When the new girl in town, Eliza “Izzy” Forrester decides to hit the local drinking hole, she’s not ready to meet the town’s good, solid guy. She’s definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him.Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble’s bed and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny.Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm’s length. But Johnny … length. But Johnny makes it clear he wants more and Izzy already knows she wants as much of hot-in-bed, sweet-out-of-it Johnny Gamble.
Floating on air thinking this is going somewhere, Izzy quickly learns why Johnny holds distant.
He’s in love with someone else. Someone who left him and did it leaving him broken. Whoever was up next would be runner up, second best. Knowing the stakes, Izzy will take what she can get from the gentleman that’s Johnny Gamble. And even knowing his heart might never mend, Johnny can’t seem to stay away from Izzy.
Until out of nowhere, his lost love comes back to town. He’s not going back, but Johnny still knows the right thing to do is let Izzy go.
And Izzy knew the stakes, so she makes it easy and slips though his fingers.
But that’s before Johnny realizes Eliza moved to town to escape danger that’s been swirling around her.
And that’s why Johnny decides to wade in.
That and the fact Eliza Forrester makes breakfast with a canary singing on her shoulder and fills out tight dresses in a way Johnny Gamble cannot get out of his head.
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This book was really good.
Excellent book!
Just love all of kristen Ashley’s books. Funny and loving and intriguing all at once. Can’t get enough.
Great Kristen Ashley – I don’t think she can write a bad book
I recently discovered Kristen Ashley. What a great find. This book is another great winner.
I love all books that Kristen Ashley writes
i Kristen Ashley didn’t disappoint….great characters. I recommend it
I was really looking forward to this story and I can tell you that this was another good read for me. I really enjoyed this book. ‘The hookup’ is the first book of a new series (Moonlight and motor oil) and after reading this story I’m really looking forward to the next book in this new series.
The story is told from both POV’s . Johnny Gamble is a typical Kristen Ashley’s man character. He is an alpha man, who is bossy, protective and generous in many ways. He is just a ‘real’ man. Eliza ‘Izzy’ Forrester is also a character I really like. She has a big heart and is always there to help other people. I’m really happy for her that she finally found a man that wanted to take care of him. That didn’t mean that she easily accepted help. No! But he was there if she needed him and that’s what really matters in the end.
I liked it that we already got to meet the ‘next’ couple or at least that we got to see who the next couple will be in a future book. The side characters were again a little bit crazy, hilarious and very loyal to their friends.
There was only one little thing that I missed a bit in the story. From the blurb I expected more scenes or dramas or something with the ex-girlfriend of Johnny but there weren’t a lot. So because of that I didn’t really get the feeling that ‘she’ was his great love. For me she was just the first woman to break his heart. But does that mean that she was his soulmate? For me she wasn’t ‘it’ for him but Izzy was that for him.
Maybe, it is a tipical love story, but I loved the bond growing between Eliza and Johnny from the beginning. That makes me think that, perhaps, anybody could build a love story starting from a hookup… you’ll never know if you don’t try, right?