• Blackwell-Lyon Series #4
• 26 August 2019
• standalone - but why would you wanna miss the first 3 stories!!!??? Read them!
★★★★★
4.5 Stars
𝑆ℎ𝑒’𝑠 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡…
My business is security. I protect other people—sometimes at my own expense.
It’s the only way to explain how I got talked into playing fake fiancé for my best friend’s little sister.
Now I’m seeing little Samantha Watson through new eyes. Instead of the little girl I used to tease, I’m up close and personal with a stunning woman whose curves and heat and heart-stopping smile rocket straight to my heart, not to mention parts south.
I’ve never minded going above and beyond for a job. Except playing the smitten lover doesn’t feel like acting anymore.
Despite all my experience, I’m the one who forgot to secure my heart.
The only rule for this job was to walk away at the end.
We're back with the Blackwell-Lyon Security guys in Austin.
Leo just accepted a 'job' from his childhood best friend. Taking his little sister Sam to a wedding. Her ex will be there too and she needs a fake fiancé to feel better about the whole thing.
Leo always liked Sam as kids, but she's so not a teenager anymore! She's a beautiful woman and this weekend at that location wedding will be hell - because he promised her brother that nothing would happen between them.
Let the fun times begin ....
Leo just accepted a 'job' from his childhood best friend. Taking his little sister Sam to a wedding. Her ex will be there too and she needs a fake fiancé to feel better about the whole thing.
Leo always liked Sam as kids, but she's so not a teenager anymore! She's a beautiful woman and this weekend at that location wedding will be hell - because he promised her brother that nothing would happen between them.
Let the fun times begin ....
Sam and Leo.
Adorable!!!
Poor Leo promised his buddy that he would just be a fake fiancé to help Sam. But the fake went out the window as soon as he saw her for the first time after all these years. He should've declined that job! But now he's here and it's so cute to watch him not fall for her - while still being convincing as her fiancé. I just adored that wedding weekend!
We even get a bit of slightly criminal excitement!
Cute little romance! I liked reading it!
These four books were all pretty good - too short, but a really cute little love story is much better than a boring long one! ☺
Adorable!!!
Poor Leo promised his buddy that he would just be a fake fiancé to help Sam. But the fake went out the window as soon as he saw her for the first time after all these years. He should've declined that job! But now he's here and it's so cute to watch him not fall for her - while still being convincing as her fiancé. I just adored that wedding weekend!
We even get a bit of slightly criminal excitement!
Cute little romance! I liked reading it!
These four books were all pretty good - too short, but a really cute little love story is much better than a boring long one! ☺
TEMPTING LITTLE TEASE was a fun & adorable little love story! Run to your nearest amazon for your own Leo - this one is MINE! ☺
I am so out of the J Kenner/Blackwell-Lyon loop these days - so many books, so little time and all that.
However I eagerly dove into Tempting Little Tease and completely and utterly enjoyed it.
I love a bit of best friend's "little" sister action. I love the fake relationship thing - I mean, we all know that the fake stuff isn't going to last, right?
You can feel the attraction between Leo and Sam. The sexual tension leaps off the pages - helllllooooo pheromones!
This was a fun, flirty short story that I wanted more of!
♥ EXCERPT ♥
I pull open the screen door, knock a couple of times, and
wonder if I’ll even recognize her.
A moment later, the door flies open, and I’m staring at
Samantha Watson’s wide, happy grin. Her dark brown hair is pulled back beneath
a blue bandana, and there’s a white streak of paint on her cheek that makes me
think of street urchins. She’s at least three inches taller than the last time
I saw her, the top of her head now reaching my chin.
In my mind, she’s still built like a pre-teen fence post,
but to be fair, I can’t get any real sense of her figure since she’s wearing a
paint-splattered men’s button-down that doubles as a smock and baggy, faded
jeans.
I can see her face just fine, though. The same, but different.
Her wide brown eyes seem bigger and darker, with the kind of lashes that
Cayden’s wife Gracie wears when she’s modeling, but on Sam are the real deal.
The childish round face that’s burned into my memories has given way to a
perfect oval accented by cheekbones that stand out when she smiles. Something
she’s doing right now, actually, and I can’t help but notice that her plump
lips and wide mouth were made for smiling. And for other things. Things that I
have no business noticing about my best friend’s sister. Not even in passing.
Not even casually.
I’m still lecturing myself when she steps forward, obviously
intending to give me a hug. And, damn me, I actually take a step back, her lush
lips still filling my vision and Brody’s all-too-strict warning still ringing
in my ears.
To my relief, she laughs. “I know. Awkward, right? I mean,
you were like my brother, but it’s been ages. Probably best to start out with a
friendly handshake and work our way up to social hugging.”
She thrusts out her hand, and I take it, noticing how well
it fits into mine, and surprised at how smooth her skin is despite the fact
that she apparently spends a lot of time working with her hands.
“From what Brody tells me,” I say, “we won’t be stopping at
the social hug.”
It might be my imagination, but I think her grip tightens
slightly. Not that I have time to analyze the nuances of our connection,
because she gently tugs her hand free.
She clears her throat, then steps aside and ushers me into
the house. “Listen, thank you so much. I know this whole thing must sound
crazy, and I can’t even tell you how much it means to me that you agreed to do
it.”
“I didn’t—”
“I know. Brody told me the whole story about how you didn’t
want to, but then you remembered how you two pledged to look out for me. And
even though I’m old enough to look out for myself now, I really, really
appreciate this.”
She pauses, looking me over once more before she shuts the
front door and gestures me further into the house.
I hesitate, because this is the moment when I should tell
her that I need to leave so that I can go strangle her brother. The guy never
could keep a secret.
“It’s not that I didn’t want to help…,” I trail off lamely
as she flashes me a crooked smile.
“I believe you. Why wouldn’t you want to go off to
Fredericksburg to a weekend wedding hosted by people you’ve never met with a
woman you haven’t seen since she was a kid, but now you’ll have to pretend to
be her fiancé even though you don’t even know her favorite color?”
“When you put it that way, I must be crazy.”
↓ LiNKS TO THE BOOK AND AUTHOR ↓
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J. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and International bestselling author of over seventy novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres.
Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy, Victorian-era thrillers (coming soon), and paranormal mommy lit.
Her foray into the latter, Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner, has been consistently in development in Hollywood since prior to publication. Most recently, it has been optioned by Warner Brothers Television for development as series on the CW Network with Alloy Entertainment producing.
JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations” and by RT Bookclub for having “cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swopn for him.” A three time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy).
Her books have sold well over a million copies and are published in over over twenty countries.
In her previous career as an attorney, JK worked as a clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced primarily civil, entertainment and First Amendment litigation in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as in Austin, Texas. She currently lives in Central Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and two rather spastic cats.
