Drake is a retired SEAL who found his wife had run off with his best friend to be a model. While in a bar with his buds, he witnessed a couple having a stare-down contest in the middle of the dance floor. His instinct told him to follow, and when the guy assaulted the woman, he intervened. She turned out to be Hannah, and he was her ex-boyfriend, ex-cop, and stalker. And he's rich and well-connected enough complaining won't do any good. Drake joked about maybe Hannah need a fake husband, but Hannah took him seriously... Drake was living out of a hotel anyway and has no job lined up, and Hannah is rich and can afford to pay him a LOT of $$$ to be her husband/bodyguard, even though she wants to get her degree in social work. As Drake and Hannah live with each other, they slowly fell for each other... But can they admit it to each other? Or are they each assuming the other will walk away because they are too different?
The story started with two long info-dumps on why Drake and Hannah are the way they are, and overall the writing just feels very... detached. And the plot twist was exactly as expected. How a cop drummed out of the force on corruption charges has the guts and time and resources to stalk his ex is beyond me. Still, otherwise, the story is rather... competent, but nothing outstanding either.
Category: Contemporary
Overall Rating: 2.5/5
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