Review: "A Hot Romance Story"
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2013
This is the first story I've read by author Kate Kelly.  It started off very well as Serena McGregor buys an old used book which leads to a theft of millions being investigated by the FBI.  Nick DeMarco, FBI Agent, who had a one month affair with Serena six months previously is on the case. Serena's home is broken into and left in a mess as if someone was looking for something specific.  Nick appears at her door while the police are searching for evidence.  Serena is taken aback, but still lusts for Nick's embrace and tender lovemaking.  He has a reputation as a womanizer, and Serena leads a quiet, boring lifestyle which would hardly qualify her as a woman that many men would be attracted to, so why would Nick? He soon finds out that the book she had bought from a used book shop was part of the major heist.  How was she connected?  He had to convince himself that she was not one of the guilty parties.  Suddenly he is after her like a love-sick school boy.  He has missed her; she had a way of breaking down his self-imposed barriers.  His buddy, Gage (also an undercover FBI agent), feels that Nick may have his heart broken if he pursues Serena.  This is a quick read, but I found the story line a bit shallow. It is more intense on exotic love making rather than attention to the crime.  I was hoping for a better balance between the mystery of crime solving and romantic interludes, but it wasn't there for me.  I did not find the story as compelling as it could be, and the pace certainly slowed down, except for the sexual stimulus.  Not a novel up to my expectations.