Collette is the only daughter of the Secretary of State. He smothers her with security and she just wants to be left alone. She is working on her Ph.D and is going to Uganda to gather more information and to teach at the university. Enter Travis from the Holt Agency who just finished a job in Uganda and is tasked with watching after Collette who is reluctant to have a “body guard.” Their encounters from beginning to end are explosive.

Travis a former Navy Seal now employed with Holt Security is in Uganda at the airport ready to fly home after his rescuing mission of locating a partying college boy who hasn’t called or answered his wealthy parents calls in Uganda while traveling abroad, answering his cell phone Travis finds out he has another job in Uganda. “This case is different. And the college student is actually a PhD candidate. She’s not a girl. She’s a woman. And she’s not missing. She’s on her way there.” Then why do you need me? Because her father is the Secretary of State, and he wants her to have a bodyguard. I’m not a bodyguard. I find people, rescue them. I know. But he’s desperate. Why is he desperate? Something about this assignment felt off. This is The Very Basic Beginning to a wonderfully written Suspenseful Romantic love story. I could not put down..

Colette has had bodyguards most of her life as her father is Secretary of State. She’s studying abroad and Tavis is a former Navy Seal and is hired by her father to keep her protected. He doesn’t want to babysit but after being around her things happen! Can he keep her safe when they are together or will he have to end it? I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.