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Boone Fairway worked hard to buy her own bar and now reaps the benefits. She’s a partier and loves the different women she meets at the bar. When she meets Grey Dawson, she hopes she’ll be one in her string of women. Grey has different ideas. She works at a domestic abuse shelter and feels that bars are a main contributor of abuse.

When Boone’s sister-in-law shows up at Boone’s bar, beaten by her husband, Boone turns to Grey for help. They work together to help Phoebe and begin a budding relationship. The relationship is strained by Boone’s drinking and the bar, which Grey has a hard time accepting as just a social gathering point.Both women were raised in abusive environments and work hard to overcome their fears and insecurities to make the relationship work.

 

Book Review

The main pair in this story is astoundingly special, amazingly in sync nearly all the time, and perhaps the hottest twosome on a sexual front I have read to date. There are two rather disparate story lines/energies that provide some explosive points. One member of the pair is a sports bar owner/manager and the second is an owner/manager of a shelter for abused women. These women would not initially present the makings of a good couple I would think, but the vagaries that fill life often bring people closer and with greater appreciation for each other. The pace and flow of the story is a tad inconsistent at times, but the motivating power emanating from the main characters trumps the fluctuating story energies resulting in a genuinely fine book. Vive la difference!

Boone Fairway's upbringing exposed her to some difficult episodes. Currently, it is just her brother generating some prickly incidents. The latest occurrence involving Tanner is a bit of a lollapalooza. His wife Phoebe reaches out to Boone for help and protection. A curious serendipity put Boone in possession of a business card for a shelter for battered women. Boone makes the call, sets things in motion, and stays with Phoebe until she is settled and given lots of assurances that she is safe. Boone visits Phoebe practically every day, becoming a very important person in her recovery. It is Boone's sports bar that is a focal point distributing a healthy amount of good feelings to many, but one glaring downer in relation to her business creates an extraordinarily tense and ticklish situation. I just love Boone with her distinct kind of swagger, her truly splendid body, but most definitely her beautiful heart of gold. Spectacular!

Grey Dawson shares several key points in her upbringing with Boone as they later learn. Her childhood experiences directly affected her choice of career and desire to support a refuge for battered women. The shelter Grey manages is incredibly well hidden and almost impossible to recognize for what it is. Grey and her organization put a good deal of care and thought into how to make their establishment extremely elusive to find specifically to keep the abusers away. On another front, Grey has a very low opinion of Boone at first primarily because she owns a bar. This initial impression is successfully dissipated, but she has a deeper, more adamant belief that is much more complicated for her to see beyond. This hardcore sentiment is a major stumbling block for her and certainly for a connection with Boone. Nevertheless, Grey is kind of angelic, remarkably dedicated, and a sublimely sensuous woman who both feels and elicits breathtaking responses from her sexual partner. By and large Grey is more than the whole package and I simply adore her. Fantastic!

This book has an intensity plus an atypical yet delightful original set of characters that drew me in and made me care for most of them. The opposing points of view also added wonderful cross-grained elements that are generally a part of most lives. Being a sports fan and enjoying football, I reveled in that part of the story. However it wouldn't be necessary to be an enthusiast to still find this romance really engaging. I assuredly recommend it. Tantalizingly tempting!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novel, 240 pages/55100 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-July-2015
Price	$9.99 ebook, $16.95 paperback, $19.99 bundle
Buy Link	http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/9781626393622B.html