With a missing father, a murderous brother, and a marriage of convenience, Becca Galbraith’s life is one hot mess…and it’s about to get hotter. After overhearing her brother plotting a murder, Becca is desperate to find out the truth behind her family’s business dealings and her father’s disappearance. She makes a deal with the devil—a gorgeous, irreverent soldier-turned-PI. She’s in over her … over her head and sinking fast.
The last thing Bronson Warner ever wanted was to be a groom. The second-to-last thing he ever wanted was to be a dad. Through a weird twist of fate, he’s now both within the span of a few weeks. His solitary life has been turned upside down and stomped on by a wife who’s his exact opposite and teenagers who have their own tragic secret, and it’s his responsibility to keep them all safe.
As Bronson strives to protect his new family, he realizes not only are their lives in danger, but so is his heart.
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This is a total take away from what Jami usually writes. It took me a bit to get into this one. The story was great, just slow at the intake, maybe too much back and forth with the same thing… just something.
That being said, I can see this series as a great one, totally not sports related coming from Seattle. The characters that were established in previous series will be built up with great stories. Love the bit of suspense with awesome romance.
Looking forward to more.
Read: 3/2/19
Gone Missing was the first book in Jami Davenport’s spin off series, the Gone Missing Detective Agency. We met Bronson in Davenport’s Seattle Sockeye series, Shot on Goal, as Drew Delacourt’s best friend who owned a PI business.
Bronson was a former seal and a tough, blue collar, lay it out like it is guy. He used his military and life experiences to form his own PI agency to find missing persons. He had a very small circle of friends and family and kept his walls firmly in place to avoid any additional attachments.
Becca was a privileged, affluent woman who had no real life experiences beyond spending her father’s money. Her father had recently disappeared and she hired Bronson to find him, thus the story began.
Becca and Bronson had nothing in common…. literally, nothing. Opposites attract so it wasn’t a stretch to see them together and I liked both characters; however, I never could really feel the connection. I craved a little more feeling and attachment between the two. And although I loved the suspenseful plot, it moved a little too slow for me. There were several cases but they all crawled at a snails pace and the storyline became the mundane routine of the characters versus an actual storyline. Once the storyline began moving, near the last quarter of the book, then I couldn’t put it down. For me, I would have preferred more significant detail as the story progressed. Additionally, no spoilers so no elaboration, but there was one storyline that was left hanging. I preferred at least to have some acknowledgement that we would hear more as the series progressed; however, I’m not sure that’s the direction, so it left me desiring more knowledge.
Otherwise, Gone Missing was well written and entertaining. It was Davenport’s first attempt at a mystery based series and I applaud her on her maiden voyage. I loved the secondary characters, the family that was created and the PI based suspenseful plot. Kudos to Davenport. The series has great promise and I look forward to seeing where she leads us next.
This is a good book on family affairs.
Becca’s father has Gone Missing and she hires Bronson to find him.
This is another excellent steamy romantic suspense by an excellent romance author! Becca is a privileged woman who has been spending her life away. Her dad has been missing for months. Her mom is out to lunch. It is time for her to take control of her life and she grabs the reins and hires Bronson. He says we need to get married to get access to her controlling brother. Where is her father and who is the bad guys? I received a gifted copy. I am voluntarily leaving an honest review. I honestly love this story and this series!
**I voluntarily read a copy of this book courtesy of the author/publisher**
Gone Missing is the first book in Jami Davenport’s Gone Missing Detective Agency series. While I am used to Davenport’s sports romances, I was excited to dive into this romantic suspense.
Rebecca “Becca” Galbraith is an heiress whose father has recently disappeared. She chooses to hire a PI to look into his disappearance and hopefully get some answers. While Bronson Warner agrees to take her case, in the end he realizes that he might have made a huge mistake because of how much this case is going to change his life.
As part of the agreement, Becca and Bronson agree to enter into a marriage of convenience to help Bronson get closer to the answers they seek. They agree to stay together for six months, which should be long enough to wrap up the case, but do best laid plans ever go as they are supposed to? Rarely do they, but in this case, throw in growing feelings, numerous threats and two teenagers that neither Becca or Bronson saw coming and you have a lot more complications than either of them expected.
