Inside Bet is number two of the Katie Porter writing duo's, Vegas Top Guns series. They are all available for pre-order on Amazon starting July.

Um. Ok. Where do I begin here. Shifting gear. This is NOT a Harlequin Mills & Boon. At least not the usual kink…I mean kind. I think this book qualifies as an erotic romance. Now I have to admit to being a little out of my depth here. So, in the past I’ve played around a bit, the odd short story, novella, a Harlequin Blaze or two. But this is the first time I’ve gone all the way…with a full length novel in this genre. But when a review copy lands in my inbox what's an avid reader to do.

The heroine is uptight accounting high flyer Heather Morris, still trying to live down the mistakes of her teen years though she's approaching 32. When she meets the genuine high flying article, F16 Pilot Jon Carlyle, it seems fate has handed her an opportunity to let her wild child out for a brief, very controlled fling. The cool cynical 26 year old, with his unlimited trust account and an Alpha Romeo, is definitely not safe, and Heather needs safe for the long haul.

So, let get down to it. After a few chapters of very sexy, witty and er...stimulating...foreplay we see that Heather does indeed have a very wild side and Jon is the perfect guy to play with. Yet just as I was starting to think, am I gonna be able to cope with another 200 pages of this level of heat, Katie Porter took things to a whole new level. I already liked the characters, but suddenly I was noticing a lot more going on. Yup, sure enough this was turning into a love story. As unlikely as it seemed at first sight these two have a lot to offer each other.

The development of the relationship really starts to take off when life offers a few hiccups to what was to be a, shall we say,'just mind blowing sex', kind of deal. Not that there wasn't a lot of sex. Interesting, tilt your head to the side with a puzzled expression sex. Steamy hot, burn the eyeballs sex. Some of that um...kinky sex. But all of it was part of the story sex. Part of the development of the relationship sex. It was explicit in places, enough to make me a little, maybe sometimes a lot, uncomfortable, but not distastefully so.

The story itself captured my interest right from the start. The dialogue is clever, funny in places, and shows the development of the relationship nicely. The characters didn't take long to engage me, and become emotionally invested in the outcome. This is a romance so the HEA is a given, in this case it was a very satisfying and believable outcome. I hope in book 3 we get to see how they are going.

It reads well as a stand alone though you do meet the characters from the first book, Jon's flight teammate Ryan and his girl Cass and the heroine of the third book, another Top Gun Pilot 'Princess' Leah.

I gave this book four stars because though parts of it were not to my personal taste I did enjoy it very much in the context of the genre.