Dying for You

Beverly Barton has been writing the "Protectors" for many yrs and all of us have wondered when the three sets of unrequited lovers would get togather. I thought each would have his own book, but as a wonderful gift to her long time readers she has ended the series with a book that ties up all the ends. It is a good read and a great ending to the series. Sawyer McNamara and Lucie Evans volitile relationship has it's reason buried in the past. They have had many screaming matches during the run of the series. But you always knew that she had feelings for him. Cara Bedell and Bain Desmond met during the search for her sister's killer. Both fell in love but Bain can't see that they have anything in common. He is a detective for the Chattanougha PD and she is a billionaire. Daisy Holbrook is Sawyer's efficent secretary and she has been in love with Geoff Monday since she went to work there. But Geoff is fifteen yrs older than Daisy and tho he flirts with her he shows no signs of a preference for her company. For years we have wanted these three couples to commit to each other and now in one novel everything hits the fan and all feelings are left open. Lucie leaves The Dundee agency and goes to work for Cara as her bodyguard. She is kidnapped in Cara's place and that is the begining of the unraveling of the knots. I don't want to spoil any of the rest of the book but I encourage you not to miss it. I loved the story and she fills in all the facts fully. Well worth the time and money as a matter of fact this one is a keeper.

Lucie Evans and Sawyer McNamara have a history. A history neither one of them will talk about or discuss with each other. For years Lucie has done her best to try and make Sawyer understand that she is not to blame for past mistakes. Mistakes he holds himself and her responsible for. For the past nine years Lucie has tried to redeem herself by taking any and all jobs he has assigned her; jobs that were the worst of the worst. Not any longer. When her last assignment tries to manhandle her, Lucie has had enough and she quits. Ready to start her new life - without Sawyer - she accepts a new position as the personal bodyguard to an extremely rich heiress. While accompanying her new boss to a meeting in South America, Lucie is kidnapped by rebels who think she is their quarry. There is only one man who can rescue her, and that man is Sawyer McNamara, the one man she has always loved and who has never loved her back. I engulfed Dying for You like Norman Love chocolates! Full of suspense, I did nothing for the time it took me to read this amazing story. Sawyer McNamara kept things close to his heart; especially his guilt. In doing this, he came across as hating Lucie Evans when in actuality, he yearned for her. He felt that he owed his brother for his secret obsession with Lucie and nothing would sway him. Lucie Evans loved Sawyer just as much but her heart was worn on her sleeve more often than not. Striving to overcome his anger, Lucie took a lot of flack from Sawyer and more than once I would have had to give him a piece of my mind. But, if there is anything that kept Lucie going, it was her knowledge that above all, Sawyer was loyal. And his loyalty is what was needed to save her. Believe it or not, Dying for You is my first Beverly Barton novel. After having finished this book in record time, I am sitting here wondering where in the world I have been that I have never read a book by this author before. Her website states that Dying for You is the final installment of The Protectors series which just gives me gumption to go back and find every single installment! Spine tingling suspense, amazingly written, and romantic to boot, Dying for You has it all. I greedily savored every single word. Talia Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

I've followed The Protectors series by Beverly Barton for years...like many, I've been dying for Lucie Evans and Sawyer McNamara to bring their relationship to a head...and I'm so thrilled with the story Ms. Barton came up with for these charachters I've followed for years!! Lucie Evans has had it...Sawyer McNamara has pulled his last trick out of his bag on her...she's through. She's hunge in there at The Dundee Agency for years, no matter how hard he pushed her to quit~~how could she leave, when there might still be a chance that Sawyer would forgive her? But she's finally seen the light...there is no hope. Or so she thinks, until she is kidnapped and her life threatened~~and Sawyer, CEO and a hands off man, takes a very hands on approach to her case. Ms. Barton gives glimpses of the relationship Sawyer and Lucie has in the past...we get a clear view of why all the animosity between them, and it broke my heart to see the pain they've shared. But, oh, she does a superb job. I could totally buy the 9 year animosity...the guilt and anger they both experienced. And we get to see several charachters we've come to love finally get their stories as sidelines...The Dundee Agency's office manager, Daisy, has been in love with one of it's agents, Geoff Monday, for years. Finally they get their story. As well as Cara Bedell and Bain, the police detective the billionaire has loved for several years. How will he overcome the enormous difference in their lives?? Both side stories were just as compelling and wonderful as the main story. I am so thrilled with this book...I started reading it at about 10 last night...and didn't stop 'til the last page. I'm sad to see The Dundee Agency go...I've loved these stories for years. Ms. Barton has always had a talent for switching them up...some are heart wrenching, some are sweet, some are amusing... but they're all, every one, great books. Up to this point I think Sweet Caroline's Keeper has been my favorite...but Dying For You goes over the top. She really takes this series out with class and style~~Don't miss this book!!!

The first book that I read from the Protector series was Time to Die with Deke and Lexie. I loved that book and wanted to read the rest of the series. I have all of them now. I could not wait until this book was released and I am glad that we got three endings instead of one. We got to see Cara and Bain finally realize that money should not be the reason they can't be together, or at least Bain realized that. We got to see Daisy get her man, and finally we learn the back story of the hostiliaty between Sawyer and Lucie. Their story was such a heartbreaker, and it was all due to their own stubborness, more on Sawyer's side and misunderstandings. It took Lucie to almost lose her life before the fog cleared away from Sawyers heart and mind. As Ms. Barton said it was a bittersweet ending to a great series. But I feel for Ty as he is the only main Dundee Employee that showed up in several books but did not walk away with a girl. Maybe he will quiet the Dundee Agency and work for the Powell Agency so we can see where his journey leads him to.

I absolutely love Beverly Barton's books - she has become a must read for me. Dying for You did not disappoint. Sawyer & Lucy have been hostile towards one another in many of the other books with no explanation. This book explains it all! It also ties up all of the other relationships that were left untied in other books. It's definitely bittersweet that we won't be able to read about the Dundee Agency anymore, but I look forward to reading more about Griffin Powell and his fellow agents.