WARNING: Author believes in soul mates and insta-love. Proceed with caution if you’re not a romantic at heart. Love at first sight was never so dangerous. Sheriff Jack Gunnison has a problem, well, two, actually. One stands 5’5” and the other? . . . A killer. Jennifer Stewart needs a change after losing her husband and sending her daughter off to College. Jenn moves to the high country of … College. Jenn moves to the high country of Colorado to start her life over and follow her dreams. Unfortunately, she gets more than she bargained for when she attracts the eye of a killer.
Together, Jack and Jenn must figure out his identity before he strikes again.
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These two…woo, no idea where to start. Well actually, we’ll start with how Jenn got into town and landed on Jack’s radar. She is a widow with a college age daughter, she wants to be in the mountains and become a reporter, her life’s dream. Jack is the fast af Sheriff of the town she chooses. She’s there for a hot second when murders start happening….and that’s where the shit really starts. This book was fast paced, pretty much from the beginning. So much suspense and I loved it. I actually lost a lot of sleep reading this book…because I couldn’t put it down. #WorthIt So damn good. And these two were such a handful, I can’t even, honestly I can’t believe anyone could handle them but each other. Jack had quite the colorful past, that gets brought up all the time, some of it in person no less. Again, I think only she could really put up with this. Know for a fact he wouldn’t be able to deal with it if the tables were turned….but she has her own handful qualities too *winks*…match made in heaven these two. Both stubborn handfuls and highly entertaining.
Some om and ow shenanigans. Great storyline and suspense. These two had so much heat, raw and passionate. Once Jack kisses her, he knows she’s the one he’s been waiting for. I loved all the secondary characters, her partners in crime and her daughter. We get a great epilogue and an hea. This for sure is a book crack read, and series. So damn good, it will have you on the end of your seat and still unable to figure out what the hell is going on…more please.
I absolutely loved Jack and Jenn’s story! There were so many twist and turns and surprises in this story that once I got started I really struggled to put it down! Watching how Jack and Jenn fell for each other, how Jack pursued Jenn, and getting such a full look into their lives (loved how the epilogue tied things up so sweetly) – this book melted my heart and they’ve earned a spot on my favorites shelf!!
A Reason to Breathe is the first in the Reason Series by CP Smith.
If you like over the top, bossy alpha’s, then this is the book for you!
Jenn has finally moved the mountains of Colorado, the place she has dreamed of since she was a child. A widow, a mother and now a reporter, Jenn becomes the sick oppression of a serial killer bent on making her his.
Enter Jack, over the top, bossy alpha male who also happens to the sheriff. At a single glance, Jack knows Jenn is going to be trouble, but the best kind of trouble. Their connection is strong, their attraction to each other even stronger, and the passion is off the charts!
Dive into the world of over the top alpha’s and the woman that love them!
I just can’t with this heroine.
After reading this authors Wallflowers series, I thought I’d give this series a chance. But I have to admit Jenn just really aggravated me throughout this entire book. She’s suppose to be a woman in her late 30’s almost 40, yet her actions and and behavior read of a rebellious teenager or naive woman. Yet she has a daughter who is off in college, who I’m sure if she acted at all like Jenn did during this book then she would be yelling and fussing at her daughter. I couldn’t quite get behind the whole ‘everyone in town wanted a piece of Jenn’. On top of that I found it really unbelievable that she couldn’t see that so many of the men wanted her for more than friendship as well as completely reckless and stupid that she would put herself in the position she did with the Mayor.
Now Jack…
I thought I’d never hear myself say this…or in this case see myself type this…but there is such a thing as too alpha. However, as much as I want to say that Jack was alpha I don’t think I could call him that. He just seemed to be the kind of man who needed to live in the ’30s, ’40s, or ’50s when women had hardly any rights and the only thing they did was pop out kids and worry about the upkeep of the house. I honestly can’t understand what is so sexy about how this character was written. I swear I gave myself a headache from the amount of eye rolling I did during the interactions between Jack and Jenn.
Romantic suspense is one of my favorite genres and I love finding new to me authors that do it well. CP Smith is one such author. I went in knowing this was Ms. Smith’s debut book and was totally wrapped up into the story almost immediately. While insta-love books aren’t always my favorite, the attraction between Jenn and Jack doesn’t feel forced or rushed, but a natural progression of the circumstances they find themselves in.
Jenn picks up and moves her life after the sudden death of her husband and her daughter’s departure for college. Living in the mountains of Colorado and being a journalist had always been her dream but her unexpected pregnancy at eighteen changed her reality. Moving to Colorado, she was hired on by the local paper and also pinged the radar of every man in Gunnison. Unfortunately, she’d also caught the eye of a killer. As the body count rose, so did her interaction with the very sexy sheriff, Jack Gunnison.
A true alpha male in every sense of the word, he is attracted to Jenn upon their first meeting, and that leads him to want to protect her. The banter between the couple is witty, fun, and sexy. She’s the first woman he’s ever been challenged by. She doesn’t just take his bossy tendencies, she fights back and more than anything, she understands his job isn’t nine to five and doesn’t want to change him. The man has had his choice of women since high school and when he sets his sights on Jenn, all hell breaks loose, personally and professionally.
I loved the action in the story, the quirky characters found in the small town, the chemistry between the couple, the off the charts sexy scenes, and following the breadcrumbs. Ms. Smith set up several red herrings to lead the reader to think someone else was the killer and when the actual person is revealed it was a surprise. And just when you think there is an HEA in the wings Ms. Smith throws in more action. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.