2.5 stars

Doctor Lucas Callaghan is back in Dublin after eight years. His job as an undercover cop has led him back to the place where his life changed forever, the night he lost his fiance. He's set on getting his revenge, but when student Aoife Brennan catches his eye, it tests his drive for revenge and all he thought he knew. Aoife is going to medical school for her father, but what she really wants to be is an artist. Straddling the thin line between the two, Dr. Callaghan shakes up everything she thinks she knows. However, she doesn't know his secret yet, no one does.

I went into this book knowing it was a novella series, I read all the warnings about it from the author in advance, but I was really looking forward to it. Come on, a book about a (handsome) undercover cop going back to his old stomping grounds as a doctor to exact his revenge? Oh yea, that's my kind of book. Unfortunately, there's just no personality to this book. The characters fell flat for me and the chemistry was just bland. I really wanted to like Sean/Lucas, I enjoyed his role of cop playing arrogant doctor, especially with the hidden past. Aoife was just a conundrum of personalities all tied together, I couldn't explain her if I tried. Their chemistry was nothing for me, and although their coming together was written really well, I felt like it just happened out of no where. On top of that, the book moves at an extremely slow pace. For a novella, I felt like we jumped around a lot and covered almost too much ground, but not enough to actually proceed forward in the book. The eight days we covered sure felt a lot like three.

The revenge plot of this book is the saving grace, I don't fully understand what's going on here considering we have a cop exacting the revenge, but hey, I was hooked to it. If we had been given a bit more of the revenge plot line, I might have bumped this to 3 stars. That said, the cliffhanger is a good one, I know I can't believe I'm saying that, but it totally puts a twist in what little we do know. I'm not sure I will hang around for the future books, but I think this book could easily be something that just wasn't my cup of tea and would be perfect for another reader. ( )