He’s my best friend.He’s everything I ever wanted.And he doesn’t know how I feel.I have three weeks left to tell him before he leaves this place forever… first…
Matt Girard is the guy every girl wants. Rich, handsome, and popular, his future is brighter than the sun. Evie Baker comes from the wrong side of town. She loves Matt desperately, but he only sees her as his tomboy best friend instead of the young woman she’s blossomed into.
Until one fateful night when a reckless dare changes everything…
This is the prequel story to HOT Pursuit, Book 1 in the Hostile Operations Team Series.
THE HOSTILE OPERATIONS TEAM SERIES:
Book 1: Hot Pursuit (Matt & Evie)
Book 2: Hot Mess (Sam & Georgie)
Book 3: Hot Package (Billy & Olivia)
Book 4: Dangerously Hot (Kev & Lucky)
Book 5: Hot Shot (Jack & Gina)
Book 6: Hot Rebel (Nick & Victoria)
Book 7: Hot Ice (Garrett & Grace)
Book 8: Hot & Bothered (Ryan & Emily)
Book 9: Hot SEAL (Dane & Ivy)
Book 10: Hot Protector (Chase & Sophie) ~ OUT NOW!
Each book stands alone and can be read in any order. However, you might best enjoy them in order.
Reviews:
”…one of those must read black ops series that is as good as Maya Banks & Cindy Gerard!” — Just Plain Sassy
“Seriously is there a hotter series out there in this genre? Because if there is, I don’t know about it. I have loved these books from book 1 and they are only getting better and better not to mention hotter!!!” — Goodreads
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As prequels go, this was a good one. Evie and Matt have been best friends forever. As they grew up, their closeness couldn’t be denied. But as Evie matured, her feelings for Matt changed. She fell in love with her best friend and he couldn’t see it. He still treated her as a friend, warmed his bed with many women, and never really looked at her. No matter how hard she tried to get him to see her as someone more to him, he firmly placed her in the friend zone. So when she finds out that he intends to leave town after graduation, she makes one more ditch effort to get him to realize what they could be. And risks her young tender heart in the process.
The author did a great job of capturing the unrequited young love experience. It was easy to imagine Evie’s anguish and Matt’s ignorance. I wasn’t completely sold on the idea of them as a couple, but I admired Evie’s determination to make it so. I just felt so bad for her. Matt was so cavalier with her feelings, and I hated that he DID know how she felt and still nothing, and I didn’t like that Evie allowed herself to be hurt. I get that her feelings couldn’t be denied, but poor thing needed someone to tell her to just move on, without her having to be forced to. Matt was just a boy and we can’t expect huge things from him. Not every young man is swoon worthy, right?
I’m off to find out what happens when these characters reunite in Hot Pursuit. I hope Evie makes him grovel hard core!
This is a prequel to HOT Pursuit, the first in Ms. Harris’s HOT series of romantic suspense books (which I love!). I wish I’d read this before I read HOT PURSUIT, simply because I read that book so long ago, I was a little foggy on some of the details that this novella leads up to. But I did really enjoy the feeling of getting a more complete story by having this companion story to go along with HOT Pursuit. This wasn’t romantic suspense, but it was definitely a prequel to Matt and Evie’s love story.
My only criticism is that I’m not a huge fan of first person narratives, although it is used extensively in YA writing, and this was definitely a Young Adult novel as the two protagonists were teenagers. So, I’m sure it’s not an issue for other readers who enjoy that genre.
If you want to read HOT Pursuit, I would definitely read this one as well. It will enrich your background and enjoyment of their very grown-up story which takes place a decade or so after this novella.
A quick read!
Matt and Evie have been best friends since they were children. He is from the a wealthy family and looks to have the perfect life. She is from the wrong side of town. Matt is headed off to school and Evie hopes to give him a reason to come back someday.
The HOT series was my introduction to this author. I am devouring them and can’t wait to try her other books.
In this book we meet a teenage Matt and Evie from Hot Pursuit. It is a prequel novella for that book. Evie has been in love with Matt for years. They are a year apart in age and have been friends since they were six and seven. When they became teenagers he started distancing himself from her, and she just wants him to realize that they belong together. This is a good book and it it was nice to see where their story began.
It was a prequel. I like exciting and I wasn’t excited reading it. There weren’t any twists and turns…too straight forward for my tastes. Easy read tho’.
Great prequel for a series I love. I have read all the published books and it was fun to go back and hear more about Matt and Evie.