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4 Stars

An M/M romance about an ex-boy-band pop star and his broody, ex-military bodyguard?... If this isn’t a premise that reaches out to my soul like a siren’s call, I don’t know what is.

Superstar Harley is thriving in his music career but dying quietly on the inside, due to his professional need to keep his sexuality firmly in the closet—a fact his record label has made stringently clear, or else.

Harley might be famous but he’s also fairly isolated, rarely leaving his house when not on tour. He doesn’t quite know the extent to what he’s missing from life, until he gets assigned a full-time bodyguard, in the form formidable and fiercely protective Brix, who quickly turns Harley's world on its axis.

Brix thinks this latest assignment will be boring AF, but the substantial pay check is too tempting to pass up, needing the money desperately to help with his personal commitments. What Brix didn’t anticipate was how much he’d grow to actually like the diva popstar under his protection. To care for him; to crave him.

The attraction is instant on both sides, but personal situations and emotional boundaries make it so each man has to work for it, building trust and a level of intimacy and companionship neither has experienced in their fairly lonely lives.

I liked Harley and Brix a good deal. The building of their sexual tension was delicious and once those walls came down, these two came together in inferno levels of hotness.

The arcs surrounding Harley’s stalker, Brix’s “secret�� and the whole mess of dealing with asshole record executives, who wouldn’t let Harley thrive as an artist, were all engaging plot points, helping the story stay engaging beyond the romantic relationship forming between Harley and Brix.

This is still early days in my Eden Finley reading (maybe book 4 for me?) but I really enjoy her writing, her characters and the relationships within.

I’ll definitely be reading on within this series.