Review: What Happens in Vegas...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2013
Detective Aurora Morelli unexpectedly loses her partner to maternity leave, and to her surprise her replacement partner is not only a male, but a very attractive male named Kai Larson. One huge thing he's got in his favor besides the attractiveness is the fact that he's joined the LVPD to go after the same bad guy that Aurora has been after, a bad-ass perp named Earl Rhondo who beat up and attempted to rape her ex-partner. For Aurora it's personal, and she has been using every trick in her cop repertoire to find him and put him behind bars for a long time. Now she's got a hot tip on where Rhondo will be and hopes that having to break in a new partner is going to be a help in bringing the guy down rather than a hindrance.This short story is meant as an introduction of the characters and situation to be covered in a new series of novels. At the beginning it seems to be setting up a tough, hardcore cop action story, but by the end it begins to sound more like a romance novel with guns as Aurora has trouble resisting her new partner's sex appeal. The action and police portions of the story were much stronger and more compelling than the introduction and distractions of the possible budding romance portions. Depending on the emphasis of the cases versus the romance in the coming entries in the series, it may be worth following. If the author turns more to romance at the expense of the hardcore cops and their tracking down the bad guys, it will fall into a trap better avoided for the long-term good of the series.Recommended as a quick sampler of possibilities to come.