Moonlighter by Sarina Bowen Series: The Company #1
Published by Tuxbury Publishing LLC on October 22, 2019
Pages: 370
Genres: Sports Romance
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Five nights. Two adversaries. Only one bed in their hotel room.
Only in my family could a professional hockey player earning seven million dollars a year be considered a slacker.
I’m at the height of my athletic career. Yet my arrogant brother is always trying to recruit me into the family business: a global security company so secretive that I don’t even know its name.
Pass, thanks. I don’t need a summer job.
But the jerk ambushes me with a damsel in distress. That damsel is Alex, the competitive, sassy girl I knew when we were kids. Now she’s a drop-dead gorgeous woman in deep trouble.
So guess who’s on a flight to Hawaii?
It’s going to be a long week in paradise. My job is keeping Alex safe, while her job is torturing me with her tiny bikinis. Or maybe we’re torturing each other. It’s all snark and flirting until the threat against Alex gets serious. And this jock must become her major league protector.
Moonlighter is a stand-alone novel. No cliffhangers, no prior experience necessary. Contains: hackers, hockey players, and a hotel room with only one bed.
I will happily read anything written by Sarina Bowen, but Moonlighter was just okay for me. I loved Alex’s intelligence and independence. Eric is such a steady and faithful sweetheart to his teammates, his family, and Alex.
I would love to be treasured by Eric the way he cares for Alex. She can be cold towards Eric sometimes though. Blame it on her having a bad day or being fearful, but I had no patience for her game playing or disregard for Eric’s feelings. When they are in sync, though, it’s Swoonsville.
The mystery regarding Alex’s safety and her company was only mildly intriguing to me. However, I wanted the puzzle to be solved, and given the amount of time spent focusing on it, it seems odd that the reader is left hanging with an unresolved plot.
Eric’s cyber security genius brother really intrigued me. I hope to learn more about him in a future book.
Recommended for fans of:
Childhood friends turned lovers
Athletes
Artificial Intelligence
Hawaii
About Sarina Bowen
Sarina Bowen is the award-winning author of more than thirty contemporary novels. She has hit the USA Today bestseller’s list nineteen times and counting. Formerly a derivatives trader on Wall Street, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University.
Sarina is a New Englander whose Vermont ancestors cut timber and farmed the north country since the 1760s. Sarina is grateful for the invention of indoor plumbing and wi-fi during the intervening 250 years. She lives with her family on a few wooded acres in New Hampshire.
Sarina’s books are published in over a dozen languages on five continents.
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