This story starts with Mateo visiting his mother and her passing away quickly afterwards.  Such a sombre setting then leads into a high action sequence when someone attacks Gideon's house and the most vulnerable and innocent are in harms way.  This all coalesces in Mateo and makes him determined to find out who was involved and root out the money trail that should lead them to whoever it was.

He goes undercover to get intel from the bank processing the money but finds that MacLaine Simpson is actually Lainey Simpson and now he has to engineer a meet-cute to slide into her life! 

Maclaine aka Lainey is new to the job, has a colleague making her life unbearable and a boss who left after only 4 days, so she's kind of sinking more than swimming at the moment.  Mateo has become a bright spot in her life and their chemistry is on fire!  However, will she take it as well when she finds out Mateo is undercover?

I felt a lot of sympathy for Lainey.  She may be from a well-off and privileged background but that doesn't make her immune to life, she has problems like everyone else including her toxic mother and sister.  I really would have loved to slap the pair of them - they were odious and Daddy wasn't much better.  I did like her brothers though - they at least had a bit of a backbone.  I felt she handled the deception well and had justifiable anger.

That scene with the "oranges" gave me the chills and I was rooting for Matt and the others to get there warp speed!  Mateo had a few emotional traumas in this book and never really had sufficient time to get over them before whirling into action so he really was pulled in different directions.

I really enjoyed this story and can't wait to see what happens with Brax!