Although things got a little bit flashback heavy for me in the first half of the book, I really liked these details that really flesh out both these guys in ways we haven’t seen before. We also finally learn what Ty has been doing on all these special assignments for Richard Burns. With Ty we get even more details, learning about past loves while in the Marines, how he got recruited for his elite team, and what led them to be discharged. We also learn more about his time in Miami and his undercover assignment there. For Zane’s part we learn about his first trip to New Orleans with his wife years ago, and an experience there that forever changed him. After six books of getting little bits of Ty and Zane’s personal history, we finally get a lot of detail that fills in some missing pieces about what has shaped these guys. Where that story was sweet and romantic with a bit of madcap mystery, this book is definitely deeper and more murky. This newest installment in the fabulous Cut & Run series is another great story with a very different tone than the preceding book, Stars & Stripes. Threats that not only mean risks to their lives, but risks to their relationship as well. And while there are lots of good memories for both men, there are also great threats from both their pasts. When the men arrive, both their pasts come to the forefront. Though Ty’s former undercover assignment there left him on such bad terms he knew he could never return to the city, Ty can not refuse a friend in need and he and Zane take off for New Orleans.

But before much can happen job-wise, Ty gets an emergency call from a friend in New Orleans. Things are starting to change for them at work, though, as all their time in the public spotlight has made continued undercover work next to impossible.

Ty Grady and Zane Garrett are back in Baltimore after some crazy time off in Texas.

Crash and burn abigail roux