I did a really bad thing. I’m not a bad person, I swear.I just made a few mistakes. Mistake number one was agreeing to rent my hotel out to an insufferable a**hole, named Aden Smith. Mistake number two was ignoring his threats to sue me when he handed over a list of items he deemed “unacceptable”. Mistake number three was saving his life when he fell. It would have been less complicated to hide … would have been less complicated to hide his body.
When the hospital refuses to let me know how he is, I panic. Claiming to be his wife might be my biggest mistake yet—especially when he believes me!
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Oh myy this one really a special one to me… there is so much sparks between Hope and Aden…like water and oil.. yet they are drawn to each other…
Aden who are lost and fed up with his life trying to escape to find some answer… escaping to a new place where silent is a luxury… Hope is a single mother who struggling with her life.. her little boy and hotel that need a new breath of life… so and so these two lost soul trying to move on…
I love how their relationship evolve… with so many things going around..feelings grew on each other.. i can feel the insecurity within the story… a struggling woman with new love… its so scary yet its hopeful… Aden is a gentleman…I adore him in many ways he reminded of my husband.. Man can be a lost cause in showing affection but when they do.. they love hard..
Jordan Marie have a way with her books… its dreamy.. every women’s hope that one day… they will find someone who love them truly… in these… Hope is the dream…
Aden and Hope. Two opposites. Both in personality and in types of life. She, a single mother, sees a chance at a motel that she receives from her aunt’s inheritance, the chance to have a better future. Stuck in a job with no prospect, which barely pays the bills, she leaves everything, and leaves for another state, spending all she had to rebuild this business and who knows how to succeed. Aden is a famous Hollywood actor, who gets tired of the fame and burden he brings, resigns from the movie that was cast, and leaves on a journey to disappear from the map and be able to relax.
Fate brings these two together. She who did not pass the inspection to get the license to work, needs money to clear what was pointed out within two weeks before the inauguration. He needs a place to stay, and at the recommendation of his friend, who is Hope’s cousin, ends up at the motel. Since he needs money and he refuses to leave, she accepts the guest.
I confess that Aden’s attitudes irritated me. He is rude, treats Hope badly all the time. The excuse that, in the past, other women did it him did not convince me. The things he says about her son really deserve the slap in the face he took. Hope on the other hand, it’s bipolar. At the beginning of the book, she is a strong woman who confronts Aden on an equal basis and does not let down. But that out of nowhere turns into a complete madwoman.
One day, when they are fighting near the pool, he balks, falls and bumps his head. She despairs, and thinking that she will be prosecuted, arrested, and lose her son, goes to the hospital to hear from him. The attendant will not let her in because only family members are allowed. The paramedic who picked him up, thinks she’s his wife, talks to the receptionist, and that confuses the situation. She does not deny this information, and to make matters worse he loses his memory.
In this moment, the plot retrance. She continues to lie, saying that they are married, invents several things without a nexus, practically says that he was a hobo, impotent, who lived at her expense. If this plot was meant to be funny, the author missed it ugly. Aden becomes another person without memory, someone much better. A person before everything that was said, tries to redeem himself and change. Hope, who was a sensible woman, ends up turning into a teenager for fear of losing a man. It’s surreal that web of lies that she creates for two months. And you can not believe that a famous actor disappears and no one will look. She does not fill out the forms at the hospital because she does not know the data and yet no one suspects. Her cousin is his friend and will not call in two months? I can not believe it. The scene of the discovery, the news she receives at the end and the conclusion did not work. Another good plot, that sinned in the development.
This book made me laugh alot, it’s a far fetch crazy read but then Hope’s last name is Lucas and she is Ida Sue’s niece that alone should explain this book, I enjoyed this book very much!!
Aden and Hope can’t help it if they are falling fast and hard, cause sometimes love hit you like a swift blow to the head. Hope is trying her darndest to revitalise the Motel her Aunt left her. This place was was supposed to be her saving grace, but it’s looking more and more like a money pit. Ever the Lucas, she purservers – but with her son Jack depending on her and precious few alternatives she is determined to make lemonade out of lemons. When her one and only booking shows up early long before she is ready to receive guests, she slightly more than a little put out with the rude and brash Aden Smith, but beggars can’t be choosers. He’s surly, arrogant, and handsome beyond words a combination for disaster. After a error in impaired judgment on both their parts, Hope is more than ready to see Aden’s backside, but when a freak accident lands Aden in hospital with no memory and seemingly a new personality, Hope is stuck. Firstly, he thinks they are married due to slight fib on her part so she could check on his well being. Second, she’s petrified he’s going to start riding the litigation train any second. Lastly, this new Aden she kind of actually likes. What’s a girl to do?
