This was the one I was most excited to read about after looking ahead at the series. I knew Alice would be Cooper’s love interest, I just had a feeling. True to what I thought, it closes up the case with the Sinclair’s father, Maxwell and finishes the story with the Russian mob. This is where everything comes to a head and the worst of everything happens in this book. Yet, on top of that happening, you get the beautiful love story between Alice and Cooper. I wasn’t sure how I would feel with the romance, intensity, and passion all happening in the beginning. The first book did this but you didn’t get background like you did in this one, but you also kind of didn’t need it because of the interactions you read in the previous books between Alice and Cooper. So, I guess in a way it made sense to kind of jump into their relationship but the book starts off with Alice reflecting on what has happened thus far between them. She sets up the stage for how the book is going to go and I didn’t mind that. In the beginning though, Cooper’s advances were exciting to read. I’ve only ever known him as the hard ass of the brothers and never intimately. In fact, it was because of the soft side of him I read in this book that got me changing my whole mind about him. I never liked him fully throughout the books. He was always too serious and too intense for me, that I wondered if he was even capable of falling in love. Then, this book happened and all bets were off. He’s more than capable of it, and irritatingly so. Cooper the hard ass was annoying, but Cooper in love was just as annoying. I don’t know why this bothered me a bit in this book. I don’t know if it was his obsession with Alice, or if it was the way he went about declaring his feelings for her. Either way, it annoyed me with some of his actions and scenes he did. It slowed up my getting through this book but everything else in between was great. I liked how the case was coming along in this book and I also liked the suspense added to it too. It’s a great book if you want a lot of action and things getting figured out. The intimacy between Alice and Cooper had all the passion and tenderness but it was the time spent that he wasn’t sleeping with her that his words and attitude bothered me. I almost gave this a 4 but the action, mystery and the way things were getting figured out and solved, along with the curveballs that came up in this book had me on edge and excited. I’m giving this a 5 purely because of that and even more so because my hunches were right except for a couple things. Then there’s the epilogue introducing us to Griffen’s world that has me itching to start that series, just not now because there’s a lot of books in that series and I have other priorities I want to read.