Month: September 2013

About the book:

Grace King knows two things for certain: she loves working at her grandmother’s café and she loves the hunky town sheriff. She always has. As she bakes him sweet treats, Grace fantasizes about helping him work up an appetite all night long. But whenever she thinks she’s finally getting somewhere, he whips out some excuse to escape. Growing up, he never looked twice at her. Now Grace won’t rest until she has Jax’s undivided attention.

Jaxson Anderson can’t deny that his best friend’s kid sister is the sexiest woman in Mirabelle, Florida. Unwilling to burden Grace with his painful past, Jax keeps the sassy blonde at arm’s length. Yet one heated kiss crumbles all of his carefully built defenses. But when a town secret surfaces, threatening to destroy everything they have believed in, can the man who defended Grace from bullies as a child protect her now?

Excerpt from UNDENIABLE:

It was then Jax did the most impulsive thing he’d ever done in his life. He knew exactly where the impulse came from; he’d had the desire for years. He just wasn’t sure how the overwhelming need overran all of his sense. He grabbed Grace before he even realized what he was doing. He gripped her elbows and brought her body flush up against his. His mouth came down hard on hers. She inhaled, startled, and Jax took full advantage of the tiny opening of her mouth, dipping his tongue in and finding hers.

Holy shit.

Never in his life had Jax kissed a girl and felt like his whole body was on fire, burning from the inside out. This was incredible, like nothing he’d ever known. She was warm, and sweet, and soft. How could the inside of someone’s mouth feel this way? Taste this good?

Grace sighed in pleasure as her body relaxed against his. Her arms wound around his neck. He wrapped his hands around her waist as he walked her backward. When her back hit the counter he put his hands on her bottom and pulled her up to sit on top of it, their mouths never breaking.

Holy shit, his hands were on Grace’s ass. Her perfect, incredible ass.

Her shoes hit the floor a second before she pulled her legs around him, her bare feet running up the back of his thighs. Her hands were on his chest, as one of his pulled out the tie in her hair so that he could run his fingers through it. She grabbed on to his side, and her hands slid around and lowered until they were on his butt. She squeezed and he thought he was going to go off, right then and there.

He pulled away from her mouth, letting his lips travel down the slope of her neck. How many times had he fantasized about this? About feeling her soft skin underneath his lips? God he loved her neck, the soft delicate space at the hollow of her throat.

“Jax.” She said his name with so much need that he abandoned his exploration of her neck.

He palmed the back of her head in one of his hands as he slanted his mouth over hers. Grace moaned when their tongues found each other again. The sound of it rumbled in Jax’s chest and settled low in his abdomen.

Jax wasn’t sure how long they stayed like that, wrapped around each other in more ways than one, before a crackling noise filled the kitchen. Mary Landers’s voice squawked through the speaker attached to Jax’s shirt.

“Seventeen, what’s your location?”

Jax pulled back from Grace, both of them breathing hard. Grace’s hair was everywhere, courtesy of his hands. She opened her eyes slowly, as if she was delaying coming back to reality, but Jax slammed into it hard.

What the hell had he just done?

My Review:

I loved the emotion in this story. Grace and Jaxon have both been in love with each other for a very long time, but Jax doesn’t believe that he is good enough for Grace. Jax’s childhood plays a major role in how he sees himself and it is up to Grace (and their friends) to make him realize that he is so much more than his upbringing. Grace also has things in her childhood that are upsetting, but she knows that she is loved and that deserves to be happy and with the man that she loves. Grace and Jax have a very bumpy road to their happily ever after – mostly because of Jax, but sometimes because of other people – but they do get there eventually. This romance wouldn’t be half as good without the wonderful secondary characters. Ms. Richard’s writes each character in just the right way to compliment the main couple and be three-dimensional enough to hold their own if/when they get their own story.  UNDENIABLE is a sexy, emotional, and very romantic story and I can’t wait for the next Country Roads book.

the book girl gives UNDENIABLE a 5/5

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About the book:

A new meaning for office politics

Audrey Mathews has worked hard to get here. Now she’s up for a promotion and nothing will stand in her way—including Zach Black. He’s hot, smart and the competition. When they’re assigned to the same project, she’s shocked at how much she actually likes about him…and how much she misjudged him.

Before long Audrey is seriously falling for Zach—and indulging in an affair that’s against company policy. And the stakes rise when it’s clear only one of them can get ahead. So where do they draw the line between competition and love? Especially when she doesn’t want to lose either the promotion or the guy….

Sarah Mayberry is one of my favorite Harlequin writers and HER FAVORITE RIVAL just might be my favorite book of hers so far. Audrey and Zach are both so fantastically not what they seem on the surface. Audrey seems to have it all together, but she is hiding a past and family issues that she hasn’t really dealt with. Zach comes across as a trust fund rich kid, but he as far from that as can be. They are rivals at work, but the attraction between them is the real problem. Their relationship develops slowly as they get to really know each other and battle their attraction for each other. HER FAVORITE RIVAL is the perfect read for those who like a little angst and deeper emotional background to their characters.

the book girl gives HER FAVORITE RIVAL a 4/5

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