*2.5*

I was not sure on how to rate this book. The first book was so good and I expected book 2 to be just as good or better. It was not. The love and dedication between X and Anna was still there and that’s what saved the book for me. This book picked up exactly where book 1 left off. The beginning of the book was good. I felt X’s turmoil and felt Anna’s love for him. Then midway through the book it just started to slip. The whole contract thing for Anna was just stupid and made no sense. A few things about this book just didn’t add up and left me somewhat confused. How can Tension force Anna to work with someone who basically harassed both her and X and not be scared of a lawsuit? Speaking of lawsuit, where is X’s lawyer? How much money is X making for him not to have money in the bank? How is it that a dead body in a house for over 28 years not smell? Why didn’t X old crew try to talk to him in book 1? In book 1, he was there for a week and no one looked for him; X and Anna arrives back in Detroit for 2 hours and they come knocking on the door. Made no sense. How did his old boss even get a copy of his taxes? Come on, that was just ridiculous. Everything that could go wrong went wrong and then in 2 pages everything wrapped itself up in a pretty bow. Don’t get me started on how Anna told X she was pregnant – really! The epilogue wasn’t great either. Yes, they get a HEA, but it was just blah. Michelle’s writing is amazing and it sucks that I have to give one of my favs a bad rating on a book that I actually loved – book 1 – but this book just wasn’t working for me.