John Beckett knew from the beginning that Dee was it for him. But even he has no idea just how deep her hurt runs, or how much she has to overcome before she will let him in. He has watched Dee go through the motions of life, faking happiness to everyone around her. Everyone but him. I love that he sees past the mask she puts up and really wants her to be happy, no matter what that means or what it takes. He just made me want to sigh. Often. Some of the twists that the story takes as they figure out their way made me ache right along with the characters, and alternately cheer when things finally started coming together. And yes, this one made me bawl. At least a couple times. Cried like a baby. 
 Beck starts with some overlap from Axel to see all those scenes we knew must have been happening while Axel and Izzy were figuring their stuff out, but didn't get to because it was Beck and Dee. The overlap wasn't a regurgitated telling of the story, it was completely fresh, everything that was going on the background during that time. As was hinted in Axel, Dee runs every time Beck tries to advance their relationship into anything serious. 
 I think this is my favorite Corps Security novel yet. Dee's running without explanation was hard to take, but because that part of her personality had been set up in Axel, I was able to look past it to the reasons she was so committed to keeping herself out of a serious relationship. And even when I thought I knew why she was so scared of letting Beck in, I was surprised to find there was more that she was hiding. 
 There are plenty of peeks throughout of the side characters we all know and love from previous books and glimpses of the directions their stories have taken after the focus is off them, in the case of Axel and Cage, and where their stories might go, in the case of the other men. The action throughout the book, both in the bedroom and out, kept me turning the pages for more steam and waiting for that other shoe to drop. 
 I love John Beckett, and everything about this book. And it gets 5 huge stars from me. 
 Thanks to Harper Sloan for providing me an arc in exchange for an honest review.