My Review 
 ***4.5 'The slow, excruciating simmer' Stars*** 
 OMG these two!! They seriously drove me batshit crazy and yet I couldn't put the damn book down. I couldn't. They were addictive in their insanity to keep each other compartmentalized all nice and neatly in the friend and business partner zone even with the crazy chemistry between them and I needed to find out what would finally push them both over the edge. 
 Trey and Kate drove me crazy, they did, and yet I still loved and adored them. Trey I adored. The man has all that alpha goodness going on: sexy, dominant, compassionate, generous and has charisma in spades. He's unapologetic about his kinks and takes most everything in stride and yet keeps his heart firmly hidden behind a kevlar wall because the fear of losing it all by truly giving it away is a risk he can't bear. But watching him evolve and seeing the man he's become in the end made my heart all kinds of swoony twitterpatted. 
 Overall I adored Kate. I loved her tenacity and vision when it came to her professional life. The passion she has for lingerie and how to make her vision a reality, whether it be a corset or way to market the product was awe inspiring. But her vision of what her 'perfect' man and relationship was what drove me crazy (OMG I almost shot Craig), it's not that what she wanted was wrong, just...well, she tended to see only what she wanted to. But I have to give her props because when she decides to go all in, she really does and does it with her whole heart. 
 Their relationship. I've already stated how batshit it drove me, but it was because they were so damn good together from the beginning. They had that chemistry, that connection that jumped off the page and for them to not truly act on it was outright sacrilegious in my mind, BUT, and I hate to admit this, the reasons they didn't act were logical ones. They both needed to grow, that they ended up growing together was just icing on the cake, so when they finally jumped it really was worth it. The went from being business partners to best friends to lovers and though I wanted things to move faster, it was perfect for them. And that epilogue? Swoon. Worthy. 
 This is the first book I've read by Alessandra Torre, though I do have a couple of hers sitting on my Kindle, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The writing was engaging, the pacing good and I enjoyed the dual first person POV's. The story was well thought out, even though it drove me crazy, which I suppose is also a positive that Ms. Torre got me so invested. My one 'it's not you, it's me' issue is that I kind of wish there had been a little more aftermath after the Sword of Damocles reveal dropped. I know it sounds crazy after I've just verbal vomited about long it took for them to get together, but I gotta be honest. Some readers are going to have issues with some of the goings on that Trey and Kate partake in, and that is your prerogative, but look at it as a necessary and realistic part of the process. And those little touches at the end of some of the chapters to describe the mood were brilliant! 
 ~ Copy received from the author/The Next Step PR ~