Who to trust?

Synopsis

Keep your friends close…

But your enemies closer?

In order to find a legendary treasure map, mercenary Louve of Mei Solis must infiltrate his enemy’s fortress under the guise of a servant. There, Louve meets beautiful maiden Biedeluue, a fellow servant with her own hidden agenda…to save her sister from the malevolent Lord’s clutches! Their high-stakes missions may be at odds with one other, but their attraction cannot be denied even in this most dangerous of situations…

My review

Biedeluue is working as a maiden in a fortress, with the sole purpose of rescuing her sister from the hands of the malevolent lord’s clutches.
Yet when Louve appears as the new servant, she finds it hard to resist the attraction. But Louve is not who he seems to be… he is mercenary Louve of Mei Solis, and has also an own agenda.

Will their attraction compromise their tasks? And who can they trust when it becomes clear that there is more going on in the fortress than initially thought?

I have read several books of this author and I must say, this one is the most confusing one!
Let me elaborate…

There is so much going on in this story, so many people with a secret agenda and secrets, that I just didn’t know who to trust and who not.
The moment I thought I had it all figured out, something else would happen and I lost my trust all over again.

Yet the story between Louve and Biedeluue was again spot on!
Despite what I initially thought, Biedeluue is not a damsel in distress. She does not need a knight (or mercenary) in shining armour. She wants to save her sister, and does not need the help from anyone else.
Even when Louve offers his help, she sticks to her own plan as she knows what is at stake…
And she knows what she wants for her own future and is not letting someone change her mind.

Louve is as expected a real Alpha – male. He takes charge of tings, and he decides how the operations should be going. Of course he is a mercenary, so he has knowledge of how to handle some situations.

When these two characters are together, the attraction is very obvious and even if they are very different and want different things, they just can’t stay away from each other. This couple is for me the perfect example of how opposites attract!

But it’s not only the attraction that made me like this story. It’s obvious that these people have their heart at the right place. The lengths Biedeluue goes for her sister, is admirable. And when she doesn’t understand her sister, she tries to understand, no matter how difficult it is. And together with Louve she tries to find a solution that will please everyone.

And the trust Louve has in some people, is also admirable. He says it himself, to earn someone trusts is not an easy task, but when he trusts someone, he is a real friend and he protects that friend risking his own life!

The both of them have endured several things in their lives, and those events made them to the persons they are now. Some things that initially made me frown, became clear once the truth was out. And it made me understand the characters even better.

But the most difficult part for me was understanding how to pronounce the names correctly! I was saying them at loud, but no matter how I pronounced them, they all sounded wrong to me! So, for me, it was not about Biedeluue and Louve, but just ‘Bee’ and ‘Lou’ 😁.

This story was very entertaining, with sweet, hot moments but also moment that made me gasp, with action and intrigues.