Max Black is a rebel with a heart of gold.I notice him as soon as he walks into my restaurant. Of course I do. He’s buff as hell, with tattoos and a dark, pirate-king vibe. He’s wearing a black leather jacket over his business shirt. And he’s the sexiest man I’ve ever seen.He’s also wearing one of those criminal cuffs on his left wrist.Just what I don’t need. A rich bad boy with rage issues. It’s … rich bad boy with rage issues. It’s scary enough that one of my customers has turned into a stalker.
But when the stalker follows me home one night, it’s him who shows up exactly when I need him to — the gorgeous blue-eyed stranger who could be either the devil or a saint.
And there’s more to Max Black than I could have ever imagined. Turns out the worst kind of bad boy can also be the most beautiful savior. He’s scarred by his dark past, but underneath the tough exterior is the biggest … heart. And the tenderest soul. He’s a renegade angel and a white knight. And the one true love of my life.
Max is a spin-off from the I Love You series and is a sexy standalone story.
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WOW!!!! What else is there to say. This was a really HOT story, and you will be missing out if you do not read it. I could not put it down it was that good!
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Max and Peach …………….. much more than either expected or wanted
Max and Peach are a fabulous story and Julie Capulet has certainly written it well. Max is definitely the bad boy of the Black brothers but he also very broken and emotionally scared. When he and Peach meet they are instantly attracted to each other but there is also a connection of some sort. But Max does not do connections or relationships.
Peach owns a restaurant that she opened a few months ago. He big hit are her pies as she has a talent for baking and they have ensured the restaurant is a success. But not all is perfect as one of her customers has taken an unhealthy interest in her and has started to stalk her.
Max and Peach get together there is something that is deeper besides fantastic sex. This is borne out when Max sleeps for the first time without nightmares in a very long time. Max will do whatever it takes to protect Peach while also trying to figure out who has framed him ofr a crime he did not do.
This book in a stand-alone but is part of the I Love You series with Max and Rafe being brothers. This is really well written with an intriguing story-line, great characters with depth and emotion and a whole bunch of suspense, danger and electric chemistry.
I received a free ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. My opinions are all my own.
I did not expect to like this book as much as I did! I knew I would like it because the rest of the series is so good, but this book was the best one in the series! I loved the mystery and I love Max. I’m so happy that Peach and Max got their HEA. My favorite quote was “Or that he might possibly be the hunkiest hunk of any hunk on planet Earth”. LOL
More well-written goodness from Ms. Capulet!
This story is full of all the swoony feels I love.
An OTT sexy AF, tatted up alpha named Max…
GIVE HIM TO ME NOW.
I loved, loved, loved when Max and Peach met. She came to his table to take his order.
He was mesmerized.
He couldn’t stop staring.
He was already falling.
And you know what? I was too!
The sparks between these two were bright and sizzling, pure fireworks. Their affection toward each other was adorable, their passion enviable.
Their vulnerabilities made them that much more lovable and made me want to wrap my arms around them both and protect them.
Do you need to read the the first two books? No. But I think you should because you’ll get a delicious taste of Max in them.
If insta-lust/love reads with protective, obsessive, OTT alphas are your jam, you’ll definitely want to read this.
4 Stars
Reviewer Lisa
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This is one of the stories that just melts your heart. It is an insta-connection, insta-love, insta-alpha in full mode story. Max by Julia Capulet is a whirlwind of a story that takes on southern charm in the city. Mixing in all the crazy parts that sometimes the city has to offer.
Ms. Capulet has taken this story to the next level in this spin-off of the I Love You series and gives us a standalone that leaves you wanting more but don’t worry we get caught up with Rafe and Lexi.
Sometimes when you read a story the character connection is there but not strong enough. Not in this book, you will not be disappointed in this story because the connection is off the pages. Steaming hot! With the dual point of view, we get all the feels from both sides, the push and pull that pulls you into the story with them.
Having a restaurant in Los Angeles Peach lives, breathes, and works endless hours building her reputation and trying to make her grandma proud. When a stalker sets his eyes on her things start to take a turn for the worse. But when she turns and runs right into Max, the playboy, alpha male, things get a little veered off from the path once again.
