Julie Keller relishes the simple things: hot chocolate on winter nights, good friends she calls her family, and her laid-back career as a massage therapist and yoga instructor. Julie is content with her life until Chase Rider returns to Bakersfield.Bodyguard Chase Rider isn’t thrilled to be back in the town where he spent his childhood summers. His beloved grandmother passed away, leaving him a … leaving him a house in need of major repairs. With a three-week timetable and a lot to do, he doesn’t have time for distractions. Then he bumps into Julie, the one woman he hoped never to see again. Chase tries to pretend Julie doesn’t exist, but ten years hasn’t diminished his attraction to the hazel-eyed stunner.
When a stranger grabs Julie’s arm at the grocery store–a woman who insists Julie’s life isn’t what it seems, Chase can’t help but get involved. Julie and Chase dig into a twenty-five-year-old mystery, unearthing more questions than answers. But the past is closer than they realize, and the consequences of the truth have the potential to be deadly.
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Julie Keller is a yoga instructor and massage therapist and has her own studio on the bottom floor of the house she grew up in. Chase Rider is an ex FBI Agent and now works for Ethan Cooke Security. He returns to Bakersfield to get his deceased grandmother’s house ready to sell. He spent his summers and Christmas there every year and fell in love with the neighbor’s granddaughter, Julie. They broke up 10 years ago and these two can’t get over the hurt. When Julie is confronted by a woman in the local grocery store her whole life is put into chaos and danger. Chase is determined to be the friend to Julie he use to be and help her figure out who she is and her future. This is a suspenseful read and I thought I knew who the bad guy is (I was right by the way) but had me second guessing myself. This is a very good addition to this series.
This must be one of my favourites out of the entire series. It grips you from the start and doesn’t let go until the very last page.
Chase is an employee of Ethan Cooke Security who has inherited his grandmother’s house in Bakersville. He decides to fix up the house, put it up for market and leave as soon as possible. However, things do not go according to the plan.
It has been a decade since Chase has seen Julie, his childhood friend and sweetheart. They have not parted on good terms and Chase is doing his best to avoid Julie, however that it easier said than done. Julie is determined to explain what happened all those year prior. Then out of nowhere, a woman is claiming that Julie is her lost daughter that has been kidnapped when she was only four years old and the life as Julie knew it is blown into smithereens.
I loved the way Chase and Julie have reconnected, it didn’t feel rushed at all. The pacing was just perfect. I love how supportive Chase was to Julie’s new reality and how he helped her make sense of it. He was really the perfect hero.
Answers For Julie is filled with suspense and angst. There are few things that happen that I never saw coming, which has me sitting at the edge of my seat for almost the entire duration of the story. I definitely recommend picking up this one!
Julie discovers all is not as her life seems and must find Answers. Chase returns to town and comes to A with the journey to answers and a common heart. Good addition to the bodyguards of LA county series. Enjoyed the story and characters.
Julie Keller leads a full life running a yoga studio and doing massage therapy. When ex love Chase returns to town to get his grandmother’s house ready to sell after he inherits it he once again runs into Julie. Julie later runs into a stranger who makes claims that start to turn Julie’s life around but also threaten her safety. Can Chase help her through this and walk away or will he fall in love.
The premise of this book was great in itself. Julie Keller is a massage therapist and yoga instructor in Bakersfield..
Chase Rider, who was once Julie’s boyfriend, arrives back in town when his beloved grandmother passes away, leaving him a house in need of major repairs. Then he bumps into Julie, Chase tries to pretend Julie doesn’t exist, but ten years hasn’t diminished his attraction to her.
Julie and Chase end up digging into a twenty-five-year-old mystery, unearthing more questions than answers. But the past is closer than they realize, and the consequences of the truth have the potential to be deadly.
I just could not put this book down. I stayed up all night reading it. I can’t wait to get my hands on the other books in the series!
I gobbled up the whole series. Definately recommend.
It took hold and wouldn’t let me go!
Julie owns a massage and yoga studio. She gives ice skating lessons and loves her little town. Chase was the boy next door. Best friend and then boyfriend until he went off to join the FBI. Chase is back to fix up and sale his grandmother’s house after she passed away. Julie wants to apologize for what happened ten years ago but Chase won’t give her the chance. When I woman at a grocery store tells her that is life is not as it seems, Julie is about to find out how right that woman was. Accidents start happening to Julie and Chase realizes he still loves her and will do whatever it takes to find out who’s targeting Julie.
Suspense, mystery, steamy, and action. It will keep you on the edge of your seat till the very end.
Loveeee..loveeee this suspense thrilling story mix in with second chance romance.
A simple small-town woman’s life turns upside down when she found out a web of lies and ugly truths happening through all her life and it’s getting more complicated when her love of her life coming back and she still feels all the sparks even though it companies by heartbroken feelings.
Oh yeah it sure has a very interesting captivating story. All the twists and turns and drama got me keep turning page after page, every chapter brings new feelings, it’s like a rollercoaster of emotions, sweet teary moments change to a heart racing moments with the suspense and mystery change to frustrations and change back to the sweet moments, and it happens over and over again. I just can’t stop reading it from the prologue.
