When Penny Keys comes back to her New Jersey home for her grandmother’s funeral the first person she runs into is her ex-boyfriend Jason. The one man she had hoped to avoid. Penny is swamped with memories from their time together and wishes that Jason would stop pressing her for details of why she left, because giving him the answers he needs would break her heart all over again.

Jason Hightower has never understood why Penny lied to him about sleeping with his best friend, and then walked away from him fifteen years before. He’s determined to get the answers he needs before Penny walks back out of his life again.

Protect and Serve is the first book in the Hightower Honors series by Gwyneth Bolton. This sexy, sassy story was fun to read. I thought that Penny was a strong woman for standing by her convictions and could easily understand her motivations for her past behavior. Jason is a tough but forgiving man that just needs to understand how his life got turned upside down with just a lie from Penny.

The Hightower’s are a family of policemen and firemen that is sure to make for an exciting premise in this series that will follow the four Hightower brothers. 5 Angels!

Reviewed by: Tammy