Score: 4/5 Bookmarks

Steam rating: 🍆🍆 /5

Thank you to Montlake for gifting me a review copy of Changing the Rules by Catherine Bybee.

This book is the first in a new Richter series, full of adventure, romance, and suspense! I haven’t read a lot of romantic suspense, but let me tell you…I am into it!

The crew at MacBain Security and Solutions has been tasked with weeding out a human trafficking ring that is targeting kids at California high schools. Claire Kelly is going undercover as a student and Cooper Lockman as a teacher and assistant track coach.

Claire and Cooper worked together six years ago, but since then Cooper has been in Europe, doing his best to avoid his feelings for Claire. As the case starts to heat up, so do their feelings.

I really enjoyed the characters in this book, and the story kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. While this book is the start of a new series I believe it’s a spin-off from the First Wives series, and I have heard from a few people that the author’s book Say It Again gives you the whole backstory of what went on with the super spy school where Claire and Cooper first met, so I’ll definitely be going back to read that one.

Book two in the Richter series is scheduled to come out in July of this year, and is titled A Thin Disguise. it follows former gun-for-hire, Olivia, and FBI agent, Leo Grant, on a race to find a killer. So stay tuned for that one!

Synopsis:

As an employee of MacBain Security and Solutions, Claire Kelly can certainly hold her own. Armed with an impressive set of covert skills, she’s more than prepared to tackle any job that comes her way…except one involving Cooper Lockman.

Cooper and Claire used to work together before his feelings for her sent him packing to Europe for six long years. But now he’s back and determined to ignore the still-smoldering heat that lingers between them.

Their current mission: go undercover together at a California high school to root out the mastermind behind a prostitution ring targeting young girls. The closer they get to the truth and the closer they get to each other, however, the deadlier their task becomes. As Claire and Cooper risk their lives to bring down their target, will their hearts be the final casualties?