The hero, Hayden Walker is a hunky firefighter who loves his job and has risen to be a leader of his crew. However, he’s also the oldest son of a North Carolina U.S. senator who wants Hayden to run for office, something Hayden has no interest in doing. He resents his father’s derision for his job, but can’t seem to make his father understand this. Saylor Dean is the only daughter of a world-famous actress and the unacknowledged child of a selfish politician. She has never met her father.
Spoiler Alerts: Add in a drunken, secret marriage, Hayden’s father blackmail that Hayden get married or run for office, Saylor’s meetings with her father and half-sister who just happened to be Hayden’s one-time fiance, a surprise pregnancy, an arson investigation, threats to Hayden’s career, and the need to foil a villain.
All of these plot devices get thrown into the story lickety-split and then get resolved pretty quickly and easily instead of building a more realistic plot. I mean how likely is it that a guy could be so drunk for two days that he has total amnesia about making love with a woman and then marrying her? I just don’t buy that. And the believability declines from there. Since when can a US senator crush the career of a local fireman? Since when does a politician hire an arson investigator to throw the investigation just to get some info on a political rival? And do it all by email on an unsecured private server that is easily hacked? I guess Hillary Clinton’s server woes are now becoming plot devices in romance novels.
The hero and heroine are very likable and I was pulling for them. If only the author had had more faith in her characters to build a plot with a bit more realism in it.
I received a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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