This story is incredibly well written with great character development and an original plot. It never slowed down and the sex was so hot it singed my eyeballs! ~ Afrodyt, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Under the Surface (Alpha Ops #4)
by Anne Calhoun Welcome to Eye Candy, the East Side’s hottest nightclub where the bartenders are hot, the cocktails are fancy, and danger lurks just under the surface…
Eve Webber, the gorgeous and savvy owner of Eye Candy, knows better than anyone that growing up on the wrong side of the tracks comes with certain complications. Determined to run a clean business and fix up the East Side, Eve’s plans get temporarily stalled when a potential new hire walks into her bar. The sexual chemistry crackling between them is a potent distraction…even if she refuses to mix business with the promise of pleasure.
Detective Matt Dorchester lives by strict rules that have kept him alive in impossible situations. When his latest undercover assignment has him playing a bartender, his desire for the passionate owner has him breaking every single one. Eve is in danger and her life depends on his secrecy. But once their attraction reaches a climactic conclusion, Matt must make a desperate choice: Tell her the truth about who he really is―or risk a once-in-a-lifetime love to save her life?
Matt Dorchester is assigned to work undercover as Chad Henderson, a bartender in the hot new nightclub, Eye Candy, owned by Eve Webber. From the moment they come in contact with each other for the job interview, their chemistry is off the charts. Eve, being the take charge woman she is, makes it quite clear she’s down with hooking up with “Chad” with no strings attached. She comes on pretty strong and I couldn’t help but think that if the roles were reversed it would have been a huge turnoff, but Matt does his best to keep the relationship professional. He fails, of course.
Eve is under pressure from multiple sides. As an entrepreneur she’s looking to grow her business, her family doesn’t approve of her profession and want her to take a boring, stable job, get married and have babies, and on top of all that, she’s agreed to cooperate with the police on an investigation that is way more dangerous than she’s giving it credit for. Eve doesn’t have time for a real relationship and is just looking to release the pent up tension with a screaming orgasm or ten. Chad fits the bill but he seems to be playing hard to get.
This story is incredibly well written with great character development and an original plot. It never slowed down and the sex was so hot it singed my eyeballs! What I loved most was that even though their relationship was based on false pretenses, Matt and Eve reconciled that in a pretty believable way and that just speaks to Anne Calhoun’s masterful storytelling. The secondary characters were also very intriguing and there was the perfect amount of mystery, danger and heart. Definitely a solid read.
Thanks Afrodyt for the review