From USA Today Bestselling Author, Bronwen Evans, comes her latest sexy contemporary romance! A secret baby, best friend’s little sister, romance set in Bad Boy Autos. Think Fast and Furious but nothing illegal!Thomas (Tom) Lorde’s morning couldn’t get any worse. One call changes everything. Apparently he’s a dad. He should be on the phone to his lawyer. He wouldn’t put it past a woman—any … woman—any woman—to lie to get at his hard earned money. His mother trapped his father into marriage and then left them both for deeper pockets. But when the news is delivered from between the sweet lips of Kendra Black, his best friend’s out of bounds little sister, and his one major ‘fucking’ mistake, he knows he’s screwed and that she’s not lying.
Kendra Black knew contacting Tom would be a mistake. Three years ago, he’d made it very clear he had no feelings for her. He slept with her and then flew to Europe without a backward glance. However, he left more than a broken heart behind. He might not want her, but now that’s he’s back in California, her son, their son, Connor (Con) Black, deserves to know his father. What she hadn’t expected was Tom’s old-fashioned lap of honor. He wants to marry her. Why couldn’t he simply be a weekend dad like her father? She can’t deny the physical attraction is still there. He might be okay with a marriage based on hot, raw, animalistic sex and only sex, but she wants more. She deserves a man who loves her and she refuses to wave the checked flag until he gives her his heart.
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I really liked Tom and Kendra’s book it mixes a few of my favorites all together in one super read so if you are like me and enjoy a good second chance/brother’s best friend/secret baby romance then this book will have you as hooked as I was. The storyline was really well done and pulled me right in I thought the characters were interesting and real and I found myself rooting for them. I can’t wait for the rest of the series.
All it took was one night to change life paths. Kendra was well on her way to a singing career when she found herself with child. Years have passed and Tom is back in the US and opened up a business with her brother his best friend. When Kendra confronts him will it bring an end to best friends and will there be a happily ever after for Kendra and Tom.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this novel from the first page until the very last. It has been very rare that I have been able to read a book in one day, but I was captivated by these characters instantaneously.
Let me just start off by saying that I have already set an alarm in my phone to remind me to be on the look out for the next book in this series! I absolutely LOVE these novels and the romantic atmosphere that they bring without becoming crude and overbearing. So many times, now-a-days, there are individuals out there quick to write a fast story with too much lust and not enough romance; however, you never have to worry about that when it comes to the Bad Boy Auto series!
Kick back in your chair, dim the lights, make yourself something to drink along with a snack while you join the story of a young woman discovering that maybe love is within her grasp after all. Everyone gives up too easily on the family of addicts, especially the spouses, by writing them off as enablers but no one ever looks deeper to see that they have more guilt placed upon their own shoulders than any that someone else could ever place. Come and read about a self-reliant young lady finding that not all men are the same, for some want to just love and protect their women and not take advantage of them and leave them when everything they could gave from them is gone.
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Kendra Black and Thomas (Tom) Lorde share a past! She’s the little sister of his best friend. For years, Tom has kept away from Kendra until her birthday. He finally gives into her and then leaves. Kendra tries to reach out when she has a little “surprise” for him from their one night together. Unfortunately, the break down in communication leads to further alienation, anger, and mistrust. Flash forward, Tom and her brother Marcus are in business together. Marcus has no idea that Tom and Kendra hooked up all those years ago. You know, the Bro code! The story has it’s ups and downs, but overall we get the HEA that you’re cheering for by the end.
This is the first time I’ve read anything by Bronwen Evans and I think I’m already hooked. I can’t wait until the next book in the series!!
I received this book via an ARC that has allowed me to review the book and leave an honest review. I thoroughly enjoyed this book so much that I intend to purchase it when released.
This is a second chance, little sister, big brother’s best friend romance.
At the tender age of sixteen, Kendra Black had fought the battle against leukemia and won and had been in remission for 6 months. That’s when she first laid her eyes on her brother’s new friend, Thomas Lorde. From the start, she developed a crush on him, partly because he didn’t treat her like she needed to be wrapped in cotton wool. But he was older and there was the bro code.
