Title: Redeeming the Badge
Series: Arizona K-9 Book #2
Stand alone: yes
Author: Dorothy F. Shaw
Genre: Romance
Blurb: SHE WAS ALWAYS THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS
In high school, she was the girl most likely to live happily ever after—rich, popular, beautiful…and maybe just a little mean. But Heather Winters’ dreams of marriage and motherhood haven’t worked out as she hoped. Now she’s back in Arizona, trying to reinvent herself. She knows what she doesn’t want: a serious relationship. She doesn’t remember Robert Caldwell from high school, but the good-looking K-9 officer is everything she’s looking for in a short-term fling.
A routine traffic stop brings Rob face to face with the girl who fueled his teenage fantasies—and she’s even more ravishing than ever. The former homecoming queen didn’t know he was alive back then. Now she’s changed—and she’s hurting. Despite how great they are together in bed, Heather isn’t letting him anywhere near her heart. But he’s got a plan—and with a little help from his canine partner, Tricks, he’ll show Heather that together, they have all the happiness they’ll ever need…
Thoughts: This is the second book I’ve read by this author, and I have to say I didn’t enjoy this one nearly as much as the previous one. The reason I grabbed this one is because of the first book in the series Avoiding the Badge which I really enjoyed. This one I found lacking in a lot of ways – the first of which is how we have a slow sexual burn between these characters but then job to BDSM – without any hesitation or discussion or anything. They are just magically at that point in their relationship. I was also just expecting more from the story overall – more suspense, a larger role for Trick, more in depth about the past between our two characters, etc.
Overall, it’s an decent book, but not quite what I was expecting.
Rating: B-