Great reading
“The first is that I’m not getting near Aden Smith again, so discussing all of this is moot point really. The second, and perhaps the scariest, is that Aden didn’t just give me a tune up. I think he probably overhauled my whole engine….And I may never recover from it.”
Not since The Perfect Stroke do I remember giggling this hard at one of Jordan Marie’s couples…not that each one isn’t equally fun, but this one grabbed me by my funny bone and shook me until I couldn’t stop!! These two were zany and insane, and just HOTNESS when you got right down to it….Never saw any of it coming and that’s why it made it fresh, new, and super-fun to read. While it was peppered from some characters I’ve known and loved before, including the well-loved Ida Sue, these two ran off the deep end (pun? maybe 😉 ) with over the top happenings that made it a page turner, and probably the grumpiest man since Beast…(think less grunting, but still…jeez) How in the world she softened him up for a reader, I will never know, but Aden’s transformation is priceless and a must-read!! I thank the Author for providing a copy to review!!
~~~Erika, Book Haven Book Blog
Spoiler Alert: He has the opportunity to see his real life behavior as just as odious as what he believed his behavior was. He returns to the same controlling whining jerk he “thought he had been, was disgusted with and endeavored to change.” Her cousin doesn’t stand up for her, choosing his male buddy over female family. And she just accepts that he never sees things from her perspective, never takes responsibility for insisting on staying someplace that wasn’t up to code yet, never apologizes for scaring her and reverts to being an arrogant pushy jerk. Ladies this bodes for the kind of situation that women have to eventually escape from. He sounds so great that he’s going to do marvelous things for her, but he’s so weak, he’ll always blame her for anything that goes wrong and never ever say “I’m sorry, too.”
Enjoyed this fast read that is part of a series
It was great the way it was wrote. It keep you guessing what going happen.
i never put book down till finished. really a fun way to escape such a serious world
I love to read, alot. And i really enjoyed this book. Great characters and I laughted out loud several times. Ill be reading more of hers!
I wanted to love this story….but I didn’t! It had awesome potential but didn’t deliver like other books of Marie’s I have read. I had a very hard time getting through the horrible way they treated each other, weird flow and holes.And the only funny parts were Ida Sue.
Sometimes I feel like Jordan Marie must be the literary version of Kevin Costner’s character in Field of Dreams!!! If she writes it I will read it!!! This book is no different!!! It’s a little different than most of her books but this is not a bad thing. And really, if you have read her Lucas Brothers series, this book fits in perfectly!!!
Hope Lucas is caught in a situation and every turn she makes just gets her in deeper and deeper. But what is a girl to do when faced with losing everything because of an entitled a**hole bent on making her life miserable? And when one harmless little white lie snowballs into something so much more complicated, Hope just doesn’t know how to end it without losing everything.
Aden “Smith”! There is a lot more there than meets the eye in the beginning. I really didn’t want to like anything about this guy. He’s had it with women, and with being used. Not that I don’t believe he brought on a lot of that himself, but you can bet he will do ANYTHING to keep from allowing it to continue. Including convincing himself that all women, whether in Hollywood or in small-town Idaho, are only out for what they can get.
Things start out bad and only escalate from there between Hope and Aden. I think I shook my head in complete awestruck wonder more times in this book than I have in a long time. And I laughed, great big belly laughs. I mean, really, Hope?!? What were you thinking?
Thank you, Jordan Marie, for once again giving your readers a fantastic read, no matter how convoluted the road to our much-loved HEA was!!!
Aden…….is egotistical, arrogant, and self centered..
Hope…….is strong, sassy, and a mom
Aden and Hope are completely opposite
Aden falls, Hope saves him…
Aden can’t remember who he is…and this is where the tangle web begins..
Hope to keep her “husband” at bay she tells him white lies, his reactions are the best..
