was, as usually, well written, action filled and in general a page turner, I did not connect with it very well.
The bodyguard-ward love-connection is too clichéd for my taste and the problems implicated with it are very predictable. And in this case, I could not even feel any sexual or emotional tension between the two protagonists, it felled somewhat forced to me.
I also can not feel for a heroine in criminal defense. Call me prejudiced. But someone who puts his/her whole heart into bringing felons back on the streets – not my thing (sorry to all you defense lawyers reading this!). I assume the author saw this coming, thus the book dealt a lot with the current case Brynn was working on, with snappy and very entertaining courtroom dialogs and a second mystery, because it was sometimes not clear if her client was really as innocent as she claimed.
Ironically, due to this side trip in Brynn’s work I enjoyed the story more, as I always cheer for smart dialogs!

Narration: 3rd person female protagonist’s POV, sometimes also some insight into male POV
Sexual content: couple of scenes fairly descriptive
Main Location: contemporary Dallas, Texas