A battered man, down on his luck and forced into a job he never wanted… quiet, boring days.
Then came the intruders. Home invaders with secret conspiracies? Those he could handle.
But love? Never saw the damn thing coming.
A young scientist, determined to do right in a dangerous world…
Sebastian’s path in life was set the second his father shipped him off to schools for the gifted.
Devoted to his research, he pretended the outside world didn’t exist at all. He had everything under control, until the day a threat surfaced: a plot to kidnap Sebastian and demand millions in ransom for his release.
Enter the bodyguard. Twenty years older, with silver hair, gleaming eyes, and tattoos crawling up his muscles. A man who growled when he talked and promised to keep Sebastian safe.
Declan built walls around his heart, and shy Sebastian knows not to fall for a man like that. But as the flames between them grow hotter, will Sebastian learn to open his own heart in time for something real to finally break through?
Guarding His Heart is the first book in Bad Boy Security, a steamy new M/M series with guaranteed HEAs. Enjoy!
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I have mixed feelings on this book. It’s an interesting idea but seems like it could have had so much more potential. I couldn’t really connect with the MCs and the crisis moments were really anti-climactic. Additionally, once the relationship becomes sexual the author seems to have decided to use sex to replace an actual storyline or character development. The story arc just flatlines. It’s too bad as there were some good points and the idea really had some potential I thought.
*I voluntarily read an ARC and this is my objective review *
Declan has lost his way, gambling away. He gets a bodyguard job with a nerdy scientist to oay up. Seb is a genius and a bit spoiled but funny and smart. It’s a May December slow burn that will make you turn your pages for what’s next, a bit of danger and a bit of romance. Good book!
Sebastian is a scientist who is under his fathers thumb, he is threatened and his dad hires a bodyguard Declan. Declan is pushed into a job he left behind cause of debt he owed and is hired to be a bodyguard for Sebastian.
The relationship between these two was a slow burn and I loved their interaction with each other. This story has the danger, passion and good character development. I definitely recommend this book!
Independent reviewer for Gay Romance Reviews, I was gifted a copy of this book.
The protection detail to Sebastian was supposed to be an easy job, just to keep up appearences more than anything. But Declan’s powerful attraction to Seb made itself known early, and then Seb’s life was in danger. Can Declan keep them alive long enough for Seb to drop his walls and let Declan in?
I really rather enjoyed this!
Declan is tough, and makes no bones about how he is. Being bodyguard to a mobster for years has made him so. But Seb brings out something in him he didn’t now he had and it was fun watching the big man fall, and fall HARD!
Seb is a genius and has been treated as such. Declan treats him as him, not as his IQ. He comes across a bit spoilt, but he isn’t all his father’s money, indeed he has plans that go against that.
The whole threat to Seb doesn’t pan out how I thought it would, and it did fall a little flat to me, but that’s okay. It was well written, it just wasn’t blow you away plot twist type thing.
The relationship between Seb and Declan creeps up on Declan, but Seb is all in, right from the start.
This was a good introduction for me to this author.
4 solid stars
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Steamy M/M romance between the bodyguard and his protectee
Declan Kaiser has squandered his time and money in Las Vegas looking for his big score at the poker tables. Now it’s time to pay up. After a significant drunk evening-into morning event, he has nothing more to use as collateral. The man whom he owes gives him a bodyguarding assignment on the East Coast for the father of a young scientist who has been threatened with kidnapping. Is there more to this assignment?
Sebastian is the gifted, young scientist looking for ways to correct environmental issues while helping his father’s business make money. Their contract is to allow Seb to work on green energy as long as he gives his father’s laboratories the information to utilize for their enterprise. What Seb doesn’t know is that there is more going on here than is obvious.
Declan is 20 years older than Sebastian but they have an immediate connection what with Declan’s “silver hair, gleaming eyes, and tattoos inching over his muscles.” I loved the touching ending. If you like explicit M/M romance with suspense, angst, and a growly “old” man who doesn’t want to care, get this book. I volunteered to review an ARC of this book through Gay Romance Reviews and it comes highly recommended. I give it 4.5 stars. Perfect choice for the cover model too!
I am a huge fan of R Cayden books so when I received this book as an ARC I was so happy… This first book in the series is about Declan an “expert” in security accepting a job to pay a debt and Sebastian a genius, and how they found each other. As always, characters are amazing and the plot is interesting with the exact measure of action, danger, romance and hot scenes. I loved how everything fell into place at the end. Wonderful first book in the series!!
I am voluntarily leaving my honest review.
Sebastian and Declan were definitely a mis-matched couple who worked well together. Falling in love with your bodyguard is a pretty common story however the twist of the story was really around Seb and his shady family, and not surprisingly around Declan and his crime syndicate family. Everything worked out, there was no big break up scene which I love and everyone got their happily ever after!