Jessica Channing’s big city life should be more exciting than sixty-hour work weeks and popcorn nights with her girlfriends, but it’s not. She has worked hard fulfilling her role as a child prodigy and graduating college years before her peers. She’s the good girl, the brilliant girl.
Unfortunately, she’s also the dateless young woman.
That all changes with one phone call. Jess’s rigid, predictable life upends when she must visit a small, obscure town to deal with a relative’s death. This isn’t just any little speck of a town, though. Long lost memories come crashing down on Jess’s world when two men, the Blackard brothers, seem to lure her in.
Dylan is cover model handsome, and pursues Jess the minute she comes to town. Then there is tall, dark and gorgeous Carson, who hides his own secrets behind his hardened reserve.
For someone who has been governed by her own obsessive behaviors and fears, Jess lets her guard down and jumps at the opportunity to have an affair with a man she actually finds attractive for a change.
There’s just one problem. Jess discovers that she can’t have a simple romantic fling because true passion does indeed come with some very big strings attached to it. She will have to own up to her own truths about love and face the two extraordinary men; both troubled in their own ways and both determined to have her.
Genre: Romance
This novel contains graphic sexual content and strong language. It is intended for mature readers
Unfortunately, she’s also the dateless young woman.
That all changes with one phone call. Jess’s rigid, predictable life upends when she must visit a small, obscure town to deal with a relative’s death. This isn’t just any little speck of a town, though. Long lost memories come crashing down on Jess’s world when two men, the Blackard brothers, seem to lure her in.
Dylan is cover model handsome, and pursues Jess the minute she comes to town. Then there is tall, dark and gorgeous Carson, who hides his own secrets behind his hardened reserve.
For someone who has been governed by her own obsessive behaviors and fears, Jess lets her guard down and jumps at the opportunity to have an affair with a man she actually finds attractive for a change.
There’s just one problem. Jess discovers that she can’t have a simple romantic fling because true passion does indeed come with some very big strings attached to it. She will have to own up to her own truths about love and face the two extraordinary men; both troubled in their own ways and both determined to have her.
Genre: Romance
This novel contains graphic sexual content and strong language. It is intended for mature readers
Review by Janeane - ARC Received for honest review
Jess is the genius, wunderkind of computer programming company Alpha 5. Finishing college at an age where others are just starting, she has always been a bit of an outcast, so much younger than her classmates.
She is in a routine, a life of sorts I guess you'd say.
A phone call out of the blue, she finds out an aunt she had forgotten about has passed away and left everything to her. She is now a very rich young woman.
Headed to small town Hera, she realises what a world of difference there is from big city NY to country NY. Gone is any anonimity she had. Now everyone knows who she is and what she does. They are also all in her business. This would drive me insane. Seriously people ~ some boundaries please!
I did the tree change from the city to small country town a few years back now, and yes, it is just like that. But this town is overstepping the lines in a way that would make me consider mass murder!
Meet Dylan and Carson. Brothers, both sexy and smart, and attracted to Jess. They also have a past with Jess which dredges up memories for Jess.
Enter love triangle here. I did enjoy the differences in the relationships between Jess and Dylan and Jess and Carson. Though her insecurities did start to make me want to shake her and tell her to wake the heck up. I guess the saying "book smarts not street smarts" comes to play here.
What I also did enjoy is there was no cheating (well, emotionally mixed up but no cheating-cheating). And a nice change was that she did not go from one guy's bed to the other in a heartbeat.
There was a great cast of secondary characters. Her aunt's two best friends, the two girls she meets on her first day in town who become firm friends. The old attorney.
At times I both loved and hated the 3 main characters. They were all so pigheaded at times, Aaaargh! I wanted to slam all their heads together and tell them to snap out of it.
I could pretty much figure out where the story would end up, but it was a ride worth taking to get there
a solid 3.75 stars
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