4 Smooches

Synopsis

Aspiring chef Cade Maxwell is immediately, viscerally attracted to Winter Jacobson. But it’s not her mouthwatering curves he’s drawn to—it’s the strange emptiness in her eyes. When Cade saves her from a drunken customer with grabby hands, he’s shocked at her response……

Winter doesn’t need Cade’s help. After a lifetime of getting by on her own, she’s happy to rely on herself. She’s exactly seventy-six days away from graduating college, and if she can hold it together that long, she’ll finally be able to rise above the crappy hand she was dealt.

But now, every time she turns around, Cade is there, ready to push her, smile at her, distract her from her plans. Winter knows she can’t afford to open up—especially to a man she’s terrified to actually want….

Review

‘I can’t get enough of her, this complicated girl who fell into my life. I want to know everything about her. Her quirks and her fears and her hopes and dreams, the tiny things that make her her.’

Caged In Winter is the story of a closed off girl and the man who finally brings her to her knees. Let’s start by saying I adored Cade. He was all things yummy. Determined, protective, a loving family oriented man who puts everything that is important to him aside in order to win over the girl he knows is his. What is not to love here. Now, Winter was a harder sale for me personally. Her issues run so deep that she is constantly pushing him away and can’t see the good right in front of her. But the moments she gives in they are truly beautiful together.

‘His attention makes me nervous. Nervous and unsure and . . . weightless. Feeling this way is addictive. He’s addictive.’

Winter is the epitome of a self sufficient woman, determined to do everything on her own without anyone’s help. Cade takes care of those he loves, after his parents died he stepped up in living with and supporting his sister and her daughter. The vast differences between these two make them both drawn to each other as well as push the other away at times. Their story is not simple or easy but it is definitely one worth reading!

~miranda

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5 Smooches!

Synopsis

Creswell Springs was a small little town in Trinity Count, California. Population 1,500—maybe. It’s a quiet town, with small town values. Its greatest income is the University just outside of the town limits… and the revenue the local Motorcycle Club brings in.

Being part of the MC that was Angel’s Halo was exactly like being part of a family.
A scary, powerful, crazy family.
It was also like its own society. There are rules, just as there are in every family, every society. But only breaking one of their rules will leave you in a broken, blood pile on the floor… No one touches Raven Hannigan. 

Raven
I was the MC’s only weakness. Or so my father use to tell me as I was growing up. Mad Max Hannigan was once Angel’s Halos’ president. He made the rules and everyone was expected to follow them or come face to fist with the enforcer…
I have spent my life in the middle of the MC. I knew the rules—the penalties for breaking those rules. So I knew what would happen to him if I let him break the golden rule… But I loved him, like I have never loved anyone or anything before. I thought my love would protect him.
Of course it hadn’t. When our secret was discovered he was beaten.
So I shouldn’t blame him for leaving me… 

Bash
As the enforcer I knew the consequences. Knew exactly what was in store for me when Raven’s family found out that I had dared to break my MC’s unforgivable rule. I loved her, so it didn’t matter to me. When her oldest brother delivered my punishment I didn’t scream. Didn’t groan. I took it like the man my MC had made me, and would have done it over and over again if that was what it took to be able to call Raven Hannigan mine.
But then my past reared its ugly head and I had a choice to make. One that I have only lived to regret.
Taking on the job as Angel’s Halos’ new president was my second chance. But… would my secrets destroy everything Raven and I once had?

Review

I’m a huge Terri Anne Browning fan, I’ve read and loved all of her Rockers, and this series overlaps, especially in this book, with that series. When I finished the first book in this series, Angel’s Halo, I began the wait for Flick and Jet’s story. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, and I was not disappointed. I should point out, however, that this series is unlike the Rockers series in that these books must be read in order and they cannot be read as standalones. Each one of the books in this series has built upon the foundation laid in the first book, and if you just jump into this series here, you’ll be missing critical details.

“If I thought Jet Hannigan couldn’t ever break my heart any more than he already had, I’d been wrong.”

