Thank you to @HambrightPR & the author Sarah Castille for the advance copy!
Thank you to @Macmillian.Audio for the complimentary ALC!

This book will be out on June 17th.

It’s been awhile since I’ve read a bodyguard romance and whewww boy I have been missing out.

Ace Murphy the man that you are. Lord he made me swoon while reading this. Not that I am mad at it but I wasn’t expecting their intimate scenes to happen soon. I really thought the author was going to string us for a bit. This man has been protective over Haley ever since they were kids and it only has grew as they did.

Haley, our young naive college student who just wants to make her own music and run her radio show and not be followed around with a bodyguard. She has not talked to Ace in a few years and was mad when he left her after her brother’s death. Her feelings towards Ace came rushing back as soon she saw him again. 

Once feelings were established between the two, whewww it was so hot! The author really had me blushing with some of these scenes.

The book is told from the past timeline as well as the present. I didn’t mind the past timeline as it gave us context for how close the two really were back when they were teens. Ace really looked to Haley’s family has his family since his home life wasn’t so great. It was also so cute to see Haley’s little girlhood crush on Ace and how it really has always been him.

I paired my reading with the audiobook and queen Samantha Brentmoor was the primarily narrator but we did get chapters of Ace’s point of view, narrated by Anthony Palmini. I always love how Samantha does her female characters. I felt like she was Haley and could pull off making her sound so young. Anthony is new narrator to me and I really enjoyed his voice! I would like to see more of him in my romance audiobooks.

This was my first book from the author and I definitely would consider reading her again!

I recommend this book if you are looking for a spicy college romance, with a protective MMC, childhood friends to lover.