Becca: My whole life people told me I grew up spoiled and sheltered; always at the disposal of my billionaire father. After a while, I started to believe them. They said I never wanted or needed anything except Daddy’s approval. They didn’t know what it was like to live with him. Then Daddy gets himself kidnapped. It is up to me to keep Foster Trucking and Shipping running.My father’s captors are … and Shipping running.
My father’s captors are demanding thousands in ransom I realized I couldn’t do it all on my own.
Despite our explosive past and all the mistakes I made with his heart, I had to call Blake Snyder not knowing if he would help me or not.
Blake:
Being an ex-Delta Force Operations Specialist and private investigator specializing in hostage negotiation meant I was no fool.
I was highly trained to keep my cool no matter how high the stakes or the pressure.
Yet when it comes to Becca Foster and her chestnut brown eyes, all my cool went out the window.
The spoiled socialite was gorgeous and dynamite in the sack…
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This story belongs to Blake Snyder and Becca Foster. Blake is a former Delta Force operator and now works in the private sector as a hostage negotiator. Becca runs her father’s trucking business, though he ALWAYS has the final say and keeps her under his thumb.
They met and had an affair a month ago while he was undercover in her father’s trucking company. The attraction was instantaneous, but Becca sent him away when her father thought he was not good enough for her.
When Becca’s father is kidnapped, she calls Blake for help. The attraction is still there and he will do anything to help Becca.
The story is filled with action, bad guys, whodunit, dangerous moments and of course, romance. But in the end, will they survive the danger, and if so, will Becca once again, stay away from Blake?
The plot was engaging and the characters interesting.
I always enjoy the audiobooks since they seem to bring the story to life.
Hard Protector by Jillian Riley is the story of Blake, an ex-military officer, and Becca, the daughter of a rich trucking magnate. It seems they had met previously, embarked on a relationship that disintegrated due to family interference. Now Blake is asked to assist Becca in a life or death situation. Jillian Riley does a great job of incorporating romance, suspense and intrigue into the plot. By using her skills with words, she builds to a climactic end leaving the reader with a satisfying HEA.
Action packed page turner
This book is action packed, full of dramatic encounters and unexpected twists, turns and events. When I started to read I couldn’t put the book down and simply was just turning page after the page.
The plot is very well thought through. Characters are great and fit the story line perfectly. Between Becca and Blake there is a strong attraction and the chemistry is off the charts. They really deserve the second chance in love and the happily ever after.
I enjoyed it. Had interesting characters.
This is the first book I’ve read from Jillian Riley,,,, I really like her writing,,,,
Becca Foster whose best friend is the warehouse manager at her father’s business, Foster Trucking and Shipping, Eva Miller has been friends with her for awhile now,,,, her father’s name is Childs Foster Sr and they live in Dallas, Texas ,,,, he owns the company, her and her brother, Childs Foster Jr, or everyone just calls him Junior they both have offices along with their father up on the top floor ,, although Junior has a past of using and alcohol and was once a subject of an incident himself, when they couldn’t find him for awhile,,, although their father had always used the fear of kidnapping to straighten them out when they were unruly,,,, but, now as she looks for her father, frantically at the office and then drives to her father’s residence, she gets to his house and finds Junior, but no Father, and then gets a phone call from the kidnapper, demanding five hundred thousand dollars and no cops,,,, so, now, she only has one choice,,,,, to call Blake,,,
Blake Snyder is an elite fighter, he had a nickname in the service, it was “Steady”, , he’s an ex-Delta Force Captain and works with his buddy, ex-Delta Force also, Jaxson Acker, they life in Houston. Texas,,,,, they have a P.I. Service, Jaxson’s wife is Amelia, and she is the company accountant,,, their boss is named Ethan Dennis, and they have a pilot that is Jaxson’s brother Davis Acker,,, now Blake is being contacted by his ex-girlfriend Becca, whom he thought was the right one, until Becca’s father told her she was better off without Blake and she broke up with him,,,, and now Becca is calling needing help getting back the old man himself,,,, what fresh hell is this going to be,,,,???,,,, but, of course, Becca needs him,,,, he is going to go, and this time, he’s not going to let Becca go that easy,,,
I really enjoyed this story and think I will go and read more from her,,,, this has got the action and adventure, and the steam these 2 have together is HAWT,,, !!! I would totally recommend this book to anyone at all,,,, I’m happy I got a chance to read this, as I’m always looking for new to me authors,,,,
