{Review} The Ghost by Jessica Gadziala

The Ghost by Jessica Gadziala
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
THEME: Opposites Attract
GENRE: Contemporary Romance

The Ghost (Professionals, #2)

by Jessica Gadziala

4.33 · 1,102 Ratings · 124 Reviews

BLURB:

Sloane has everything she thought she ever wanted- a great career, a great apartment, great clothes, a life she had worked hard for.

Until one night, one chance encounter, one decision that changed everything.

With no options left, she enlists the help of Quinton Baird & Associates, who promptly inform her that she has to leave it all - the career, the apartment, the life she had worked so hard to build for herself - behind.

If all that wasn’t enough, her entire future - and life in general - was in the hands of a man whose coworkers called ‘The Ghost.’ Because that was what he did; he ghosted people, hid them, gave them new lives, made them impossible to find.

With no other choice, she agrees to his terms, climbs in a car with him, and travels almost clear across the country toward her new life. But the long hours on the road - and even longer hours in cabins and hotel rooms - together start to show her things. Like how unhappy she had actually been, how hollow her life was, how much she had denied herself in the name of superficial success.

And maybe, just maybe, how much she was starting to see how wrong first impressions can be, and how much a person can begin to mean to you when you decided to let them in…

REVIEW:

I was super excited to start the second installment of the Professionals, especially after being introduced to Ghost aka Gunner, the man who can make people disappear. Of course the whole gang is back, with Quinton and crew. I swear each book gets better and better, I love Gadziala's writing, humor and depth she put into her characters and stories.

The Ghost follows Sloane who needs to disappear after she witness a dangerous man do a crime and now he's after her. She is a successful woman with her own business but per the rules of disappearing that means she has to leave everything she built behind and make a new life for herself where every Gunner The Ghost sets her up. Along the way Sloane begins to open up to Gunner and he realizes that she's not really the prim and proper prude she pretended to be. But his job is to get her out of town and give her a new life and be done, no ties, no connections, which include him.

Sloane is a tough one to like at the beginning, she is successful and good a what she does, but her control freak natural and the way she carries herself turned her into an ice queen and prudish person. She comes off all wrong to Quinton and Gunner, but she has the money and they took the job. But her shields come down the longer she is away from everything she's every known, she connects to Gunner and even with his gruff attitude they have a spark.

Gunner is is good at what he does, he makes people gone. Normally he does his job and he's back home within a few days depending on where he's relocating their clients. But when a storm strands him with Sloane for a couple of days, he comes face to face with a woman who challenges him. He's a bit of a jerk the first half because he doesn't like women like he thinks Sloane is, but soon he softens up and their slow burn chemistry becomes off the charts.

Of course in Sloane's situation there has the be some low points and the author does a great job showing emotionally how starting over is a massive life hit/change. Overall this story was great, I love two opposites connecting.

I can't wait for the next book because Kai!! Oh man my sweet, big hearted Kai. I want to wrap him up in a big hug after that ending.

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