Review: Good start to the series :D
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
3-3.5 starsThis was a good story. I liked Elizabeth and Porter but Elizabeth did have some frustrating qualities at times. I actually read book #2 in the series first and I liked it enough that it prompted me to give this book a try.Elizabeth (Lizzy) is a computer specialist at Red Stone Security. Lizzy has rather famous doctors as parents and her family has money and a good reputation. Her bother Benny is the black sheep of the family though due to some bad things happen to him as a kid which has made him a rather unstable adult. Lizzy's parents have written Benny off but Lizzy loves him and never will.Porter works for Red Stone Security with part of his family (his father owns the company). Porter spent years in the military and is very skilled at what he does. Porter and Lizzy dated for about a month and Porter really liked her. Unfortunately he let his annoyance show at her dogged insistence to backing up Benny when his problems are getting worse and put her in danger. Lizzy broke up with him and Porter's been trying to move on with little luck.Lizzy gets called by Benny to pick her up and ends up in the home of a very bad man. He tells her that Benny owes him 100k. She has 1 week to come up with it or she can work it off in his bed for 6 months (Ick!). Just when the bad guy is about to push things, Porter comes charging in and saves Lizzy and Benny and takes them to safety. The bad guy apparently has aims to get Lizzy for more than just 6 months and intends to use Benny to get to her because everyone knows Lizzy has no sense when it come to Benny and she'd do anything to save him. Lizzy isn't thrilled to be stuck with Porter helping her and tries to get him to go after the initial save but Porter isn't going anywhere and quickly makes things clear. Benny disappears and Lizzy and Porter are left trying to scramble to stay out of the grasp of a very determined bad guy. While they're trying to stay alive, the attraction between Porter and Lizzy is growing stronger and they have some back and forth moments as they keep coming together but then keep trying to tell themselves it's a bad idea. After a decent amount of drama and action, things do work out with a rather surprising ending and Lizzy and Porter get their HEA together.This was a good story. Porter was a very good hero. A little bossy but not an alpha-hole and I liked him. Lizzy was alright but she did have an enabling blind spot about her brother that got annoying at times, especially when she used it as an excuse to push away others because they couldn't understand it. Fortunately, Lizzy didn't make any TSTL moves and that helped a lot. Overall I liked this story. It wasn't great and if I hadn't read book #2 in the series already I might not have tried more of the series. But since I have read book #2 and liked it better it's likely I'll try more in the series and see if I like them better as well. :D* note - I listened to the audio version of this book and the narrator did a good job.