I got this ARC voluntarily to write an honest review,,,,,
I have not yet read Jillian’s first book of the series but had no problem picking this one up and getting into the plot and story. I liked the hero Blake a lot more than I liked the heroin Becca. Apparently Becca has daddy issues and is always trying to prove herself to him and putting her needs and wants last. The first time Blake and Becca had a chance to connect her dad stepped in and told her that he was below her and next to gutter trash. Instead of standing up to her father she sends Blake away. She now finds herself in need of Blakes services with her father being kidnapped. Reluctantly Blake comes to her rescue. This story had lots of twists and turns as well as action and suspense. The chemistry between Blake and Becca was off the charts. I recommend this book and look forward to the next one in the series. I received an ARC of this book in return for review.
Once again, Jillian Riley has done a great job with Hard Protector. The book was well written and had a great plot.
The story was filled with lots of different emotions and great characters. The two main characters were great together.
I received a free copy of this book from Ms Riley and am voluntarily leaving a review.
ONE EXPLOSIVE ADVENTURE!!!
OMG! Whoa, talk about life in the fast lane. This is one action packed, fast paced, hard hitting, nailbiting, heart pounding, pulse racing, page turning bombshell that’s as riveting as it is captivating. From the first paragraph you’re hooked. As you follow along mesmerized as the intense drama, betrayal, deceit, danger and suspense build and tension soars keeping your focus on this fantastic storyline as the plot thickens. With so many twists and turns along with unpredictable surprises make for one enjoyable experience. The characters are so vividly detailed and realistic with such depth and complexity it draws you in. The scenes are so graphically detailed it really pulls this bad boy together beautifully. Jillian writes the characters and scenes with such realism it’s easy to picture each scenario as they play off one another perfectly. Jillian did a remarkable job bringing this read to life flawlessly. Fantastic job Jillian, thanks for sharing this little guy with us.
A nice addition to Jillian Riley’s library of work.
Becca oversees operations at her families trucking company and has to call on her ex-boyfriend Blake, a private investigator and ex-special forces soldier, when her father is kidnapped. As the story progresses forgiveness is sought, danger increases and the enemies is not who you think. Jillian Riley has delivered again with an immersive work that left me on the edge of my seat. I look forward to where she takes Ethan to complete the series.
I received a free copy of the book from the author via Booksprout. I had the opportunity to review or not.
I received this book as a gift to read in advance and I would like to give and honest opinion of what I read.
This is a really well written book. I loved the characters Blake and Becca even though they had a rough start because of her father when he was on a previous mission there in Dallas to look of her missing brother Jr. who just happens to have a bad drug habit and an alcoholic as well. Becca has spent most of her life trying to pleas her Dad and nothing she seemed to do helped. Instead of sticking with Blake when he and returned Jr back home her father told her that Blake was beneath her just common gutter trash and her brother backed him up. She was afraid that if she stuck to her guns her father would take the company away from her and completely cut her off. A decision that she regret ever since, she knew that she broke Blake’s heart and hers as well.
The morning started out as usual for Foster Trucking; Becca had been down on the floor talking with the employees before starting up to her office. Once again this week something had gone wrong in the warehouse. This was the third week in a row that this has happened. She had just got finished talking with Eva her best friend whom she had promoted as manager over the warehouse floor. She and Eva had been friends since collage and had offered her a job which she had accepted. The current problem Becca wanted to get her fathers approval on what she was planning to do before she did it. As usual Eva was telling her that she needed to stand up to the man and take the reins like she should have. It was then that she realized that her father was not in his office or at the warehouse. She decided to go to the house to see if he was there and if he was all right. Once she got there she noticed that his study was in shambles and it was then that she got her first phone call from the kidnappers. They told her no cops, or FBI or daddy would be dead. She turned to the only person that she trusted though she didn’t know if he would help after everything that had happened to them.
