Shortly after that her safe, happy existence falls apart when police bust into her home with search warrants for the house and her bakery business looking for evidence that she's connected to her ex-husband's shady business dealings. It opens with Tess enjoying a passionate encounter with the man she is starting to fall in love with. Tess was a great narrator and I didn't mind being in her head at all following her thoughts and encounters with others, but it was cool to get Brock's thoughts too. The story is told almost completely from Tess, the heroine's point of view with just the last few pages switching to Brock's thoughts.

It didn't hurt to pair him with an adorable, sweet, but tough heroine.

Okay, well he's still the hard, bad-mouthed, hot tempered guy, but he doesn't let it fly unless its deserved. Let's just say the Brock of the first book is not the same guy in this one and that is partly because he's changed now that he's found his woman and also because knowing his past made his behavior start to make better sense. However, the author managed to change my mind- sort of.

The hero of this one, Brock 'Slim' Lucas was a deeply undercover DEA agent in the first story and he went about his case ruthlessly so I didn't have high hope for liking let alone loving him in his own book. As the second book in the Dream Man series, I thought Wild Man was even better than the first book though I have to say color me surprised to be stating that.

Wild Man by Kristen Ashley