Bodyguard romance
Second Chance
Pining
Cowboy
Big City-Small town
Celebrity FMC
Forbidden
Romantic suspense

This wasn’t the typical bodyguard romance I expected. While Ford is Emerson Hart’s bodyguard, I didn’t always feel like he was fully protecting her from the dangers she faced. For example, when Emerson nearly suffered from food poisoning, Ford didn’t take steps to investigate or find the culprit, which left me wanting more from his role as her protector.

The flashbacks to Ford’s cowboy days were interesting, but they made it challenging to stay connected with both the present and the past. The frequent shifts between timelines created some difficulty in fully engaging with the main characters.

The move from Manhattan to a small town for the main character felt rather forced and sudden as if the story was trying too hard to inject a small-town cowboy romance into the narrative.

The story also had this constant back-and-forth with suspects—just when it seemed like they’d caught the culprit, it turned out they weren’t the one, and someone else was suddenly under suspicion. This approach felt like a desperate attempt to create suspense, and by the end, it left me suspecting everyone. Instead of building genuine intrigue, it came off as forced, making the mystery less satisfying.