What do you think?
Rate this book
Still Waters
Still waters run deep. It’s okay if you need to borrow floaties.SARA WATERS needs a favor, and it’s not the kind she can pay back with a batch of homemade cookies. Her best friend needs to disappear from her abusive ex-husband and Sara knows the Garza brothers have the connections to make that happen. They agree, but only if she uses her network security skills at Garza Security for six weeks of consulting. Six weeks working private sector versus government and paid with benefits attracts the adventurous twenty-six-year-old, with the provision everything she does will be legal.JOAQUIN GARZA plans to expand the DC-based security business he owns with his brother before his thirtieth birthday. Enter Sara, the doe-eyed, techie, who makes Princess Anna from Frozen look street-savvy. He’s admired her in their kickboxing class because she’s the first woman to stick it out long enough to land a few punches. Her network security skills are stellar; her roundhouse, accurate; her brain in exchange for some fake identification, fate.But when the ex threatens Sara, Joaquin suggests she stay with him for a while. He’s falling fast and hard for the woman who only wants to work on the right side of the law when he operates in the grey area. In fact, his latest client is the head of a cartel, looking to go straight and retire but his son has other plans. Plans that ultimately put Sara in grave danger.
- GenresRomantic Suspense
236 pages, Paperback
Published February 18, 2018
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
April 5, 2018
great book a lot going on! amazing characters to be around but boys will be boys
August 7, 2020
The first book of a new series centered around the Garza brothers and their security business.
First up is the story of Joaquin and Sara. It’s a simple story of girl needing a favor, and the boy does favor – for a price. The price comes along as using six weeks of Sara’s networking skills for his company. Sara agrees; after all, how hard could it be? Six weeks of doing what she does best along with killer pay and benefits. Sure, she’s attracted to Joaquin, but she can resist him, right? Her plan is to show up at work, do the job and get it over with, all with having little to no interaction with Joaquin.
Life has other ideas. Almost from the moment she agrees to his terms, events start forcing them together. The abusive ex of the friend she needs to hide sets his sights on Sara and begins to threaten her. When Joaquin finds, out he places her in his protective custody. Rich, handsome and deadly Joaquin is used to getting what he wants. Sara can protest all she wants, but he’s going to keep her safe and find the man who threatens her. Knowing he shouldn’t mix his personal life with his professional life, that all changes with one kiss from Sara. He knows he’ll break any rule to be with her and destroy any threat that tries to take her from him.
Sara, however, doesn’t want to be protected; she wants to pay her six-week debt and get back to her normal life. But as she forms friendships with the team at Garza Security and impresses them with her skills behind the keyboard as well as her ability to handle Joaquin, he begins to feel like maybe this is where she belongs.
Spending more and more time together, they both realize that maybe what they are feeling is more than just attraction. Could they have a life together? Can two headstrong, stubborn people find a way to make it work?
Their relationship is put the test when Sara refuses Joaquin’s request to use her government programs to track down a killer. She wants to help but isn’t willing to break the law to do it. Joaquin makes the decision to clone her laptop and deal with the consequences later. When later comes sooner than he expects, Sara leaves him.
Will he be able to win her back? Will she be able to trust him again or has he destroyed the only thing that ever mattered? With a plan in mind and his brother and team at his back, he heads out to do just that.
“Still Waters” is an excellent example of why Tobi’s work is award-nominated by organizations like Romance Writers of America and why she’s a sought-after speaker on the subject of writing.
First up is the story of Joaquin and Sara. It’s a simple story of girl needing a favor, and the boy does favor – for a price. The price comes along as using six weeks of Sara’s networking skills for his company. Sara agrees; after all, how hard could it be? Six weeks of doing what she does best along with killer pay and benefits. Sure, she’s attracted to Joaquin, but she can resist him, right? Her plan is to show up at work, do the job and get it over with, all with having little to no interaction with Joaquin.
Life has other ideas. Almost from the moment she agrees to his terms, events start forcing them together. The abusive ex of the friend she needs to hide sets his sights on Sara and begins to threaten her. When Joaquin finds, out he places her in his protective custody. Rich, handsome and deadly Joaquin is used to getting what he wants. Sara can protest all she wants, but he’s going to keep her safe and find the man who threatens her. Knowing he shouldn’t mix his personal life with his professional life, that all changes with one kiss from Sara. He knows he’ll break any rule to be with her and destroy any threat that tries to take her from him.
