Review: Completely AWESOME  sexy romantic suspense
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
This has to be one of the best books I've read in a while.  I loved every second of it, could not put it down, my eyes were completely glued to my Kindle which I only reluctantly turned off when I absolutely had to.  It consumed my thoughts when I wasn't reading it and even now, a day after finishing, the characters are all vividly alive and kicking in my imagination.  I'm so delighted to have discovered Kate McCarthy - she's most definitely now a new favourite author and I'm waiting with bated breath, not very patiently, for book three to release in early 2014.This series is about a whole host of characters.  There's the rock band Jamieson, headed up by singer Evie with Henry, Frog, Cooper & Jake completing the numbers. Mackenzie is their manager and her brothers Travis and Jared have a security and investigations company running with Evie's brother Coby.  Along with a few others, this gang make up our large crowd of incredibly likeable characters that I know you are all going to love when you get to know them.  I'm assuming each of them will get their own stories as each book tells a complete story for one of the main characters - there's no cliffhangers, only fantastic romances with deeply satisfying epilogues.This time, it's the turn of Evie's brother Travis to fall head over heels in love with his forever girl, Quinn.  Quinn is the new assistant to Mackenzie and is the product of a troubled childhood and abusive past.  Everyone she has ever loved has been taken from her and everyone who should have cared for her and loved her has let her down.  Quinn's confidence has taken a severe battering and she's pretty low on self-worth and sees no future for herself and certainly doesn't consider herself good enough for Travis, who comes from a big loving family and a group of close friends who consider themselves family.Travis, true to form as a great Kate McCarthy alpha hero, is not going to let that one slide and goes after her and, as Quinn's past comes roaring back to into her life and puts her in danger, all of Travis' protective and possessive nature is triggered and he is determined to make her his despite her dogged determination that she's just not good enough.This was just a perfect read for me.  There's something about Kate McCarthy's writing that works incredibly well for me as a reader.  It's important for me to feel the emotions right along with the characters and she just excels at this.  There were so many scenes that played out with high-def clarity in my imagination - I could just see absolutely everything, it felt like a movie playing inside my head.  Some of them were so tense, so suspenseful that they played out in super slo-mo in my head and my heart went cold and I could hardly breathe - I was so invested in the characters by this time that I was scared of what might happen to them.There was one scene when Travis comes across something and he has no idea what might have happened to Quinn and can only fear the worst - he drops into a crouch and holds his head in his hands in desperation.  That scene just embedded itself in my memory and the book is full of scenes like this - something about the way that they're written just allows them to completely come alive, makes the characters so real, as real as if they were standing right in front of me, compels me, enthrals me and helps me to experience every single emotion right along with the characters.I think the series would appeal to fans of Kristen Ashley's Rock Chick series - Kate McCarthy definitely has a different writing style to Kristen but both series appeal to me in the same way.  So, if you enjoy a great angsty romance, fantastic character development, totally gorgeous alpha heroes that you are just going to love, really feisty kickass heroines and a pulsating, dynamic plot then this series really is for you.  Go check it out - your new favourite author is just here waiting to be discovered by YOU!5 awesome stars!