Review: Pretty good addition to the series. :D
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2014
3.5-4 starsThis was a pretty good story. I liked Ruby and Troy and enjoyed their story. While I liked book #1 a little better, this was a good addition to the series.Ruby is a pool hustler. She was raised a pool hustler by her pool hustler father (mother having taken off long before). Ruby decided to get away from some of the risky people she would deal with and started just doing small time stuff on her own instead. She started classes in college to learn business so she can eventually stop the pool hustling all together. Regardless of her turning over a new leaf, she wasn't expecting a cop to get past her radar or that she'd experience a strong attraction to him.Troy is a police detective from Chicago that recently transferred to New York PD. Troy lost his partner when he was in Chicago and is very leery of loosing anyone else on his watch. He moved to New York for a change and a new start. He doesn't expect his new start to include a sexy woman that walks in to a bar with long legs and a pool cue.At the end of the first week working with the new team, Troy is out for drinks with some men he works with and ends up meeting Ruby. They have a brief flirtation and then Troy ends up helping her out of a bind. There's some more flirting and Troy tries to get her to let him escort her home or go back to his place (mainly because it's late and stormy outside). He manages to get her back to his place but she refuses to have sex with him. Troy does tempt her and there's some very inventive heavy petting but thing don't go too far. Troy wants more and isn't thrilled to wake up the next morning to find she disappeared in the night with no note or anything. Ruby manages to stay away from Troy for a couple days but can't forget him. She's just decides to go see him when Troy tracks her down. At this point they've both missed each other enough that they don't fight it and go off together.Troy and Ruby start spending time together and things go well except a small issue involving Ruby knowing some people involved with a case Troy is working on. Troy is very protective of her and is worried that her involvement with him could put her in danger if it's found out. Ruby assures him she's fine and wont go in to hiding and Troy reluctantly agrees although he does try to keep a tail on her just to be safe. The story actually goes pretty quickly and I don't want to give away anything so lets just say that Ruby made some TSTL choices that put herself in danger (as well as caused other issues) and when Troy found out they both made some mistakes in their reactions due to high emotions. Danger does come calling but it is resolved but the hard feelings take a little longer to smooth out. I liked the way Troy was willing to be stubborn and show Ruby that he wasn't going to give up and would keep coming back until she gave him another chance. After seeing Troy's commitment to her, Ruby does come to her senses so we get to see the start of their HEA.This was an enjoyable story. I liked the characters even though they both had moments where I wanted to reach in to my Kindle and slap them upside their heads. LOL. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. I'd recommend this story. :)