DARKEST NIGHT (Wired and Dangerous #2) by Megan Erickson-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 31 2018

Bodyguard Jock Bosh has one job: keep Fiona Madden safe. Safe from the men who’ve been hunting her. Safe from the bastard responsible for ruining her life. And with the attraction sizzling white-hot between them, that means keeping Fiona safe from him too.

Fiona has spent the past decade on the run. Her survival is the single greatest weapon she’s had against the men out to destroy her. Until Jock. Now, with him by her side, she finally has a chance to bring them down. But when her enemies make their next move and Jock puts himself in the line of fire, Fiona realizes that there’s more at stake than just her life-she’s also risking her heart.

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REVIEW: DARKEST NIGHT is the second instalment in Megan Erickson’s contemporary, adult WIRED AND DANGEROUS romantic suspense series focusing on a group of computer hackers and coders. This is thirty-eight year old, former US soldier and bodyguard Jamison ‘Jock’ Bosh, and thirty-year old Fiona Madden’s story line DARKEST NIGHT can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Jock and Fiona) DARKEST NIGHT follows the building relationship between thirty-eight year old, former US soldier and bodyguard Jamison ‘Jock’ Bosh, and thirty-year old Fiona Madden. More than ten years earlier Fiona Madden survived a horrific ordeal- kidnapped, abused and tortured as a sex slave for a human trafficking ring. On the run trying to stay one step ahead of the men who destroyed her life, Fiona will soon discover that what little semblance of peace she had managed to obtain is about to be destroyed once again. Enter bodyguard Jamison ‘Jock’ Bosh, the man with whom Fiona will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship and romance between Fiona and Jock, and the potential fall-out as Fiona continues to be targeted by the men from her past.

Jamison ‘Jock’ Bosh volunteered to covertly watch over and protect Fiona Madden, a woman unaware of how close the threats to her life had come full circle. Undercover and alone Jock would soon come face to face with his future when his ‘hiding’ spot is revealed to an all-too alert Fiona Madden. Fiona knows her time may be limited especially with the all too familiar images and photos that constantly appear in the mail whenever she moves. Meeting Jamison ‘Jock’ Bosh finds our heroine thinking about a possible future with the remote, quiet and brooding man, a man whose own demons continues to ride hard.

The relationship between Jock and Fiona begins as a working assignment when Jock volunteers to protect the woman with whom he will fall in love. Fiona is one-time best friends with computer hacker Wren Lee, Roarke Brennan’s girlfriend (Zero Hour #1) but friends that have not seen one another in over ten years. As a favour to Roarke and Wren, Jock offers up his services to protect the young woman that will call to his heart. The $ex scenes are passionate and intimate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and charismatic secondary and supporting characters including Roarke and Wren, Marisol Rosa, Erick Lee, and the mysterious Tarr, a man who will do anything for Jock including placing himself in the line of fire.

DARKEST NIGHT is a story friendship and family; mystery and suspense; romance and love. The premise is exciting; the romance is sensual; the characters are dynamic and spirited but I wish the author revealed some of the background history and friendship between Wren and Fiona, as well as the trauma surrounding the kidnapping and violation of our story line heroine; the ‘hacking’ and computer elements of which Roarke’s team specializes are limited such that the reader is told what happened not shown the process of the how or why.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one-ZERO HOUR.

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Reviewed by Sandy