Book 2 in the River Rain series.
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My favorite of the series so far!
This is my favorite in this series so far! I love stories with awkward and clumsy characters paired with almost their exact opposite, the uber-confident, able to do anything person. In this book, with have Rix, a former hotshot firefighter who lost both legs below the knees on the job a few years before. He was engaged at the time and his fiancé couldn’t handle what happened and so left him. Ever since, he has kept things casual and played the field never getting serious with anyone. Alex comes from a prestigious family, but has always wanted to find her own way. She loves the outdoors and combines her love of that, and helping others into a successful career. However, she has had an intense attraction to Rix, which makes her awkward and clumsy around him, which has always strained their working relationship.
Things come to a head for them in several ways. They are both moving forward with their work in a new foundation which requires them to spend a lot of time together, and with the chemistry they have together, that makes things difficult. Confounding things, both Alex and Rix have things from their past suddenly making appearances in their lives and causing havoc for them. This ends up leading to a “fake engagement” where ignoring their chemistry becomes impossible.
My favorite tropes are “fake relationships” and “friends with benefits”. You have a mix of both of these here, which makes for an interesting and somewhat angsty read. I really enjoyed Alex and Rix and reading about how they work through this. In this installment to the series, the romance is at the forefront of this story, but you also have lot going on with Alex’s family and things from Rix past making an appearance and that adds a lot of depth to this.
This is absolutely a Kristen Ashley and contains everything you would expect to see in a book of hers, from the writing style to how she is able to pull you into a story and make you feel like these are real people living real situations. LOVED this story and can’t wait now for the next one in the series!
Read the prequel and the first book in the series!
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Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over three million books.
Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.
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