He’s a smooth talking jock in trouble She’s the solution to his problems. Love is the last thing they expected to find. Damon Prescott had it all. Star quarterback. Money. Fame. Now? He’s being accused of taking performance enhancing drugs and banned from the sport and team he loves.Determined to prove he’s innocent, he hires tough as nails private investigator, Evie Wolfe. She’s able to … private investigator, Evie Wolfe. She’s able to bring a man to his knees with a glare, yet sensual in ways that take him off guard – and she’s everything Damon didn’t know he needed.
Evie’s used to men dismissing her, especially playboys like Damon Prescott so she’s not buying the sexual lines he’s trying to sell. She’s with him to do a job, nothing more. But you know what they say about the best laid plans? Sometimes you end up between the sheets with an arrogant football player anyway.
But when the case is over, can Damon convince Evie she’s the only woman for him or will she leave him tied up in love?
A stand-alone novel
DARE NATION SERIES
Book 1: Dare to Resist – ASIN: B0842B31PL
Book 2: Dare to Tempt – ASIN: B0844N9LYK
Book 3: Dare to Play – ASIN: B087ZRKKX6
Book 4: Dare to Stay – ASIN: B089YC13VH
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Damon Prescott is a star quarterback who has always loved the game. He gets blindsided when not once but twice his drug test comes back positive for performance enhancing drugs. He would never ruin his life by using drugs and wants to know whose behind such a horrible deed.
Evie Wolfe is a private investigator who Damon has hired to figure out who is behind his positive drug tests. Evie is happy to take the job, she has been struggling lately with not only her personal life but her professional life too. She wants to show herself that she can still do the job and trust her own instincts.
To figure out who is messing with Damon’s career the two decide to pretend date. Along the way things go from playful to serious. Damon decides he’s definitely ready for more than some fun and a fling. Evie is gun shy when it comes to relationships and doesn’t know if she is quite ready for more. Follow along as these two look at making things more serious. Can the two come together and be happy or will one of them mess up a wonderful thing!
Carly Phillips is an amazing storyteller that sucks you right into the character’s lives from the beginning. Damon the star quarterback for the Miami Thunder somehow tests positive for PED after an on-field collision. He know that he is innocent and has been set up. His brother/agent hires Evie, a PI and friend, to prove is innocence. Evie is recovering from her own trauma after an ex attacked her and continues to stalk her. The chemistry between Damon and Evie cannot be denied. A great read and addition to the series.
Carly Phillips never fails to deliver a sizzling, captivating romance, and this book is no exception! Damon and Evie’s story is filled with both tenderness and hot chemistry — an excellent addition to the red-hot Dare Nation series.
I have followed this author’s series’ for years. The Dare’s are one of her best, exactly because she continues to add to the family, exploring connections and showing us their entire world. Damon and Evie are the latest couple we get to meet, although we have met them in other books before. This is their untraditional love story. They were only supposed to be pretending. But we know how crazy that can get when real people have real feelings. Evie only wants to help a friend and find out who’s got it out for him. Oh yeah, she also has someone lurking from her past who isn’t please with her. Enter the alpha Damon. He doesn’t see the real Evie at first. By the time he does, Evie’s fate is sealed. She will be his. Now he just has to find out who is messing up his life, and keep Evie safe. Another five star read!!!!
Dang, those Dare Men! Just when you think you can’t fall for another one, Damon Dare appears. Mr. Football is in some trouble and his only way out is a fake relationship to see who is setting him up. PI Evie Wolfe is on the case. But can these two just keep it professional, we know the answer to that?
Another great book in the Dare Nation series, I can’t wait to see what’s next, Batter Up!
Dare to Tempt is a twist on the fake girlfriend story and I loved it. Damien is in trouble and the best person to get him out of it is Evie a detective and best friend to his brother’s girl. Evie is so strong and refuses to take any of Damien’s smoothness and flirting to heart. Damien is trying to clear his name and have a little fun with Evie while she plays his girlfriend. Lines are blurred and real feelings develop.
Damien is a great mix of flirty but with heart and Evie is a BA but also has a softer side. Their story is hot and full of feels with appearances from lots of Dares that we all love. Don’t miss this one.
