Review: In Rides Trouble – Julie Ann Walker

Rebel with a Cause

Becky “Rebel” Reichert never actually goes looking for trouble. It just has a tendency to find her. Like the day Frank Knight showed up at her door, wanting to use her motorcycle shop as a cover for his elite special ops team. But Becky prides herself on being able to hang with the big boys-she can weld, drive, and shoot just as well as any of them.

Man with a Mission

Munitions, missiles, and mayhem are Frank’s way of life. The last thing the ex-SEAL wants is for one brash blonde to come within fifty feet of anything that goes boom. Yet it’s just his rotten luck when she ends up in a hostage situation at sea. Come hell or high water, he will get her back-whether she says she needs him or not.

Series:  Black Knight, Inc #2
Release Date:  September 4, 2012
Publisher:  Sourcebooks
Source:  Provided by Publisher
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

Frank Knight is the boss of Black Knights, Inc, a covert group of operatives that take kick ass and take names later.  He’s an ex Navy SEAL who wants to protect those he holds dear while living up to the promise he made as a boy.  Problem is, Becky Reichert and the feelings she stirs are making it really hard for him to be the man he thinks he should be.

Becky has had a thing for Frank since the moment she met him.  He exasperates her as much as he turns her on, but she also knows that Frank has his secret and she wonders how can fit in with that.  While she can be pushy and as demanding as the rest of the men who work at Black Knight, she also is a woman torn between what she wants and doing the right thing.

I will admit, Frank and Becky can be exasperating.  The wanting, longing, pushing away and confusion was too much at times.  But, it was also totally Frank and Becky.  Frank had issues with being older than Becky, being Becky’s boss and ultimately, playing right into the role he’d sworn as a young boy he would never be in.  While it was clear that what Frank witnessed at the hands of his father molded him into the man he was today, he was by no means following in the man’s footsteps.  Unfortunately, Frank didn’t see it that way…which lead to all the angst between him and Becky.

Becky, unfortunately, was stuck in the middle of Frank’s own personal torment.  She would react based on Frank’s mixed signals and find that she was the one sobbing in her room or in a dark booth at a bar.  Becky was also stuck in that place of “knowing” that Frank was with someone else (even though she thought of the other woman as a friend with benefits) and still wanting him and trying to have him.  She was in her own personal hell, of her own making, but seemingly unable to break free of it.

As with many couples, once Frank and Becky are completely honest with each other, they find that all the obstacles in their way were because of miscommunication or misunderstandings.  Once those are out of the way….BAM…the relationship seems to work.  That’s not to say that these two won’t still be sniping at each other, because that’s just who they are, but things will definitely be easier down the line.

We get to spend some quality time with other members of the Black Knights, mainly Wild Bill and Angel, but we also get to meet our next couple for the third book in the series, Rev It Up.  This should prove to be an interesting story…especially when the Italian Mob (introduced in Nate & Ali’s story) are involved.

A great second book to the series, that had me on my edge of my seat and wanting more.