Title: Hollywood
on Tap (Sweet Salvation Brewery #2)
Author:
Avery Flynn
Date of Publication: November 3rd 2014
For years, Sean O’Dell has hidden his past as a Hollywood heartthrob
from everyone at the Sweet Salvation Brewery. However, the arrival of nosey
efficiency expert Natalie Sweet threatens the status quo. It doesn’t help that
with her glasses, buttoned-up sweaters and always pulled-back hair that she’s
uncovered one secret already: His attraction for hot librarian types.
Natalie has had enough of the strong-and-silent Sean submarining her
efforts to change the brewery for the better. She’s ready to do whatever it
takes to make her vision a reality, even if that means taking down the
pig-headed and too-hot-for-his-own-good brewmaster.
Sizzling attraction battles stubborn determination as Natalie and Sean
go head to head in a battle that’s anything but business as usual.
EXCERPT:
All Sean wanted to do was get lost in Natalie. He’d
carry her upstairs to his king–size
bed, lay her down in the middle of his sheets, and lick every inch of her until
she broke apart in his arms and cried out for mercy. Then he’d
make her do it again.
He
sucked the juicy fullness of her bottom lip into his mouth, lightly raking his
teeth across the
tender
flesh. The woman he’d too often thought of as a thorn in
his side shivered in his arms. The need to touch her everywhere steamrolled
over any objections. He brought his hands around front to the tiny buttons on
her sweater.
Deepening
the kiss, he slid his tongue into her welcoming mouth just as his fingers
closed on the
button
at the bottom of her cardigan and slipped it free. He followed the soft
material north to the next fastened button, but she’d beat him to it.
“No,” he whispered
against her mouth.
Her
hands stilled, but her chest heaved. “Why?”
Removing
the button from her grasp, he slipped it through the hole. “I have spent way
too much time thinking about what it would be like to unbutton each one of
these.”
Not
satisfied to remain a passive partner, she snuck her hands under his T–shirt. “You think about
that,
huh?”
“Every damn day.” The woman had taken
up residence in his thoughts the first day she arrived at
the
brewery with her clipboard. He was beyond fighting the attraction.
Her
touch against his abs was the best kind of torture, and the bulge pushing
against his zipper
grew.
How many times had he stroked himself while fantasizing about this exact
moment? How many times had his balls tightened in anticipation? How many times
had he finished alone but remained hungry for more—for the real thing?
For only Natalie?
Three
buttons down, two more to go. Torn between the release of going faster and the
anticipation of taking it slow, he bought time by trailing his lips down the
creamy column of her neck.
“And does thinking
about it make you hard?” Her thumb, and
only her thumb, rubbed up and
down
the length of his zipper.
The
contact destroyed and rebuilt him with every stroke. “Like concrete.”
Her
lips rested against his earlobe, close enough that moisture from her breath
evaporated against his overheated skin. “Just because of a row of buttons?”
“No, because of what
you keep hidden away from the world behind this conservative facade.” The last button was
all that remained.
“What makes you
think it’s
an act?”
“Right now?” He slipped the last
button free. The small amount of blood not concentrated in his dick pounded against his eardrums. “A whole lotta hope."
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REVIEW:
Loved this story more than the first in the series. This story seemed to headed in a more clear-cut direction, with the added mystery of trying to figure out who is attempting to sabotage the brewery, but also with Sean's past closing in on him. I loved the banter between Sean and Natalie (especially when she was relaxed enough around him).
The first two books in this series had the side issue of someone trying to sabotage the brewery, so now that has been taken care of (at least by the end of this book), it's going to be interesting to see what's in store for book 3, who I'm guessing will be about the last triplet Olivia.
The first two books in this series had the side issue of someone trying to sabotage the brewery, so now that has been taken care of (at least by the end of this book), it's going to be interesting to see what's in store for book 3, who I'm guessing will be about the last triplet Olivia.
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ARC provided in exchange for honest review.
Enemies on Tap (Sweet Salvation Brewery,
#1)
Brewing up trouble one pint at a time.
Enemies ...After years away, Miranda Sweet returns to Salvation,
Virginia to save her family's brewery, but her fate is in the hands of her
lover-turned-enemy, Logan. What's a girl to do when the only person who can
help her is the man who betrayed her?
Lovers ...Logan Martin can't believe his luck when the woman who smashed
his heart to smithereens walks into his bank asking for his help. What she
doesn't know is that he needs the land her brewery is on--and he'll do whatever
it takes to get it.
An Irresistible Combination ...Their wager becomes a battle between
their attraction and their determination to win. But it's in each other's arms
that they realize there might be more at stake now than their bet. With the
town against the Sweet Salvation Brewery's success, Logan has to choose between
what's expected of him and what he really wants...
About the Author
Avery Flynn has three slightly-wild
children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone
invents the coffee IV drip.
She fell in love with romance while
reading Johanna Lindsey’s Mallory books. It wasn’t long before Avery had read
through all the romance offerings at her local library. Needing a romance fix,
she turned to Harlequin’s four books a month home delivery service to ease the
withdrawal symptoms. That worked for a short time, but it wasn’t long before
the local book stores’ staffs knew her by name.
Avery was a reader before she was a
writer and hopes to always be both. She loves to write about smartass alpha heroes
who are as good with a quip as they are with their *ahem* other God-given
talents. Her heroines are feisty, fierce and fantastic. Brainy and brave, these
ladies know how to stand on their own two feet and knock the bad guys off
theirs.
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