I like women, and I like adventure. I always have. The last thing I want to do is settle down with the girl next door and live a boring, domestic life. So I have no idea what I’m doing here, posing as a first-grade teacher. It’s the most ridiculous undercover security job I’ve ever had to work. Corralling a bunch of six-year-olds while I try to do my job and keep anyone from knowing how clueless … how clueless I really am. I manage to fool everyone. Except Kristin.
She’s an actual teacher, and she’s determined to find out what I’m really doing here. She doesn’t trust me, and her daughter doesn’t like me. And the worst part is that I’m starting to like them. A lot.
So now, instead of being the tough guy, I’m stuck with rowdy children and Christmas pageants and falling in love. It’s not the way I thought I’d spend Christmas.
Protecting the Girl Next Door was originally published as Forever Bound. It has since been expanded, revised, and re-edited.
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Wow! This was a fantastic read!
I’m always about the hero but most Noelle Adams do not give his point of view. Yet she is still able to make me fall in love with them. This time, we actually have Declan’s view point and holy heck! What a hero! He’s the player, one night stand only, type of guy who never wants to settle down. A persistent flirt and one major hottie. Watching him fall for Kristin was the most delicious thing I’ve read in a while.
Kristin is raising her six year old alone after the death of her Navy SEAL husband and Declan is absolutely the last type of man she will ever get involved with. But a one time fling wouldn’t hurt anything. Famous last words, right?
This story had me engaged from the first page. Declan wading through his assignment and Kristin trying to ignore her attraction to him was super fun. Add in Lily’s adorableness and I was in cuteness heaven. However, to balance it all out were some serious issues at hand that both Declan and Kristin had to work out individually, and together, taking this book up another notch.
Overall, a most excellent read that is impossible to put down.
I loved watching Declan grow, not to mention all the messes he found himself it. Teaching 1st grade is a cake walk right? WRONG! There is just enough suspense to keep you wondering. The story line was a good one. Kristin didn’t think she could ever love again, but can she?
Great story!! This story is cute and a little sexy! Declan is your typical bachelor who doesn’t want anything to do with marriage and has a TOTAL fear of kids, then is assigned to protect a little 6 yr. old girl by becoming her 1st. grade teacher. I loved Declan’s reaction to the classroom of 6yr. olds in the beginning and how sweet he became on all of them. I also loved Kristin, another teacher in the school, and her daughter Lily. Kids in romance stories are one of my favorites and Lily was not a disappointment. How Declan falls for these two ladies and his transformation was fun!
Protecting the Girl Next Door is the new and revised book, Forever Bound, originally released several years ago, but the authors Samantha Chase and Noelle Adams decided to revise and re-release each of the books in this wonderful series.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVING this series!!!!! I LOVE watching a man determined NOT to fall, fall!!!!! Declan is determined not to settle down for a very long time, if ever. So, for now, he will do his job, and protect his clients for the company he and his buddies formed.
Declan’s current job is protecting a little girl at school. He is working undercover as her first-grade teacher. Kristin, another teacher at the school is getting suspicious after her daughter, a student in his class complains to her about the way Mr. Curtis is teaching. Now, Kristin is determined to find out what is going on.
I loved watching Declan fall, and fall hard for Kristin. You know how the saying goes, “we always want what we can’t have” well Kristin is determined Declan can’t have her. Let me say this, I will never think about a school’s supply closet the same way after reading this wonderful book. There were times I wanted to pull out a fan. But, when Declan get hurt, Kristin starts to have second thought, you see, she lost her husband in a military accident several years ago, and does not want to get involved with a man in a dangerous job. Watching both Kristin and Declan work through there hang ups….sigh!!!
I was gifted with a copy of this phenomenal book for my honest opinion. GET THIS BOOK!!!! Phenomenal read. Sexy as heck hero. HOT scenes!!!
Thank you for reading my review.
I received a ARC of Protecting The Girl Next Door – Book 3 of the Protectors Series by Samantha Chase & Noelle Adams from the author. Declan Curtis is so far out of his comfort zone as “substitute” teacher to a group of first graders that it like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. What he is really there to do is guard a six year old girl that need guarding from her very unstable mother who lost custody of her. Lily Andrews is an old soul in a very small body and is constantly challenging Declan on how he is running the classroom, which drives Declan crazy and makes for alot of laughs. Kristin Andrews very suspicious of him and decides to keep an eye on him. When Kristin decides that she is cable of having a “sex” only relationship with Declan things really heat up between the two of them. While there was some danger, there wasn’t really any surpense, since we already knew who was going to try to grab Jessoleigh. There was some very funny, laugh out loud moment especially went Lily invite Declan to her Alice in Wonderland Tea Party and tells him he is the Mad Hatter! Oh my goodness, when he started saying his “poem” I lost It! Thank you for that Ms. Chase & Ms. Adams. Sweet, steamy and funny! The writing team of Chase and Adams never disappoint.
3.75 stars–PROTECTING THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is the third installment the contemporary, adult THE PROTECTORS erotic, romance series co-authored by Samantha Chase and Noelle Adams focusing on best friends and former Marines Levi, Cole, Declan and Sebastian who co-own and operate a private security company. This is primary school teacher and widow Kristin Andrews, and former Marine/security specialist Declan Curtis’s story line. PROTECTING THE GIRL NEXT DOOR can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
NOTE: PROTECTING THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is the re-release of the previously titled 2014 release Forever Bound
Told from dual first person points of view (Declan and Kristin) PROTECTING THE GIRL NEXT DOOR follows the building relationship between Declan Curtis, and primary school teacher Kristin Andrews. Declan’s latest security assignment finds our hero ‘playing’ teacher to a first grade class of privileged children. When a young girl is threatened by her estranged mother, Declan is hired to protect the six year old from any possible attempts at abduction or to her life. Meeting fourth grade teacher, and widow Kristin Andrews shakes our hero to his core but Kristin isn’t looking for a relationship, and the sudden death of her Navy SEAL husband has left our heroine a little shaken and depressed. What ensues is the friends with benefits relationship that turns into something more but a threat to Declan’s life forces Kristen to push the man with whom she is falling in love-out of her life.
PROTECTING THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is a quick read; a fast paced, story of romance between two primary school teachers who fall in love thanks to the help of a little six year old girl. The premise is sweet and entertaining; the romance is seductive and passionate; the characters are colorful and fun. PROTECTING THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is the perfect read for a lazy afternoon !
A true original. In a twist of pure genius, Chase and Adams scored success with a not often used scenario. They took a man of action out of his element. Declan is the man with the plan and the strength to back it up. He thinks with his head and has become well-versed at ignoring his heart. When an assignment puts the big bad Marine in front of a class full of first graders, the man with the plan realizes he needs a helping hand. I LOVED this story. There is nothing more precious than a child and for these authors to blend the innocence of youth with the jaded maturity of adulthood was a stellar move. Kristin and Declan’s romance traveled a complicated route but the message conveyed with this tale was simple. Sensitivity is not a weakness, it’s a powerful asset. It only took a group of mischievous kids and a caring mama bear teacher to show this tough as nails warrior the error of his ways.