Quote-Tastic Monday & Review: Riskier Business by Tessa Bailey

Riskier Business on January 5, 2015

One more game. And this time, there are no rules…

After a life of pool hustling and living on the wrong side of the law, Ruby Elliott is living on the straight and narrow with sexy-as-all-hell NYPD detective, Troy Bennett. Now the only trouble Ruby has with the law is the naughty kind, pinned against the wall by Troy's strict and spectacularly hard body. Obeying his every command. Both of them losing themselves in a lust that borders on obsession...

But then her father returns with an offer she can’t refuse: one last hustle in exchange for information. Information she’d die to have. As the pieces and the players of the game reveal themselves, Troy feels the fine edges of his control slipping—control he can’t channel without hurting Ruby. The stakes are high, and the risk higher. Because losing this final game could cost more than Ruby’s heart…it might cost her life.

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Troy tried to pull her close, but she evaded him.

“Answer me.  Will you insist on treating me like I’m breakable even if it means losing me?”

His head fell forward on a weary sigh.

“If it comes down to a choice between your safety, your life, and keeping you as my girlfriend, I’d keep you safe every time.  I’m sorry.  It’s how I’m built, Ruby.”

Ruby swiped at the tear rolling down her cheek.  “What about how I’m built?”

Oh Troy, Troy, Troy,

Of all of the guys that Ms. Bailey has written, Troy has always been the hardest one to figure out.(His Risk to Take)  I never connected with him as much as Brent, Derek or even Matt…etc. (My affection for him has grown, the more I read that book, the more I liked him.)

In this novella/installment I felt like my vision was cleared.  I always thought that Matt was the uber controlling alpha but I think that Troy beats him.  Now, I understand why.  With Ruby’s background he was always in some state of fear that something would happen to her, something he could not control.  Ruby, is all about taking care of herself, she has done so, for a long time before Troy ever came around.  The two sides/personalities collide in this one.  As always the sexytimes are ridiculously hot but I enjoyed how Troy and Ruby work through the control issue.

Bowen.  Ahem.  This guy, I tell ya, he is piece of work and he is AWESOME.  Course I’m saying this because I’ve already had the pleasure of reading Risking it All and it was excellent.  I cannot wait for all that Bowen goodness to be released.  Riskier Business is a novella in the Line of Duty series and prequel to Bowen’s novel in the Crossing the Line series.  The new series that begins with Bowen is going to be a fantastic “anti-hero” series.

 

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