Max is damaged goods. From a horrific childhood to trying to make something of himself to insider trader accusations, things just can’t go right for Max. But when Peach runs into him, the instinct to take control and take action is something he can’t fight when the pull is too great. But with his emotions and dealing with someone coming after him, can he try and help Peach out? Or will the chemistry be too much and burn everyone?
This is so well written that you will zip right through the pages with every twist and turn. There is so much in the details of this story that just makes this a great read.
An engaging, action-filled suspense romance story with likable well-developed characters. Well written book, I liked reading. I have voluntarily chosen to read and review this book.
Max is a damaged, dark, alpha male who meets Peach a stunning woman of light. They are mesmerized by each other when they meet. He notices her black eye covered with make up and he is filled with rage that someone hurt her. Peach has a stalker, one night she is running from the stalker and runs right into Max who protects her and takes her home. Thus begins their incredible romance. This book was insanely romantic, there is some suspense and intrigue but oh how I loved the romance I give 10 stars for the heat and romance.
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Max is book three in the I Love You series by Julie Capulet. Max is Rafe’s younger brother. The brother that Rafe spent his life trying to protect and provide for.
Max Black is sort of the bad boy, the rebel, of the Black brothers. He is twenty four years old and is running one of Rafe’s investment companies. Max had a horrible childhood and is deeply scarred from it. He doesn’t have relationships, only one night stands. He’s even given up on those, though, for the last six months or so. He doesn’t like to be touched. The only two people that he truly cares for are his brother, Rafe, and Rafe’s wife, Lexi.
Max has been wrongly accused of insider trading and is now on house arrest. Someone has framed him and he and Rafe are determined to figure out who it is to clear his name. It’s because of the house arrest that he, his brother, and Lexi first happened into the restaurant, Peaches, which was within his zone he was allowed to travel. One look at the restaurant’s owner, and he was smitten. But his life is a disaster zone. He can’t bring someone that beautiful into his dark world. So he stays away, or tries to. After almost two weeks of fighting it, he has to see her again.
Peach Sutton just opened her restaurant a few months ago. Business is booming and it’s all because of her wonderful pies. Because Peach has a special talent for baking pies. She’s been doing it since she was five years old. Peach is living her dream come true, running her restaurant. But, one of her customers has taken a very unhealthy interest in her. Peach has a stalker.
Max can’t stay away another night. But before he can make his way to her, she finds him by accident. And Max knows, he won’t be able to let her go again.
“The small spark of my addiction, now that I’m near her, has bloomed into some crazy wildfire rush.”
Max and Peach’s relationship escalates quickly to a passion filled time filled with more than either of them ever expected possible. When Peach touched Max, it felt like she was healing him, like she was fixing him. He slept without nightmares.
“I’m not usually the kind of girl who needs to be saved.”
“I’m not usually the kind of guy who does the saving.”
I loved Max’s story. While this one is also filled with plenty of very sexy times, it also is more suspenseful than the other two books. Max is trying to figure out who is framing him and is also trying to protect Peach from her stalker. What I loved is that both of them were used to being alone. Once they found each other, they immediately became a team. They protected each other. They supported each other. They were all in, they knew they had found the one.
This is sweet, sexy as heck, and as a bonus, you get to spend a little time with Rafe and Lexi as well. The epilogue is perfect. So if you like an OTT sexy alpha Hero who will do anything for the woman he has fallen for, then I think you will fall in love with Max, just as I did.
“He’s mine. My Max.”
Both Max and Peach were plagued by stalkers. Peach’s stalker attacked and physically hurt her which caused her emotional damage as well. Max’s stalker was an obsessed ex who was able to systematically ruin his reputation, business and relationship with Peach.
This short story was filled with drama which escalated until the satisfying HEA.
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I loved Max and Peaches’ story! Both were being held prisoner by their past experiences, but managed to break through that mess and find love with each other. I also really, really loved the epilogue that spanned a few years! It would be awesome if more epilogues were like that….I love to see what happens to “my friends” (lol) after they get together. So glad I got to read Max’s story!
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This was my first time reading a book by Julie Capulet and it is awesome. Her story plot and character building grabbed me and kept my interest from beginning to end. This is the story of Max and Peaches a hot and steamy couple. Max is accused of day trading and meets Peaches at her restaurant when his brother invites him there.They have love at first site with twists and turns along the way with suspense, drama, intrigue and steamy romance. It’s a definite must read and I will be definitely be reading more form this author!