When Blake first got Becca’s phone call her really didn’t want to talk to her but after listening to her he couldn’t bare to hear the tones in her voice. He knew that she needed him there and her was going to help her. His heart was still raw from the month before but he would work it out.
There are twist and turns in this story and the people responsible for the kidnapping were people that Becca least expected would do such a thing. Even more so was she surprised to learn what their true intentions really are. Is Becca and Blake going to come out of all of this unscathed? Is her father going to be found or are the kidnappers going to fulfill their promise of killing him as well? All of these questions will be found out as you read but you have to journey down that road on your own. I don’t want to spoil it for you.
ARC was given by Author through Booksprout. My review is given voluntary and the thoughts on the book are solely mine.
Six Years Later by Nicole Casey this is the 3rd book of in The Vieira Triplets Sisters.
I liked this story. I have not read the first two books yet, and it didn’t feel like I had too. This felt like a standalone.
This was a quick read. The storyline is about 2 friends Draven & Yvette that are divorce lawyers now. back when they where in College they dated, and were very much in love unfortunately their ambitions of becoming big lawyers got in the way of their personal happiness – the relationship came to an end.
Fast forward 6 years they are now big lawyers working in a well known law firm, as partners (as friends) on top of it all they are now working a difficult divorce case, will this be the end of their tentative friendship? it will definitely bring out the claws in both of them, because they are both trying to get that one senior partnership position that’s opened. Their name added to that door is all they ever wanted, it’s what the hard work and sacrifice was for.
We got to revisit the characters from her other two books which was nice. Sister, boyfriends and her parents.
I like the banter they had back and forth, we got to hear what each of them was thinking. The story did have some emotion, chemistry, some steam not much (mild for me). Yvette and Draven took us back into their past, back to college years through thoughts.
In the end of course we got a HEA.
The reason I gave it a 4 1/2 * is because the ending was to abrupt in my opinion. I felt like we needed an epilogue.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Most perceived Becca as a spoiled rich girl but she was far more than what people gave her credit for. When her brother was kid knapped, her father called in Blake who is an ex Delta Force Operations Specialist now doing private investigation. Their first encounter didn’t end well although Blake still has feelings for Becca. This time around she calls him in to help with her father’s kid knapping and their feelings are larger than life. Will they survive their passion this time around and Blake get to her father before it’s too late? I voluntarily agreed to receive an ARC of this book for an honest review
This is a second awesome book in this instalment that kept me on the edge of my seat. It is a story about Blake and Becca. Becca had to call her ex-boyfriend Blake who is private investigator but also ex-Delta Force Operations Specialist when her father is kidnaped.
I absolutely enjoyed to read this book that has suspense, twists, turns, action, romance, second chances, all packed in one great read. On the question are Becca and Blake will get their HEA…just read the book, I’m not going to tell you. Can’t wait to read the next instalment!
Pulled me in from the beginning. As soon as I received this book I had to start reading it. It is full of suspense and love. I have just recently started reading books by this author and have enjoyed them. I volunteered to read an advanced copy of this book.
An amazing well written second chance romance. Becca broke Blake’s heart because of the pressure from her father now he has been kidnapped and she needs his help. Blake ex Navy seal now PI possed as a trucker before and Blake needs him again and even broken hearteed he can’t deny her. This story was exciting, with many twists and turns, passion filled, drama, hot sexy times, sizzling chemistry, love, blackmail, and betrayal. I was on the edge of my seat in this engaging and intriguing storyline woth strong, relatable and well developed characters. A must read to keep i the library to read over and over.
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