He’s the newly drafted quarterback.Hot. Arrogant. Too sexy for words. Ready to score. I’m an athletic intern, and the coach’s daughter.Driven. Determined. Prepared to conquer the world.Completely off-limits. The NFL is full of rules. Rules I’ve never broken. Never challenged. Never even scratched—until the day Lucas Carrington crashes into my life with his hard body and I-don’t-give-a-f*ck … body and I-don’t-give-a-f*ck attitude.
After I almost injure my father’s star player, I volunteer to make sure he’s in top shape. At first, it’s hell. I don’t like his cockiness, his easy smile. Don’t like the way he oozes sex. Or how his penetrating eyes follow me everywhere.
That doesn’t stop me from wanting him.
He’s meant to be a distraction—something to occupy my mind for these precious few remaining hot summer nights before I’m forced to leave football behind forever.
I know what we’re doing will lead nowhere good. I know we’re crossing the line. And I know my father will never understand.
None of that matters.
But maybe it should.
Rules aren’t meant to be broken.
Or are they?
more
Lucas Carrington was the new cocky quarterback for the Chicago Bears that is if he survived training camp. His new contract wouldn’t be signed until then. The last thing he needed was any distractions in the form of a sweet and sexy intern who also happened to be the Coach’s daughter. Gillian knew the last thing she needed was to get involved with the cocky and arrogant player that her father had termed as his hail mary. Unfortunately the chemistry and connection was something she hadn’t expected to find in him. Together they are pure heat and fire on and off the field, but what happens when training camp ends and she leaves?
Loved, loved, loved this story. I couldn’t put the book down. On first glance you think Lucas is the normal, arrogant, cocky and self-absorbed player but when you peel his layers back you see a man with a past, a heart and a desire that will make you love him all the more. Gillian is a sweet, sexy and talented woman who wants what she wants. This story was hot and sexy, it made me fall in love with Kim Karr all over again. Amazing read and one that I loved until the last page. I wanted to never stop reading this story. Definitely a must read!!!
I have liked every one of Kim Karr’s books that I have read! The others I have read are funny and steamy.
Great football romance!
Really enjoyable read. Easy to like characters and easy to read
Hot Stuff …oh my yes ! Lucas Carrington has always dreamed of the NFL and finally he has found himself in the draft! In a strange twist of fate he ends up on the team that was never his choice in a town he was trying to escape. There is obviously a reason for him to be there and it becomes oh so clear the moment he literally runs into her!
Gillian is sweet, smart, sassy and beautiful she is also the head coaches daughter . She is just trying to finish up her last year as a trainer and move on but fate has intervened. She has steered clear of relationships with football players but that may soon becoming to abrupt end the moment she runs into Lucas. Gillian is not immune to sexy men of course she can appreciate them but something happens the moment they meet.
I loved the determination that Gillian had to try to not become romantically involved with Lucas. It was like she thought of it as taboo. Although Lucas knowing hooking up with coaches daughter was a horrible idea neither one of them could deny the pull!
They were sexy sweet and the sassy banter between them was comical!
Loved Lucas and Gillian !!
Gifted copy for an honest review .
~~Michele McMullen ~~!
Hot Stuff by Kim Karr was a wonderful read! Gillian is an athletic trainer intern with the Chicago Bear, who are in summer training camp. Her father used to play football and is now the coach so her entire life has been football.
With plans to head to college when camp is over, she is looking to get as far away from Chicago as planned. But when Gillian accidentally injures the star quarterback, life is about to change in a way she never expected.
Lucas Carrington has always dreamed of the opportunity to play football, just not in Chicago. While the universe has other plans, Lucas has to come to terms with his disappointment and make the best of the opportunity given to him. Lucas has come to realize that a major attitude change is the only thing going to save him from getting kicked off the team. But when he is injured, by the head coach’s daughter, life begins to become very clear to Lucas. What
This book has that slow burning attraction between the couple that just makes you swoon. Lucas and Gillian both know they should stay FAR away from each other but find it nearly impossible. With Gillian leaving at the end of camp and Lucas’ football career about to start, no strings attached hot sex is totally the answer to life. Right??
