Bailed Out (The Anna Albertini Files, #2)

by Rebecca Zanetti

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Rebecca Zanetti's Anna Albertini series jumps from great to spectacular with Bailed Out.

I really enjoyed the introduction to the Anna Albertini File's that we received in Disorderly Conduct. I thought it had introduced us to some great characters and the premise could lead to some interesting future stories. But like all first books, it simply laid the ground work for the series and with the release of only the second story, Rebecca has overshot any potential I had anticipated. This story was funny, the plot was exciting with plenty of twists and turns, and the characters are already staking their claim on my favorites list. Okay, maybe this has a little to do with the fact that my guy Aiden is pulling ahead in the romance quadrangle but we also got a little more introduction to all the secondary characters plus a look at some new characters who are adding interest.

In Bailed Out, Anna walks into her sister Tess's apartment to find her sister and Aiden Devlin standing over a dead body with her sister holding a gun, and Anna's her week just goes downhill from there. As a member of the Prosecutor's Office as well as a potential witness, Anna can't get involved in her sister's case. Buuuut that  really isn't going to stop her from asking questions and everyone knows it.  Anna especially want to know as why Tess's abusive ex-boyfriend and Anna's missing boyfriend were both in Tess's apartment to begin with.

Anna isn't certain where her relationship stands with Aiden. She knows that Aiden will always be a hero to her for saving her from kidnapper Jareth Davey when she was just ten years old. Even though she is now a grown woman and a prosecuting attorney, Anna can't equate her Aiden with the Aiden Devlin, leader of the Lordes Motorcycle Club with the rap sheet which includes robbery, assault and a person of interest in murder. She knows in her heart that he is a good person, or maybe that's just her girly parts talking. But she does know that being on opposite sides of the law is just going to lead her to a broken heart...or possibly a lost job when she, the prosecutor, is photographed holding hands with Aiden, the murder suspect.

Anna's former mentor at the Prosecutor's Office, Alice, has been re-hired as a prosecutor, which should take some of the caseload off of Anna, but returned Alice is suddenly out for prove something and makes an enemy of Anna when she tries to put a teenager in prison for property damage caused by his dirt bike.  Anna has always wanted to work for justice but sudden Alice is out for sacrificial blood.

Anna is also walking a fine line between trying to protect some women from their abusive boyfriends in a rival MC and whatever business Aiden is doing.  Aiden has promised that the drug bust has cleaned house and that he and the Lordes were looking at legitimate businesses but Anna isn't certain she is getting the full truth from him.  If he continues to lie to her, can she hold fast against her heart and walk away?

Poor Anna seems to be a magnet to trouble.  I haven't seen a heroine so abused by her author since Darynda Jones's Charley Davidson.   Anna is a smart woman which always puts her on the right track which of course also puts her in the wrong place at the wrong time.  And like Anna I am constantly trying to make Aiden into a good guy no matter what kind of trouble he seems to be courting with the MC and I wonder who can make up the more elaborate excuse for his actions, her or me. :)

While Book 1 held promise that Rebecca would give us an interesting new series, Bailed Out more than makes good on that promise.  Anna Albertini is a heroine that should not be missed.

Received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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