Author: ⟫ Layla Reyne
Blurb: ⟫ When a marriage of convenience is the only play left…Special Agent Emmitt Marshall knows how to:
Wear a cowboy hat.
Hack anything.
Win at chess.
Fall in love with emotionally unavailable men.
He even knows the perfect play to catch the terrorists who killed his mentor.
Special Agent Levi Bishop doesn’t know how to:
Move on after his wife’s death.
Help his grieving son.
Pay off his mountain of debt.
Fix the mess some cowboy cyber agent made of his case.
The same cowboy who proposes a marriage of convenience to stop a common enemy.
Marsh is either the answer to Levi’s prayers—or a handsome nightmare in a Stetson.
Levi doesn’t know.
But both men do know their cases and lives are at a dead draw.
There’s only one play left…
I do.
Layla Reyne returns with an all-new m/m romantic suspense series featuring a cocky hacker with a heart of gold, a widowed father who needs so much help, and a plan only a cowboy could cook up. Grab your hat, hold tight to the reins, and enjoy the ride!
Review: ⟫ I can only say the reason I haven’t read any Layla Reyne before is because it’s never come up for me on Kindle Unlimited. And that’s a shame, because this book was a ride and a half!
Apparently, it’s part of a series – or at least an offshoot of one – as previous characters struck me as having a major backstory that I didn’t know anything about. It didn’t detract from the story – it was quite intriguing actually – and it’s good to know there is more out there. I quite enjoyed the fact that both men had lived full lives before they met each other – it meant that they knew what they wanted/needed and there was no confusion involved. It didn’t mean that everything was smooth sailing however – a marriage of convenience means no catching feelings and both of these two failed abysmally at that side of things. The storyline was engrossing and full of detail – sometimes too much as I felt a little lost – and the background characters were absolutely great. I especially loved the son, David, and would be really interested in a story based on him sometime in the future.
For me, the relationship took a bit of a backseat to the investigations they were undertaking – I don’t know if that’s a thing for this author/series – but I guess I was expecting more romance/relationship based things. A very solid read and if any of the author’s other works turn up on kindle unlimited, I would enjoy a chance to read them.
I received an ARC from GRR.
