When Navy SEAL Jake Hendrix attends a charity bachelor/bachelorette auction as a favor for a friend, he’s stunned to see his squad mate’s gorgeous sister, Hanna Masterson, walk across the stage. She’s grown even more stunning in the years since he’d met (and very nearly made out with) her at the end of basic training. When Jake overhears other bidders talking about her, his alpha protector instinct kicks in and he decides to bid on her himself. He thinks he’s saving her. What he didn’t expect was how upset she’d be at him.
Hanna has developed a checklist of qualities she wants in a man. Someone reliable, dependable, and family oriented who can provide for her and their children. She doesn’t need the likes of Jake Hendrix—smoking hot as he is—getting in the way of her man hunt. She’d been hoping the auction might pair her with a potential long-term match, but alas she just got her brother’s hot squad mate who has “one night only” written all over him.
But the date actually goes well—really well. Best sex of her life well. But the following day, Jake immediately pulls back, just as she expected. Romance only gets in the way of doing his job: protection has no room for passion. Resigned to their night together being nothing more than a blip in the road, Hanna’s unsettled when a pregnancy test turns that blip into a major speedbump.
Before she can tell Jake she’s pregnant, something far more unexpected lands on her plate. One of her high-profile clients has been murdered, and because he’s shared certain information with Hanna, the killers will stop at nothing to silence her.
Despite his promises to stay uninvolved, Jake can’t help but protect Hanna, baby bump and all, insisting they go on the run as they dig deeper into the dangerous situation they’ve found themselves in. But as the threat closes in on their secluded safe house, their biggest problem might just be falling in love and losing it all…AMAZON 3 STARS
I had high hopes for this book since I had read a different book by Katie Knight and liked it. However, when I was about 38% on my kindle I just wasn't feeling the connection.
As the story went on, I got tired of Jake re-hashing of how his life of being in the military was all he could focus on. That he needed to distance himself from Hanna. Even though Hanna kept mentioning the spark between them, I just wasn't feeling it. Something was missing. It just felt like a shallow connection for me the reader.
Hanna did some stupid stuff considering she should know she was facing some serious danger. She keeps thinking how much the baby means to her but she must have pregnancy brain when it comes to some of her decisions.
Of course Jake made one decision towards the end that had me shaking my head. I wasn't sure if I wanted to cry or scream.
I didn't hate this book but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Will I read any other books by Katie Knight? Of course, because I had liked the other book. I'm sure other people might enjoy this book more than I did. Everyone has different tastes after all.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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