Rand Maguire, a high profile event security specialist is watching his most recent gig go totally FUBAR. He’s supposed to be managing the security for an A List Hollywood celebrity wedding – unfortunately somebody slipped a mickey into the toasting champagne and now the entire guest list is under the influence of an extremely powerful aphrodisiac and are now shagging each left right and centre all over the wedding buffet!

He asks Zak, hero of the first Lodestone book, to send help and he sends Dr Dakota North, a highly qualified pharmaceutical expert and joint creator of said aphrodisiac. Unfortunately, Rand hates her – they used to be lovers and he thinks she betrayed him and is responsible for his Mother’s death. He dumped her by spitting vitriol at her over the phone and she was crushed, of course innocent of his accusations and just the victim of the nefarious plot device – the big misunderstanding!!

The drug is highly unstable and can easily kill and is about to hit the streets as the latest fix and Rand and Dakota go on a breathtaking race across Europe to track down the dealers and get to the root of the source. Rand and Dakota slowly rekindle their lost love and passion but I have to say Rand has been a bit of a jerk and continues to be through at least half of this novel.

I’d forgotten about Zak’s ‘special ability’ in Hush and Dakota shares this skill in this so this is romantic suspense with a paranormal twist which is a fairly unusual combination but it does kind of work and allows the plot to motor along at breakneck speed. Of course, it’s all fairly far fetched but it is fun.

4 stars romantic suspense with a smattering of the paranormal