Felicity “Flick” Bolton grew up in the life; best friend to MC founding family sister, Raven, and daughter to Marcie, a club whore, she’s been a part of the Hannigan family for as long as she can remember. She’s also been in love with oldest brother, and former Angel’s Halo President, Jet, for as long as she can remember. Two years earlier, following a hard break up, Flick learned she was pregnant with Jet’s baby. All was not well within the MC’s world at that time, and Flick was beaten nearly to death by the club’s then-VP, Westcliffe, in a vicious attack that caused her to loose the baby and most likely her ability to ever carry another child. Broken hearted, choosing to run from her pain, Flick accepts a job as a nanny for the Armstrong family – the Nik and Emmie Armstrong family of Demon’s Wings. She leaves Creswell Springs and Angel’s Halo behind without a trace to start fresh.

“…she was the one thing I would have gladly destroyed the world to protect.”

Jet Hannigan, the former Angel’s Halo President, was powerless to stop Flick from leaving her family – and him – behind two years ago when she came to visit him in prison to say goodbye. Two years later, he’s out and he’s served his probation. Having learned of Flick’s whereabouts accidentally, he is now headed straight to her to bring her back home. He is prepared to use whatever means necessary to get his “female” to come home with him, and he absolutely does by emotionally blackmailing her with the threat to go to the press with information that would be damaging to the Armstrong family. Desperate to protect Emmie and Nik, Flick reluctantly but angrily gives in to Jet and goes home with him.

“I was falling again. Falling hard and fast.”

Flick is surprised to learn that Jet didn’t just mean he wanted her back in Creswell Springs. No, the biker wants her back – in his life, in his arms, in his bed. Still in love with him, Flick doesn’t put up too much of a fight, but this time she’s going in expecting it to end, expecting Jet to grow bored, and she’s not risking her heart this time. Jet, however, is kicking himself for what he put the only woman he has ever loved through when he broke up with her two years earlier. He goes after her hoping that he can win her back and that he didn’t kill her love for him.

“I wanted her to be happy, but I’d hoped that she would want to be happy with me.”

Flick is struggling internally with her feelings. She’s happy to be home, she knows she still loves Jet, but she just can’t let herself believe that Jet really loves her, despite his daily declarations. Jet is nearly desperate for her to say the words back, and when she doesn’t, he decides that her happiness is what’s most important, and if he can’t make her happy, he can give it to her by letting her go back to the Armstrongs.

“Will you ride with me, baby?”

There’s a lot going on here; several plot lines are running concurrently and intersect in this book. The talented Terri Anne Browning juggled these plots well, giving her readers what they’ve been asking for in Flick and Jet’s story. As I’ve come to expect from Browning, Angel’s Halo: Reclaimed was well written, fast moving and sexy. I loved it, and I’m looking forward whatever is next in this series! 5 smooches for Terri Anne Browning’s Angel’s Halo: Reclaimed from me!

~ Danielle Palumbo

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4 Smooches!

Synopsis

Craft beer and the sexy men who brew it.

A faceless name. That’s all she was when I agreed to play a part in deceiving her. But then the unplanned happened.

We met. And all I wanted from her was a dirty weekend . . . until that wasn’t enough and I longed for so much more.

Lawrence Thorn suddenly means the world to me. And that’s a problem. She’s my business partner’s sister. Forbidden fruit. Pursuing her can mean trouble for me at Lovibond Brewery. But I don’t care.

I yearn for her skin against mine.
I crave her smell on my body.
I want to make her laugh and then hear her moan my name.
And she does for a brief moment in time.

But Lawrence wants more than I’m able to give. And it’s a damn shame because there’s no one on earth I want more than her.

An epic love.
A miserable ending.
Unless it’s not.

Review

Tap just happens to be my very first Georgia Cates book.  I have heard such wonderful things about the Beauty From Pain books that when I saw this one, I snatched it up.  Finally, a chance to read Ms. Cates.  I have to be honest, I was not blown away but I did enjoy the book.

‘I’m risking my friendship with Stout.  My business relationship.  Maybe even my livelihood.  And I don’t care.  She’s worth the gamble.  I’m going all in.’

I do actually really love a book told from both point of views.  I also really do adore my brother’s best friends types of books.  Books with texting, yes please!  Books that have smoking hot sex, check.  I also was hooked from the simple synopsis. The whole beer theme sounded cool.  So, this book had all of these really cool things that made for a really nice story.  Plus, there was some painful angsty past stuff on Tap’s part that gave me the feels.

So, I gave this book 4 stars.  It was good.  I enjoyed it.  Maybe I had built Georgia Cates up in my mind and that is why I am not giving this book 5 Stars but I still really enjoyed it so I don’t want to put anyone off.  It is still a well written sexy good story.

“Crazy love is the best kind.”

~Amie

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