As the ninth book in the KGI series, When Day Breaks continues this firmly established series. 
 Daryl "Swanny" Swanson returned from being held hostage in Afghanistan with the scars that will never let him forget the horrors of that time. Eden Sinclair was named the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, and uses her beauty to her advantage as a model. When a threat against Eden requires her to tighten security, Swanny and his (ok, Joe and Nathan's) KGI team step in to keep her safe. 
 For being such a recognizable figure, Eden was a down to earth, sweet woman. She didn't pull out a diva attitude to get her way, though once she and Swanny began exploring their relationship, she wasn't above shooting him puppy dog eyes to get what she wanted. 
 Swanny's self consciousness about his scars causes him to second guess and nearly ruin a chance at anything with Eden before it even began. But as self-conscious as he was in the beginning? He forgot the scars bothered him quickly while around Eden. 
 So much of their relationship moved at lightning speed. They went from complete strangers, to making out, to hitting the sheets in a matter of days, all while an unknown threat looms over Eden. Not that Eden knew it was a real threat, because her dad refused to fill her in on what was going down. 
 I missed the interactions with the extended Kelly family. The story took Swanny and his team out of Tennessee early in the story and they never returned. Even Swanny's team seemed to be present only as security showpieces rather than actual players in the plot. We did get to see more of Edge and Skylar, but I would have liked to see more. I missed Marlene's mothering, and the meddling that happens from the number of Kelly wives that have been amassed on and around the Kelly compound. 
 These are great books for relaxing and shutting my reality off for a time. They are not over the top emotional reads. There is a decent amount of action (thrill type action...not the bedroom kind) that gives an extra dimension to the romantic storyline, and yes, there is plenty of bedroom action too. I know I will pick up the next book as soon as I can, because I love the series, but as I read more and more of them, they are no longer the drop-everything-and-read books they were when I first discovered the series (then again, that's kind of my MO the longer a single series continues, from any author). 
 I was gifted a copy for an honest review.