Natalie Porter has been searching for her biological parents, and just when she finally has hope, her contact disappears. She is a grad student and one of her hobbies is what she calls manalyst; she tells all her friends what a man is like just from looking at him. Until a tall stranger wanders in the bar and she gets nothing... intrigued she offers to buy him a drink but gets snubbed. More embarrassed than anything...well she is still turned on ...she goes home. Within moments he's there with a story; he is her bodyguard sent by her wealthy Russian father who has mafiya ties, and she needs to pack a bag because bad guys know where she is.

Aleksei "The Siberian" Sevastyan's loyalty has always been to Pavel Kovalev and having been sent to watch over his long lost daughter is just another job. The enforcer had never imagined the young woman would be spirited and beautiful. Now others who are not so friendly know of her existence, and he has to get her to Russia. If he has to kidnap her in just her robe and nothing else so be it.

Neither expects the sexual sparks to fly so quickly, nor does he expect the little virgin to be so amenable to his sexual darkness. She might be forbidden fruit in his eyes, but she knows what she wants and Sevastyan is it. But is it possible to keep him?

THE PROFESSIONAL is an action filled erotica with a number of twists and turns that only author Kresley Cole can provide. She takes you into a number of different countries...from Nebraska to Russia, to Paris to places where bullets fly and darker sexual needs exist. The book, for me, started out like gangbusters, with Natalie a tough cookie who doesn't just follow along where Sevastyan leads, but somewhere along the storyline, she fell too much under his erotic choice spell and lost herself. I also wish she had more time with her father, getting to know more of her heritage, because that is after all why she was seeking her biological parents. Don't get me wrong I did enjoy this book, though I am not into BDSM, so be warned that is Sevanstyan's world. The emotional ride that both Natalie and Sevastyan find themselves on and the pressure for him to open up took a long time coming and might have been easier in little bits at a time instead of one long narrative. I am glad I waited for all three parts in one, because despite all my feelings on what might be considered drawbacks for me, I still would have been waiting for the next installment of THE PROFESSIONAL to find out what happens to this couple.

Book Summary

The highly anticipated complete novel of The Professional—the first installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole’s scorching Game Maker series, an erotica collection that has readers asking: How hot is too hot?

He makes the rules… Mafiya enforcer Aleksei “The Siberian” Sevastyan’s loyalty to his boss knows no bounds, until he meets the boss’s long-lost daughter, a curvy, feisty redhead who haunts his mind and heats his blood like no other. Ordered to protect her, Aleksei will do anything to possess her as well—on his own wicked terms.

Rules are made to be broken… Grad student Natalie Porter had barely recovered from her first sight of the dark and breathtaking Sevastyan before the professional enforcer whisks her away to Russia, thrusting her into a world of extreme wealth and wanton pleasures. Every day under his protection leads her deeper under his masterful spell.

Are you ready to play? Yet all is not as it seems. To remove Natalie from an enemy’s reach, Sevastyan spirits her into hiding. From an opulent palace in Russia to the decadent playgrounds of the mega-wealthy in Paris, the two lovers will discover that even their darkest—and most forbidden—fantasies can come true…