Synopsis:

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in the sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.

Four caskets. Two bodies.

Jessica and Jude Day witness their funeral and that of their parents a few yards away from mourning family and friends. Stripped of the only life they’ve ever known, the Days say goodbye to San Francisco forever.

Six months later, two thirty-year-old misfits with elite self-defense skills and penchants for alcohol, sex, and trouble arrive like an earthquake to Peaceful Woods, a retirement community in Omaha, Nebraska, that thrives on rules and gossip. Welcome home, Jackson and Jillian Knight.

Jackson celebrates his new beginning by embracing his job and wiping his cavalier past clean with a temporary oath of celibacy. But Jillian’s past is branded into her soul—the deaths, the insanity, Dr. Luke Jones, and the need to make her lovers bleed. Her chance for redemption comes in the form of a next door neighbor, one Senior Master Sergeant Monaghan. He’s sexy, dangerously alluring, and riddled with emotional issues from years of service. He’s also … So. Damn. Grumpy.

Their mission is simple: Let go, start over, don’t kill anyone, and pray that nobody wakes the dead.

**This book contains explicit language, sexual content, and violence. 18+

*****Patty’s Review*****

*****4.5 STARS*****
{ARC provided by Netgalley}

“I gave her my love, but you…you took it. You took everything. I never had a choice. You tore into my life…into my heart, wrecking all sense of the man I was before you. Being with you is the best part of my day…every day. You think you’re broken, but you’re not. And if you were…it wouldn’t matter. I love every. Single. Piece of you.” ~ Luke

When I started reading this book, I didn’t know what to make of it. I would classify this is a sexy dark comedy. I don’t think I have ever read a dark comedy and I wasn’t really sure if this was going to be my cuppa.

I’m so very happy to report to you, that I really ended up liking this book a lot. This makes me so relieved because I adore Jewel and I have yet to dislike anything I’ve read by her.

The story begins at a funeral. There are four people being buried. Jessica and Jude’s parents, and then Jessica & Jude, themselves!! The kicker is that Jude and Jessica are very much alive! I’m a little fuzzy on the why, but these two end up in the witness protection program. Their father was a DEA agent and the two siblings have been trained in all ways of self defense by top government agencies. They’re a pretty kick ass duo.

So they are saying good bye to their old lives in San Francisco, and saying goodbye to Jude & Jessica Day. Jessica is suffering from a tremendous broken heart, because she’s also saying goodbye to her love, Luke!! He was once her psychiatrist. She was seeing him because she suffered through a seriously f’d up, traumatic experience when she was a teenager. It has left her a shell of the girl she used to be. She can’t get close to any man because she is incapable of letting a man take control and she has the compulsion to make men bleed, either by scratching or biting them.

Now Jessica and Jude, are relocating to Omaha, where they will be known as Jillian and Jackson Knight. They live in a community mainly inhabited by senior citizens. Jackson works as a piano teacher and Jillian sells sex toys at people’s houses. Kind of like a kinky tupperware party. She also does the odd job around the neighborhood.

She ends up meeting and becoming extremely attracted to their next door neighbor, AJ. He’s a 42 year old Air Force Sergeant, who suffers from PTSD. He’s quite sexy but also very surly. Try as he might, he just is unable to resist Jillian. These two are just all kinds of HOT together!!

Honestly, I don’t want to say any more about this one. I just gave you all a little bit of background. I really don’t want to spoil this for you and I will admit the story started to win me over once I got to the 75% mark. I had a bit of trouble with it but once I got more of the past, I was so very hooked.

I’m going to say it LOUD and say it PROUD, I am TEAM LUKE!!! Can you tell by my collage?? I mean I used David Gandy for the casting! I want Luke and Jessica to be together. I liked AJ, but to me Luke is the one!!

This ended on quite a cliffy. Thank goodness the next book is out!

Synopsis:

“Don’t Look Back in Anger”

In one night, I lost five years of my life. Here’s what I know …

I was homeless.

I’m a recovering drug addict.

My inked skin crawls from lustful eyes.

I have a serious aversion to women.

My gay partner is a home wrecker.

I own a gun and I’m a damn good shot.

I’m a makeup artist, but it’s an insult to my talent.

I’ve never wanted to possess anything except my Ducati … until I met Darby.

Now here’s what I know since that day in the ER when she pieced me back together … nothing—but a few random thoughts.

My new “friend” is distracting, clingy, and obsessed with acronyms, emojis, and phrases like “breakfast soul mates.”

I didn’t want to like her, but she crawled under my skin and swallowed me whole. Now we’re best friends and she’s my new addiction. I’d drink her from a shot glass, snort her up my nose, or inject her into my veins if I could. What I won’t do … is ever tell her that.

She doesn’t know me … I don’t know me. When those missing years come back, I think she will hate me … I think I will hate me.

My parents named me Patrick Roth, and this is my story.

*****Patty’s Review*****

*****FOUR STARS*****

Just feet away from my gate, I close my eyes and let the tears fall. It hurts so damn bad. I’ve fallen in love with my best friend and he can never love me back.

I’ve been dying to read this one after having seen the synopsis and reading a couple of my friend’s reviews on GR. At the same time I was also a little hesitant because there were some unfavorable reviews as well. What I should have learned by now is that we don’t always agree with everyone’s opinions. This story was so very entertaining and gave me many “feels” . It turned out to be so far from what I had expected. I will try not to give much away.

Darby Carmichael is a PA, who works in the ER of a Chicago Hospital. During one of her shifts she is presented with an outrageously gorgeous patient who is in need of some stitches. Trick Roth is every woman’s wet dream with his bad boy looks and attitude. Darby gets a little tongue tied and goofy in his presence. As luck would have it, they will meet each other again. Her hair stylist sets her up with an appointment with a makeup artist, who turns out to be Trick. He’s quite aloof and even a bit abrasive. Trick doesn’t particularly trust or even like women, but somehow these two keep running into each other and develop a close friendship.

I loved Darby in the beginning because she was so funny and a bit awkward with people as she never had a real friendship with anyone other than her Nana. She has a very tense and toxic relationship with her father, who is married to a wealthy socialite that is also a bitch to the extreme. Darby also hasn’t ever been in a serious relationship with a man. She has had many one night stands and sex only relationships, but has never felt the desire to connect with anyone. Until she meets Trick. Too bad she soon finds out that he is GAY.

Trick definitely had me swooning from the get go. I always love the guys who act like complete assholes in the beginning. It makes things so much more meaningful when you get underneath all the layers of bullshit they camouflage their true selves with.

The whole short term amnesia thing kind of didn’t work for me and the big reveal had me rolling my eyes and for this reason, the book couldn’t make it to a Five Star read for me. That being said, the angst at times had me so sick to my stomach and the yummy steamy scenes had me in need of a few cold showers. Those secret masturbation sessions of Darby’s were freakingHOT!!!!

I don’t know that this would be for everyone out there, but it definitely was a WINNER for me. I was very happy with how it all ended and I’ve never read any books by this author before, but I will definitely be checking out her other works.

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