He’s Wilde…
Davey Wilde has a problem. His father and uncles are officially retiring and handing him the reins of Wilde Security Worldwide–and he doesn’t want it. He doesn’t want the weight of the respected family business. He doesn’t want the responsibility of wrangling his wayward younger brothers and troublesome cousins. And he especially doesn’t want his first official mission as head of WSW: protect Rowan Bristow, the daughter of the most intimidating man Davey has ever known and a woman who takes great pleasure in getting under his skin.
She’s deadly…
Rowan does not need protection, despite what her overbearing ex-SEAL father and his teammates think. Yes, multiple attempts have been made on her life. Yes, she has no idea who wants her dead or why. It could be anyone–she has a knack for pissing off powerful people–but she was raised at a training compound for some of the baddest badasses on the planet, and she’s picked up a few deadly skills over the years. If she’s forced to hide with Davey Wilde–a man she can’t stand and yet can’t resist–as her bodyguard, someone will definitely end up dead… and it won’t be the killer’s doing.
If they can’t learn to trust each other, this mission might just be their last.
Review:
Solid series start!
Wilde and Deadly picks up where the prequel novella ( A Wilde Christmas ) left off, and the action and drama are pretty much nonstop from there until you hit the very end of the book. (If you haven’t read the novella yet you should be fine–they do mention the main events of it here–but it’s one heck of a story and serves to introduce you to all of the newest generation of Wildes, so it’s highly recommended.)
I honestly didn’t want to put Rowan and Davey’s book down–their chemistry is fabulous, and the story’s tension and suspense keep you turning the pages. Watching all the Wildes in action together, both at work and outside of it, was highly entertaining as well, and the baddies? They really ratchet up the tension as the book goes on.
(I did have a bit of a disconnect with the story when someone as recently gravely injured as Rowan, especially after all the blood loss, time she was unconscious, and the fact that her care was all done outside of a medical facility has so much vigorous…ahem…*relations* so soon after waking up. As someone who’s had abdominal surgery, that was a whole lot of no, thank you. But this is a romantic suspense, so not totally expected ;))
Ms Burrows does a great job of setting up future stories here, with the last chapter teasing the next book and giving us so many other Wildes who will clearly make fabulous heroes and heroines in their own right that I’ll be stalking her website for sure to see when we can expect more WSW books!
In the meantime, I haven’t read *all* of the author’s Wilde Security or HORNET series that are a prequel of sorts to this “next gen” series, so I guess I can amuse myself with getting caught up while I wait 🙂
Rating: 4 stars / A-
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.