I truly enjoyed watching Lucas and Gillian’s relationship develop and grow in this story. The banter between the two was fun, sexy, and you could just see the two of them falling in love. The secondary characters were amazing and just helped seal the deal in this wonderful story! I loved Hot Stuff!
Book Review: Hot Stuff
Author: Kim Karr
FIVE STARS
In Hot Stuff, Kim Karr has written a truly great book about the life of an up and coming rookie football player who has just been drafted by the one team he did not want to play for. Lucas Carrington has a lot to prove and an attitude to lose. But what happens after he injures his shoulder in a weird accident during training camp? Will he be able to continue playing football or will it all be over before he even gets to step foot on a stadium field?
Gillian Whitney is an intern trainer and is working with the Bears team during training camp and she is so in her element. Having grown up in the football world she loves the sport and everything it consists of. Being an only child and having been raised by her professional football player father, Gillian knows every aspect of the game inside and out. But she still has to prove her worth as a trainer.
Now that they have crossed paths, in this forbidden romance will Gillian and Lucas be able to make things work or will Gillian’s father put a halt to any romance due to the status of all three of them and the distractions that are there. Coach Whitney wants Gillian to have a normal life, something he was never able to give her, and he knows with Lucas there will never be Normal. Gillian however only knows football and that is her normal. Will she be able to convince her father and Lucas of this or will she lose everything she loves?
Great story and you can tell that Kim Karr has definately researched her football. The descriptions of what goes on during camp is so detailed and real you truly feel like you, yourself, are a part of the camp as well.
Kelli Harper
This was a fun and sexy read. I really enjoyed the chemistry between Lucas and Gillian (AKA Strawberry Fields), there is something very sexy about a secret relationship especially like the one that Lucas and Gillian had. There is NO CHEATING they have to keep their relationship a secret because Gillian’s the daughter of the Coach that Lucas plays for which means she is off limits to all the players but with chemistry like theirs they did everything they could to be together. Stolen moments here and there, sexy phone calls after curfew, well you get the gist of it.
This is a Standalone but if you have read Sexy Jerk you may remember Lucas, he is Nick’s younger brother. I will admit that I have not read Sexy Jerk yet, but it is on my Goodreads TBR shelf, and at no point did I feel lost this book can really be read a standalone although if you’re like me you will want to know more about Nick and Tess because they were in this story several times.
Hot Stuff is the first book that I have read by Kim Karr which truly surprises me because I have several books of hers on my TBR shelf and I actually bought several on Amazon already but it seems RL gets in the way and I haven’ had a chance to sit down and read any of them yet but I can assure you that is about to change. It seems that after this taste of Kim Karr’s writing style, which I really enjoyed, I will be reading much more of her work in the months to come.
**I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Readers Copy of this book**
HOT STUFF (Sexy Jerk World) by Kim Karr is a stand alone, contemporary, adult , erotic, football romance story line focusing on NFL quarterback Lucas Carrington , and athletic trainer Gillian Whitney. Lucas is the younger brother to Nick Carrington whom we met in the author’s Sexy Jerk.
Told from dual first person points of view (Gillian and Lucas) HOT STUFF follows the rookie career of NFL quarterback Lucas Carrington. From the squalor of Chicago our hero, Lucas Carrington, rose above the rest, with the help of his brother Nick, and made to the NFL. As the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, Lucas had to prove himself worthy but Lucas had never planned on falling in love –with the coach’s daughter. Enter Gillian Whitney, athletic trainer, Coach’s daughter and the woman with whom Lucas will fall in love. What ensues is the building but secret relationship between Lucas and Gillian, and the fall out when Gillian’s father sits down for a one on one with his first string quarterback.
