Oh look, a cute little sapphic romance. NOPE. Choking on tears while vacuuming.

I’ve been sitting on this review for a while now cause I just cannot put into words how much I loved this book. It has lesbians, yearning, tension, bonding, complex characters with complex feelings and how they navigate those while dealing with their own struggles, a horror plot with a mystery aspect that brings together characters and small town history and connects plot points that makes the whole book connected, a love story with so much yearning and passion and sexual tension that makes you so invested and cry for more. This all together just made the book so yummy to read and you can bet I’ll reread it at some point and fall in love with this story and its characters all over again.

So fun to be back in this series!! This was such a fun book to read and I just adore how well Liz Tomforde writes romance with strong characters and a relationship that is romantic, emotional and with great sexual tension.

Reese is a badass woman and I appreciated how much she stood for her values and fought her own battles. She never backed down even when people around her doubted her skills and her being a woman in power, but she also learned to rely on people close to her that trusted her and her trusting them back.

Monty was so caring and kind and not just to Reese but everyone in his life and it was so sweet to see him being there for his people while showing Reese that she could also rely on him and them.

It was so nice getting to see some characters from the previous books in the Windy City series and seeing them interact with Monty but also Reese and welcoming her to the family. The way Tomforde writes found family is one of my favorite things about her books and I love that we also got to see that here.

The communication could’ve been better and there was some contradiction with what the characters would say vs what they would do in terms of how their relationship affected their jobs, but I still had a great time reading this book.