Damon Prescott is in trouble. He has tested positive for and swears he is being set up for illegal use of substances that he knows better to use. He is the star quarterback. His cousin owns the team, Why would he even begin to want to screw up when it’s a contract year for him. He knows better than to cheat. He was taught better..well maybe his dad would have been underhanded enough to try something like this, just to make sure he was the star of the team. Luckily for Damon his brother and sister believe him and will do whatever is takes to clear his name.
But Damon’s luck is about to run out in the hot private eye that his brother and fiance have thrown his way. Damon has been attracted to Evie Wolfe since the first time he laid eyes on her at his brother’s office when she was there to see Quinn. How is he supposed to keep his hands and thoughts to himself? She’s a knockout who doesn’t take his crap or let anyone push her around.
Now can these two work together posing as a couple to uncover just what exactly is going on and keep Evie safe in the process because someone from her past is out for revenge.
As always another amazing story by Carly Phillips! Evie and Damon are perfect together. They both see past each others insecurities and compliment the other in some of the best ways! She believes in him from day 1, just because she was hired to do a job didn’t mean she has to believe him but there was never a question for her in Damon’s innocence and he never hesitated in making her his! Loved these two!
I love Carly Phillips’ writing style. the characters and setting of her stories are brought to life and grow in depth as the story unfolds. Brought together out of the need for Evie’s PI skills, Damon get a chance to learn more about a woman who sparks his interest. Professional athletes testing positive for banned substances face immediate consequences. Proving he was set up means hiring Evie to dig around for answers. Having her act as his girlfriend is the easiest way to introduce her to his world. Is it real or not, only time will show them both what lies ahead for them. A great addition to the Dare Nation series.
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This is the second book in the series. I gobbled this book right up. I loved Evie. She takes nothing from anyone and stands up for herself. She’s helping out Damon to see who set him up. With his football career limbo at the moment Evie proves to be a distraction he never counted on. Though for Damon she becomes so much more than he could ever imagine. I loved the banter between Evie and Damon. I like she keeps Damon on his toes. I liked the side Evie brings out in Damon. It shows his caring protective side. That’s the guy you’re going to swoon for. This book delivers on humor, heart, and heat. Evie and Damon have burn up the pages chemistry. I’m really looking forward to the next book in the series after the tease we get at the end of this one.
Damon needs help finding out who caused him to test positive for PED. Evie is ready to take his car on while posing as Damon’s girlfriend. Their chemistry is through the roof, but Damon is a player and Evie’s been hurt terribly.
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I enjoyed this book. LOVED the characters.
Austin Prescott is a star quarterback. He is happy and content “playing the field” both on the field and off. He has nothing to worry about until, during a random drug test his comes back positive. Austin doesn’t know what to say other than “I didn’t do it”.
Evie is a PI and a close friend of Quinn, one of Austin friends. When asked to investigate Austin’s positive drug test to see how it may have happened and to see if someone is drugging him, Evie finds a lot more than she bargained for.
Falling in love with someone was not in the cards for Evie or Austin. But what happens when two people who are attracted to each other and are playing like they are in a relationship spend a ton of time together? Can they resist their attraction towards each other? And most importantly, can they find out why Austin tested positive for PED?
Great book and I recommend.
4.6 stars
This is the second book in the Dare Nation series and it is a whole lot of wonderful. Damon is the star quarterback for the Miami Thunder who succumbs to an injury while playing. After being subjected to a random drug test, with a positive result, his world is upended and he has been suspended. The worst part is the belief everyone has that Damon would take drugs but he is unable to prove that it is not true. Evie is a private investigator. She is also best friends with Damon’s brother’s girlfriend and she is tasked with the job of figuring out how Damon tested positive. However, she is not without her own personal issues. When she starts her investigation into Damon’s case, her past comes back to interfere. What started out as pretend, will it turn into something real between Damon and Evie? Will Evie be able to change Damon’s playboy ways? This is one alluring read as the chemistry between Damon and Evie is constantly sparking. The storyline mixes together all the elements that bring out the best parts of what it takes to make a relationship. I volunteered to read a copy of this book.
