This is book six of the Cowboy Dragon’s Inn and the main characters are Brian Simmons, a dragon shifter and co-owner of the inn and nearby ranch, and Darcey Talbot, a security expert. Darcey has come with her boss, Mr Clarence Templeton, to attend business meetings and a conference he had arranged. Her boss had booked out the whole inn for him and his cronies to use and enjoy, before their other halves turned up later in the week. He harasses her at every turn and if she wanted, she could have tried him for sexual harassment many times over the ten long years she has worked for him. He is the CEO of a security agency and she is key to his business success and has to suffer his advances for just one week more, until she can get a big contract signed, then she can go and work for any security company she wants! When she finds he has left his wife behind for the week and expects her to fill and do everything she did, she knows he is going to be full on! Brian is having to pull double shifts to ensure everything gets done at the inn for all these guests, so when Darcey enters the kitchen to give him a list of Mr Templeton’s fussy dietary needs, he is not very polite and neither is she. Her boss insists on her wearing really high heels and clothing that reveals far too much for her to be comfortable!
Brian notices how uncomfortable she is when her boss gets too close at the dinner table and even slaps her bottom when she tries to get away from his grabbing hands and he is really angry. His anger caused a death of someone else when he was a teen and he has always blamed himself for it, rather than the drunken teens who decided to harass him that night. Seeing Darcey treated that way makes his temper rise and his control is hanging by a thread. When he approaches her and tries to see what she wants done about his harassment, she tells him to ignore it. He is trying to pressure her to do something about her boss’ harassment and she just needs to get this week over and done with. She and Brian get close and he makes sure to keep an eye on her and her boss. When he sees her drinking a shot, he thinks she is agreeing to the behaviour of her boss and wants to forget about her. But seeing her rush from the table straight after and her boss follow her, makes him think something isn’t right. It seems her boss has placed a wager with his friends about his guaranteed ability to finally get her in his bed and Darcey knows nothing of this. Seems her boss likes to play dirty!
He tries as many different ways as he can to get a key to her room and to check on her, but luckily Brian has that covered. He forces her to come horse riding with the rest of the group out on the ranch the dragon shifters run and again tries to get her in a compromising position. Brian takes her back to the ranch for safety, but that doesn’t stop Mr Templeton from trying to get at her still. Brian gets injured trying to save her from one attack and she finds out his true identity. She isn’t scared by his other identity as such and is more worried about him and his injuries. He had tried to tell her of the connection between them but hadn’t had a chance to tell her about his dragon. Her boss needs something she created and without her under his thumb, he starts to get desperate and makes ever increasing plays for her and what she has. It is time to fight back and luckily for her, Brian and his friends are all willing to help out as well to protect someone one of them loves. He thought he would accept the pull of his fated mate immediately, but their initial connection was marred by her boss and her desire to see out the week, then never see him again. Another story of one of the cowboy dragon shifters finding their fated mate and the dangerous hurdles they have to face, before they can be together forever. Always a HEA ending with a somewhat steamy romance amidst danger and the magic of shifting, along with a hint of the next story to come. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.