Vigilant by Michelle Hart

Alliance I-Marshal Weber hauls Yadira to her home planet and infiltrates the human-trafficking ring controlling her. But he finds himself unbearably attracted to his witness. A gift for detecting deception reveals she’s the next victim of a criminal industry.

Descending into shadowy worlds of slavery, Yadira endures a dark angel stalking her dreams and watches the quiet I-Marshal become dangerous in her defense. Everything about him moves her…except the memory of seeing him execute the most important man in her life. Shouldn’t she take vengeance? Delusions of a heavenly guardian affect her mind.

Slavers and demons plan to snatch her from Weber’s custody while he is uncovering connections, and Weber won’t hesitate to execute the guilty surrounding Yadira. Who but a son of fire can save her from fiends harboring hardcore fantasies of harming her?

I really would like to see how Weber and Yadira get away from the demons and slavers, but I just don’t have the patience to finish this book.  It’s way too wordy and the dialog is beyond stilted.  Maybe someday I’ll go back to this book, but for now I have other things to do and a TBR list of better-written books.

The story is a good one, but like so many other authors who publish independently, it suffers from the lack of good editing.  With some hand-holding and guidance this could have been a good book.  I went back and finished it, and I found the ending satisfying.

Length:  109,838 Words

Price:  $5.50

Buy Link:  http://www.bookstrand.com/vigilant

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