I enjoyed the story, and the characters were really great, however it took me a really long time to get into it. I think it could be the fact it was written in the third person, but once I got into a flow, the story started to move for me.
This is a really good start to this new series and I look forward to what is to come next!
Gone Missing is book 1 in the Gone Missing Detective Agency Series and this is a very different side to this author’s writing, this book shows us just how talented and diverse Jami Davenport is. This is a book full of mystery and Intrigue as well a seriously hot romance. The chemistry is sizzling and this story has the perfect mix of suspense and angst and I’m sure like me you won’t be able to put this book down because you will need to know if once lines are crossed can a HEA be found. A hot mystery that is a must read and I for one can’t wait to see where we are taken next in this series. Perfect start to a new series.
This is the first book into an awesome new series for Jami who is known for her sports romance. She has taken a character, or 3, out of her hockey series to start this new one. I think that this is going to be another wonderful but suspenseful series for Jami. I will admit that this one started out a bit slow and took a couple chapters to really grab my attention but once it did I was hooked and couldn’t put it down.
This is a true story of opposites attract but in a good way! Bronson is a PI and former military with the typical non typical childhood that has him jaded. Becca with a seemingly good and very privileged childhood. She floats along in life until she hears something that she didn’t understand and her father abandons her family. She seeks out Bronson’s help and then they concoct a plan for a fake marriage for Bronson to help find her father. Enter into the relationship a niece and nephew of one of Bronson’s half-brothers from a wayward father. This makes for a perfectly imperfect family that includes Purr and Bronson’s twin Jason. Bronson and Becca fall in love along the way and find they don’t want to end the marriage or the family. I cannot wait to see what happens in their future in the next books in the series. I especially want to see Purr get her own book!
I really enjoyed this book and cannot wait to see the next ones in the series! I was offered this as an ARC for an honest review.
Absolutely loving this new series by Jami Davenport!!! It has all the fixings for a page turner, suspense, intrigue, romance, unpredictability and humour.
Bronson is a private detective that is hired by Becca to find out why her brother and fiancé want to kill her and locate her father. They are both from different worlds and their banter is wonderful. The steaming scenes are pretty good too!!
I truly enjoyed that this story is different from anything I have read and the characters are a hit. A few times I felt there needed a little more depth to their story but overall it was a great book and a definite one click.
Gone Missing was my first book by this author, but it will not be my last! I loved this book and the characters. Not only were the main characters, Becca and Bronson amazing, but the other characters we get to meet throughout the story quickly grew on me.
Full of drama, suspense and mystery this book really does have it all. There is chemistry between Becca and Bronson right from the start and while the two start out pretending to be in a relationship in order to solve the mystery of Becca’s missing father it quickly grows into something real.
The main problem I had about giving this book 5 stars was the misleading synopsis. It says that Becca is dealing with a marriage of convenience and over hears her fiance plotting to kill her. Neither of these things happen anywhere in this book. While I think the story didn’t really need that to happen in order for it to work, it would have been nice to know more about this if that was actually the case.
Overall, this was a book that kept me hooked from start to finish. It had me on the edge of my seat more than once and had me constantly guessing what was going to happen next. I was left with a few questions when it was over, so it would have been nice to have more things cleared up before it came to an end. – By ALisa
This is a thrilling action filled romance and it was fun to try something different from this awesome author!
Possible SPOILERS
Rebecca Galbraith has a missing father that she’s been worried about for a month and now her brother is acting strangely so is her father’s right-hand man….
Rebecca has been approached by a PI named Bronson a couple of times to talk about her family but now she is seeking him out to get some information/confirmation about somethings with her family.
Bronson is doing some work for a friend but somehow it’s linked into Becca’s case and both cases are going slowly.
Becca & Bronson have come together so that Bronson can get closer to Becca’s brother but is it a good idea? What really goes on at the Galbraith company?
When 2 teenagers show up on their doorstep looking for help from Bronson he is unsure what to do with them or their story…..