I will never say no to another Dare book from Carly Phillips and you shouldn’t either! Love this series!!
Great characters, passion, drama and a happy ending had me glued to the pages. As always Carly Phillips doesn’t disappoint and writes another must read romance!
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Dare to Tempt is book 2 in the Dare Nation series by Carly Phillips and while a standalone reading in order gives you a better understanding of the Dares and Prescott’s.
Austin Prescott is the starting quarterback for the Miami Thunder who tests positive for PED’s in a random drug test. Knowing this is false he needs help to figure out how this happened and who is out to get him off the team. With the help of his family he hires Evie Wolfe, a PI and best friend of his future sister in law and she has some trouble of her own…
What happens next is a fake girlfriend, who wants him out of the game, sexy times, playboy to commitment, stalker, breaking down walls and finding that with the right person anything is possible!
Carly Phillips’s new release, Dare to Tempt, brings the drama, the banter, and the sports romance!
This is book two in the Dare Nation Series. Damon Prescott is a football player that got hurt and was tested showing he used a banned substance. Damon is shocked and knows he is being set up. Enter Evie the sexy PI who agrees to help investigate who set him up. Evie is determined to ignore all of the chemistry between her and Damon and keep her walls super high protecting her heart. This is an incredibly enjoyable book and I highly recommend it!
Dare to Tempt is the second book in Ms. Philips’ Dare Nation series. This is a stand alone novel, however you will run into prior characters as they are all family.
Dare to Tempt is Damon Prescott and Evie Wolfe’s story. At the end of Dare to Resist Damon went down in a game with a massive concussion. This book picks up after Damon is home recovering, but is now being accused of utilizing performance enhancing drugs. Damon is adamant that he didn’t knowingly take the PEDs. In order to prove his innocence, Dare Nation decides to hire a private investigator to help weed out the culprit.
This is where Evie steps in. Readers were introduced to Evie in Dare to Resist. She’s Quinn’s kick butt, tough chick, best friend who is also a private investigator. Evie will be posing as Damon’s girlfriend so she can meet and interact with people in his life who control his medical care as well as his teammates.
While Evie is busy trying to uncover all the bad guys in Damon’s life, Damon is busy trying to uncover all the bad guys in Evie’s past. He has questions about this woman who is never without her leather jacket and boots. He’s intrigued with her as she is normally, but when she starts dressing the part of an NFL’s star quarterback girlfriend, his curiosity goes through the roof.
The plot winds around Evie poking into Damon’s work life while Damon begins to poke around in Evie’s personal life. An old finance is back and is causing trouble for her. Damon is finally presented with an opportunity to ask all of his questions.
The more time these two spend with each other, the more they drop their walls and open up. Their relationship becomes more natural and deepens without them realizing it. The big question remaining is – what happens when Evie fixes Damon’s problem and he fixes hers?
Both the Dare and Prescott families make appearances in this book. Austin and Bri Prescott are Damon’s agent and publicist. Ian Dare is his team owner.
As with Dare to Resist, Damon and Evie’s story is a quick and enthralling read. Ms. Phillips dives right into the action of Damon’s plot line and never hits the brakes. Evie’s plot is then woven intricately within Damon’s with Evie revealing pieces of herself in bubbles. We finally get to meet all of Evie’s family as well, which includes her front line brothers and cop father. Ms. Phillips writes a strong willed yet loving family for her heroine and it’s wonderful to see the supportive male role models in her life. Damon also respects and loves that Evie is her person. Evie is written as a strong female character which I enjoy.
I’m really enjoying the Dare Nation series. They read well, the characters are well plotted out and well written. The family dynamic is fun to see in the books and with each book the broken bits of the Prescott’s becomes a little less. I am excited to see what’s up next for the Dare Nation family.
For a short read i really did enjoy Damon and Evie’s story. This book is not only filled with steamy romance (Damon is drool worthy) Its filled with suspense too. i haven’t read the first book in this series but this book alone makes me want to read all her books. I love that both Damon and Evie come big families as well. I feel like the author really executed their story very well.