Happy Release Day to Tessa and Asking for Trouble!
Read my FIVE LOVES review below and keep on reading ayer my review for details on one of the most AMAZING giveaways I’ve ever had the pleasure of telling you all about!
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Synopsis:
Brent Mason and Hayden Winstead can’t stand each other. She plans exclusive parties for her rich family’s charities. He’s a rough and tumble cop who rigs explosives for a living. Could two people be any less suited for conversation? They think not and prefer to keep it that way.
Unfortunately, their two best friends are deeply, disgustingly in love. Forced together, the mutual attraction simmering beneath the surface of Brent and Hayden’s non-relationship grows with every argument until it explodes into a scintillating night of mind-blowing sex. And it wont be the last, as far as Brent’s concerned.
Hayden has a secret, though. Her father’s company is relying on a merger to save them from financial ruin, and only Hayden’s marriage to the CEOs wealthy son can secure the deal. If she’s to protect her family, she’ll have to forget Brent. And he has no intention of being forgotten.
My review:
Asking for Trouble is the fourth book in author Tessa Bailey’s Line of Duty Series. I am a ginormous fan of Tessa and this series and I have loved every book, but Brent and Hayden now reign as my new favorite. Damn. This book is just too good.
Hayden Winstead is used to living in the upper class with the finer things life has to offer. It’s just the way she was brought up, all she’s ever known. But if she’s being honest with herself, it’s not really who she is. Yes, it’s nice to not have to worry about money, but in the end, money wasn’t all that important to her. Her friends, her adoring father, and the charity she worked with, that was what mattered most to her. It irritated her that Brent, the hot NYPD bomb tech friend in their little group, couldn’t see past that and constantly teased her about her wealth. He knew it got under her skin when he called her duchess. Well, two can play that game and she knew just how to dig right back. Throwing his blue-collar career back in his face pissed him off….and kept their banter going. Secretly, she loved it. It’s during one of their verbal sparring matches that she finds herself in way too deep and issuing challenges she was far too tempted to act upon. Challenges that involved handcuffing this big, muscled, hot as sin cop and having her way with him. Would she back down? Would he let her? She was so screwed…..
Brent Mason loved lots of things. His family, his buddies, his job, and pushing Hayden’s gold plated, diamond encrusted buttons. The truth of the matter was, she drove him bat shit crazy with her tight-laced exterior and her haughty attitude towards him. Tonight though, after their friends all left them, they were alone and he intended to push her hard. He knew what she needed….she needed him, in her bed. Hell, if he could dismantle a loaded bomb that had the potential to blow him to smithereens with one wrong touch, surely he could handle a Manhattan socialite….right?
Holy mother of all things holy in holiness. I devoured this book. Tessa has outdone herself with these two. I’m not sure exactly what did it for me because there were just too many amazing things. Hayden was definitely a bitch in the beginning of this book. I wasn’t sure I liked her all that much. I quickly changed my mind. Once I realized she wasn’t really sure where she belonged in life, I immediately liked her. She didn’t really love being with the ritzy-pitzy people, and felt stuck. She hadn’t ever truly known what it was to be like with a real man. A man who got down and dirty and wasn’t worried about wrinkling his slacks while having a quick make-out session. Her mother treated her like a child and more than a few times, my heart hurt for Hayden and the ivory tower she was stuck in, and desperate to break free from. Brent is just too damn delectable. Not only is he big and muscled and hotter than hell, he’s got a heart as big as his size 15 work boots. He takes care of his family, works his ass off and even though he jabs the hell out of Hayden, he truly does see her for more. The push and pull between them is all-consuming and their foreplay with words is beyond scorching. There were also some really funny moments between them and it brought that much more to their relationship. Beyond that though, Hayden and Brent are the unlikely couple that you want nothing more than a happy ending for. There are many ups and downs as they navigate through social status shortcomings and family issues, but in the end, if they can see past all of that, they really have found something rare and something to be cherished.
And how awesome was it to see more of the characters we know and love from the rest of the series? Ruby and Troy, Daniel and Story…we saw all of them and got to see way more into Hayden and Story’s friendship which was a real treat. They are too funny together! Totally gals I would love to hang out with.
The once scene though that is screaming at me as I type this review, besides Hayden and Brent’s “pillow puns” and her calling him Florence (some serious funny during a seriously hot moment), is the ending. Tessa wrote a side of Brent that I absolutely melted into a puddle over. I was crying and laughing while reading that moment in the courthouse. Now you know I won’t give any spoilers away, but when you read that scene, you will know exactly what I mean! It was like an ending to one of those amazing romantic comedies that all girls adore. (I will be reading that scene again as soon as I finish typing this, by the way!)
Fans of this series will love Hayden and Brent, and if you haven’t read this series yet…what the hell are you waiting for!? Trust me folks, this is a must read if ever there was one.
Thank you, Tessa, for another smoking hot, emotional, funny, intense and truly enjoyable read. You rock my book-obsessed world!
Five Loves
Giveaway:
Want a chance to win an autographed copy of Tessa’s first two books Protecting What’s His & Officer Off Limits? It’s the first time they’ve ever been in print!
She’ll be giving away 3 sets. All you have to do is leave a comment below to enter. Giveaway ends 12/1. Limited to US residents only.
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About the author:
Tessa lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and young daughter. When she isn’t writing or reading romance, Tessa enjoys a good argument and thirty-minute recipes.
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Heather Allen is the author of The Just Breathe Trilogy, and newly released- The Sound of Shooting Stars. Heather finally realized her dream of becoming an author only recently with her mermaid trilogy. She savors every moment on this new journey and the wonderful friends she has met along the way. She has many more books planned. More ideas pop up than she has time to write about.
Dawn is a woman of many colors. Born and raised in the North-East, the youngest child of three, to two hard working, and extremely dedicated parents, she thrived on her love for creative writing. Her commitment to hard work lead her down a number of career paths over the years, stopping with her love for fiction.
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T.M. Franklin started out her career writing non-fiction in a television newsroom. Graduating with a B.A. in Communications specializing in broadcast journalism and production, she worked for nine years as a major market television news producer, and garnered two regional Emmy Awards, before she resigned to be a full-time mom and part-time freelance writer. After writing and unsuccessfully querying a novel that she now admits, “is not that great,” she decided to follow the advice of one of the agents who turned her down—write some more and get better at it. Her first published novel, MORE, was born during National Novel Writing month, a challenge to write a novel in thirty days.
Donya Lynne is the author of the award winning All the King’s Men Series. Making her home in a wooded suburb north of Indianapolis with her husband, Donya has lived in Indiana most of her life and knew at a young age that she was destined to be a writer. She started writing poetry in grade school and won her first short story contest in fourth grade. In junior high, she began writing romantic stories for her friends, and by her sophomore year, they had dubbed her Most Likely to Become a Romance Novelist. In 2012, she made that dream come true by publishing her first two novels and two novellas. She has several more stories planned for the AKM Series, as well as two sister series that are in development.
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Debra Anastasia grew up in New York and got a bachelor’s degree in political science at SUNY New Paltz. At the start of her marriage, she moved to southern Maryland with her husband. She still doesn’t trust crabs and all their legs, though everyone else in her family thinks they’re delicious. Her favorite hobbies include knitting, painting furniture and wall murals, and slapping clowns.
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Since first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a Waldenbooks, Borders, USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. She also received the Romantic Times “Career Achievement Award” for Series Romantic Fantasy and Contemporary Romance.
Born and raised in Nashville, TN. A mother of three, wife to one, and nursing student turned writer. Loves all things pink, glittery, and chocolate.