ARC REVIEW Stolen Redemption by Sidney Bristol

Texas SWAT #2, We are back in Ransom, TX with another thrilling adventure. This can be read as a stand alone reading the first book isn't necessary but it is pretty awesome, just sayin'. One thing I love is that Sidney writes the DFW area and not just Fort Worth and Dallas but several of the smaller cities in the area also, they need some book love too. I loved Trevor and Dina, such a pair, and so hot together. This is a third person POV but it switches focus between Trevor and Dina and occasionally the bad guys. I love Sidney's writing style, her characters are perfectly imperfect and her narrative description is fantastic.

Dina has been hiding from her past for the last ten years, snitching on your mafia parents to the FBI and getting them sent to prison will do that to a girl especially when her twin brother has a bounty out on her head. Trevor has white knight syndrome, yes it's an actual thing, it seems that all his past relationships were because the girl needed help. Help from an abusive situation or what not they seemed to target Trevor and he could never turn them away. When he meet Dina, who was calling herself Iris, in the bar they clicked and he enjoyed it because she wasn't some damsel in distress she didn't need him. But she left in the middle of the night and Trevor could not forget about her, the fact that Ransom is such a small town also meant he kept seeing her, six months he managed to avoid her, it seemed to be what she wanted. In a moment of weakness and loneliness Dina replied back to one of Trevor's texts and thus started their "relationship". It was only a matter of time before Dina's past caught up with her and now she doesn't know if Trevor is helping her because that what he does or if it's because he really cares.

Overall, really enjoyed this one, I practically enjoy them all but this was a good one. Sidney really gets you to the edge of your seat with action and suspense. This does fall close to erotica side of romance but the book is plot driven so to me it is but it not the main focus even if Trevor and Dina get pretty hot and heavy. I am really enjoying the small town of Ransom and am glad that The Love Barn is getting its own series, I'm assuming it going to be contemporary/rom-com type of series from the excerpt in the back of the book. I love all the men and women of Texas SWAT and I look forward to all their books, especially Casey.