Assignment: Bodyguard Book

Oh, the was a labor to finish.

Okay, so Kit Atkin's is a widow who's husband had aspirations of changing his career from oil tycoon to political leader before he died in a helicopter crash that was ruled an accident. Kit's father is another powerful man who now runs CHAIM, a christian spy/detective/protection/whatever agency that somehow has some extreme leeway when it comes to the law. When Kit suspects someone of breaking into her office (among other things) her father decides to use his resources and calls in the best of his best, British/American agent Shane Warwick. Shane is a womanizer, who falls fasts then leaves them. He's calm under fire, claims to be capable, claims to be protective, and is bossy in a slightly condescending way.
When Kit is targeted at her own charity event, Shane somehow convinces her to run off with him because he suspects an inside job. Now you think Shane would take her somewhere off grid since CHAIM is spreading the rumor that he and Kit are dating to help explain her disappearance, but he doesn't. No, Shane takes her to his second home, a ranch in Texas that was owned by his father, cause no one would be able to figure out that one (sarcasm).
Somehow in the course of...three days (?) the two of them develop strong feelings for one another and start kissing all about the property, including when they are staking out the roadway. Brilliant (more sarcasm). It takes less then a week for them to decide they love each.

Kit has a mild case of TSTL syndrome and Shane wavers back and forth between being a decent agent and an absolute idiot. He just assumes his house is safe, doesn't have someone watching the security system most of the time, doesn't call in for back up until there is a supposed attempt on Kit after someone sneaks onto the property, doesn't check Kit or her stuff for bugs/tracking devices, takes Kit out to watch the road for a truckload of bad guys, etc. And Kit...she wavers between being a classic Texas Belle and an idiot. She can handle a gun but drops it in shock with the safety off, can expertly drive a small car through the bush and ride a horse but screams and hides in the pantry when she sees someone in the window, doesn't know when to listen and stay put and does this multiple times, decides that she will go headlong into an obvious trap to save her friend...the list goes on and just gets move negative.

All in all this book was a struggle to get through, which is disappointing because it sounded great when I read the synopsis. I'm not going to lie. I 100% sped read the last 88 pages.