Spoilers Ahead:
I was quite surprised by this book, I'm not going to lie. Not entirely happy with it, but there's something about it that made me really quite enjoy it. I have a habit of buying books from TikTok-famous authors without really figuring out if I like their work first, so this is the first book - of the many I've bought - I've read from Tessa Bailey.
So we follow Taylor as she's on vacation with her brother, Jude. He's getting over the death of a panda he cares for, so they take time away. The find peepholes in their room, and as they try to phone their landlord, they find his dead body in their house. They call the police, and the victim's brother, Lisa, offers them a house to stay in. Apparently, the peep holes were made by him to spy on people in the room, but it doesn't make sense; he wouldn't fit in the gap, and he had a camera anyway, so only needed one hole. For that reason, although he was labelled a TW pervert, she thinks he is innocent, and there was more at play. 
 Lisa's brother hires Myles, a bounty hunter, to look into Lisa's brother's death, as he owes him a favour. As he's looking at the crime scene, Taylor comes over, telling him she found the body. He doesn't know why, but this woman does things to him, and he finds himself working with her, although he doesn't like it much. He becomes her bodyguard, which becomes a little difficult as they start to become immensely attracted to her, and vice versa. She strikes him as the type to settle down, get married and have children, but he just wants no strings attached. She tells him she can do no strings, and they start to become intimate. However, every time this intimacy is initiated, something bad happens. A buoy was thrown through the window, shattering it, and ruined the moment. Another time, Myles thought he heard a sound, thinking it was a gunshot, when it was actually a group of teenagers.
He tries to keep her at arm's length, away from the investogation, because he's aware he might be falling for her, and his feelings for her are distracting him from the case, which is putting her in further danger. When she goes off, supposedly to the library, but actually to somewhere she can look up properties, she gets knocked out with a book. She doesn't have a concussion, but Myles is livid at her.
Upon finding out that the properties actually belong to the Mayor, Rhonda, they realise that she must be behind the murders. Especially with the letter they found at the victim's condo, when he was writing a letter to someone, warning them.
When Rhonda is at Lisa's house, they think she's dangerous, and Taylor, not thinking, stops the car in front of the Mayor's, stopping her from escaping. Myles, once again, is annoyed at Taylor, and she leaves him be. Unfortunately, as Myles discovers, that's not the end of the issue. He realises that, although Scott - the victim - couldn't fit in the gap, neither could Rhonda - so they still didn't have their killer, although she was guilty of other crimes. Myles finds out it was her assistance, out of blind adoration, who did the killing for her, and Taylor is in grave danger.
Before Myles can reach her, she has a gun to her head, and the Mayor's assistant is threatening her. Myles puts his life before hers, offering his phone to the assistant so he can call the Mayor. Taylor has a chance to run away, and that's when Myles strikes. They apprehend him, and Myles and Taylor reunite.
It takes some time for things to become better. Taylor doesn't believe Myles actually wants her, and so thinks he's going to run off again. She doesn't know if she can trust him. But, when they're leaving after their holiday, he follows them home. To her home. He says he's going to quit bounty hunting, reunite with his family and build the career they always wanted to do together. He acknowledged his PTSD, and worked through it to be with her. Eventually, they get married, and the life he didn't want for himself, he definitely does want now. 
Everything was so fast-paced in this book. The romance - I don't know if I can classify it as that, or lust - was just immediate, and I'm fairly sure that doesn't happen in the real world. I really can't stand books that just focus on physical attributes too, and it felt like the majority of the book was just them being attracted to each other, and then suddenly, they're dating and getting married? It's like a switch flipped, and I wasn't there to see it happen, so I was just very perplexed, and sometimes it made it difficult to continue on. 
One of the biggest mysteries of my life is what the hell happened to Jude and Dante? Did they finally get together? Or what happened between them? I'm so tired... just feels like (my personal opinion) that his sexuality was brought in just to broaden the diversity. As well as with Dante, they brought him in and they described his skin colour, but they didn't do that for anyone else in the book, to my knowledge. It just felt like the diversity was being crammed in, and sometimes it didn't feel authentic, although I don't know if it's my place to say that. Either way, I was excited to look into Jude's relationship with Dante, and I just feel like I was robbed of that closure to be honest. 
However, although there was a lot to fault with this book, I did quite enjoy reading it. The spicy scenes were phenomenal, I'm not going to lie. Taylor becoming more comfortable with herself and pleasure is also just as amazing, and it was lovely to read about a woman becoming more comfortable within herself. The intimate scenes might have been a bit too much for others, but I quite enjoyed them. They definitely weren't needed to further the plot, and it's funny how they were so dramatic about it, but I'm not complaining - not too much, anyway :) I quite liked the enemies to lovers trope some of the time, although sometimes it bordered on possessive and gave me a weird feeling. I am a very big fan of no-one else matters but her trope though, and so this book won me over for that reason. That, and the fact that Bailey almost has the exact same sense of humour as me, so I found this book to be hilarious.