The good news is this can be read as a stand alone and you don't really miss any huge plot points. I just really struggled with this book, I feel like it took me forever to read. The plot didn't really move very quickly, and the book is incredibly long. I mean like about 300 pages too long. Avery ends up a hostage through a case of mistaken identity and then we get this insanely long time of her as a captive when it feels like not much happens at all. Avery and Cam develop a back and forth that has a lot of tension and banter, which was nice. I felt like so many times the story could have sped up or it would start to feel like something was happening and then we went back to the slower speed. I just feel like this book would have been so much better if it had been shorter and forced to get to the action points of the story faster.