HOT STUFF is a story of family. Both Gillian and Lucas come from single parent homes but unlike Gillian, Lucas struggled in his early years on the mean-streets of Chicago. With the help of his older brother Nick, Lucas became the successful professional athlete that he had hoped would make his father proud. Gillian never once complained about the lifestyle of the NFL, in fact, it was the life she had grown to love.
The relationship between Lucas and Gillian is one of immediate attraction but an attraction tempered by their professional acquaintance and positions on the team. Gillian is a smart, sexy and talented, and goes for what she wants, and our heroine wants Lucas Carrington but something or someone pulls Lucas back, and in this, our couple will face the future apart. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic, and intense.
There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including several of Lucas’s teammates, the Bear’s support staff, coaches, as well as the appearance of Lucas’s brother Nick. The world building follows the Chicago Bears as they struggle through wins and losses, injuries and illness, with an epilogue that looks three years into the future and a shot of the Super Bowl Championship.
HOT STUFF is a fast paced story of forbidden romance; a sexy and seductive look at relationships both on and off the field of play. The premise is engaging, enjoyable and lively; the characters are colorful and charismatic; the romance is fated, provocative and hot. HOT STUFF is a wonderful addition to Kim Karr’s Sexy Jerk world of erotic romance story lines.
A cute, sweet, and fun story. This is my first book from Kim Karr I had the pleasure to enjoy, I adored it. Wonderful writing, witty banter, and a beautiful romance
Hot Stuff
By: Kim Karr
Narrated by: Ava Lucas, Teddy Hamilton
Series: Sexy Jerk World, Book 3
Forbidden romances are always so much fun to listen to! Lucas Carrington is the training to be the quarterback for his hometown NFL team. When he runs into a cart before practice and hurts his shoulder, he has to go to the team physical therapist, who is none other than Jillian, his coaches daughter. The cause of his accident, as well as the person who will help him, she immediately becomes his focus and the chemistry between the two is palpable. But what will happen if they act on it? Will he make the team? Will her father accept their relationship? Or will this just be a fling? Kim Karr writes such great characters. Lucas starts out with such over confidence and I love how he becomes humbled. He is sweet and loyal, but sometimes you just want to smack him. Jillian is young and thinks she knows what she wants. She is smart and full of hope. And with a supporting cast that add laughter and advice it’s a joy to listen to these two work through life’s choices to find what is right for them.
Ava Lucas and Teddy Hamilton are a pair that always deliver a narration to enjoy. Ava gives Jillian a confidence in her voice, knowing what she wants. Lucas is cocky at first, and Teddy delivers him with that smugness you would expect. Together, their voices compliment each other as the relationship changes and matures. I loved this book as well as the other two in the series.
https://adbl.co/2VbXzM0
Hot Stuff is a standalone sports romance book. I really enjoyed it! Lucas Carrington is the newly drafted quarterback for the Chicago Bears. Football is his life. It is what has kept him out of trouble growing up. Life was not always sweet. It was his dream to play professional football, just not in his hometown of Chicago. Lucas is confident, cool & cocky with a body and talent to back it up!
Initially, he has a bad attitude which leads to some good advice from his coach:
“Do the things that matter, and even those that don’t, the right way and you just might make it, Lucas. Stay on the destructive path you’re on, and there’s no way you will go anywhere but out the door.”
So, with a better attitude he starts training camp and as luck would have it literally runs into one of the athletic trainers – Gillian Whitney. This is her last football training camp before completing her final college semester. She’ll graduate with a doctorate in athletic training. Gillian is sassy, intelligent, athletic and…the coach’s daughter. She quickly gives Lucas the nickname Hot Stuff.
Lucas and Gillian both have that push and pull toward each other. Their chemistry is off the charts! They both have baggage and serious reasons to deny their attraction to each other. But sometimes, you just can’t help yourself!
This was a fun, sexy, sweet, with a touch of angst story. I really enjoyed it. The story flowed nicely and I loved the epilogue!
4 stars