Why You'll Love This
Two people with iron-clad reasons never to trust again — and absolutely zero ability to stay away from each other.
- Great if you want: wounded characters who earn their happy ending the hard way
- The experience: fast-moving, tension-charged romance with low patience for slow burns
- The writing: Edwards writes banter that crackles and emotional stakes that land cleanly
- Skip if: you prefer emotional complexity over satisfying genre beats
About This Book
Two people who've been burned badly enough to know better find themselves doing it anyway. Reese, a former SEAL still carrying the wreckage of a betrayal from his own marriage, can't stop walking into a bakery he has no business visiting. Sadie, who watched someone she trusted drain her accounts and nearly her future along with them, can't afford distraction — literally. The tension between what these two characters need and what they're willing to risk is where Dangerous Games lives, and Riley Edwards keeps the pressure on throughout, layering financial stakes and emotional vulnerability in ways that make the romance feel genuinely earned rather than inevitable.
Edwards writes attraction with a specificity that separates her from the genre's more generic offerings — Reese and Sadie feel like actual people with actual damage, not placeholders for romantic convention. The pacing is confident and deliberate, giving the push-and-pull between them room to breathe without losing momentum. As the third book in the Takeback series, it rewards readers already invested in this world while standing solidly on its own for anyone arriving here first.
