Ace (Royal Protectors Companion) by Kat Mizera-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 23, 2026
He lives in the shadows.
She’s the one he never forgot.
Life as a CIA operative is full of danger but it’s also painfully lonely. Living under the radar doesn’t leave room for relationships, let alone the white-picket-fence future she wanted.
There was someone once.
I walked away.
And I never stopped regretting it.
Now my years of service are catching up with me, and I’m finally ready for something different. I just never expected that change to be Shannon—or that she’d be in serious trouble.
One kiss. One mistake. One feeling I can’t shake.
The man in me still wants her.
The soldier in me will protect her at all costs.
She doesn’t want my help. She doesn’t trust the life I live. But I’m done walking away—especially when someone is watching her, closing in, and pushing us toward a confrontation neither of us is prepared for.
Even if saving her means losing her… again.
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REVIEW:ACE by Kat Mizera is a contemporary, adult, erotic, romantic suspense ROYAL PROTECTORS companion novel. This is thirty-seven year old, CIA operative Andrew ‘Ace’ Ross, and thirty-one year old teacher, Shannon Barrow’s story line.
NOTE: I believe ACE falls between books one SANDOR and two XANDER. I am not positive but there is some confusing information at the back of the book including reading order and what comes next.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Ace and Shannon) ACE follows in the wake of a stalker targeting our story line heroine. Approximately ten years earlier, after a dance and a kiss, Andrew ‘Ace’ Ross disappeared from Shannon Barrow’s life. Fast forward to present day, Shannon suspects she has a stalker, and with the unwanted help of her mother, Andrew ‘Ace’ Ross offers up his services to the woman he has always loved but nothing is the same, everything has changed throughout the previous decade, and in this, Shannon is struggling to trust including the man with whom she had fallen in love.
The world building focuses on uncovering the truth. Someone is deliberately targeting our story line heroine, and when the truth is revealed, betrayal comes swiftly and potentially at a cost.
The relationship between Ace and Shannon is a friends to lovers relationship in which ten years has past leading to questionable friendships and relationship, leaving Shannon wondering where everything went wrong. A holiday vacation together brings with it plans for the future but as Ace continues to search for the truth, the reality may force Shannon to walk away. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The secondary and supporting characters are energetic, dynamic and questionable. We are introduced to Shannon’s mother Samantha; her co-worker Sandra; Ace’s friend Chris and his girlfriend Aubrey, as well as Ace’s friend and security specialist Darryl ‘Chains’ Carruthers.
ACE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and heart break, power and control, family and dissolution, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is intriguing, heart breaking and edgy; the romance is impassioned; the characters are determined and desperate.
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Reviewed by Sandy


KAT MIZERA
USA TODAY Bestselling Author Kat Mizera was born in Miami Beach with a healthy dose of Wanderlust. She’s lived from coast to coast, and everywhere in between, but home is wherever her family is. A devoted mom and wife to her wonderful and supportive husband (Kevin) and two amazing boys (Nick and Max), Kat loves to travel the globe with her adventurous, hockey loving family. Greece is at the top of that list. She hopes to one day retire there, spending her days writing books on the beach.
Kat is former freelance sports writer who now writes steamy hockey romance about her favorite fictional teams, the Las Vegas Sidewinders and the Lauderdale Knights. The library of novels she’s penned also include sexy contemporary stories about baseball stars, alpha sex club owners, bodyguards, rock stars, and royalty. Regardless of genre, her books about bad boys with hearts of gold will steal your breath, rock your world and melt your heart.
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