The Heart You Break

4.25 stars--THE HEART YOU BREAK is the fourth instalment in Cynthia Eden’s contemporary, adult WILDE WAYS romantic suspense series focusing on the men and women who work for Wilde Securities. This is former fire fighter and security agent Julia Slate, and rock star Bran Copper. THE HEART YOU BREAK can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalments is revealed where necessary. Told from several third person perspectives including Bran and Julia THE HEART YOU BREAK follows Julia Slate as she is assigned protection duty to rock star Bran Copper, a musician whose stalker is getting too close. Bran doesn’t want protection, in fact he is using himself as bait to pull in the person trying to destroy his life but baiting the bad guy affects more than our story line hero. Julia Slate goes undercover as Bran’s assistant, a position that places our heroine up close and personal with rock’s newest bad boy. What ensues is the building relationship between Bran and Julia, and the potential fall-out as everyone working the case at Wilde Securities becomes collateral damage as the stalker is determined to take down our story line hero. The relationship between Julia and Bran is one of immediate attraction but Bran doesn’t want an assistant; doesn’t want security; and definitely doesn’t want another female groupie destroying his life. Julia Slate struggles to keep her under cover assignment on the down low but falling for Bran Copper finds Julia out of her element, and distracted when she is needed the most. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text. There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including Julia’s fellow security specialists: Cole Vincent, Rick Williams, Eric Wilde, and town sheriff Gideon Warren. THE HEART YOU BREAK is a story of betrayal, deception and vengeance; of struggle and acceptance; of love and a happily ever after. The premise is energetic and engaging; the romance is seductive and intense; the characters are colorful, dynamic and strong. I guessed the identity of the stalker early on but the author threw in a secondary possibility in an effort to deflect attention from the requisite evil.

Wow I love Cynthia Eden books and this one is great. Julia is a pocket rocket ready to protect Bran no matter what. Bran sees her as a petite and delicate, but Julia is so much more. I'm so looking forward to the next book fighting for her.

A phenomenal read in the Wilde ways series😍 Julia may look like a delicate flower but she could take on men twice her size... So when the case to protect Bran, the hardcore rock star, comes she takes it, the problem? She has to do it undercover. She's good at lying, she just never thought it would be this hard to lie to him. Bran, the whole world thought he's a man of sin. They couldn't be more wrong, there just so many layers to that man... He never had let anyone close. When Julia comes to his doorstep looking delicate but.. different (from any one from he've ever met), he can't help but think of sin.. But when Julia saves his ass twice & the lust undeniable, she might just become something more important.. But Julia is lying. So when the bombs blast & lies close in so do past, hell reigns in hideaway.. Between the hell, the greatest betrayal may be from the closest one.. < A book with An HEA & for all of the rock star lovers.. >