Four years later, after she had been throwing herself at him, he surrender one night, and believing that the chemo had left her sterile, told him not to worry about the broken condom. She also knew he was leaving the next day for Europe to be with her brother Marcus, a formula one race car driver, as his head mechanic. But surprise, she was pregnant, and he did not respond to any of her phone calls, texts or emails, believing stupidly that he wasn’t good enough for her. She refused to tell anyone who the father was and her wealthy parents threw her out of the house. With the help of a friend she supports and her son herself by giving music lessons and selling songs.
Several years later, after Marcus had won a Formula One World Drivers Championship, he was so badly injured in a crash he could no longer race, they came back to LA and opened Bad Boy Autos. Kendra is tired of waiting for him to step up, so finally comes to talk to him. And he is angry at himself for not listening or reading her messages and angry at her for waiting so long to contact him once he was back stateside.
His life experience, a mother who walked out on her sons leaving them with their abusive alcoholic father, left him with the belief that love was fleeting and marriage was doomed to failure. But he immediately falls in love with his son, Connor, and wants him to have the family that neither Kendra or he had had. But although she never stopped loving him, she doesn’t trust him. She is not going to give him the chance to break her heart again, unless he can prove that he loves not only Connor, but her too. Will they have a second chance?
I read a Beta ARC supplied by the author. This is my unbiased and voluntary review.
This book was just okay for me. The H/H were both incredibly immature in my opinion. All they cared about was sleeping together and that seemed to be the primary focus of their relationship. The heroine survived a bout with cancer and this seems to define her every move. As a cancer survivor myself, I can understand the concerns with whether the cancer will return; however, the writer makes the heroine’s obsession with the cancer returning a primary focus of pretty much every thought she has (right up there with how hot the hero is). The heroine’s other obsession is what her brother thinks, to the point where she is unwilling to allow the hero to acknowledge his son. Both of these two focus on some of the stupidest stuff that it makes the book hard to take at times. I won’t likely read any additional books by this particular author since it was a struggle to finish this one. 2.5 stars for me.
This was an okay second chance read. It would have been better, but Kendra was the hangup. Kendra was there for Tom and then she decides not to be. Tom realized his mistakes and did what he needed to change. This book repeated the past too much and that made it boring sometimes,.
Second chance romance for two people who were off limits years ago. Easy to read and HEA. Loved this book!
It took me a while to warm up to Tom. I am still not his biggest fan, but he has grown on me. Kendra has a heavy past. Tom has his baggage as well. There are a few places that I feel a little lost in the story, but overall this is an interesting story with a unique setting, Auto Repair and Racing, and some good characters. Marcus is a tool but comes around. Stella is fun. Lexie is interesting. Connor takes your heart.
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Tom and Conner had been friends for ages and were on the car racing circuit together…Tom, the mechanic and Conner, the driver. They opened a custom auto shop together after they left that scene and things couldn’t be better. Until Tom can’t keep his hands off Kendra, Connor’s sister. He discovers that she has a little boy, his after a one night stand the night before he went back to Europe to race. She has never told anyone the child is his. They still have the hots for each other, but know the bro code…thy shalt not touch one’s sister, will cause things to explode. The chemistry is hot and it has a HEA even through all their issues they have to work out.
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I have read all of Ms. Evans’ historical romances and loved every one of them. This is the first contemporary romance I have read of hers and it is quite different from her historicals not only in time period but in voice. While I liked the story it moved a little slow for me. There is really no intrigue or mystery or angst. It is just a nice story of a broken relationship being reignited. I did not care for Kendra a lot and the reason is because she whined all of the time. I understand she wanted love and not a marriage of convenience but come on, get past that especially when Tom was so caring and upfront with his feelings. I feel that Tom really wanted the relationship to work out and Kendra was on the fence. If you can get past all of the doubting of Kendra, this story is very sweet and the ending was really great.
I received a complimentary copy from Booksprout.