Gone missing!
A new series by Jami Davenport and it’s different to anything else she’s ever written!
We met Bronson in the last series with Drew when he starts helping him after hockey to investigate missing persons etc. When a case involving his friend Purr’s nephew, Bronson gets involved and approaches Becca. Becca isn’t ready to hear anything negative about her family but when she does she goes to Bronson to hire him to find her missing father and they enter a business agreement. The agreement is to get married so that he has access to her family’s inner circle and so that she has a certain degree of protection!
What they both didn’t count on was the chemistry that they would have, or the fact that they would have an instant family, not too long after they get married. But they take it in their stride as things heat up with everything going on around them
The pages practically turned themselves in this book and I really enjoyed the story, the characters and their personalities and even had some laugh out loud moments even though it was a different story to what I’m used to by Jami
Basically entertaining story that didn’t work on every level
Suspense romance is one of my go-to genres, and I’d read and enjoyed a couple of books by this author before, so I thought I’d give this a shot. Note that this series is a spinoff of the author’s Seattle Sockeyes series, with the main character from book 8 carrying over as a secondary character here. I haven’t read Drew’s book, but didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything.
I liked the setup here with the fake marriage (a favorite trope of mine) and there was plenty of chemistry between Becca and Bronson. I also got a bit of a film noir vibe that I enjoyed, with the whole PI and classy dame in danger part of the setup. I really liked some of the secondary characters, too (I especially loved Purr! ), which helped add to the book.
That said, I had a little trouble getting into the story, mostly I think because I didn’t find Becca particularly relatable, and there were times I didn’t particularly like Bronson, either. As a result the book dragged a bit for me, which isn’t unusual when I don’t really care about the characters. While Becca did show some character growth, and I started to like her better, I would have liked a little more time spent on WHY she changed—it just felt kind of superficial to me.
So I guess I’m on the fence with this one. As a first effort in a new genre for this author, there was a lot of potential in a basically entertaining story that didn’t quite work for me on every level. 3.5 stars
B2B Kelly
This is the first time in reading this author with since I do not read to many sports romances had not thought I would. This one though caught my eye with me thinking this one really looked good. Becca has things going on that are a hot mess with danger and suspense up the ying yang. Bronson is the one whom gets to unravel the suspense and cool down the hot mess. While he does it things will go to the left field with us smiling as things go our way. This one had lots of flavor with many elements being a surprise and not just looking good it was good.
This is different style of book by Jamie Davenport, but oh so good. I was hooked right from the beginning. We met Bronson in a previous book and he intrigued me then plus we get to catch up with Drew. I will be honest and say I was not a big fan of Becca in the beginning, but she did grow on me through out the book. She grew a lot and finds her direction in life. I loved Bronson. He’s life gets turned upside down, but it’s a little kick he needs. This is a book that keeps you on the edge of your seat with the suspenseful parts, but it also has a lot of heart as well. I really can’t wait for more from this series.
I’ve enjoyed Gone Missing so much,it was brilliant and engaging and it kept me in suspense from start to end.
Becca is a wealthy heiress and Bronson is a private investigator,the two of them can’t come from two more different worlds but they meet when they need each other’s help in order to find her missing father and a young guy.
I loved to read how they get closer chapter after chapter,their banters entertaining and the sexy times are hot hot hot.
I know Jami Davenport for her beautiful sports romances, but I really appreciated her new adventure with this new sub genre.
With her first foray into romantic suspense, Jami Davenport definitely held her own! Known for her delectable hockey romances, it was a new venue for Davenport, and a pretty strong showing for that first delve. There were some spots that could have used some additional fleshing out, but overall, a strong group of characters carried out a fairly believable story line. Fast paced, attention grabbing characters with just enough sizzle to keep our attention and have us rooting for that happily ever after. I enjoyed it and look forward to more in the series!
When Rebecca Galbraith starts to question the goings ons of her family and whether she’s in danger or not, she decides to strike out on her own to get some answers. A private investigator has been pestering her for info on her family anyway, so she figures he’s a good bet at trying to get some answers. Her dad’s missing, she thinks her brother might be a murderer and she’s tired of burying her head in the sand!
