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Blurb

Secrets, desires, and exquisite pie. It’s all in a day’s work at The Company.

Growing up, I was the rough guy from the wrong neighborhood who couldn’t catch a break. Posy was the pampered girl I tried to impress. But I managed to steal only a single kiss before I had to skip town.

Now I’m back, and the tables are turned. Posy runs a struggling pie shop. I’m the VP of a secretive billion dollar security company.

Not that I can tell her.

There’s a murderer on the loose in New York, and he seems to spend a lot of time at Posy’s shop. I can’t let on that I’m here to bring him down before he can harm a hair on her pretty head.

Going undercover as Posy’s new barista wasn’t my idea. I don’t even drink coffee. But now I have to call her “boss,” and do everything the curvy perfectionist asks of me. I’d forgotten how much we infuriate each other, and that she somehow fills me with both irritation and desire in the same breath.

There’s nobody more skilled at stealth ops than me. I can bring this killer down. Right after I take a cold shower. And just as soon as I figure out how to make a skinny peppermint latte with milk poured in the shape of a kitten…

 

 

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Review

4 stars

I love this book! A romantic, fun and suspenseful story that sucked me in and captivated me from start to finish.

This is the second book in The Company series, which centres around the badasses working in a high-tech, top-secret security firm, but you can easily read this as a standalone, with very little crossover from the first book in the series.

Gunnar is one of the original guys who formed The Company, and he has been called from his home in California to the New York City base for a special mission – he is to pose as a barista and work in a downtown pie/coffee shop to scope the place out for a potential murderer who is using the shop’s wifi to post disturbing content on the dark web. First problem – he hates coffee and has no idea how to make it. Second problem – the shop is run by Posy, a woman from Gunnar’s past who he is less than pleased to see again.

Gunnar and Posy worked together tending bar one summer 15 year ago. They were enemies competing for the same job, but ended their time together with “the most outrageous kiss” before they fell apart in bad circumstances. They haven’t seen each other since.

Posy has recently started her life all over again after cutting ties with her controlling family and divorcing her husband. She has poured everything she has into starting her own shop, and it’s doing really well, but she’s short staffed. So, when Gunnar walks into her store asking to take her vacant barista position, she isn’t in much of a position to turn him away.

It’s clear from the first time these two are around each other that they have chemistry. It sizzles in every interaction, and they are obviously attracted to each other. There’s still an element of animosity between them as well, which just adds to the intensity, especially when Gunnar starts up with the flirtatious behaviour that drew Posy so wild all those years ago.

I give her a wink. An actual wink, like a sleazy asshole. The same thing happened when I was twenty-one, damn it. I turned into a slightly louder, more obnoxious version of myself whenever she walked into the room.

It’s a great set up that is all kinds of entertaining, and while I was enjoying the dynamic between Gunnar and Posy, all while the mystery/suspense part of the storyline is playing out. Gunnar is searching for a murderer, without having any clue who they are, and there are intricate plotlines and secret side missions that go on throughout the story.

Posy soon finds herself all caught up in it, which provides the perfect opportunity for all of that sexual tension to explode, and she and Gunnar fall into a passionate, easy and natural relationship. They both fully embrace everything that is happening between them and the love story is so, so gorgeous, full of teasing, laughs, sweet and tender moments, and of course, lots of sexy time. But they both know can’t go anywhere, because Gunnar will be returning to California as soon as his mission is done. No matter how hard it will be.

I don’t really know what a future for Posy and I would look like. But I do know that she and I aren’t done. We can’t be.

But first he has to catch a killer, and it’s an exciting, suspenseful ride. And neither of them could have predicted how the investigation – and their story – would end.

I really enjoyed this book. Gunnar and Posy are fabulous characters, and their dynamic is lots of fun. I laughed out loud at Gunnar and his internal thoughts, I loved Posy’s strength, and I was completely swept up in their banter-filled romance. The mystery/suspense storyline is also really intriguing, and I thought that the two plotlines are woven together really well.

I loved getting to see more of The Company members, and I’m really excited for more books from this series. Can we please get a story for Max and Scout!!

Fun, suspenseful and romantic, this was a great ride, and I loved it.

4 stars.

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

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