Review: Fantastic well-balanced romantic suspense book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2012
I am so excited about this book. It is the third in the Red Stone Security Series by Katie Reus and I really like that series. The thing that has me most excited about it was that the hero and heroine are already married. In this story Mara has secrets from her past that she has not shared with her husband Harrison. Her past comes back to haunt her and Mara tries to handle things herself, in order to protect Harrison.  Harrison goes crazy at his wife's distance and secrets and can't figure out what is going on with her.  We watch him struggle to get answers from her while she struggles at how much to tell him. She also deals with trust issues. Not only do they have to navigate through the bump in their marriage, but they have to deal with a criminal from Mara's past who has come after her. The story flows very smoothly and quickly. The plot is well done and the characters are well developed even for such a short story. It helped to read the first two books so you got a feel for the relationship between the main and secondary characters.Katie does a fantastic job with Harrison and Mara. Despite the fact that they are both former spies (her with the MI6 and him with the CIA) they are a typical married couple.  When trust is broken and feelings are hurt, they act like a married couple would in real life which made them easy to relate to. I was a little worried about the warnings Katie mentioned in the summary of the book about the light bondage and hot sex scenes since I do not read erotic romance. The bondage part was in one scene that I remember and was consensual between a husband and wife and had a great deal of meaning to it (at least I thought). I don't think the sex was too graphic, as I think Katie always does a great job at writing intimate scenes. The scenes seemed typical to me in a married relationship. They weren't crass or raw, but were done with such feelings between the hero and heroine. You could tell that Mara and Harrison are married because they would talk and laugh with each other while making love. That was great!Overall I found this to be a great romantic suspense book that was well balanced between the suspense and romance. I tend to enjoy stories that have a good plot, a good romance between a hero and heroine and just a couple of specific intimate scenes throughout the whole book.  This book fit all those and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys romantic suspense!