Review: Ahhhhh....Derek.  Fluttery sigh.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
This is actually an epilogue of sorts for Protecting What’s His, the first book in the Officer Off Limits series, and it originally appeared in Brazen's Halloween anthology Lovers Unmasked.  All of the Lovers Unmasked stories are fabulous, but this one has something the others don’t–Lt. Derek Tyler.  I told y’all I love him, and I damn well meant it.  That doesn’t mean, however, that I didn’t want to choke him for about 90% of the story for upsetting Ginger.  Derek screws up like a boss, ladies, a pattern he continues through the bulk of the book.  In his defense, his goal was to protect his girl from the realities of his job, but THIS was definitely not the time to pull the big man-little woman card on Ginger, who’s quick to prove why she’s my favorite Brazen heroine when she not-so-nicely tells Derek where and how far he can shove it.  I’m not gonna spoil it for you, but what could possibly be THEIRS to PROTECT?  My Derek loves this woman and it tears him up when he realizes what he’s put her through. That formidable man on his knees kissing Ginger’s tummy?  Sweet baby Jesus–get me a Kleenex.