Burn started off with an interesting meet cute: a former-step-sister Isabel, suffering from partial amnesia, was showering in Ryan's apartment. As Ryan slowly figured out who the girl is and the circumstances on why she ended up in his place, there's some very weird sexual tension between the two as Ryan vowed NOT to touch her, while Isabel (who insists on calling herself Julia) tries to seduce Ryan, figuring that he's the best guy to receive her v-card, while Ryan and the rest of "Miami Security" tries to figure out what happened to Isabel's head to cause her amnesia and whether whoever did it is still out there.
The problem with this book is it couldn't quite decide it wants to be a mystery or romance, so it ended up as a lukewarm mystery that spent much of the middle of the book describing the sexual tension between the two, and as expected, the real threat came when both characters have a too-stupid-to-live moment and let jealousy / lousy-logic lead them down the wrong decision tree. Not much of a grand-gesture though.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Man finds (former) step-sister with partial amnesia, needed to protect her (from whatever caused it) and fell for her
Tropes: woman in peril, amnesia, protector, step-sibling
Overall Rating: 3/5
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