CODE OF HONOR, an all-new fun and flirty romantic standalone in the Cipher Security series from April White, is available now in Kindle Unlimited!

A painting, a panic room, a thief, and her lover … whose job is to catch her.

There are three things you need to know about Anna.

1) She’s a bounty hunter with adrenaline junkie habits,

2) She’s the “awkward” twin, and

3) She’s a thief – kind of.

Darius designs security systems for Cipher Security, and the strange and remarkable woman he met the night the painting was stolen is as intriguing a mystery as his hunt for the thief is.

But the lady has no filter, and she knows she can’t lie to the man who looks like a Disney Prince and kisses like fairytales are true, so she runs from the one person who may actually see her as the heroine of her own story.

‘Code of Honor’ is a full-length contemporary romantic suspense, can be read as a standalone and is book #2 in the Cipher Security series, Knitting in the City World, Penny Reid Book Universe.

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MY THOUGHTS

CODE OF HONOR is only the second April White book I have read, and once again she has created some unique characters whose adventures I am on board for. This time around it involves Anna Collins just doing a spot of stealing of a painting from a private home. To succeed, she needs to find a hole in Darius Masoud’s security system. And she does.

I really enjoyed the cat and mouse game played by Anna and Darius. Their attraction is palpable and immediate but circumstances exist that means acting on the attraction will have wider consequences. Written with dual points of view, readers are never left wondering what Anna and Darius are feeling. And when they have several deeply personal and painfully honest conversations with each other, you can feel how invested they want to be in each other.

I am no fan of illegal activity but there’s a perverse side of me that just loves a good heist in a book or movie, and when it’s weaved through a real life occurrence – here it’s the theft of artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – I am sold. I felt the fictional mystery was credibly intertwined with the known facts and it held my interest.

Overall, I’d class this a good read. I liked it. It’s certainly better than average but there are some things that didn’t work for me. Firstly, there’s some literal toilet humour that I thought was disgusting and entirely pointless. I put the book down for several days, wary that the story would continue with such juvenile antics. Thankfully, it did not.

Secondly, I found the story was repetitive. Both the mystery of the paintings and Darius questioning his values – albeit both very important matters - did feel belaboured because we were in a loop going over the same information with no forward momentum.

Those of you familiar with Penny Reid’s book, especially the Quinn Sullivan and Dan O’Malley characters, will be happy to know they make an appearance. I think White does a great job in her Cipher Security books of staying true to the characters we have previously met.

The only thing left to wonder is when White will be publishing the next book in the Cipher Security series. I am looking forward to it.

Review copy courtesy of Smartypants Romance

*****

ABOUT APRIL WHITE

April White has been a film producer, private investigator, bouncer, teacher and screenwriter. She has climbed in the Himalayas, survived a shipwreck, and lived on a gold mine in the Yukon. She and her husband share their home in Southern California with two extraordinary boys and a lifetime collection of books. Her first novel, Marking Time is the 2016 winner of the Library Journal Indie E-Book Award for YA Literature, and all five books in the Immortal Descendants series are on the Amazon Top 100 lists in Time Travel Romance and Historical Fantasy.