3* Not sure what this series is, as the leads hardly spend time together, and, something is always happening....

This book picks up not long after book 1 ends, and about a page in, Nick has been off on a job for 5 weeks and Cam is planning to surprise him with a welcome, but instead, they get smoked out of Nick's new place, and then Cam gets a call that means going back to his roots: his mother has had a heart attack and on her sickbed, asks him to find out what happened to his little sister Erin, who went missing some 20-odd years before.

So, the leads are apart for most of the tale, and there's a touch of family conflict and then Nick comes along as support, whilst the troubles that made him try to keep Cam safe, and keep his father's old housekeeper safe, are seemingly forgotten. The mystery gets solved and the leads admit their feelings for each other.

So, OK, there's a bit more detail that I'm not going to go into, but I can't figure out what this series is. It doesn't feel like romantic suspense and it doesn't feel like romance, and I can't say that I believe in what these guys feel for each other. Actually, with all the page-time one member of Cam's family was getting, I began to suspect that this person might end up with a tale of their own.

As usual, members of the Talley family and their handy wealth and plane turn up, but it feels like name-dropping, not really something essential to the tale. TBH, this series lacks what the AIW series had that drew me in. Not sure why I'm still here, tbh.

ARC courtesy of Carina Publishing and NetGalley, for my reading pleasure.