Leanna encounters danger and love when she searches for a daughter she gave away in Mexico. Leanna Rivera never told her friends where she went junior year in high school. Her family sent her back to Mexico to give birth and keep it a secret. They told her to forget about Carmelita, her brown-eyed baby girl, who died shortly after her adoption was final, leaving her with a box of ashes. Fourteen … ashes.
Fourteen years later, Leanna receives a frantic phone call. Her daughter is alive and has run away to cross the US-Mexico border. With little to go on, Leanna hires a bodyguard to help her search for Carmelita.
Axe Salvadori hides his secrets well. He also hides his attraction to Leanna, preferring to watch over and protect her from afar. He pushes his way to Leanna’s side, but what he finds blows away everything he’s ever known about his family and their ties to the mob.
Leanna and Axe fight their mutual attraction and distrust while danger comes at them from all sides. There’s the cartel, Leanna’s ex, Axe’s past, the human traffickers, and Carmelita herself. No one is as they seem, and no one is safe—least of all Leanna’s heart.
What will she trade for her daughter? Who can she believe, and who’s trying to kill her? When the stakes are nothing less than the life of her daughter, can Leanna count on Axe, a man with demons of his own?
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Bad Boys for Hire are fun and exciting stories where love is unexpected, but always delicious. They can be read standalone, but for greater enjoyment, please be sure to check out the other books in the series.
Book #1: Ryker & Terri (Motorcycle Club Romance)
Book #2: Ken & Jolie (Hawaiian Vacation Romance)
Book #3: Nick & Carol (Hot Christmas Romance)
Book #4: Liam & Marisa (Irish Adventure Romance)
Book #5: Gage & Sherelle (Winter Wilderness Romance)
Book #6: Axe & Leanna (South of the Border Romance)
Bad Boys for Hire Series was awarded the 2016 Beck Valley Books Reviewers Choice Award
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Another bad boy which has a heart of gold when needed. This one is how Axe and Leanna deal together with getting results of wrongs needed to be righted. A well written perfectly paced story you don’t want to put down.
I have read most of Rachelle Ayala ‘s books. This is The best one yet. The story was exciting making it almost impossible to put down. The characters were believable the sex was hot but within character.
This is the first book in the Bad Boy for Hire in series that I read. What a great book, I enjoyed all the details about the human trafficking. I enjoyed this book and want to read the rest of the series.
Bad Boys for Hire: Axe is a spectacular whirlwind that took my heart by storm. I never expected such vibrant and intense characters to stir my soul so deeply. Nothing could have ever prepared for me this wonderful journey. It was completely unexpected and yet it is was the only possibility for these two deeply secretive yet impossibly passionately people. The heights of emotion surrounding the enormity of their mission had me on the edge of my seat the enter time. When nothing is as it seems, no one can truly be trusted and the heart protectively burrows so deep within as to not exist anymore. What a fabulous romantic suspense that will keep you enthralled until the very end!
Leanna is keeping a secret from even her closest of friends. They don’t know everything about her like they think they do. She is a puzzle; a quiet enigma that is it once and for all, but she needs the help of an unconventional ally. Axe is an intimidating specimen of a man. Undeniably handsome and built like a football linebacker, he never suffers for female attention. However, there is much more to him than meets the eye. He is also playing a part; a part he wishes to rewrite with artistic license. When Axe puts his life on the line to help Leanna, they both uncover more secrets than they ever dreamed possible in one lifetime. When fate crosses swords with the heart, will those involved come out unscathed, or will the remnants of their life turn their world upside down for good leaving them grasping for happiness and security?
Throughout this series, I have been kept wondering about Leanna and Axe. They worked so hard to keep their act together and pristine, and because of that effort, I knew that something was lingering behind waiting to be discovered. I never imagined the intense magnetic attraction between these two beautiful characters. They worked so hard to keep themselves apart, and finally we see just how combustible they are together. Talk about a thrilling kinetic reaction! There is nothing like the depths of their passion for each other and their families. It is the very fire that has forged the precious core of who are they. I have savored and cherished every part of their journey together. No matter how ugly or how good it became, every part of it was necessary in order to bring these two people and their families together. Hell itself can be a blessing if it brings us to the heaven that we have waited our entire life to experience.
I find myself devouring each and every book written by Rachelle Ayala. She has such a beautiful and creative spirit that effortlessly touches each of her readers who fall into her worlds and love everything about them. Inspiration and hope invades our hearts no matter how much we guard our hearts because nothing can stop those powerful forces. Their vehicle is our very soul. They fly through our world on the wings of love and know no boundaries. This is the type of stories that Ayala creates, and I look forward to reading her amazing stories for many years to come.