Review – Fugitive Heart by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon

While somewhat entertaining at times, it was truly a book that couldn’t decide what it wanted to focus on. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures

Description:
“Love is always in the last place you’d think to look. ”

Between her steady waitressing job and less-steady gigs designing websites, Ames Jensen is scraping together enough money to buy the old farmhouse that holds most of her most treasured childhood memories.

When a complete stranger buys it right out from under her nose, she stomps over for a neighborly visit, prepared to dislike him on sight. Yet even after he nearly brains her with a shovel, she finds herself more attracted than alarmed.

Falsely implicated for stealing from the Esposito crime family, Nick Ross is frantically in search of his supposed accomplice, Elliot Jensen, or at least the money and information the man took. Elliot’s hometown seems the perfect place to look-and the last place the Espositos will look for “him.”

Elliot’s cute, vivacious sister is an unexpected mother lode of clues-and smoking-hot distraction. But when she does a little digging of her own, the truth threatens to send their love-and their lives-down in the crossfire.

Warning: Contains a secretive man with a shady past and a woman from a small town where no one can keep a secret. If they fall in love, sneak a kiss or two, and have a little hot sex in a shabby farm house, well, it’s nobody’s business but their own.

Review copy provided for an honest review.

I’m not sure where to start with this book; it’s a romance and it has some suspense elements but to be honest I didn’t find it overly intriguing on either aspect. The thing is I really liked the characters but the romance and the suspense didn’t mesh and it seemed more like two separate books than one book.

Ames Jensen is a waitress and part time web designer. She’s been saving to buy an old abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of town that holds some special memories for her. When an outsider comes in and snatches it up, she’s upset but once she meets the secretive Nick Ross, she’s also highly intrigued.

I liked Ames; she has a lot of spunk and she has a positive outlook despite everything that’s happened in her life over the last few years. I like that she doesn’t back down and she goes after what she wants. Nick is hard to read but there’s a reason for that. He’s on a mission of sorts and he’s hiding a lot of secrets. I enjoyed the tension between these two and while they both tried to deny it and stay away from it but when they finally give in; it’s pretty intense.

However while they are trying to fight their attraction, Nick is trying to find something he’s sure Ames’ brother, Elliot, has hidden in town. This becomes a chaotic story with Ames getting mixed up in it, the town’s people taking matters into their own hands, and Nick having to confront his past and reconcile it with his future.

While somewhat entertaining at times, it was truly a book that couldn’t decide what it wanted to focus on. While I enjoyed parts of it, there were parts that just left me shaking my head and wondering what the authors were thinking. Fugitive Heart has all the elements of a good romantic suspense, unfortunately the parts didn’t fit well together and the result was kind of messy.