Bronson Warner has reason to believe the Galbraith’s are shady characters and have something to do with the missing teenage nephew of his friend. He’s been digging to get some info, and it looks like pay dirt just landed in his lap. A quickie marriage of convenience should be just what he needs to get access to the inner dealings of CJ Galbraith, only problem is, he actually starts to like being her Mister!
This is a new author to me and I definitely will be reading more by her. I’m looking into reading her sports romances. This book was full of mystery, intrigue and suspense. Rebecca is a young woman of privilege and when her dad goes missing she turns to a PI to help solve the case. Bronson is that PI and he is working an angle of the wealthy and privileged and their shady dealings. They come up with a mutually beneficial plan- Becca will marry Branson so he has someone on the inside and he will investigate her father’s disappearance. The banter between the two gets funnier and funnier and I love how they get closer and closer throughout the book. Will Bronson be able to solve her father’s disappearance and will he be able to protect Becca? Well the sham of a marriage developed into love? I highly recommend this book!! I can’t wait for next book in the series!
I kindly received an arc for an honest review
Wow, that was a different book from Jami Davenport than her usually sports romances. But it’s oh so good!
Very interesting, exciting.
Rebecca is a young lady, coming from money. Her dad is missing for a while now and she’s going to the PI Bronson for help finding her farther. She realizes she can’t trust anyone, especially in her family, after overhearing her brother talking to his assistant.
Great story, with a mistery. Can it be solved? Well you have to read by yourself! No spoilers here
I really enjoyed this book, and if you like a good suspense romance , this is the right book for you!
Ex Special Forces turned Private Investigator, Bronson Warner doesn’t form attachments. People can’t be trusted and they usually leave. He enjoys his few close friends and solitary life. When he agrees to take on Rebecca Galbraith’s case, he has no idea just how much his life is about to change.
Socialite Rebecca Galbraith’s father is missing, and she’s overheard conversations between her brother and his right hand man that leave her wondering if foul play was involved. She turns to Bronson for proof that it’s her imagination getting the best of her and to find her missing father.
When Bronson suggests a marriage of convenience so he can have an in with Becca’s brother, neither was prepared for the physical attraction and friendship that followed. As they grow closer, the unexpected arrival of two teenagers are added to the mix. With an expiration date to their marriage looming, both Becca and Bronson are wondering if they have to go back to the way things were once the case is solved.
Bronson never wanted a wife or family, but now he has both . . . and he’s not letting them go! As danger mounts, he’ll do anything he needs to in order to keep them safe.
Gone Missing is truly an opposites attract romance. Becca and Bronson could not have come from more opposite social backgrounds. They don’t even really like each other upon first meeting, but the more time they spend together the hotter their attraction burns, finally growing into so much more.
Bron may seem emotionally unavailable, but it is his way of protecting himself. And, he is such a protector. I loved watching him learn to love both Becca and the teens who need his help. I also loved watching Becca turn from a socialite who spent her days with idle pursuits into a socially responsive individual and the person who brings family to Bronson.
The side characters in this book are just as phenomenal. Fans will recognize Drew from prior books and Purr is one of the most amazing characters I’ve ever read. Andy and Keagan also added a fantastic element to the book.
This story has it all . . romance, major suspense and plot twists with the multiple cases Bronson is working including the disappearance of Becca’s father as well as the teens missing person’s case. It was a truly fabulous start to this new series. 5 stars!
Have you ever read an author and get a feel for their writing. I can literally pick up any Jami Davenport book and know it was her writing. Gone Missing had me look at the book cover several times because I was not sure I read it right. This book blew me away and I am excited that it was written by Jami. I am a huge fan and loved Becca and Bronson.
The suspense will bring the angst. Bronson is a new favorite and I loved the chemistry he has with Becca. But there is the drama brewing and you are not quite sure where their story will lead.
Gone Missing is a spicy suspense that will keep you glued to each page. I had to know what would eventually happen with these two! A definite must read. I am excited to see what more we will get from this new series.