Date of Publication: October 19, 2015
Blurb
SEDUCTION HAS NEVER BEEN SO SCANDALOUS . . .
Kendall Shaw loves her job as a boudoir photographer. When she enlists hot, gorgeous, 100% alpha male, Jase Burns for a custom photo shoot for a romance novel cover, she quickly discovers that he only took the job to get close to her. But her painful divorce has made her wary of men, and especially one who is eight years younger than she is.
The moment Jase sets his sights on beautiful, sexy Kendall, he wants her. Despite their mutual attraction, she's rejected his every advance. But Jase loves a good challenge, and one steamy, seductive night at The Players Club changes everything between them.
Kendall has never experienced such overwhelming passion, or been pursued so tenaciously. Jase is addicting, in every way, and she soon finds herself falling for a man who doesn't fit into her ideal future.
Can Jase convince Kendall to let go of her past and take a risk on a second chance at love—with him?
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As for the characters, I both felt bad for, yet admired Jase. Here is a man who was born when his parents were well into their 40s and past the whole parenting a child bit. He was pretty much an afterthought to his family, and I can't even begin to imagine how that could affect someone psychologically. But he didn't let that define him as a man, so props to him for making something of himself.
I had a harder time with Kendall; I get how she was affected by her first marriage, he was a top-notch douche, and the way he left her was seven kinds of wrong; but what I didn't get was why did she keep trying to keep Jase at arms' length because of his age? She kept pushing him away, but the guy she met online and dated a few times could just have easily left her for another woman like her ex-husband did, so that didn't make sense to me. It seemed like she was belittling Jase and his feelings instead of just talking to him about it.
I do wish the ending had been different; Kendall dropped her bombshell and didn't give Jase time to react before she was making all kinds of decisions without him. He told Sawyer "she's had days to come to terms with it, and all I got was 5 minutes". That really pissed me off about her; you don't just say that then decide a whole future without consulting the other person who just might have something to say on the matter.
Okay, rant over. I enjoyed the book for the most part (minus the ending), but I'm hoping we get Stephanie's book next, I have a feeling hers is going to full of comedy.
Okay, rant over. I enjoyed the book for the most part (minus the ending), but I'm hoping we get Stephanie's book next, I have a feeling hers is going to full of comedy.
ARC provided by publisher via Netgalley in exchange for honest review.
About Erika Wilde
Erika Wilde (aka Janelle Denison) is the USA Today bestselling author of over 50 contemporary romances for multiple print publishers.
So, why the new pen name?
As Janelle Denison I've always written sexy books, but lately my writing has taken on more erotic elements that I wanted to keep separate for readers because not everyone likes their reading material on the spicier, kinkier side of romance. However, please be assured that even as Erika Wilde, you will still get an emotionally layered story with characters you'll care about and fall in love with. That is always my goal, whether I'm writing straight contemporary romances, or more erotically charged stories.
Currently, I'm working on The Marriage Diaries and making sure that Dean and Jillian enjoy exploring the more erotic side to their marriage. The series will be on-going, with no foreseeable ending as of right now, for as long as readers want to be voyeurs to Dean and Jillian's sizzling new relationship.
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