I had two differing thoughts when I found out this was the final book in the Lone Star series. My first thought was, oh no, the final book, but, then I realized, oh, but, it's also the final book, all those juicy plot strings will probably be tied up by the end of the book, awesome!

It still has in it the overarching story of Bianca, Peyton, Dale, Tanner, Mary, and various girlfriends of those characters. They're on the task force, that then sorta became a secret task force, and now seems to be a non-secret task force again. And how they're going up against drug kingpins and trying to catch the bad guys and save the innocents.

In between all the hard core mystery/thriller stuff in this novel, there's also the final love story of the series. Sydney is introduced to the group. She's a lawyer from the Justice Department ("Main Justice") who comes in to suss out whether Herschel, the guy who's supposedly in charge of the task force, is doing his job, or impeding the womens' jobs.

She and Tanner have quite the past, which we get to see in flashbacks, having gone to law school together and been a couple. Their break up wasn't great, and now there's tensions galore between them, but, also an underlying love still there too perhaps.

It was a really good end to the series. And while I thought that there was a bit less romance in it than in the previous books, that did make sense since there was so much to tie together in the mystery plot. All in all, very cool!

I received this book via Netgalley thanks to Bold Strokes Books. ( )