Of course Sara comes to the point where she just doesn’t want to be so repressed and proper, and she puts on a wee disguise and gets Derek all hot and bothered. And the angst this guy has with his inferiority complex is next level. Like I said, Derek immediately perceives the threat of his feelings. Meanwhile, she’s like, “NEAT! I’m in the club! Research!”
Naturally, he is immediately attracted to her and immediately sees her as a threat because he’s an emotional iceberg. They meet when Sara is hanging around in a street where she shouldn’t be and Derek gets his face slashed by a couple of thugs, prompting Sara to be a badass and shoot one of them before taking Derek back to his club. (Can you say, “cynical?”) Sara Fielding, repressed and proper author, is researching for her next book in London’s rookeries, assuming she’ll go back to her repressed and proper life when she’s done. What is the short plot synopsis? Derek Craven, bastard commoner of unsavory antecedents, pulls himself up by his bootstraps and owns the most popular gaming club in London. “I should probably take a gander, because as I recall, Derek Craven is a kryptonite hero.” I was correct, which was satisfying. I needed to read my feelings (better than eating them, right?) for a hot minute, and this book had come up at Rom-Con when Ingrid and I had our author fangirling moment. Overall: It’s basically a replacement for chocolate. Plot: “We come from different worlds so I’m going to save you from yourself by refusing to be with you even though it’ll kill me to live without you.” Character Chemistry: Mousy woman with steel spine brings worldly man low, and he’s totally into it
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