BLURB
Nikolai
My rules when it comes to my job in personal protection are pretty simple:
1. Protect the client’s life, not their feelings.
2. Don’t put hands on a client unless you’re getting them out of harm’s way.
3. For God’s sake, don’t do something stupid like fall in love.
Twenty-four hours after meeting Jude Archer, rules 1 and 2 are already out the window.
Thankfully there’s no chance of falling for the callous businessman who cares more about his next deal than he does his own safety.
Jude may have managed to make fools of all the guys his wealthy boss and rumored lover has hired to watch him, but he’s playing in the big leagues now. The son of a bitch might not value his life, but I’m pretty fond of mine.
Time to teach the clueless Jude Archer a few hard lessons…
Jude
My rules for success aren’t for everyone, but they should be.
1. Work hard.
2. When you’re on the verge of giving up, work harder. Life owes you nothing. You have to take what you want.
3. For God’s sake, don’t do something stupid like get distracted by feelings.
With just weeks between me and the closing of the deal that will give me everything I want, I don’t have time to worry about a supposed stalker who hasn’t had the balls to do anything more than send a few threatening letters to my wealthy boss.
Sure, I sent a few so-called bodyguards packing. Even if I thought I was in serious danger, I can’t have someone watching me 24/7. My life works the way it does for a reason and no one, not even the gorgeous Russian ex-soldier who thinks he can scare me into submission, is going to change that.
Nikolai Falkov thinks he has something to teach me? Yeah, good luck with that.
It has been a long time since I’ve had the pleasure of reading a new Sloane Kennedy book. To say I was happily surprised when I found out she had written a new stand-alone is putting it mildly.
Everyone that knows me, knows that I am a HUGE fan of the “Protectors” and the “Finding” series. I re-read them all the time and “Finding Hope” is one of my all-time favorite books.
This book is a bit different though. We get a “bodyguard falling for his client trope”. I have to be honest and admit that this isn’t one of my favorite tropes. It has been done a lot lately, especially with “famous stars”, but this time it is a businessman that needs protection…
Said businessman, Jude, doesn’t want any protection though and so he does his very best to sabotage the bodyguards assigned to him. That is not so easy when it comes to Nik though. Nik won’t stand for it… but Nik also stirs something within Jude…
Both men are immediately intrigued by the other. There is instant chemistry and instant lust between these two, but it actually takes some time for these two to “come” together (<-see what I did there)
I actually appreciated the fact that it wasn’t an insta-love kind of story, but I was also mildly irritated by the slow burn … I know I am a basket case!!!
I really enjoyed reading this one, though I have to say that for me, it didn’t top the “Protectors” or the “Finding” series. Those series will probably always stay my favorite. It is hard to top “perfection” 
I think lots of you will be overjoyed with a new “Sloane Kennedy” read.
Wendys Wycked Words 