Crazy Kisses by Tara Janzen

Professional soldier Kid Chronopolous moves in stealth and shadow to take out the world's deadliest threats. Now, after barely surviving a hair-raising mission in South America, the Special Defense Forces agent comes home to Panama City for some sorely needed R & R...and finds a bikini bottom that can belong to only one woman.

Nikki McKinney has never forgiven Kid for vanishing from her life after the mind-blowing passion they shared. Now he's suddenly back on the planet, where she's rising to the top of the local art scene. But her safe, sheltered world is about to be rocked to its core. Because there's a bounty on Kid's head-and his enemies don't care if they take him dead or alive. With dangerous people gunning for him, Kid's got Nikki running for cover...and right into his arms. Keeping her safe is his latest mission. Keeping their hands off each other is out of the question....

This is the story I've been waiting for since I started this series. We first hear about Nikki McKinney, Regan's sister from the first book, Crazy Hot, when she meets Peter "Kid" Chronopolous in the first book. Nikki is a wild and crazy artist, a real girly-girl with massive amounts of talent and major drive. She photographs and paints naked men..and she does an amazing job at it.

Throughout the series, we say Nikki and Kid interact with each other when he wasn't out on missions, and I loved reading about them. Even when I got irritated with the other books (which wasn't that often, acutally), I didn't want to put them down for fear I'd miss more about Kid and Nikki.

J.T. Chronopolous, Kid's older brother, was killed in South America in the second book, and Kid has been in a crusade of vengence ever since. He comes back from a mission, hurt and bleeding, to find Nikki in his South American home, even though he's heard she got engaged.

Nikki knew she needed to end things with Kid once and for all, but instead of the firm goodbye speech she'd planned, they end up in bed together. The next morning, Kid's worst enemy shows up and Nikki watches kid shoot some bad guys. After that, they head back to the states so Nikki can have her first big show and deal with more bad guys.

Though they know they love each other right from the beginning, it hasn't even been enough to keep Kid home with Nikki, or even in touch with her. Watching the two of them decide to fight for each other and that love IS enough was fabulous.

Tara Janzen really set the stage for the next few books in the series, too. The characters are fabulous and I love the fast cars and guns. Yeah, I'm not sure what that says about me either.

4 out of 5

The series order so far:

Crazy Hot
Crazy Cool
Crazy Wild
Crazy Kisses