Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Review: A Covert Affair by Katie Reus

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Title: A Covert Affair
Series: Deadly Ops
Author: Katie Reus
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: March 1, 2016
Publisher: Signet
ASIN: B00Z8VTCN2

After being wounded in action, NSA agent Nathan Ortiz comes home to Miami, eager to return to duty. But he doesn't expect his newest mission to lead him straight to the one woman he loved, lost, and has never gotten over.ybr />
A beautiful, successful restaurateur, Amelia Rios enjoys giving back to her community, especially to struggling women. Then a woman she recently hired stops showing up for work, and, unfortunately, she isn’t the first to go missing.

Soon Amelia finds herself thrust into a shadowy, dark world, working side by side with Nathan, the only man she’s ever loved. They must confront old feelings as they battle a ruthless enemy preying on the poor and weak. The heat simmering between Nathan and Amelia could mean a second chance for them—but first they have to survive.

My rating:

At least fifty young women have gone missing in Miami. Women of similar socio-economic backgrounds, their last communications with their landlords/employers eerily similar. One of them connected to Burkhart's friend, so the NSA deputy director sends in a team led by Nathan Ortiz.

When Nathan makes contact with one of the suspects, the man has Nathan's high-school sweetheart on his arm. The woman who cut Nathan out of her life twelve years ago without an explanation. The woman who is connected to some of the disappearances...


After two absolute winners, instead of going out with a bang, this series ends up with a whimper. Not because of the suspense part, which was, as always great, but it was unfortunately rather rudely overshadowed by the romance (no nice balance there) which was even more rudely ruined by the heroine.
The constant inner me-me-me-ing, the constant reminders of what she'd done to Nathan all those years ago, the woe-is-me whining about how he would hate her bla-bla-bla...But what does she do, when she finally comes clean and tells him, and the poor guy needs some time to process the freaking double heartbreak? Does she wait for him to do that? Nope, she starts pushing him out of her life yet again, because she's such a melodramatic martyr.

This was yet another proof of how an annoying character can ruin an otherwise good story.

Because the rest was, as I already said, rather good. The mystery of the disappearances, the shadowy kidnapper, the big find in the lake and the slow uncovering of the creepy motive behind all of it, the guessing game as to who the villain might be...Until the big reveal which I didn't see coming. Some monsters wear normal faces and cannot be recognized on sight.

It could've all benefited from a different heroine, though. Even the second-chance romance angle, which I appreciated.

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