Nate Dean is a man who has loved and lost. The woman who stole his heart betrayed him and he has vowed to never love again. He and his brother are running on borrowed time as they try to figure out a way to stop a chip in their spine from killing them. Yet when Nate realizes the one person who can help is the woman he has spent his life trying to forget? As a man who will do anything for his brothers, including seducing the woman who broke his heart, he goes in search of Audrey.
Audrey Madison still loves Nate. And when she spies across a crowded ballroom, she realizes the boy she knew and loved has now grown in a man. A dangerously sexy man. But Audrey has her own secrets. Despite her mother being the woman who helped create Nate and his brothers, Audrey wants to bring down the man behind it all - no matter what the cost. She infiltrates a government office to help make this happen, joining forces with Senator Nash, hoping to bring down the machine that created Nate, his brothers, and a bevy of other soldier-assassins. And then, there is a deeper secret, one that hits much closer to home, and not just her own.
This has been my favorite book in the Sin Brothers series. We have had seen bits and pieces of Nate in the other two books in the series, Forgotten Sins and Sweet Revenge, and I'm glad to see this book of his own. Nate is my favorite brother - he loves hard, he protects without thought to his safety, and his sense of duty runs deep. (Who wouldn't love that?) We've known since Forgotten Sins that he still had feelings for Audrey and I had hoped that when he went to find her that she would be worthy of the deep feelings that run through this man. And, boy, was she ever! Audrey is a great heroine. Her love of Nate runs so deep - even deeper than the misplaced love of her mother. Even though Audrey hopes that her mother loves her and, deep down, wants to be a good person, Audrey knows that the things her mother has done are wrong and unforgivable. When Audrey finds out that her mother only loves her as a science experiment, she realizes that no one will ever love her as much as Nate does.
A side note about Senator Nash. Omg. I LOVE this character! He may be an old man but I'd kill to see a novella, just with him, after everything is all said and done with these characters. When he rises to the challenge of helping Audrey and Nate defeat the Commander - it is the funniest part of a serious book. He is a lovable character and one I'm looking forward to seeing more of in the final book of the series, Total Surrender (due out in 2015).
An ARC was provided by NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
