Review- Risking It All by Tessa Bailey

Summary-

NYPD detective Seraphia Newsom will avenge her brother’s death at any cost. Even if it means insinuating herself into a rough, Brooklyn street gang and going so far undercover, she’s not sure she’ll be able to get out. Every minute she spends in their midst means the clock ticking down on her life, especially when she overhears something that could get her killed.

Bowen Driscol is the heir to a crime enterprise. He never asked for the job, but with his father behind bars, he has no choice but to step in and keep the operation running. But when the NYPD blackmails him with a piece of damning information in exchange for aiding an undercover cop, he finds himself on the other side of the law for the first time in his life. 

Bowen knows the danger Sera is in, and keeping her safe trumps saving his own ass. The problem? She can’t know he’s on her side. And there's the matter of the seriously inconvenient heat sparking between them that's incinerating his resistance. But Sera only sees Bowen's past, and men like him are the reason her brother is dead. If they're to get out alive, he'll have to risk exposing the man beneath, and hope to hell he doesn't blow the whole operation in the process.

Release date: January 27th, 2015

Published by: Entangled Publishing

Page Numbers: 400

Review-

I have always been a fan of Tessa Bailey’s books. They are the perfect hot and steamy romances which I love to read from time to time. Risking It All is the first book in Tessa Bailey’s Crossing the Line series. It is also a full length novel unlike the last novella. I was really looking forward to reading Bowen and Seraphina’s story and I have to say I quite enjoyed it.

We had met Bowen in the previous book. He has been forced to take after his father’s illegal business. Bowen has no choice but to follow his father’s footsteps. I really liked Bowen. He was strong and smart but had not been given a chance to lead a good life. The world and people around him had made him jaded but Seraphina got light into his life.

Seraphina is our heroine. She is on a mission to avenge her brother’s death and is undercover trying to find out her brother’s killers. She is also a NYPD detective and completely wrong for the brash Bowen. I liked Seraphina but I found the whole pure thing a bit unreal in this case. The way Seraphina trusts Bowen at once, knowing whom he is was also a bit hard to believe.

Sera and Bowen have a case of total insta lust which seems to be a pattern in all of Tessa Bailey’s books. But she makes it work. They share amazing chemistry and though they both have had shitty pasts, with each they almost forget them. Risking it All takes the hotness quotient to a whole another level. Bowen is one of the sexiest dirty talking heroes!

We also get to meet several other characters which make Bowen and Sera seem like fuller, in depth characters. I genuinely enjoyed seeing Troy and Ruby from the previous novella. We are introduced to some new characters who I’m happy to say will get books of their own. Yes, I’m talking about Connor. All in all Risking it All was a solid good read.