Duty Devoted (Citadel Solutions 2) by Dominic Pierce-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 11. 2025

She saves lives with steady hands. He takes them with deadly precision.

In the war-torn jungles of Corazón, Dr. Lauren Valentino runs a field hospital under siege—treating the wounded, protecting the innocent, and risking everything to hold the line. Knowing the danger is getting critical, Lauren’s family sends Citadel Solutions security expert Logan Kane to get her out.

One doctor should be no problem for a battled-hardened Marine who specializes in impossible missions—even when the mission doesn’t want to be rescued and a hurricane is closing in.

They clash instantly.
The heat between them? Instant too.

When communication is cut off and killers close in, Lauren and Logan are forced into the jungle. The storm’s not the only thing hunting them. Survival means moving fast and finding some way of trusting each other.

In a world where death is always only one step behind, love might be the risk that breaks them both.

Or saves them.

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REVIEW: DUTY DEVOTED is the second instalment in Dominic Pierce’s contemporary, adult CITADEL SOLUTIONS romantic suspense series. This is security expert and former US Marine Logan Kane, and Dr. Lauren Valentino’s story line. DUTY DEVOTED 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 first person perspectives (Logan and Lauren) DUTY DEVOTED follows several members of Citadel Security as they are hired to extricate four American doctors from the Cartel controlled village near Corazon in Central America but a complicated villager’s pregnancy and birth kept Dr. Lauren Valentino from running, ensuring one of the Citadel men remained behind. Logan Kane knew it was a mistake to allow Dr Valentino to detour during their dangerous mission, and in doing so, our couple found themselves on the run, fighting for their lives through the jungles of Central America, with the Cartel hot on their trail. A rescue and return flight home ends with Logan ghosting our story line heroine until the ghosts from the past refuse to let go.

The world building follows our couple on the run, through tiny villages and swamps, a hurricane and explosion but the more dangerous the mission, the closer together our couple becomes in the face of bullets and blood.

The relationship between Logan and Lauren begins as a rescue, and Logan knows immediately Lauren is the woman to control his heart but Logan struggles with severe PTSD, and the trek through the jungle is about to stir up memories he wished he could forget. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The colorful secondary and supporting characters include Logan’s teammates Ethan Cross, Jace Monroe, Ty Hughes, as well as fellow doctor Sophia Yang, Lauren’s parents Richard and Catherine Valentino, and several members of the Corazon Cartel. The requisite evil has many faces.

DUTY DEVOTED is a story of power and control, obsession and murder, family and friendships, relationships and love. The action packed premise is dramatic and intense; the romance is fated and provocative; the characters are desperate, determined and charismatic.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one DUTY UNBOUND

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Reviewed by Sandy