The book description tells you this is a romance series set in the world of human trafficking, but it should come right out and warn you that the MC is raped and that her rape, even though it mostly is just referenced rather than described, plays a significant role throughout the story.
This book is part of the Delta romance series, which is an offshoot of the Titan romance series. Generally, you can listen to this in stand alone fashion, but there were gaps in the story that I think are filled in if you read the Titan books in order … or at least read Titan, Book 12 about Locke and Cassidy before this one.
Also, I enjoy the books in this series that are all Action N Amore, hot alpha men and the strong women they pair up with. Military stakes are great, too. What I don’t care for are dim women or depressing backstories that outweigh the Fun, Guns, N Ammo vibe that the better books in this series have. If you enjoy what I do, stick to books 1-3 in the Titan series and books 1-2 of the Delta series.
This book is about Idaho girl Victoria, supposedly a kick ass bounty hunter, who walks solo into a biker bar to collect a bounty and finds herself abducted and transported to a Russian human trafficking site. This book abruptly jumps from her capture to her rescue a month later by Delta Team and Aussie-hottie Ryder in particular. The rescue/takedown of her captors isn’t very detailed. We get some parts of the rescue filled in later in this book, but I suspect that you’ll find the rescue scene fleshed outin Titan, Book 12. I personally found it hard to appreciate how the details of the rescue create realistic plot points for Ryder and Victoria. Supposedly, Victoria should have, or maybe shouldn’t have, taken out the big bad. Also, for someone held and brutalized for a month, Victoria pretty quickly gets back to her life and then also into bed with Ryder. I get that in real life, all women will recover from rape differently, but this just didn’t feel at all plausible (Titan, Book 6, about Rocco and Catarina also Involved a rape segment, but I thought that treatment was more realistic).
The implausible plot points continue in other areas. Victoria repeatedly makes the stupid decision to go lone wolf, despite having no military, law enforcement, or fighting background, other than teaching kids basic self defense tactics. She repeatedly goes after dangerous criminals when she could easily lean on trusted friends for help, like BFF Seven (a girl with connections to the biker world that Victoria keeps charging into) or Ryder (a Delta sniper who she literally leaves in her bed to go and hold clandestine meetings). Meanwhile, Ryder’s past includes being too late to save a fellow foster kid from harm… and yet he lets Victoria go off on her own into who knows what kind of scenarios … because she’s a warrior. Really? What makes her a warrior, other than her calling herself a bounty hunter? And badass, hair dyed, tongue-stud sporting Seven just lets her BFF go charging off alone to constantly get herself captured?
As much as I liked Ryder, his backstory, and his awesome accent (portrayed very well by narrator Kafer), I was disappointed by Victoria. The only part of this book that I enjoyed was the last hour or two, which held the only Titan/Delta action sequences worthy of the series. Since you can borrow this as part of the Audible Escapes package, it could still be worth it to listen, especially if you listen until the rescue and then skip the the last hour or two.