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I don’t know why I waited so long to pick up a book by Julie Capulet but now I’m hooked. This is short but packed with so much action and suspense and goodness that you can’t even tell how long it is. It’s written so well that you’re sucked into the web that are Max and Peach. I have to go read Rafe’s story now.
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I absolutely loved Max and Peachie Dixie May’s story, I could not put this novel down. This book is a true romance with lots of steamy scenes and many plot twists. I enjoy reading Julie Capulet’s books and I think “Max” is her best work to date. This book deserves more than five stars. I strongly recommend this book if you like “love at first sight” romances. This book just makes you feel good inside!
I received an ARC copy in return for an honest and voluntary review.
Wow! So Much Heat. Dark, Bad Boy Max Black Turns Softie After Trying Peach’s Pie. Neither Wants Love, But It Cannot Be Denied!
The mysterious and dark Max Black, twenty-four, has much to be proud of. An MBA from Stanford. CFO of a Fortune 500 company. Chairman of the Board of Directors. It is a job from his brother Rafe paying tens of millions per year that he didn’t initially deserve, but he worked tirelessly to make himself worthy of it. Today he is worth four hundred million.
There is just one problem. He has been convicted of insider trading. He didn’t do it, of course. He was set up. But he had to accept the conviction or risk taking more people down with him. He is on house arrest for three months, free to travel between home and his office with his tracker. He vows to clear his name, and Rafe promises to help.
Although his professional life has been a huge success, Max’s personal life is a different story. He has a big reputation with the women, who flock to him. But he attracts crazy, stalkerish women. He figures it is because he is broken and unfixable. Unlovable. He never feels any sparks and always regrets his trysts. He has never had a relationship; his record is two nights.
Dixie Mae Rafferty Sutton, twenty-one, arrived in L.A. four months ago with a small loan from her grandmother. The first pie she made was a peach pie. She was five at the time, and the nickname ‘Peach’ stuck. Upon arrival, she opens the restaurant she had dreamed of. It is immediately a huge success, and she is taken by surprise at how popular her pies are overnight. Starting a business requires hard work and endless hours, but she loves it.
It all went according to plan until she got a stalker. She had gotten a restraining order, but they don’t offer much protection from a person with determination.
When Max goes to dinner with his brother Rafe and Rafe’s fiance Lexi, he is stunned by the waitress. He’s never been speechless like that before. She glows with a beautiful aura. He tries to imagine dating, which he has never done. He sees endless dates. And he knows if he can’t keep himself away from her, he’ll be a goner, and take her and her goodness down with him.
Max and Peach are brought together by fate, neither prepared, yet both knowing intrinsically that they belong together. But with Peach’s stalker and someone framing Max, there are huge obstacles that they must face.
This couple has crazy chemistry! Witnessing Max’s overnight transformation is awesome. He really does turn into a marshmallow. What really makes their story so memorable, though, is how Peach heals him. Prepare for the waterworks! The epilogue is thoroughly satisfying, and Max and Peach enjoy a very well-deserved HEA!
Max’s and Peach’s ages are a bit difficult to believe, unfortunately. The timelines for Max don’t add up. Max had a difficult childhood, and there is no reason to believe he began his college years early. It states that all he has done the last five years is work. That puts him graduating from Stanford with his MBA at age nineteen, which doesn’t seem to have been possible given his past. Also, his net worth is four hundred million. He makes ten million per year plus commission of usually around twenty million or more. He has obviously been working for years to accumulate his wealth, yet again it also states that Rafe offered Max a job running Downtown Investments one year ago, which does jive with his age. It would make more sense if Max were twenty-eight, which allows him to finish school at age twenty-three and work five years.
As for Peach, although she certainly seems experientially qualified in terms of cooking, most twenty-one year olds wouldn’t have the business acumen to get through the long and tedious process of opening a restaurant.
Max is a spin-off from the XOXO series, which follows the story of Max’s brother Rafe and Lexi, and introduces Max as the dark, bad boy younger brother with a tragic past.
This book is nicely written and easy to read, with only a few errors. It starts dark, but become a sweet, emotional journey before reaching the end. I rate it four stars.
I received a free advance copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I enjoyed every page of this book. That first intimate scene is sooo amazing! I like the story, the suspense but I really like Max and Peach’s characters. Max’s childhood is so sad and touching, if breaks my heart. So Good!!
