GRR Reviews Winters Heat (Titan Book 1) by Cristin Harber

Winter's Heat is about an ex-SEAL Colby working security for Titan Group. He was trying to retrieve a document, only to see it snatched by a woman ahead of him... Then some goons snatched the woman AND the disc. He rescued the woman and the disc, and he needed to keep the woman around to learn how did she learn about the disc, while convincing her he's not the bad guy. Her name was Mia Kensington, and she's a military psychologist trying to fulfill a last wish of one of her patients... Convincing her was easy as goons came after them, no matter how well they hid. No matter which no-name motel they used, or Titan safehouse, or even Colby's own home, bad guys found them and eventually, when Colby's out, they took Mia, and now Colby must mount a rescue mission backed by the might of the Titan Group.

Frankly, while the idea of a non-spy getting into the middle of a spy drama works as a high concept, continued presence begs belief. Why would a psychologist try to retrieve the file herself, and not involve the MP or NCIS? How did the goons manage to track them down despite every bit of caution to threw them off? (i.e. the magically omniscient bad guy) Why kidnap Mia if they don't have the disc? The reasoning for the motivation is lacking, as are the attraction between the two other than forced proximity.

Category: Romantic suspense

Primary Plot: Man saved woman and the document she retrieved; why are people coming after them for it?

Tropes: different worlds, woman in peril, protector, kidnapping, forced proximity

Overall Rating:  2 stars