Mafia + Hockey + RH = SAY LESS... I think I may have found my new favorite C.R. Jane book (although, I don't know if anyone can truly take over Lincoln's spot...).

The red flags are back in this one... so if you don't like your men morally grey and looking like a matador, just don't read it because there is not a green flag in sight. BUT... I'm here for every second of it. *** Please do yourself and the authors a favor and look at content warnings before you read it if you aren't sure. Reading a book without looking at content warnings and then giving it a bad review because you don't like the red flags is just irresponsible reader behavior... don't be that reader. ***

To be fair, the only thing that bothered me was

that 5 year gap before she "discovered" the ice skating arena again... and that fact that it seemed a little unlikely she would have lived there for so long and had never been by it once in that 5 years, but it was close enough to her friends house to pass on a walk? I don't know... maybe if it was only a year later or something.

But it really wasn't enough to detract from my love of the characters and the overall story. I can't wait for the rest of the duet!

Final thoughts: If you read the prequel chapter at the end of the book and wonder why it's at the end... I do think I would have preferred that reading order. I read the prequel as a teaser from the FB group first, before the book was out. While it didn't take away from the story, I did go back and read it after and realized there were some things I had missed (connections) while reading the story because they didn't seem as important when I just read the prequel.