Jack by Cat Johnson
Red, Hot & Blue, Book 2
Samhain Publishing
Contemporary
ISBN: 978-1-60928-160-1
Reviewed by Jo




Jack Gordon is part of a secret ops team who is trying to overcome a wounded heart and, like the rest of his team, is being forced on a two-week “mental health” break.  Jack decides to go home to his family’s horse farm for the time.  After all, the team was told to not be available during this unexpected break.  He didn’t expect to discover a sexy mystery right under his nose.

Nicki Camp has been on the run and just hired on at the Gordon horse farm and is finally beginning to feel safe there.  Nicki knows that she really should be on the move again, but wants to believe that the people she is hiding from will never find her at the farm.  What she isn’t expecting is Jack coming home and instantly figuring out there is more to her than meets the eye.

Despite his original thinking, Jack soon learns that he doesn’t have to save the family from Nicki, but rather he needs to protect Nicki from people who don’t take no for an answer.  Nicki isn’t sure what to think of Jack but knows she should fight against the attraction that has popped up between them.  When Jack discovers the danger to Nicki is closer than he first thought, members of the team are called in to help Jack and Nicki find a way to give her, and her father’s lives, back to them.  Now Jack needs to see if he can find a way to convince Nicki to take a chance on a secret soldier.

Going home was never so good.  Jack shows us that when one door closes then a window can open up for romance.  I found that both Jack and Nicki had been hurt by circumstances. While Nicki was scared to involve herself in anything at first, I had to give Jack points for going after what he wanted and then making sure she would never worry about being safe ever again.  Like Nicki, I saw that you have to watch those smooth southern boys.  Jack took a little humor, a little spice and a little danger, stirred it up and found the perfect love potion.