ARC Review – Flirting with Disaster (Camelot #3) by Ruthie Knox

I really love when seriously wounded characters find someone they are interested enough in to get past their hurt and move on with life. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures

Description:
In the latest eBook original novel in Ruthie Knox’s scorching-hot Camelot series, a no-strings fling looks an awful lot like falling in love—or flirting with disaster.

Fresh out of a fiasco of a marriage, Katie Clark has retreated to her hometown to start over. The new Katie is sophisticated, cavalier, and hell-bent on kicking butt at her job in her brother’s security firm. But on her first assignment—digging up the truth about the stalker threatening a world-famous singer-songwriter—Katie must endure the silent treatment from a stern but sexy partner who doesn’t want her help . . . or her company.

Sean Owens knows that if he opens his mouth around Katie, she’ll instantly remember him as the geeky kid who sat behind her in high school. Silence is golden, but he can’t keep quiet forever, not with Katie stampeding through their investigation. It’s time for Sean to step up and take control of the case, and his decade-old crush. If he can break through Katie’s newfound independence, they just might find they make a perfect team—on the road, on the job, and in bed.

Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: How to Misbehave, Along Came Trouble, and About Last Night.

Review copy provided for an honest review

I’ve really loved The Camelot series by Ruthie Knox and I was eagerly awaiting Katie’s story because she seemed so broken and I knew it would take a special man to understand her past hurt and win her heart. Never did I suspect she’d find someone who was as broken if not more so nor have I ever thought a stuttering hero would be such a heartbreaker, but Caleb is that and so much more.

This is by far the most complicated and serious book of the three in this series. Yet it is every bit as intriguing, witty, and sexy and it also has the most heart of them all as well. Katie is newly divorced after her ex-husband cleaned out their bank accounts of the money she had saved to go to college. With her brother’s help, she is more fit physically and mentally that she’s been in a while and she’s finally convinced him to let her be a field agent in his security company. Well that and a somewhat high profile celebrity client asked her help specifically. But, he’s paired her with Sean a temporary agent working while in Camelot handling his mother’s estate. A man she thinks hates her, a man who refuses to talk to her, and a man who use to be a boy she was intrigued by in high school. She is miserable around him because she thinks he’s handsome, smart, and hot. Sean is no less miserable; he’s had a thing for Katie since high school but never acted on it because of his stuttering. He left town and never looked back until he was forced to deal with his mother’s estate. Problem is he’s not dealing with it or anything else including the company he left behind in California that is struggling. Now force to work with Katie he doesn’t know how he’s going to manage keeping his issues to himself and not want to kill the fading rock star, Judah Pratt, who he assumes wants Katie as his next sexual plaything.

I really love when seriously wounded characters find someone they are interested enough in to get past their hurt and move on with life. What makes this book even more special is both Katie and Sean helped the other confront and work to resolve their issues and were there to give unconditional support. While this might sound like a super mushy love story it wasn’t; this couple had a hard road to their happily ever after. In addition to their personal issues; they are trying to figure out who is stalking Judah and trying to pretend that Sean isn’t eventually going to head back to his life in California. While Katie wants a physical relationship with Sean, he tries to do the right thing but eventually events cause them to reach out to each other and they do so in spectacular form.

Flirting With Disaster is a well written story with characters that are beautifully flawed making them believable and relatable. Add to that a completely engaging plot including all the characters from the previous books and this is the perfect ending to the Camelot series.