It's very repetitive. The POV from Anthony/Shield kept going round and round, constantly repeating, "I don't know how to talk to her or tell her how I feel." He never reached a point where he admitted it was just that he didn't want to talk to her about it. He also never had a good answer for any he hadn't made Kasey his ol' lady after so long.
In the end, he didn't address the root of his issues and what the actual barrier was between him and Kasey. Why he was reluctant to fully commit to her, why he didn't want to discuss his dissatisfaction with their marriage. If he'd had some reason for it, like he wasn't sure how she'd react or was afraid she would be disgusted that he wanted freaky sex or something, that would have been understandable. Or if he had a history of avoiding confrontation with Kasey and a tendency to always withdraw whenever he didn't want to talk about stuff. But we are told that they used to be able to talk about anything and everything, so this sudden silence was odd. And since the author never gave us any reason for his behaviour, he's just a weak H. Multiple people in this story called Anthony/Shield a coward, and they were right.
Kasey needed more backbone. I didn't see her really push Anthony to communicate. She seems to just accept his behaviour, up to a point that she decides she won't anymore. And her actions contradict her words. If she didn't want to be involved with the club (because she didn't want the club brothers to start taking sides when her relationship with Anthony/Shield fell apart), then why would she ask the club to financially back her new business? Why not just open her business in the next town, which isn't too far away? She says she wants to stay in town so that Anthony/Shield will have easy access to the children, but it isn't like she'd be taking them across the country.
Also you can't tell us that Kasey is strong and badass and expect us to believe it when she spends the last few chapters of the book crying all the time. She supposedly can fight and shoot and so on, but never once in this book does she ever use any of her so-called skills to protect herself. She doesn't even sock one to OW "because Anthony wouldn't allow me to".
Even just to move out of the home she shared with Anthony/Shield took weeks instead of a decisive and quick action within days. Like, girl. If I had decided I wanted out, I'd be out as soon as possible. And I would not bother to make sure the house was cleaned beforehand and the bedsheets changed. Especially as he hadn't even been stepping foot into the home for weeks. Are you kidding me??? I mean, sure don't trash the house but also why bother to leave him with a sparkling clean house? Who does that???
The whole conflict with the OW (other woman) made no sense. There was no logical reason for the woman to fixate on Shield, especially when he had openly rejected her several times. A lot of loose ends here -- the guy who drove the truck that rammed Kasey's SUV was never identified nor punished; the person helping OW was also never found nor punished (someone had to have let her into the compound during the party, at the last showdown, now that her other accomplice had been removed); OW was only beaten up, not exterminated, so what was to stop her from coming back again?
This was my first book from this author and it will be the last. The dialogue is awkward and the internal monologues were too repetitive. Too many loose ends not tied up and weak characters all round.