Review: Caught Off Guard
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2010
Dean Wolcott has never gotten over the "one that got away".  Since he was a young hell raiser he has been fascinated with Veronica Abbott, but always knew he would never have her.  He was considered beneath her wealthy status, and not in her class.  As he grew up, anyone he dated was contrasted against his dream, but everyone paled in comparison to her.  Now that Dean is all grown up leaving his bad boy image behind, he finds out she is moving back to town.Veronica is moving back to her childhood hometown to break the hold her family has had over her life to start again.  She also wants to be in a locale where no one knew her husband that died in the line of duty.  Her goals were to open her new business, and to find someone to have a no strings hot affair with.  When she saw the fire department captain was none other than childhood crush Dean, she set out to seduce him.This was a moderately entertaining read, but I found the character Veronica to be very shallow and irritating.  I understand the need to be your own person, but she wanted different things out of life than Dean did.  She wanted instant gratification and had no interest in long term.  Any time Dean tried to have a serious discussion; she would distract him with sex.  The only thing important was what she wanted.