This is book 2 in the series, but can be treated as a standalone. The trope is basically:girl doesn’t think she is worthy of perfect guy’s love. The heroine is a kick-@** fighter whom we met as a secondary character in book 1. This book has a couple of explicit love scenes so skip those if you must but stay for the plot and romance. The female narrator does a much better job with all the voices than the male narrator. He makes the H sound whiney. Luckily, the female narrator narrates most of the book.