Katarina has just spent five years in the dungeon for planning a murder. Her sentence was shorter than it should have been because at the last minute, she called the hit off. Now, she’s out and trying to rebuild her life. She hopes a stint on the new Kingdom City reality show, Real-Life Ways to Catch a King will help her get back into a normal life. What she doesn’t like, though, is the way the director is focusing on her past, and her mistakes.

Katarina takes her concerns to Serge, the show’s producer. Serge is a bad boy himself; he owns strip clubs and various other businesses. But now, he wants to change the way things are, and maybe find himself a wife and start a family. When he meets Katarina, he’s immediately attracted. But can this convict give him what he wants?

Bad Apple is set in the fascinating Perfectly Wicked World created by Anna J. Evans. This world is so beautifully written that you feel as if you have been there. Having said that, though, this book was tough for me. I liked both Katarina and Serge, but a missing block of time from where they start their relationship, to the conclusion of the book, made it hard for me to feel the connection between the two of them. I would have liked to see more interaction during that time, so I could get a better feel for them.

I do like this series, though, and have read and will continue to read them as they come out. I just wish Bad Apple had been a little longer, and had more real-time interaction between Katarina and Serge.