A great story about family and the perceptions that society places on the family unit. (Long and Short Reviews)Plenty of mystery and passion, this is an excellent, sizzling read! (InD’tale Magazine)Margriet’s voice produces a smooth flowing narrative, intriguing sexual tension, and a well-plotted romance. (Smexy Books) Justice Cooper abandoned his professional hockey career to put family first. … Books)
Justice Cooper abandoned his professional hockey career to put family first. Now divorced with a young son, he has no time to indulge the chemistry sparking with a brainy and beautiful academic. Especially with a vicious stalker wreaking havoc on his campus.
Professor Charlotte Girardet is focused on one thing—earning tenure at a prestigious university. She’ll do anything to keep her career on track, which includes ignoring her unwanted attraction to the rough and rugged security guard who insists on protecting her.
Struggling to balance her ambitions and a growing passion, Charlotte trusts Justice with her deepest secret, and discovers she’s not the only one haunted by the past. But their uncertain future becomes even more precarious when the assailant strikes much too close to home.
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I loved this book, I haven’t had much time to read this week and have been desperate to continue this book, it’s a gentle but passionate romance with added suspense that pulled me in.
Charlotte works at the university teaching English and specialises in poetry, its only a stop gap, she has big plans for her career. She is a quiet woman, keeps to herself and works very hard.
Justice, I loved him, I want to grab him and take him away with me – sorry hubby! He’s a large man, he isn’t the perfect looking man, he has some scars but as a person his as perfect as he could be – strong, cuddly, caring, doting dad, sexy, has a beard, takes care of himself, he has a personality that really comes across well – I feel like I really know him! He works as a security guard at the university and takes advantage of this by sitting in on courses that interest him.
When Justice first see’s Charlotte he doesn’t think I want her straight away, he befriends her and they grow closer, very close and that’s when we start to see more of Charlotte, see shows her sexy side and slowly opens up. I enjoyed seeing her warm up, she has been career minded for so long its hard for her to see off the path she has planned, Justice has a subtle but forward way of making her see there’s more to life than work.
Max is Justices son and his a cute kid, there’s also Chaucer, his a big dog and a large part of Justices life and features all through the book.
Its a gentle romance to start with, but it’s certainly not a slow read it has lots going on and the author drops in here and there revelations that make you go ‘what, ‘didn’t see that coming’ – I really enjoyed the authors style of writing, she describes things well and the book flowed perfectly for me.
I’m sure it’s safe to say there is a happy ending, I had a few tears in my eyes at the end of the book, Happy tears.
I’ll definitely be reading more of this authors books and can happily recommend this book to others.
Five star
A bit of a slow burn mixed with suspense in just the right setting for a good read!
This book was a one sit read for me, it kept me interested, was well written and had a good plot. Both lead characters, Justice and Charlotte, have strong personalities and I liked that both were believable and had good character development. I loved that Charlotte is an academic who is a bit complicated and driven to reach her goals and I imagine her as the type of woman who has resting bitch face (right after my own heart). There was just enough suspense that it kept me engaged and I always love a smart man in uniform.
Charlotte Girardet has goals of only working on her career at the university and doesn’t have time for romance until she meets Justice Cooper. Justice is divorced with a young son and doesn’t have any time for romance until he meets Charlotte. At first Charlotte and Justice agree to a friends with benefits relationship but soon their relationship blossoms into romance.
I really enjoyed reading this fascinating romance novel by Brenda Margriet. I received this free e-book and am voluntarily leaving a review.