Donovan is blown away by what he feels is an instant connection to Eve, the older sister. He wants nothing more than to get to know her better but he can tell that she’s skittish and is constantly looking over her shoulder to see what’s coming. After a tornado hits town Donovan is scared for the siblings and ends up finding Travis and his little sister, Cammie, in a culvert and Eve under a mattress – they’ve all been hurt. Donovan takes them home, gets them medical care from the KGI doctor, Maren, and then takes care of them like he’s known them for years. This has all taken place in the span of 2 – 2.5 days but already Van knows that he wants the siblings to be his family. He wants Travis and Cammie to be his children and Eve to be with him for the rest of his life as his wife. He dreams of the years they’ll spend together and the children they’ll one day have.

The siblings are running from their controlling, murdering father who is a complete ass and Van wants them away from him forever. KGI makes plans to take the father down but in the meantime Eve overhears what she thinks is a major betrayal by Van and she runs. Shit hits the fan and Van might lose Eve forever.

Alright, let me be honest…this was not a bad book. It wasn’t, really. The story of Travis, Cammie and Eve was a good one and one that I thought had the potential to be great. Unfortunately that was completely ruined by the insta-love of Donovan for Eve. Seriously, throughout the book it didn’t matter what was happening it was all tainted by the fact that this man had known this woman for 2 freakin days and called her his. Then his whole family accepted this as if it was the perfect norm and called her family. What. The. Fuck. I couldn’t get it out of my head. It was a little bit crazy if you ask me. I almost think that saving this woman from her horrible father and THEN falling in love with her would have been better. I know that the Kelly men in the previous books had fallen in love with their women quickly but for those, imho, were written in a way that made it more acceptable. IDK, this just didn’t work for me when it came to the romance.

I think the other thing that bothered me about this one was the amount of inner thought and introspection that occurred by both Van and Eve. I think SOME of that is good in any book but in this book it was the majority of the book. Not something I liked as it slowed the story down even more than it was already.

I felt the rest of the story needed some more of the excitement and suspense when it came to the teams but other than that I thought the story was a good one. I did like when the teams got together to work at the end as it felt more of KGI book in that instance. Anyway, while I liked parts of this one I can’t say that I recommend it.

Rating: 3 out of 5