Sara, however, doesn’t want to be protected; she wants to pay her six-week debt and get back to her normal life. But as she forms friendships with the team at Garza Security and impresses them with her skills behind the keyboard as well as her ability to handle Joaquin, he begins to feel like maybe this is where she belongs.
Spending more and more time together, they both realize that maybe what they are feeling is more than just attraction. Could they have a life together? Can two headstrong, stubborn people find a way to make it work?
Their relationship is put the test when Sara refuses Joaquin’s request to use her government programs to track down a killer. She wants to help but isn’t willing to break the law to do it. Joaquin makes the decision to clone her laptop and deal with the consequences later. When later comes sooner than he expects, Sara leaves him.
Will he be able to win her back? Will she be able to trust him again or has he destroyed the only thing that ever mattered? With a plan in mind and his brother and team at his back, he heads out to do just that.
“Still Waters” is an excellent example of why Tobi’s work is award-nominated by organizations like Romance Writers of America and why she’s a sought-after speaker on the subject of writing.
November 19, 2018
OMG! Very exciting book!
Wow! What a heroine! Loved her and loved the man Quinn turned out to be.
I can see that this is going to be a very addictive series!
Can say enough about all the characters. But beware, this book can be a little shady.
The book was do interesting I skimmed some of the sex parts.
Wow! What a heroine! Loved her and loved the man Quinn turned out to be.
I can see that this is going to be a very addictive series!
Can say enough about all the characters. But beware, this book can be a little shady.
The book was do interesting I skimmed some of the sex parts.
November 2, 2018
Really enjoyed it. Can't wait to see where the series goes next.
February 3, 2020
Sizzle & Suspense will pull you in and the story will keep you turning pages - the book to grab!
Author Toni Doyle has a great series here: Still Waters (Garza Security Book 1) Joaquin is the Co-owner with his brother AJ running Garza Security. There is a request from Sara to meet and Joaquin & SO meet and request she did some work for them in exchange for new IF for her best friend to escape her ex husband from domestic violence she almost didn't survive! Sara is a computer pro for NEW freelance & private business so a security firm is perfect. The high pace action of this Security Firm is a great page turner. The chemistry & romance wonderful! Hoping for ANd story.V2, S2
@my2centsbooklover - please join and enjoy discussions, new authors, lots of genre great books to introduce you too! Thank you!
Author Toni Doyle has a great series here: Still Waters (Garza Security Book 1) Joaquin is the Co-owner with his brother AJ running Garza Security. There is a request from Sara to meet and Joaquin & SO meet and request she did some work for them in exchange for new IF for her best friend to escape her ex husband from domestic violence she almost didn't survive! Sara is a computer pro for NEW freelance & private business so a security firm is perfect. The high pace action of this Security Firm is a great page turner. The chemistry & romance wonderful! Hoping for ANd story.V2, S2
@my2centsbooklover - please join and enjoy discussions, new authors, lots of genre great books to introduce you too! Thank you!
January 8, 2019
I liked the characters and the series should be a lot of fun to read. I did feel at times that I was missing something due to the lack of any backstory, like this should have been book two The fact that Sara was the tech geek and spent time testing her code before she put it in the wild appealed to my techy heart. It was a nice touch of realism. Definitely some sexy characters to play with in the future books.
June 23, 2020
First book in a series; however, several references to previous encounters that read like you should already know what they're about. It's like an inside joke but you're not party to the relationship so you feel a little awkward. Multiple typographical and grammatical errors that should've never made it into a printed edition.
Storyline was decent, engaging dialogue that makes you laugh out loud, but you have to assume the chemistry and the rapport without the benefit of explanation.
Storyline was decent, engaging dialogue that makes you laugh out loud, but you have to assume the chemistry and the rapport without the benefit of explanation.
July 14, 2020
I just finished this fun, flirty romance. I don’t always read contemporary romance but I liked this one. Got sucked right into the storyline. The humor bits were great. The sexy times were hot
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews