Code Name: Revenge

4.25 stars--CODE NAME: REVENGE is the ninth instalment in Sawyer Bennett’s contemporary, adult JAMESON FORCE SECURITY erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on the men and women who work for Jameson Force Security. This is thirty one year old, single mother Jessica Anderson, and IT specialist James ‘Dozer’ Burney’s story line. CODE NAME; REVENGE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Dozer and Jessica) CODE NAME: REVENGE follows the friends to lovers relationship between single mother Jessica Anderson, and IT specialist James ‘Dozer’ Burney. Dozer, Jessica and Chase met at the University of Miami, and Dozer found himself the proverbial third wheel when Jessica and Chase started dating. A surprise pregnancy found Jessica a single mother but her friendship with Dozer never strayed but a relationship with a member of the Russian Mafia placed Jessica in the direct line of fire when our heroine became an informant against the man she was seeing. Fast forward to present day wherein said Russian has escaped prison, and has set his sights on our story line heroine. Notified of the escape, Dozer calls in the team at Jameson Force Security to protect the woman he has always loved. What ensues is the rebuilding romance and relationship between Dozer and Jessica, and the potential fall-out as Dozer becomes the bait to draw out the man hoping to take down our story line heroine.

The relationship between Jessica and Dozer is a friends to lovers, friends who have loved one another from afar but never crossing the invisible line between friendship and more. Having watched his university friends brings another life into the world, Dozer never expected to find himself guardian and protector of the woman that called to his heart. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including several of the Jameson Force Security members: Kynan and Joslyn McGrath, Bebe and Griff, Jackson, Cage, and Malik; new member Kellen McCord, as well as Jessica’s mother Claire; her daughter Thea; Russian mobster Ivan Borovsky, and Dozer’s father James Burney, a man with a questionable connection to underworld crime. Kellen’s story line is next in CODE NAME: OMEGA.

CODE NAME: REVENGE is a story of power and struggle; second chances and acceptance; family and friendships, relationships and love. The fast paced, character driven premise is intriguing and engaging; the characters are dynamic and charismatic; the romance is seductive and fated.

I have been waiting for Dozer’s story. I enjoyed Dozer and Jessica story and they had chemistry from the get go. There was suspense, but I wanted a little bit more. I wanted a little bit more of the mystery that was Dozer in the Jameson Novels. I love how they were able to heal and come together on so many levels.
“I want to wake up to your face every morning, and go to sleep with the memory of your kiss on my lips every
night.”
About the Book:
When Kynan McGrath approached me about joining Jameson Force Security, I jumped at the chance. Just call me Dozer Burney, one half of the genius duo who keeps the team at the forefront of security technology. The move from NASA to Jameson also put me back on the east coast, closer to those who mean the most to me.
Jessica Anderson has been my best friend since college. A single mom who found herself mixed up with a dangerous man years ago, she’s been living a safe, quiet life in Miami after helping police put him behind bars. We both knew her safety, and that of her daughter, was reliant on him staying locked up. So when I see an alert that he’s escaped from his maximum security prison, I know where he’s heading to exact his revenge.
Now it’s a race against time to get to Jessica before he does.
Protecting her with my life is easy, because there’s one thing I’ve never admitted to anyone, not even myself—I have been in love with Jessica Anderson since the day I met her. And if we both make it out alive, I’ll make sure she knows it every day for the rest of our lives.

"𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝑫𝒐𝒛𝒆𝒓. 𝑵𝒐 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖."

Dozer and Jess have been best friends since college but never ventured past the friend zone. Jess and her daughter's lives are in danger and Dozer is determined to save them and hope that they can become the family he wished they always could be.

Dozer and Jess have lots of history and you can feel the love between them. Thea is adorable and knows the perfect times to make your heart melt. I enjoyed being back in the Jameson world although I felt this one lacked the suspense of the other books in the series. I am looking forward to the conclusion of the Jameson Force Security series with Code Name: Omega.

Code Name: Revenge contains... romantic suspense, best friends-to-lovers, single mom, dual first-person point of view.

⏤ 4 Maple Leaf Review ⏤