Oh I love C.S. Harris' novels (the What Angels Fear)... I will say, I actually like the later series (the fourth book on) much more than the earlier books, but that is partially because I quite like the new female lead introduced. I felt like it didn't take away from what the first woman's role was and is, and, more important to me, I loved how smart the second lady was and that a woman's role isn't just romance. Hero just rocks. That being said, the series, while not always being specifically sexual, is definitely quite violent and does tend to have huge body counts though.