Most Eligible Spy (HQ: Texas, #1)

by Dana Marton

This was included as part of a bundle with Glitter and Gunfire (Shadow Agents, #4) by Cynthia Eden. Here's the thing, I like a good bundle, especially when they're on sale - but the Mills and Boon ones are all so random so you end up having one book from one series, one book from another that has nothing to do with each other and it's not even the first book in the series. Or can be standalone. That's just annoying af.

So I bought this bundle for Glitter and Gunfire. And got this as a bonus. And it says it's the first book, but it really didn't read like it was. There were characters from a previous book. A mission/investigation from a previous book. And it didn't wrap up the investigation in this one either. And honestly I'm not really getting the spy reference either. They're not really spies. At least I didn't get that. They were basically just federal agents.

Anyway the plot seemed very focused on Molly's brother who was apparently in the last book and guilty of smuggling people and drugs across the border. When he was killed, Molly is the only remaining link and ends up with the cops and the bad guys after what she knows. Which is nothing.

I didn't really like either Molly or Moses that much. They were alright, kind of bland really. The romance between them was bland as well - they didn't really have any chemistry and they don't particularly get to know one another either. The rest of the characters are kind of nothing ones and I couldn't even name the rest of the team.

The mystery was fairly straightforwards; I guessed pretty early on who was the partner. It'd probably be more enjoyable if I'd read the rest of the series before this one. Based on this one alone though, 2 stars.