*** BOOK REVIEW- Roman Will Fall (Wilde Ways# 11) by Cynthia Eden

   

She can’t work with him.

They’ve been partners for barely a week, and Roman Smith (if that even was his real last name!) is already driving Harper Crane absolutely insane. His list of faults is a mile long. Roman is secretive, controlling, and far too sexy. Okay, the sexiness doesn’t matter. It can’t matter. What matters is that Roman never listens to orders, he is far too quiet and intense, and Harper is pretty sure that he is up to some seriously shady side business.

He isn’t supposed to want his new training partner.

Roman has spent his life in the darkness. He is far too well acquainted with evil, and working at Wilde? Well, joining the security and protection firm is supposed to be the first step to turning things around in his world. The first step to becoming someone new. But some habits are hard to shake. And Roman knows that his way too beautiful trainer, Harper, is already suspicious of him. Yeah, so…she is right to be suspicious. Until recently, he has been the bad guy in the story. His list of past deeds could give anyone nightmares. Too bad he only wants to give Harper sweet dreams.

Trouble has followed Roman.

Roman has some unfinished business from his past—in the form of deadly enemies—who have tracked him. And now those enemies have gotten the wrong idea about Harper. (Probably because Roman couldn’t keep his hands off her on a case.) They think she is Roman’s lover. They think they can use her in order to get to him. They are about to make the worst mistake of their lives.

When Roman’s enemies kidnap Harper, he drops the good guy role.

Roman races to rescue her—and they are thrown together in close confines. Intimately close. In order to fight the enemies closing in, Harper and Roman have to trust each other. They have to work together. Stay together. Except the longer they are together, the more Roman realizes just how much he wants the fiery Harper. And soon…Roman can’t imagine his life without her.

Can a reformed bad guy get a chance at happily ever after? Maybe. If things get Wilde enough…

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5+++  STARS

I can hardly think of how to express how much I loved this unique story. I can say though that it's going into my keeper file so that I can re-read it again.  It's wildly good and I wish I could give it more stars.

First off, Roman really was a dark mystery of a man, which is shown really well.  He usually doesn't have a lot to say and is full of one word answers.  Being bossy, thinking he's in charge,  and being almost wordless irritates Harper to no end.  

Harper is more than a match to deal with Roman, he just didn't realize it at first.  She has skills that have been developed over years of different experiences.  Roman does tend to underestimate her but his desire to protect her totally catches him off balance.  That and not only is she skilled, but when she gives that brilliant smile and the dimples come out?  He's not the only one that feels stunned.  As he watches it happen with other men, unaccustomed jealousy rears it's head.  And early on he realized she never smiled like that at him.

Some of the secrets involve a dicey man named Dex who seems to play a lot of mind games. Others may kowtow to him but Harper's not impressed.  I really smiled when she told him so and toe to toe with him.  He is trying to help Roman but he's not 100% good all the time either.   Antony is another skilled tech person that is pulled in by Dex to "manage" Roman and do a deep dive on threats. He gets his own story as we get a peek at the end of this book.

There's plenty of dangerous secrets as you have been told in the book info and attacks come from different sources.  Keeping me at the edge of my seat. Until the really explosive ending that leads into a really unexpected but good Epilogue.  In my world Epilogue means Follow up into the Future, and I always want to have that.