Shared by the Pilots by Cassie Cole

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’m the pickiest dater in the world.So I made a deal with my say ‘yes’ to the first three guys who asked me out. But I never thought I’d be saying yes to these three hunks. 

Luke Hendricks is a calm, confident, and dry-witted former Air Force Captain who now pilots commercial aircraft. With a chiseled jawline and a voice like distant thunder, we share an evening Salsa dancing together—and then much more.

Adam Mandalay—who my bestie says is a mandatory lay—is a fellow flight attendant who asks me out on a pity date. But after things get hot and heavy on an international flight, there’s nothing for either of us to pity.

Finally there’s Taylor Hawkins, a former Navy pilot who now flies a private seaplane like a dashing character from the 1950s. With sun-kissed blond hair, a perpetual grin, and a smooth Texas drawl, he reminds me of a high-flying Matthew McConaughey.

Everything is going great with my three suitors until Luke hooks me up with a flight attendant gig for a private airline. And although the money is very good, not everything is what it seems. Especially when we begin flying some awfully suspicious routes to Mexico…Can we figure out what’s happening on these private flights?Or will my curiosity send all four of us into a nosedive?

Shared by the Pilots

Tacos and Tequila!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭☺️😘

The heroine: Veronica – she is a flight attendant on Gulf Airlines. She had always wanted to be a stewardess and she loved to travel so she was living her dream, but it got lonely sometimes. Her best friend, Dex who is also a flight attendant and in the same flight crew as her, says she’s too picky when it comes to men, so they made a bet and she promised to say ‘yes’ to the first three men that ask her out.

The Hero: Luke, Adam, Taylor – Luke is a former Air Force lieutenant and now a pilot for Gulf Airlines and is a nice guy. He is on the same trip to Miami that Veronica is on and asks her out to a local seafood restaurant. Adam is a new flight attendant for Gulf Airlines and was recently put on the same crew as Veronica and Dex. Taylor is a pilot for a private airline. He started out as a crop duster from the time he was 12 and went to Navy flight school for a while, then worked as an Alaskan Bush pilot. He now flies around the Caribbean for the most part and plays the part of an eccentric private pilot to the T. He learned the hard way that women were trouble.

The Story: Veronica and Luke hit it off from the start. They have dinner, go salsa dancing and hook up the very same night. Though he leaves her under mysterious circumstances. The next man to ask Veronica out is Adam. He was stiff with her on their first flight together but was much nicer the next time and she was looking forward to going out with him and it turns out they have a good time together.

The story gets intriguing pretty quickly, especially after Luke gets Veronica a side gig, moonlighting as a flight attendant on a fleet of private jets owned by a wealthy guy named Bernie Langston. It is against the policy at Gulf Airlines, but the owner of the private jets helps them fake out the system by flying under different names. When Veronica starts getting bad vibes from the private flights she goes on, especially after Taylor tells her that Langston is a shady guy.

This was a strange reverse harem from the start since all three of the guys knew of each other but really didn’t know each other even at the halfway point. I was struggling to see how this could end up in a reverse-harem HEA. I won’t give away that spoiler, but to say the story was good and I liked that it wasn’t the same as every other reverse harem where the three men start out as brothers or best friends.

The story about the shady private airline was good, though I did think that Veronica overreacted at first and threw herself into a few situations that could have been very dangerous without thinking things through very well. But overall, it was a good story and a steamy romance.

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