Publication Date: February 4, 2020
Publisher: Dawn Hill Publications LTD
Series: Standalone
No. of Pages: 185 pages

R E V I E W

WARNING: This review may contain spoilers.

The Billionaire Needs a Bodyguard is a contemporary romance of Ravina Hilliard which tells us a story about an agent and a billionaire. This is the first (ever) book of Ravina Hilliard that I’ve read.

My first impression of this book is that it will have a lot of action because Lex is a private security consultant and Michael has death threats. Guess what? My first impression is wrong. The story unfolds with the characters who can’t control their sexual tension with each other. There is a steamy and cheesy story between the characters. I expected this since this is an adult contemporary romance.

The book is entertaining and I also classified it as “light reading” for me. Another thing that I like about this book is the role of Lex. It is not the usual “damsel in distress” which we usually see in romance. I like that she is an undercover bodyguard that I rarely read in this kind of genre. In this book, it is the male lead who needs protection. The only protection that the female lead needs here is protection from her desires with Michael.

The plot, the writing style, and the characters are good and I enjoyed it. The only problem I have in this book is that it ended shortly without much action in it.

Overall, I like it!

★★★★☆

F A V O R I T E L I N E S

“Why couldn’t she bring the confidence she had in her professional abilities into her personal life? Or was she being too hard on herself?”

“All she could do was stare, hoping that the misery she was feeling didn’t reach her eyes.”

“She was fighting a losing battle with herself.”

“Why not just enjoy the moment instead of worrying about the future?”

“I’ll take this loss gracefully. After all, one can’t win them all.”

S Y N O P S I S

Alexandra “Lex” Granger is a private security consultant who has to go undercover to protect billionaire businessman Michael Thornton, pretending to be an escort. Michael does not think he needs a bodyguard, despite the death threats he has received from protesters against his takeover of a Danish company, but he does need protection against the predatory wife of the Danish ambassador. Lex knows that this assignment is dangerous, made more so because her client does not even know that he is being protected.

She doesn’t know that he thinks she is a con-artist a gold-digger who takes rich men for everything that she can get. As sparks fly, and the attraction between the two go stronger, they face a deadly danger from an unknown assailant. Lex and Mike embark on a turbulent affair in the beautiful city of Copenhagen, with Mike realising that there is much more to the sexy seductress, her bewildering vulnerability evoking unfettered passion and feelings that he has never experienced before. Lex realises that she has committed the ultimate folly, that of falling in love with a man who despises her. Will she overcome the dangers to Michael to her breaking heart?