Nine-Month Protector by Julie MillerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Back Cover: The Baby was a Blessing... but Cooper Bellamy was a Miracle.
Morning sickness used to be Sarah Cartwright's biggest problem--until she became the only witness to a murder. Now, newly pregnant, she had a killer on her trail--and Cooper Bellamy, KCPD's finest, by her side. Her brother's best friend and her sworn protector, it was impossible to keep Coop at arm's length. Yet the mother-to-be discovered the safest place to hide was in his strong arms. They found out soon enough they each needed the other--but would it be too late before a cold-blooded hit man made them take vows of permanent silence?
The second in Julie Miller’s The Precinct: Vice Squad mini-series closes a few loopholes left open in the first book of the series Up Against The Wall but you have to expect that when the male lead from book one is the twin brother to the female lead in book two. Both stories involving the main couple spill over into the other’s story but nothing is too major that it will lose you if you only read one of the stories.
However, I do recommend picking up both just for Cooper Bellamy. In the first, he plays the sidekick/best friend of our hero Seth Cartwright but finally gets his girl in Nine-Month Protector. And for those of you not playing the home game, that girl is his best-friend’s sister, Sarah. Yep, talk about a sticky situation if it doesn’t work out. Through in the fact that Sarah is pregnant and you have a whole barrel of potential conflict right from the get-go.
But Ms. Miller doesn’t leave us with just that. The baby Sarah is carrying could be Cooper’s or it could be a mobster’s child. A mobster involved in a number of deaths relating to the casino he runs. It was there at that casino Sarah witnessed a murder and now the killer is on her trail.
Cooper vows to protect her but will the cancer survivor jeopardize his heart to keep Sarah and her unborn child safe, regardless of who the father is?
An awesome romantic suspense novel Nine-Month Protector keeps you turning pages until the end. Just when you think you have it all figured out, Ms. Miller throws something into the mix you haven't thought it. FABULOUS!!!!
Edited to Add: Edited to Add: I normally read these stories for the romance and suspence elements as it relates to the hero/heroine, but I've got to mention about the villian in this one. While he appeared as one of the bad guys in the previous book, it wasn't until this story that is pure evilness really showed itself. While the man who hired him to kill Sarah gave a (temporary) reprieve on the hit when he found out she was pregnant, this devil incarnate had no compassion. He wanted to kill the woman anyway just because she saw him murder another woman and he didn't leave loose ends, child or not. The pure coldheartedness of the man totally creeped me out.
I'm really glad I purposely didnt' pay much attention to the description of the villian. Otherwise, I might have been suffering from a few of my own nightmares.
These kinds of villians are normally seen in books by the big name Thriller/Suspense writers like James Patterson, etc. Not at all what I expected for a Harlequin novel given their length restrictions and such but Ms. Miller outdid herself with this one..
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