🩵Duty Unbound (Citadel Solutions 1) by Dominic Pierce-review🩵

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 30, 2025

Duty was supposed to be simple—until she walked into his mission.

Ethan Cross doesn’t get emotionally involved. As the head of Citadel Solutions, he handles high-stakes security with military precision and zero distractions. Protecting international pop star Nova Rivers from a dangerous stalker? Just another job.

Until he meets her sister.

Melanie Rivers is the quiet force behind Nova’s chaotic empire—efficient, invisible, and utterly selfless. She’s spent her life in the shadows, sacrificing her dreams to hold her family together.

But Ethan notices what no one else does—the way she shoulders everyone’s burdens without complaint, the quiet fire burning beneath her calm exterior. She’s not the client. She’s not part of the mission. Yet the longer he’s near her, the harder it gets to remember the lines he swore he’d never cross.

But in an industry full of secrets, danger lurks closer than anyone suspects. And one wrong move could cost them everything.

He was hired to keep one woman safe… but the one he can’t stop thinking about might be the one who brings him to his knees.

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REVIEW: DUTY UNBOUND is the first instalment in Dominic Pierce’s contemporary adult CITADEL SOLUTION romantic suspense series. This is former special ops soldier turned security specialist Ethan Cross, and PA Melanie ‘Mel’ Rivers’ story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Mel and Ethan) DUTY UNBOUND follows the crew at Citadel Solutions as they are hired to protect rising music star Nova Rivers. Nova has a stalker, and the threats are becoming more personal and dangerous, so with the recommendation of the local police, Nova’s sister and PA Melanie Rivers contracts Citadel Solutions for their services in security and protection including for the upcoming tour. Along with overzealous fans and determined paparazzi, Ethan has his hands full with the stubborn diva, and the possibility of losing his heart to Melanie Rivers. Melanie is on the edge of burnout with her sister’s constant demands but Melanie never expected to find herself falling for the man hired to protect her sister.

The world building focuses on the building relationship between Mel and Ethan, as Ethan struggles to uncover the truth. As the incidences threatening Nova become more personal, someone else takes aim at our story line heroine.

The relationship between Mel and Ethan begins as a professional assignment but Ethan quickly realizes there is much more to Mel than he could have ever imagined. Mel made a promise years before to help guide her sister in her career but the Melanie is quickly discovering there is more to life than being on call 24/7. Ethan is determined to prove Mel is worthy of her own happily ever after, and a weekend away brings our couple closer together. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are introduced to Ethan’s team: security specialist and second in command Logan Kane, Jace Monroe, and Ty Hughes; Nova’s dance choreographer Dexter Deeds, and Ethan’s parents Margaret and Doug Cross. Logan’s story line is next.

DUTY UNBOUND is a story of obsession and madness, family and friendships, relationships and love. The character driven premise is edgy, action packed and intriguing; the characters are dynamic and determined; the romance is seductive.

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Reviewed by Sandy