I have been waiting for Isaac Sylvester’s story for so long! And I was not let me down in my waiting, this fulfilled all that I’d hoped! Now I did start out not liking Isaac and the way he made some quick incorrect assumptions about Hannah. But of course if any author knows how to write a character so that you will fall in love with them despite this type of start, or that you can feel they’ve redeemed themselves, it is Penny Reid. 

We started out with Hannah’s retirement from the Pink Pony, or retiring from dancing, as she would be taking over running the club after Hank has moved on at the end of Folk Around and Find Out. Hank wasn’t completely gone though, he was there to help Hannah when she needed him, even at a bachelorette or hen party at the end, as a stripper! Hannah’s life had been rough. There was a reason she went became a stripper instead of going on to college as she’d planned. But now, she’d been able to get her college degree and was ready to put it to work running and hopefully making the Pink Pony even more successful.

Isaac Sylvester is a character I’ve wanted to know more about for so long. Since he is Jenn Sylvester’s brother, and only showed up in mysterious situations, or as “Twilight” one of the Iron Wraiths. He shows up on the night of Hannah’s retirement party and asks for 5 back to back private room lap dances. Hannah has no idea why, and since she’s always had a crush on him, she thinks maybe the other strippers got him for her as a gift. She’s always used him as her “stand-in”, that’s the person she imagines as she’s dancing or giving lap dances. 

Well of course Isaac is not there for that. His friend Tina didn’t do her part in setting up the meeting between them, and there are totally some misconceptions on Isaac’s part to start this whole thing out. His reaction and behavior made me not a fan of his! However as the story goes along, and he finds out/realizes how wrong he was, I definitely began to like him. 

We knew his family life had been rough just from what we learned of Jenn and her mother and how bad her dad had been. But the extent of what Isaac dealt with was unknown till we get his side in this story. I loved their developing relationship. There were parts that definitely had me feeling all the emotions for and with Hannah. And I loved how the got together at the end. I love that instead of a third act breakup, we had the dangerous thing happen to make us worry about them.

I have to mention that even though it is obvious something more has to happen with the bad guy, it wasn’t in the way or where I had actually expected it to happen. I love that even though Reid writes romance, which in a way has a pattern to follow, she knows how to keep the story fresh and unique every time we read a new one from her. 

More than the main couple, I enjoyed all the supporting characters as well. And time spent with Cletus Winston is never time wasted in my opinion, so that was like the cherry on top for this story! I don’t know that we have any more in this series coming, I think this was the last. I think I would love to see Tina’s story maybe in the future, but I can get that she is also happy where she is. I like how the author dealt with the dancers and did the best job she could with showing in the story what their lives are like and how hard it is for them to deal with people’s opinions that are not at all fair. Now I’m anxious for the author’s store to open so I can get the bearded cover to match the other two in the series. Although it’s possible I don’t have the first one somehow? Of course I love the new covers too, so I kind of want to own them all in both formats!