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"ePistols at Dawn," an old book of ZA Maxfield's is highly apropos for these times, dealing with the issue of consent - with privacy as well as sexuality. A fabulous readhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Squeaking in at the end, Unwrapping Callie, by Amy Jo Cousins. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Decided to read all of one week's new releases in Romantic Suspense, as I've had problems with the subgenre in the past, and wanted to see if my concerns about RS's "put women in peril" trope was still at play in more contemporary releases. This one turned out to have an interracial couple, which fills in a square on my Diversity Romance Bingo board.
Kaylee, who had once slept with her fiancé's friend, Sam (unbeknownst to them both at the time), calls upon Sam for help four years later when she is in the midst of a search for corrupt contractors and her life is threatened. For some reason unclear to this reader, she has to keep her investigation from Sam a secret, and so hires him under slightly sketchy circumstances—sleeping with him then pretending to be someone else's mistress. The book continues with a lot of unmotivated secret-keeping until about 2/3 of the way in, when Kaylee tells Sam the truth; Sam & the rest of his covert ops company step in and help Kaylee bring the perpetrator she is investigating down.
Lots of contrived plot, very little in the way of character here. Definitely not my cup of tea.
Odd that Sam was given dialogue that marked his Scots background, but the only thing that marked Kaylee as African American was her physical description. Interracial romance for those who just want to have a black character but little in the way of any type of African American culture featured.