Ella, I’m going to persume you love me so much that you want to bring me as much emotional turmoil as possible with your reads because after the ending of Inside Affair I feel like I could personally scream into oblivion about how tied up I am with these characters!

Oof had do get that off my chest! Now I’ll take a breath and try and get all the happy feelings info this review because I really feel like I could sit here and cry right now!

Sean Bailey and Alexander Thorne are two very unlikely people to become friends let alone lovers. They have known each other for a while, with Xander being Sean’s brother’s best friend, and so they’ve never really for along.

When Xander starts getting threats of the “im in love with you” stalker variety, due to his prominent role as a news anchor, he needs a bodyguard.

He wants someone he knows and with short notice and not wanting to mess up his best friends new relationship, goes to the only other man he knows. Sean Bailey.

Sean is a detective and brilliant at his job and so he can’t help putting himself in place to protect Xander as he knows no one but him could do the job as well. Yet one problem, it needs to be undercover.

Sean says he’ll be a fake boyfriend, again problem – he’s straight and will need to play gay. It just keeps getting better right?!

Well add him the whole forced proximity and boom, you’ve for two people who never got along forced to see each other so much that they start to really see each other.

Sean was nothing like I expected he was funny and make me laugh stupidly at almost every chapter. He’s charming and flirty without meaning to be. Plus when he rules Xander up those convos are undefeatable!

It doesn’t take long for the circumstances to bring their new blooming emotions to surface but through it all the tension and danger of this stalker rises. Ella paired both things off perfectly and the interwoven tension really brought the relationship and story further to life.

This has to be one of Ella’s best works to date and I don’t say that lightly as I have loved ever book she’s written before. It’s just the artful way of curating these characters and building tension, while also not making any moment drag as this is a trilogy. It’s perfect and easy to breeze through, just ask me as I write this review at 11:30pm on a Tuesday!

Sean and Xander captured my heart and the ending has made them capture my soul. There’s nothing I’d do for them and that’s why I’m dying to close this review and start Breaking News as soon as dealing possible as that ending has me all sorts of emotional!

– Book Fanatic

Blurb:

Xander
If I had to describe Sean Bailey, it would be: a surly, temperamental pain in my ass. Never in that equation would I ever include the word boyfriend—and not just because he’s straight.

The older brother of my life-long best friend, Sean is a detective for the Chicago PD, and is also known as Detective “Dick” for being…well, a surly, temperamental pain in everyone’s ass. He also happens to be the best they have, which is why I find myself on his doorstep the night my life is threatened by an anonymous stalker.

I only wanted the name of a bodyguard; I didn’t expect for Sean to volunteer for the job. Now, not only do I have a bodyguard, I also have a fake boyfriend.

Sean
It must be so hard to be Alexander Thorne, the number one prime-time news anchor in the country, with millions of dollars and a car that costs more than my house. I mean, I’m allowed to give him a hard time about it, but when some creep decides to cross the line and go after him, they’re gonna have to answer to me.

Going undercover has never been an issue in the past, so I don’t see why there’d be a problem now. Xander and I have known each other for years, so this should be a breeze. Except suddenly my stomach’s flipping when he looks my way, and my body comes alive whenever he brushes by me. I know I’m good at my job and playing a character and all, but this is getting out of hand.

I can’t be sure that either of us are playing anymore.