5 Smooches!
Synopsis
I’m an Italian-Texan woman in a family full of cops. I’m passionate and shoot before I think. You only f*ck with me if you’re stupid.
Photograph cheating spouses. Hand over the evidence. Cash my check.
That was my plan when I returned home to Holly Woods, Texas, and became a private investigator.
Finding the dead body in my dumpster? Yeah… Given the choice, I think I would have opted out of that little discovery, especially since all three of my brothers are cops. And my Italian grandmother is sure the reason I’m single is because of my job.
Of course, my connection to the victim is entirely coincidental. Until I’m hired by her husband to investigate her murder and shoved bang-smack into the path of Detective Drake Nash. My nemesis, a persistent pain in my ass, and one hell of a sexy son of a bitch.
Shame he still holds a grudge from that time I shot him in the foot twelve years ago, or we could have something. In another life.
So now all I have to do is avoid my nonna’s blind dates, try not to blackmail my brothers into giving me confidential police files, and absolutely do not point my gun at Drake Nash. Or kiss him. Or jump his bones.
All while I hunt down the killer.
Sounds totally simple—until a second body proves that sometimes things that start as coincidences don’t always end up that way…
(Twisted Bond is book one of the Holly Woods Files series and while it does not end in a cliffhanger, it is not a standalone.)
Review
OK, so this Emma Hart book is completely different from the others of hers that I have read. It wasn’t nearly as sexy and it was probably ten times funnier than anything I have read by her. I also freaking loved it. It might just be my most favorite of her’s ever. And that is saying something because I really adore this woman’s books.
So, Twisted Bond really reminded me of The Rock Chick Series by Kristen Ashley meets The Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovitch. These are two of my very favorite series and Twisted Bond is right up there with them now. It was all alpha male cop tries to control funny cupcake eating girl private investigator and her gang. Ohh, the banter. The hate. The sexual tension!
“I don’t care how much you piss me off. You wear panties that nice and I’m going to be preoccupied.”
I want to touch on that sexual tension just a bit more, because although this book had a lot less sexy time in it than previous books that I have read by Emma Hart, it was still very sexy. This go around we get sooo much sexual tension, which I just happen to really cherish in my romance novels.
“What is wrong with me? People are dying and I’m thinking about licking his arm.”
Drake and Noelle’s relationship was just crazy good to read. The hate/I want to bang you into next week attitude they were throwing at each other just made me giggle and giggle. I loved them both so much. Drake with his ridiculous alpha-ness and Noelle with her hysterical inner dialogue about Drake!
“That man’s mouth is like… Fuck.”
But Drake and Noelle weren’t the only things I loved about this book. It had a huge mystery playing out pitting the two main characters against each other and I was dying to find out “who done it”. Add in an insane southern Italian family compete with bat-shit crazy Nonna, you have the recipe for a really comical story!
“What can I say? I’ve got more layers than Hell.”
I really truly loved this book, guys. It is an absolute must read.
~Amie
