Lars Anderson is an undercover cop investigating the dirty deeds of a powerful crime lord. Complicating matters is Lars’s innocent new neighbor, who may as well have a target on her back in this seedy neighborhood. Whether she wants it or not, she’s under his protection now.Wendy Wilson is a poor college student who’s been on her own for some time. When she takes out an online ad looking for … for babysitting work, she finds herself in a dangerous predicament. But the one person who shows up to help her might be even more dangerous to her virtue than being held captive by an evil kingpin.
Warning: This special Holidays With Alexa Riley story will leave you happily breathless! This gritty Christmas story has everything and more that readers would expect from characters ripped right out of Alexa Riley: a hot, over-the-top possessive alpha, steamy insta-love, a holiday-themed happily ever after, zero condoms, at least one virgin and tacos. Wait, the tacos … that was me, Abby. ANYWAY … get ready because Lars and Wendy are going to fill your stocking with all the swoons!
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This was a wonderfully obsessive, sassy, sexy, read! Lars and Wendy connect from the start, and that just grows stronger and sweeter as time goes on. Luckily Fletch is there to keep the two on them taken care of, because when these two are together, they forget everything else <3
The more I read about this author, the more I fall in love with her work. Really. I LOVED SAVED FOR ME more than I care to admit!!! It was just my kind of perfect book.
Lars is here, Lars is here…I just like saying that…eerrrr typing it. Sweet read. This is Lars book, from Alexa Riley’s book Naughty or Nice. Lars is the cop that helped Brian, they were both saving their women.
Rewind, Lars and Wendy aka Tink, are neighbors. He is pretty smitten with her, so being the over the-top-cop alpha he is, he tracks her car and phone. I know, I know…but it saved her, so all’s good. This was a safe read, no ow or om drama, just the kidnapper bs. An OTT alpha cop, and a tiny feisty virgin. Shit ton of baby batter, epilogues and an adventurous hea.
I received an Advance Reader Copy of the book. This is my honest and voluntary review.
This was my first Abby Knox book and it won’t be my last! I was excited about the prospect of this book when we met undercover cop Lars in Naughty or Nice – I could already tell there was a story with him and the mysterious girl he rescued! I really appreciate the forethought and planning that went in to giving us that Easter egg. I really enjoyed that Wendy, while innocent and naive, was not an idiot and she had snark/sass for days. I also liked that Lars was more than what he seemed on the surface. I could’ve done without the 10 years later epilogue (it stretched my ability to suspend disbelief a bit too far), but other than that I really enjoyed Saved For Me! I hope that Fletcher gets his own book (even though we know the name of his wife we didn’t get his story). This was yet another in a string of excellent holiday themed novellas that I’ve had the pleasure of reading lately! 4 out of 5 wine glasses.
This book captured me from the get go. I found it was really well written and flowed from page to page and the character’s fit together really well.
I absolutely loved the way Abby wrote Lars and Wendy. Lars was just a big adrenaline Junkie Teddy Bear who definitely knows what he wants and just barrels through to get it. Wendy was definitely a tiny ball of sass and a smart mouth who is not afraid to say what she wants.
I would recommend this book and author to anyone who loves a quick insta-love between two very full on character’s that know what they want.
I hope you enjoy this book as much as I have.
Abby Knox
Happy Reading
While it’s not necessary, I feel it has to be mentioned that Lars (the hero of this title) is actually first mentioned in Alexa Riley’s Naughty or Nice novella. So if you have a hankering for Christmas lovin’ get that novella as well!
Now on to Saved For Me.
Lars and Wendy’s story was actually really sweet. We have Lars who is an undercover cop trying to bust one of the biggest crime lords in the city. He’s older, gruff, and when he meets Wendy he’s down right filthy. However, that doesn’t stop Lars from realizing that someone as innocent, sweet, and nice as Wendy shouldn’t be living in the kind of area they are. So he deems himself now her protector as well.
Wendy attends the university on scholarship. But during the holidays it just cost too much extra to stay, so she’s forced to find other living arrangements. She has also deemed it necessary to find some extra work by putting an ad on Craiglist for babysitting work. But this has put her in danger in the hands of the drug lord Lars is trying to investigate.
Honestly, this is probably one story I wish I wouldn’t have read the epilogues.
This book contains 2 and both are completely outrageous.
First having both husband and wife working as spies for the CIA is a doable thing…I just couldn’t bring myself to believe someone as ditzy as Wendy would be a spy.
The second one with Lars now working as a fireman…yeah I’m just not even going to go there because no fire chief in his right mind is going to let one of his men go off to have sex with his wife to work off the adrenaline while still at a fire scene.