Reviewed by Shirley Buchanan
From a game of truth or dare to a
roller coaster ride of international scandal, this story pulls a
fearless investigative reporter and reclusive billionaire on a ride
that changes all they believe over and over. At the end of the ride
will they be together or further apart than ever?
Having award winning reporters in both
her dad and her brother, Darcy Campbell, for once, wanted to do a
story that would make they sit up and take notice. Even with her job
at the Herald, they had never considered her as a good reporter
because what she usually wrote about crime, education, science and
public companies was just fluff pieces, not ones that showed in depth
investigative reporting. This new assignment investigating William
Parker, recluse billionaire was just the type of reporting she needed
to claim her place. Only a game of truth or dare with a hot, sexy
stranger in a cold, sterile room in the bowels of the Shanghai
airport started a ride with so many twists and turns she wasn't sure
she could keep up. Just how was she going to present a story without
bias when she was falling in love with the main subject? Was she
really a good investigating reporter like she wanted to be or was she
just fooling herself that he might love her back when the story was
told?
Having lived so many years under the
radar, William Parker still wasn't sure that he wanted to be in the
public eye. Having his partner there had always worked in the past,
why wasn't it good enough now? Only now he had purposely gotten
detained with the reporter sent from the Herald to find out what kind
of questions he would have to answer and been pleasantly surprised to
find the reporter was a gorgeous woman. Now his curiosity was piqued,
but the questions they shared got real personal in nature. But
gorgeous or not, personal or not, there were too many things in the
past that could be dangerous to him if she should learn about them.
If she did and she wrote about them, the years he had worked so hard
to make something of himself would be moot. Could he trust this woman
to report a good story and leave the past alone or was he setting
himself up for failure in his life and in the love he wanted? Just
how far would this ride take them? Would they survive?
An absolutely excellent story. Well
developed characters weaved an involved plot full of twists and
turns. Desire, ambition, betrayal, hurt and the unexpected seem to
jump out from almost every page. With the descriptions of scenery and
places, you felt like you were there with them. Scenes were vividly
described, and the dialogue was engaging and colorful. Secondary
characters provided wonderful support to the main characters. You
were pulled into the story from the first page to the last.
I would recommend this to all romance
and romantic suspense readers.
I received a copy from Netgalley for an
honest review.
5/5 stars Just what had she got
herself into?
