From New York Times bestselling author Elle Casey comes the first book in the sexy Red-Hot Love Series. Fiery, free-loving Amber Fields has just discovered she’s the daughter of a 90s rock legend. The bright lights of New York City are a world away from her quiet life in Maine, but Amber is determined to get answers—and give her absent father a piece of her mind. When she tracks down her … tracks down her father’s band in Manhattan, answers seem hard to come by, and what she does find doesn’t add up with the stories she was told as a child. And then there’s the band’s replacement lead guitarist Ty Stanz. He’s sexy and intriguing for sure, but Amber is not falling for a brooding, prickly rocker. He seems to know exactly the right buttons to press to provoke her. Amber is no fan girl, and Ty sees her as an unwelcome distraction.
On the surface they are worlds apart. Each is tied to the band for very different reasons, but the more time they spend together the hotter things get. Is their red-hot love meant to last?
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3.75 stars– AMBER is the first instalment in Elle Casey’s contemporary,adult RED HOT LOVE rock, romance series focusing on three sisters-Amber Fields, Emerald Collins, and Rose Lancaster. This is rock star Ty Stanz, and twenty four year old Amber Fields’ story line.
Told from first person perspective (Amber) AMBER follows twenty four year old Amber Fields as she goes in search of the truth. For twenty –four years Amber and her two ‘sisters’, Emerald and Rose, have lived a quiet, hippie-like lifestyle with their mothers, mothers who sought the peace and solitude of a free existence, an existence far from the life they once grew to love. When a powerful attorney shows up offering the sisters a lump sum payment for sins of the past, Amber is about to get the experience of a lifetime when she heads to New York, and discovers the secrets about her mother’s life. Enter rock star Ty Stanz, and the man with whom Amber will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship between Amber and Ty, and the potential fall-out as all is revealed to the world to see.
Ty Stanz is the new lead guitarist for the 90s rock group Red Hot but as weeks lead to months where Ty does not feel like a member of the group relegated to errand boy and punching bag for Red Hot’s die-hard fans, our hero struggles with his place in the band. Meeting Amber Fields gave Ty a chance at his own happily ever after, a happily ever after that is threatened by secrets of the past, secrets that may destroy the woman he loves, and the band he hopes to call his own.
The relationship between Ty and Amber begins acrimoniously as Ty is unhappy as escort and chaperone for Amber Fields. Amber is a strong willed, independent young woman who is willing to go head to head with anyone discrediting her family or her life but secrets from the past are about to blow wide open the family she thought she knew. The $ex scenes are passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
There is a large ensemble of colorful secondary and supporting characters. We are introduced to the members of Red Hot: lead singer Red Wylde, drummer Mooch Gyllenhaal, rhythm guitar Cash Stagger, bassist Paul Goldman, and their lawyer Greg Lister and his niece Linny Lister, as well as Amber’s mothers Barb Fields, Carol Collins and Sally Lancaster.
AMBER is a story of family, secrets, betrayal and lies. The premise is engaging and entertaining; the romance is seductive and intense; the characters are flirty, cautious, sassy and real. AMBER is a wonderful and compelling story line with a kind-hearted heroine is determined to protect the people she loves.
I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This is not the first book that I’ve read by this author. I feel like this book took a very long time to get to the point. It has 40+ chapters and after chapter 24 I was wishing for the end to come soon.
I don’t like to give negative reviews or comments about a book because I know that authors put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into their effort- but since I’m giving my honest opinion- it was too long and slow going.
What a great start to the new series Red Hot Love by Elle Casey, Amber is a bit different to previous books I have read by this author but it’s still everything you would expect from the very talented Elle Casey. If you love rock themed romance this really is a must read.
Amber and Ty are two very different characters bound together by a rock group, he is the lead guitarist and she has just found out she is a the love child of one of the original 90’s group members. Amber and her sisters where raised on a hippy commune in Maine and when they find out their fathers are rock stars and their mothers were groupies it’s Amber that takes off to the bright lights of New York City to find the truth out, what she finds is Ty …….. opposites attract and sparks fly when these two meet but will their differences be too much……,
I loved the characters , I loved the storyline and I really feel this first book is a great start to what looks like a brilliant series. Looking forward to the next in the Red Hot Love Series
DNF
I won this in a Goodreads giveaway. I decided to gave it another chance and finished the book, skimming quiet a bit. It deserves maybe 1.5 Star’s max,
Anyway, three grown women sleeping round with four or more different guys in a band. They all get pregnant at the same time and are not sure which one is the fathers. Very unlikely.
Their almost 25 year old daughters are extremely immature, even after attending college. One girl decides to confront the fathers, the conversations and situations are ridiculous.
Maybe some highschoolgirlmightlike the read, but I doubt anyone older than that would.