Breaking the Honor Code is a nice little romantic suspense, not too heavy on the suspense. Allison is a techie working at Northstar Security. She's got a lot of walls she's built around herself, for reasons she doesn't disclose to people. Sloan is a former playboy turned security agent who's been tasked by his boss to go make sure Allison is OK and bring her back, as no one's been able to get a hold of her recently. When Sloan arrives, he finds her perfectly fine, working in a garage and apparently watching her nephew.

As Allison and Sloan work together to find the hacker who has been targeting Northstar, soon suspicions fall on Allison herself. But will Sloan believe the evidence or will he believe Allison, the woman he's falling for? It won't be easy on Sloan, because Allison is so self contained that she's never allowed anyone to get close to her, to get to know her, but she finally let Sloan in a little, but did she let him in enough for him to see her heart? To see she'd never do what people, even their boss, suspect she did?

I like Breaking the Honor Code, it's a nice balance of romance and suspense, but not very violent or gritty. The suspense is enough to keep you guessing what will happen, though. I enjoyed seeing Allison slowly let herself be vulnerable to Sloan and see Sloan fall for her. Nothing is too over the top here, not the steam, not the violence. It's all pretty balanced and paced well with not a lot of lag or crazy moments.

Breaking The Honor Code is a sweet romance with enough suspense for the romantic Suspense readers to enjoy.
Readers will enjoy the sexual tension between playboy Sloan Cartland and computer expert Allison Richards. This is book 4 in the NorthStar Security series and can be read as a stand alone novel. The authors make sure readers know who and what NorthStar Security does without bogging down the story.
The character development is a lot of inner monologue as well as miss communication between the different characters in the series.
The story flows well, the writing is what reader expect from Romantic Suspense stories. While this story is more romance than suspense the author adds a mystery that will keep the readers engaged to the end of the story.
Thank you to NEtgalley for my Copy

When two co workers both hide from others things start to get complicated. But with Sloan being a agent and a computer nerd trying to find a hacker their time together starts to break down the walls