4.5 Smooches
Synopsis
Sometimes all a girl needs is a little fling…
Talie Ronson needs a vacation.
From life.
Since she caught her cheating, loser husband in bed with his assistant, her life has been on a steady spiral—right into hell. Her car’s a junker, her job sucks, and her perfect, gorgeous sister likes to brag about her wonderful life every time they “do” lunch.
In an effort to salvage what’s left of her life and her sanity, she takes the advice of her kooky best friend and takes off to Topsail Island. A week at the beach, alone, is exactly what she needs to recharge, regroup, and relax.
Only, her alone time is about to get derailed.
Gavin Palmer’s favorite activity is walking around in his boxers and eating junk food. He and his neighbors have an understanding. They stay out of his business and he stays out of theirs. He lives at the beach, not for vacation, but for isolation. He’s had enough of people to last him a lifetime.
Gavin’s isolation is interrupted when his normally quiet neighbor starts disturbing his peace. He stomps across the sand to give the guy a piece of his mind… only it isn’t a guy.
It’s Talie.
She’d maddening, nosy, and talks too much.
But she’s hot and her bedroom eyes have him thinking maybe he’s had enough solitude. Maybe a week of company is exactly what he needs.
Maybe what they both need is a no-strings-attached tryst.
Review
Tryst is a fun fast paced story about what to do when the life you created and thought you wanted falls apart. Talie comes home early to surprise her husband and hopefully attempt to put a little spice in their somewhat stale marriage. What she doesn’t expect is to find her husband is already getting some spice on the side . . . in her bed . . .with his secretary.
So what is a girl to do when her whole life changes in a flash: head to the beach. Talie has an offer to house-sit at Topsail Beach (eek BTW I grew up going to this beach every summer) for several weeks and with no job and no husband, who wouldn’t. It isn’t long before she meets Dark, Handsome and Quiet Gavin. Gavin seems to be constantly saving and helping her but clearly wants to keep his distance. To be fair I would purposefully injure myself just to have him save me in all his muscle Adonis goodness!
Now that we have gotten past the drooling over the sexiness that is the mysterious Gavin let me tell you how emotional this story was for me. Not only can you feel the pain of Talie having to start over with nothing but there is something in Gavin’s past that is keeping him from getting close to anyone. Once Gavin and Talie recognize that they are attracted to each other he makes it extremely clear that this is a sex only relationship. This broke my heart for a while because you can tell that if they would just be more open this could really be something. It was so sad and hard watching Gavin push her away!
About this sex only relationship, can we talk about how HOT they are together. HOLY COW! Gavin is push me up against the door and just take me now sexy! I couldn’t get enough (and neither could she) Cambria gives a good sex scene that is for sure!
I really enjoyed this book, I love the idea of a fun no strings attached TRYST possibly becoming more and I spent the entire time reading this book just hoping that Gavin and Talie get their HEA. But goodness do we have to work for it! I went into this story thinking it was going to be a easy fun read about a beach romance but it was so much more. Tryst is a beautiful and emotional story about two people who have been wronged in life and moving forward. Sometimes the past is so hard to leave behind but in order to be happy now we just have to let it all go. I have read a few of Cambria’s other stories and enjoyed them all but I have to say this is definitely my favorite so far.
~miranda
