Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Backlash by Rachel Dylan

Series: Capital Intrigue #2
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Bethany House
Released: October 1, 2020
309 pages
About the Book:

CIA analyst Layla Karam is thrust into a dangerous DEA field operation against a cartel that puts a target on her back. Though Layla never wanted to be a field agent, Langley had other ideas. After one of her team members is murdered because of fallout from the op, Layla is left scrambling to find safety.

At the same time, the CIA opens up an internal investigation against her. Out of options, Layla turns to ex-boyfriend and private investigator Hunter McCoy for help finding out who might want to ruin her career.

Layla and Hunter soon discover a mole inside the DEA has sold out the team's identity to the cartel. She must clear her name with the Agency and protect herself and her teammates from cartel retaliation. With threats on all sides, Layla must put her trust in Hunter--the man who broke her heart--and hope they both come out of it alive.




My Rating & Thoughts:    


Layla, a CIA agent, is attacked and threatened and then becomes the subject of an IG investigation. Are the events connected? She ends up having to work with her ex-boyfriend, Hunter, who is now a PI. The relationship did not end well and as the story progresses Layla discovers that there is more to their breakup than she thought. It felt like there were three separate stories going on. I was fully invested in Izzy's case and mildly curious what was happening with Layla, but I didn't care at all about Zane and Cass. It felt like there was so much switching between each of the storylines and hard to find the connection that it was hard to stay invested in the story. Izzy's situation is what kept me in the book. I had been hoping to see Lexi from book one in this book.

(I purchased my copy of this book; opinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

 

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