GUARDING TEAGAN (Crimson Point Security 1) by Kaylea Cross-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 26, 2023

She’s out for justice.
Teagan Kim is on a mission to find her cousin’s murderer, the same one she suspects nearly killed her. She’s used to operating on her own, but the DEA assigns her a bodyguard for a job she’s handling—and he turns out to be the man she had a one-night stand with the last time she was in town. Now they’re forced to work together as she hunts down a murderer. And when the danger closes in, her sexy one-night-stand-turned-bodyguard is all that’s standing between her and the people who want her dead.

His job is to keep her alive long enough to get it.
Decker Abrams is Crimson Point Security’s newest personal protection specialist, and he’s just been handed his first Teagan. The woman who saved his sister’s life and then ghosted him after the hottest night of his life. She’s just as much a mystery to him now as the first time they met. He wants to know why she left without a word, but he’s got a job to do and refuses to let things get personal. Except everything about Teagan feels personal. And as the danger mounts, they’ll have to learn to trust each other if they want to make it out alive.

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REVIEW: GUARDING TEAGAN is the first instalment in Kaylea Cross’ contemporary, adult CRIMSON POINT SECURITY erotic, romantic suspense series-a spin off from the author’s Crimson Point Protectors and Crimson Point series, and a slight cross over with her Vengeance Series. This is Crimson Point Security agent Decker Abrams, and MI6 agent Teagan Kim’s story line. Decker and Teagan were introduced in Lethal Reprisal (Crimson Point Protectors)

Told from several omniscient third person perspectives including Teagan and Decker GUARDING TEAGAN follows in the aftermath of the murder of Teagan’s cousin Lily, a woman who witnessed a possible crime. Determined to bring the killer to justice, Teagan now working with the DEA, finds herself up close and personal with a former one-night stand, in the guise of Crimson Point Security (CPS) agent Decker Abrams. CPS has been contracted by the DEA in a joint investigation into a possible drug smuggling ring, and our couple are about to be caught in the middle when Teagan suspects a possible mole in the DEA. From the outset, the investigation begins to spiral out of control when Teagan becomes the target of a desperate man.What ensues is the rebuilding relationship between Decker and Teagan, and the potential fall-out as the DEA refuses to back our story line heroine.

The world building brings together some of the characters and couples we met in the interconnected series, giving the new series a sense of cohesion and familiarity. We are introduced to new agents, and old friends, as the author sets up the who and why of Crimson Point Security.

The relationship between Teagan and Decker is one of second chances, of a sort. Teagan and Decker spent one glorious night together after rescuing Decker’s sister but Teagan ghosted Decker, and our hero has never forgot about the woman that got away. Working together to take down a killer, Decker finds himself falling hard, refusing to walk when all was said and done. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top sexually graphic language and text.

We are reintroduced to several previous story line characters including Decker’s half siblings: Marley and Warwick (Lethal Reprisal) as well as Gavin and Tristan; former Special Forces soldier Creed; DEA Agent Clive, and Teagan’s parents Joseph and Annie. The requisite evil has many faces. Creed and Bella’s story line is next.

GUARDING TEAGAN is a story of power and control, murder and drug smuggling, suspense and intriguing, friendships and love. The fast paced premise is entertaining, dramatic and thrilling; the romance is seductive; the characters are charismatic, determined and dynamic.

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Reviewed by Sandy