Absolutely loved Max!!! Couldn’t put it down. The story is twisted, action packed, sexy beyond belief. You fall in love with Max and Dixie May aka Peach! My favorite book from Julie Capulet so far. Keep em coming Ms. Capulet. Highly recommend this book and the other 2 books in the series.
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Max is Rafe’s brother that we first meet in the I Love You series. Maximillian Apollo Black is a man all his own. Max has survived a terrible childhood, he has had many run ins with the law but through it all his brother never gave up on him or left him behind. He is also a ladies man, a one and done kinda guy but soon after his last conquest turned stalkerish lady, he decides to give up women. His brother gave him a great job at one of his companies and he has been truly successful at it and loves it. He is arrested, charged with inside trading, released on a six million dollar bail and is on house arrest . He is not guilty as he has been framed. Peach is a small town Georgia girl who has moved to the big city to make her restaurant dreams come true. She opened Peach’s and it has been about three month’s and it going great. She also makes pies at the restaurant and sells them. She has received a review of the best apple pie in the city. That definitely helped bring people to her restaurant and increased pie sales. She works hard and long days making sure everything is running smoothly. She has great staff and is truly loving her dream. However, she had a customer come in and continuously ask her out. He gave her the heebjebbies but she truthfully she has no time to date. One night this guy attacks her outside her place. He hits but she knees him in the groin and gets away. She is lucky to only have a bruise on her face that is coverable with makeup.
Rafe and Levi want a place to meet Max for dinner that is in his zone, Peach’s it is. When Peach’s and Max meet they are instantly attracted to one another. But it is more, they can read and sense one another. Max notices the bruise on Peach’s face under the makeup, he calls her on it and she lies about how it happened. The evening ends but these continue to think about one another over the next week or so. Everything changes one night when Peach goes out to a club with her coworkers and her stalker customer shows up. She leaves the club to return to the restaurant and literally runs right into Max as she is chased by her stalker. Even though the story has already begin, it is at this point that it truly begins and you get to know Max and Peach as they get to know one another. This story will break your heart, stop your heart, make your heart race and lastly make your heart soar. What a fantastic read! I highly recommend starting with Rafe and Lexi’s story but it is not needed to fall in love with Max. Enjoy!
ღ Instant attraction
I couldn’t wait to read Max’s book! The man seems like he has so many secrets to uncover
In this Lil book you’ll find a crazy stalker with purpose & another with no rhyme or reason, insider trading. ruined reputation, steamy scenes & so much more
Max is a spin-off from the I Love You series & is a sexy standalone story.
We were introduced to Max in Lexi & Raf story. So, I already knew that he was big sexy brooding alpha male.
Max is on most day a level-headed over-achiever with an Ivy League degree under his belt, five luxury properties to his name & a net worth of more than four hundred million dollars.
But that means nothing when he is getting convicted for a crime, he actually did not commit. With Bail costing him six million dollars & he is on house arrest, limited to 3 block zone for work
When Raf & Lexi want to have dinner with Max to discuss arrangements for their upcoming nuptial, Raf finds cute quaint Lil spot around the corner from Max apartment. That sets the stage for these two people stories to collide
We will learn that Sometimes we have to do whatever it takes to survive, & that their damages fit together, as it turns out, & help them appreciate what they have, now, maybe even more than they would have, had they not survived what they had together
At 1st I was thinking Will their relationship survive the test of time but then I read the epilogue, then wala- We even got to see caught up with Lexi & Raf life in the epilogue
Hope you enjoy this read & also always keep in mind this is just my opinion + Also I wouldn’t never discourage anyone from reading this book.
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Paulette Review
Max and Peach story is delightful and will touch your heart. Max has been set up and is under house arrest. He can only go the distance from his apartment to the office without being arrested. When his brother invites him to a celebratory meal at a neighboring restaurant, he takes one look at Peach and their romantic journey begins. Peach likes what she sees in Max as well but she is conflicted because she has a stalker after her something they both seem to have in common. Will he be able to keep her safe amidst all of his emotional drama?
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Wow…this book was extraordinary! I couldn’t put the book down! The book was full of hot and steamy sex and the chemistry between Max and Peach was off of the charts. This book was about Max and Peach overcoming their fears together and falling head over heels in love. I highly recommend this book!