Two contract killers, each with a hit out on the other, must fight their growing attraction as they face off in an epic game of lust and murder across Western Europe.When Eva and Jonathan hook up on the sleeper train from Florence to Paris, they think they’ll never see each other again. Which is too bad, because neither has ever felt a spark like this for another person. But love isn’t on the agenda in their line of work.
Six months later, they run into each other in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. This meeting is not by chance, because Eva has been hired to kill Jonathan. She’s a contract killer, but what she doesn’t know is that he is too.Their meeting kicks off a high-stakes cross-continent adventure across Western Europe. There will be tourism. There will be bodies. Eva and Jonathan might even fall for each other.
As the two get closer to completing their assignments, it becomes clear that they are also being hunted—by something even more dangerous than love. . . (Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads)
It Had to Be You is very Mr. and Mrs. Smith in all the best ways! I loved the pairing of Eva and Jonathan–two characters who have never felt as though they fit in and are the oddballs of society. Both have had pasts that have led them to fall into a contract killer lifestyle, and it was refreshing to read their perspectives on that from a simplistic, to-the-point kind of way. No one is offering up apologies or making excuses. It is what it is, regardless of what society may think.
Because of the lifestyle, neither character feels they can ever open their lives up to love, so when a chance encounter on a sleeper train triggers a series of events that eventually has them colliding into one another, full force, it seems like fate (or something even deeper) is at play. It was dark and sensual and sexy, with plenty of hot scenes spread out over the Western European canvas, sprinkled with kills and potentially deadly scenarios that at times made me question if they could make it–not just as a couple, but to make it out alive.
I had no clue who the ultimate culprit is–the person who is pulling the strings and putting Eva’s and Jonathan’s lives in jeopardy. I liked that! I had a few ideas on who I thought it could be, so it was surprising at the end when the culprit was finally discovered. I didn’t know if our wild couple would survive that discovery, or how it would all end, but that was a large part of the fun crazy ride the reader goes on while diving deeper into It Had to Be You. So many great twists and turns, in the game of assassin love. A definite five-star read!
Thanks to Berkley for the book in exchange for an honest review.
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