Review: Short story with strong characters and a great story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
this is a short story,46 pages, set one year later in the relationship of Ginger Peet and Lt. Derek Tyler, that we first meet in Protecting What's His. Ginger and Derek have been living together now for a year, and are blissfully, passionately happy. Ginger owns a new successful furniture store where she can turn her hobby into a business. She is growing into the woman with a life and relationship she has always wanted. It centers on how Derek, in wanting to protect Ginger from worry, keeps a dangerous police investigation and raid he is involved in. So dangerous the police team he heads nicknames it, A Widow Maker, that could result in him being hurt or killed. Ginger has some new also, she just found out she is having a baby and is wondering if Derek will be happy about it. She feels Derek pulling away and being preoccupied makes her question if what they have is forever.I normally do not like buying a short stories, I mean really 46 pages, and I know you do not have to read this short story since book 1 gave you the happy ending we all crave. But have to tell you I personally loved this add on to the original story. Its a snapshot, showing them 1 year later and as a couple still growing and ironing out forever and trust issues. Also realizing the need of wanting to go to the next stage in wanting to make a relationship forever. It also gives us the two people we have grown attached to, Ginger and Derek. I just love how this author writes and can not wait for the next novel in the series, His Risk to Take, which will be two new characters and their happy ever after story. Have to tell you, after reading Protecting What's His and now Protecting What's Theirs, Ms. Bailey is fast becoming one of my favorite authors.