Rejected as an infant, Villia Candia Leon is a cynic in the matters of the heart. Having grown up in foster homes and never knowing her parents Vi does not believe in love. A menacing threat in her best friend’s life and family introduces Vi to Christopher Corbett. Moonlighting as a lawyer in his father’s law firm, Chris is an undercover agent who has pledged his life for the government. A cynic to the core about love, he believes in relationships as one night stands.

When Vi and Chris meet, their beliefs are thrown out of the window as chemistry and attraction battle against their wills. But, there is more at stake now than just the two of them, as a threat in Chris’s undercover operation thrust them into danger and fate that leads Vi to her real parents.

Clandestine Impasse was full of intrigue, suspense, romance and drama. I loved the intricately patterned plot but it lacked smoothness and did not follow through. As you get caught up with one thread of a scene it is abruptly cut short with ‘after three months’ and you get the gist in a second hand form rather than reading the unfolding events. I did not much care for Chris because he seemed selfish and did not display adequate emotion when one of his parents died. The storyline for me was clearly detailed in the beginning but was not reinforced in the middle. It was reintroduced at the end in which I thought the main characters never dealt with their insecurities.