4 Smooches!

Synopsis

Malcolm Wallace lived for the adrenaline rush. If he wasn’t living life on the edge, he wasn’t living. He had no time for relationships, let alone love.

When one event changes Malcolm’s entire future, he must turn to the one person who makes him doubt his entire philosophy on life.

Paislie Pruitt.

She’s beautiful.

She’s strong.

She’s the one rush Malcolm never saw coming.

Adrenaline is book two in the Speed series

REVIEW

“I found myself feeling something I’d never felt with a man before. Excitement.”

There hasn’t been a man in twenty-six-year-old Paislie Pruitt’s life who hasn’t walked away from her. Starting with her father who, after her mother’s death, dumped her off at an orphanage when she was nine. She doesn’t open her heart to men because she knows that, inevitably, she’ll just be left behind and hurt by them. A physical therapist, who once considered becoming a nun like Sister Elizabeth, the nun who raised her and is a mother-figure in her life, she instead numbs the pain of her loneliness with sex. Sure, she’s felt attraction to men before, but never anything more than that – until the day she bumped into Malcolm Wallace in Las Vegas.

“For the first time in a long time, I felt something.”

Malcolm Wallace buries the guilt of his first girlfriend, Casey’s, death by living his life on the edge. He doesn’t allow himself to feel anything beyond the adrenaline rush of a race or sex. He’ll won’t allow himself to love a woman. He lives and breathes his playboy, man-whore reputation with a revolving door of one-night-stands. He just doesn’t want anything more than sex from women. He hasn’t felt anything more for a woman since Casey – until the day he bumped into Paislie Pruitt in Las Vegas.

“I wasn’t sure if I should be thrilled beyond belief or scared shitless.”

Both Paislie and Malcolm are in uncharted territory with each other. Neither has ever felt what they feel when they’re with each other before, and they’re not even sure what it is that they’re feeling. They’re both confused and unsettled by these feelings. Malcolm is battling his guilt over feeling something for someone besides Casey, and Paislie is terrified to open herself up to more hurt and rejection from yet another man.

“I’d never be the same after this.”

Unable to fight they pull they both feel, though, they begin spending time together. Malcolm is purposely showing her she’s different than all the other women. Paislie opens up to Malcolm and tells him about her childhood. Both of them are so damaged by their pasts, and they each have baggage and demons to work through and deal with before they can move forward. The question is will they be able to do it together or will they tear each other apart in the process?

“Was this what I wanted? …racing around a track chasing after what? What in the hell was I running from?”

Malcolm and Paislie both make a lot of mistakes, they both stumble while trying to find their footing in this fragile relationship and break up, even though it’s not what either of them really wants. But when Malcolm is badly hurt with what could be a career-ending injury, it’s Paislie who comes to the rescue with a plan to get him back in racing form. But when the pain – of his injury and his demons –becomes difficult to work through, will Malcolm push her away or pull her close?

“…that right there was the biggest adrenaline rush I’ve ever experienced.”

This is the second book in Kelly Elliot’s Speed series, and I really liked it. These two really struggled with their feelings, and Elliot did a great job walking the readers through Malcolm and Paislie’s stops and starts. I really ached for these two, because when you get right to it, they’re both two lonely people who want more than what they’ve got, and they both truly love each other, they were just unsure HOW to love each other.

One thing Malcolm and Paislie had down was the physical side of their relationship – this book was very sexy! There were lots of sweet moments in this story, as well as a few gut-wrenching ones. It was well written, and I have to admit, I’m hoping one day Elliot tells Landon and Emme’s story!

Four soul-searching, speedy and sexy smooches for Kelly Elliot’s Adrenaline from me!

~ Danielle Palumbo

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