Ida Sue is back!!! She is funny, blunt, insightful…she will make you laugh…
3 stars–IN TOO DEEP is the second installment in Jordan Marie’s contemporary, adult DOING BAD THINGS erotic, romance series. This is forty year old Hollywood movie star Aden McIntyre, and twenty six year old single mom / motel owner Hope Lucas. IN TOO DEEP can be read as a stand alone story without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. Aden McIntyre is connected to our story line heroine through her cousin White, and his friend Gavin O’Leary (GOING DOWN HARD #1).
Told from dual first person perspectives (Hope and Aden) IN TOO DEEP follows the acrimonious relationship built upon the ongoing lies between Hollywood actor Aden McIntyre, and single mom/motel owner Hope Lucas. Aden McIntyre is tired of the Hollywood scene and the fame-hungry starlets when he walks away from his latest picture deal into the anonymity of Clancy, Idaho, population six hundred. With a recommendation from Gavin’s friend White, Aden heads to the Hard Acres Motel where his life will take an unexpected and disastrous turn. Enter Hope Lucas, White’s cousin, and the woman with whom Aden will fall in love. What ensues is the building but deceptive relationship between Aden and Hope, and the fall out when the truth is finally revealed.
When Hope Lucas inherited the Hard Acres Motel in Clancy Idaho, our heroine had no idea the mess of which she was walking into. With renovations only partially complete, and no readily available cash to continue the work, Hope considers walking way until her ‘first’ customer arrives two weeks early demanding a room, and a place to stay. Aden McIntyre wants nothing to do with Hope Lucas, and her run-down motel but our hero is desperate to escape, and pushes our heroine into a two week deal. The back and forth, excessively angry confrontations, name calling, and bitter feud will end when Aden lands in the hospital without any memory of past. A small lie will snowball into the scam of the century as Hope claims to be Aden’s wife, and immediately begins to turn Aden’s life into a comedy of errors as the lies continue to build-one after another.
IN TOO DEEP is a story of deception; of one woman’s desperate need to feel wanted; and one man’s desire to escape the world from which he belonged. The believability aspect to the story line is limited; I had a difficult time with the continuous, ongoing, over the top lies and fabrications that snowballed into an unimaginable and preposterous backstory for one man whose memories were wiped clean by a pool side accident. Not withstanding the couple’s original acrimonious and hate filled, rude and crude introduction, the lies spewed and fabricated history by our story line heroine is questionable on so many levels. In the end my sympathies leaned towards Aden McIntyre as Hope Lucas continued the ruse for weeks.
On one level the story line could have been a great romantic comedy but the couple’s introduction and their original treatment of one another revealed a distasteful and offensive side to each of the story line characters; the language was cutting, meant to hurt and inflict damage-the use of a certain four-letter word is caustic. The premise is engaging; the characters are impulsive and spirited; the romance is heartbreaking-forged by deception and lies.
I am probably in the minority with my review ;I wanted to accept the circumstances presented but the believability was lacking on so many levels. I need to be pulled into a story that resonates with my emotions but I could not get past Hope and Aden’s original treatment of one another, and the heroine’s ongoing deception and bizarre tale of lies.
Oh man Jordan you once again knocked it out of the park. This book has to be one of my all time favorite books. Yeah Hope makes a poor decision but at the time she has no idea what to do. This book was full of laughs, times that make you want to slap a man, lies, secrets, betrayal, some sexy times, and so much more.
This book is about a woman who is doing all she can to try and do something with her life and provide for her child but keeps getting knocked down. She keeps on trucking along but then comes a black cloud, named Aden, who just makes it that much more harder. Desperate times call for desperate measures and what she starts is something that will just bring possibly more trouble than she can handle.
I have been intrigued with Aden since I was introduced to him in Gavin’s story and this book was not a disappointment. Aden is the man that makes it easy for you to want to hate him but knowing what he has been through it causes you to want to give him a chance. He hasn’t enjoyed life for quite some time and although he is miserable in Hope’s motel he is once again finding something he has been missing in his life. He knows he is being a first class A&&hole but for some reason he can’t help himself but karma has a way of coming back around and he is about to get dealt a big dose of karma.
I highly recommend this entertaining read. Jordan knows how to deliver her readers with a book that is absolutely addicting. I know that if it is a book by Jordan than it is sure to be a book that I will love and I have not been disappointed yet. I really can’t wait for the next book and hope I don’t have to wait too long