As for characters, love Julie and Chase, from the beginning I can’t not root for them, although their push and pull and their insecurities and doubts really frustrating, the deep love they’re feeling towards each other warms my heart and put a big smile on my face.
If you love suspense mystery romance, you MUST read this one.
IMMENSELY ENJOYED EVERY BOOK IN THIS SERIES AND CANNOT WAIT TO START THE NEXT ONE!!
Answers for Julie was just as exciting as all the other books in this series. The writing is great. The story was so real I could see it playing out in front of me. And Chase….oh yeah he was awesome.
Answers For Julie (The Bodyguards of L.A. County #9) by author Cate Beauman is a romantic mystery in the Bodyguards series. Julie Keller is a delightful young woman who enjoys her home, Christmas, and the sweet memories of Nana. Although Nana is not really Julie’s grandmother, she was like family and lived next door to Julie. Nana was actually the grandmother of Chase Rider, who had spent his summers at Nana’s so he has a little bit of a past with Julie.
Chase is an FBI agent from Washington who has three weeks to prepare the old house for sale. So, Julie and Chase are crossing paths and sometimes mixing their signals of attraction during the first half of the book. I thought the story started a little slow, and there is more romance than mystery. I liked the characters and the story is an interesting one. Imagine Julie’s confusion when she begins to suspect her life is not as she had always believed after a stranger in the grocery store approaches her and calls her Ally.
I won’t post spoilers, but it is an easy to read story with good characters, but there is some strong language. I have read other Cate Beauman books which I enjoyed.
Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.
Chase is back home to quickly flip the home of his beloved grandmother. He fully intends to return to his newly adopted home in LA asap! This town holds way too many memories for him, not all good, and far too many of them star Julie Keller.
He soon finds out that Nana was keeping secrets, cos Julie is his new neighbour and she was a big part of his grandmothers life. She still has the ability to make his heart stall and brain disengage. They were beset friends and then matured into something else. But their young love went askew and he is no mind to rekindle it.
But when a mysterious stranger accosts Julie in a local store, Chase finds himself front and centre once more, because it looks like Julie has a lot of secrets to uncover and she may have problems that she can handle.
Chase was a bit of an ass at times and you really wanted to kick his butt on more than one occasion. Julie may have a hippy dippy lifestyle according to some but she is happy with her lot, even though a few extra bucks wouldn’t be amiss. Neither of them saw the trouble that Julie was in coming and as the past is revealed I loves the way the two clung to each other.
You can feel for Julie, her mother and eventually even the person she called mother. I felt so emotional when the newly reunited family was blown apart yet again. Chase jus goes into protector mode and I felt that he could face anything head on and win!
Answers For Julie by Cate Beauman hooked me from the very beginning. It also raises the question, do you like Prologues? After reading this one, you may be convinced.
Chase Rider is back in Bakersville, to fix up his grandmother’s home that he inherited when she died, and to sell it. He works for Ethan Security in Los Angeles and he is determined to head back as soon as possible. Little does he know that grandma had other plans for him. Memories surround him, so it’s off to get some comfort food, and I agree, pizza is the best. That is why I love Cate Beauman’s stories so much. She hits all the buttons and make me feel as if I am walking through the pages WITH the characters.
He, literally, bumps into Julie. She is as beautiful as ever. They had been childhood friends and sweethearts. It has been ten years, ten long years, since they have seen each other. The attraction for both of them has never left, but will they admit it? No way. In fact, Chase is being quite the **** and I wish he’d get over himself. lol
I wondered when the past would meet the future, but I did’t see this. I am only at 18% and lapping up the words like a thirsty dog. I can hardly wait to see how the story unravels. Now, I need to keep myself from racing through the pages so fast I miss the mysterious journey along the way.
A simple trip to the grocery store changed everything for Julie. Oh man, now I won’t be able to quit until the last page is read. A sense of anticipation overwhelms me and I see how Chase, the handsome hunk from Ethan Security, will come in handy, his tools, his connections with the FBI…I am at 30% and I cannot imagine what the next 70% will hold.
The romance is back and forth, yeah, expected that, but it’s not too much. Enough to seem real but not so much to make the story lag. Good job Cate. But what about the mystery? Seems cut and dried, so where are you taking this?
UH OH! I am a very suspicious and mistrusting person and I hope Julie is too.
I am always trying to figure out the story before I learn it and love when twists and turns keep my head spinning and my fingers flipping pages. I know I’ve been thinking of the right motive the whole time, but who is the villain? OH NO! I just thought…NO…that can”t be right. Then who?
My eyes are so blurry I can hardly see the words. I have to take a break.
OK, now I get why Miranda did what she did.
Every time I think the end has to be around the corner, Cate Beauman throws more mystery and danger at me. I love how she twists and turn me in the direction she wants me to go and I eagerly follow. I have a few suspects left…
Heartache, smiles, romance, love, mystery and danger. All the elements that make a perfect romantic suspense thriller, plus, putting this over the top!
I purchased Answer For Julie by Cate Beauman from Amazon back in October of 2016. I would have read it sooner had I known what I was missing.
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