Fresh out of a fiasco of a marriage, Katie Clark has retreated to her hometown to start over. The new Katie is sophisticated, cavalier, and hell-bent on kicking butt at her job in her brother’s security firm. But on her first assignment—digging up the truth about the stalker threatening a world-famous singer-songwriter—Katie must endure the silent treatment from a stern but sexy partner who doesn’t want her help . . . or her company.
Sean Owens knows that if he opens his mouth around Katie, she’ll instantly remember him as the geeky kid who sat behind her in high school. Silence is golden, but he can’t keep quiet forever, not with Katie stampeding through their investigation. It’s time for Sean to step up and take control of the case, and his decade-old crush. If he can break through Katie’s newfound independence, they just might find they make a perfect team—on the road, on the job, and in bed.
Katie is happy to be back in Ohio with her friends and family but she’s getting a bit restless in her job. She’s been working as secretary/receptionist for her brother’s security firm. She finally talks Caleb into letting her do some field work but she gets paired with Sean Owens who brings new meaning to the word stoic. Katie, who always wants everyone to like her, tries to get Sean to talk to her but he refuses.
Sean is a man who came to Camelot to take care of his mother’s estate after her passing and ended up staying. He’s not sure why as he has a home and a business in California. He had a thing for Katie back in high school and he still gets nervous around her. Sean thought he had overcome his stuttering but when he’s around Katie he just can’t control it. He gets frustrated so rather than make a fool out of himself he chooses not to talk. Eventually he finds that he HAS to talk and when he does Katie couldn’t care less. When they finally decide to do something about the attraction that’s buzzing between them it’s scorching hot. Katie and Sean are great together but Katie needs to figure out what she’s going to do with her life and Sean needs to head back to California to deal with his company.
This was another good story in the Camelot series. I really loved Sean. Yes, he acted like an asshat a couple of times during the story but really, how could I not love A) a stuttering hero and B) one who overcame his emotionally charged childhood. Sean had his issues but he once he started talking he proved to be an intelligent man with a body made for sin.
Katie I liked as well, but definitely not as much as I liked Sean. She had such self –esteem issues that is was really hard to get past that. She did learn and grow during the book but it came too late in the book for me. I didn’t feel we got a good view of the “new” Katie and that was more than disappointing.
We did get to revisit characters from previous Camelot books and that was nice. Tony and Amber from book 1 were only mentioned but we got a couple scenes with Jamie, Ellen, Caleb, Henry and Carly and those were great. I’ve really liked the Camelot series so far and can’t wait to see what Ms. Knox has in store for Camelot next.
Rating: 3.75 out of 5
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