Holding Her Close by Lexi Ryan Series: Mended Hearts, #2
Publication Date: January 19, 2016
Pages: 200
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She's everything he detests about Hollywood.
After spending my entire acting career being cast as the airhead, I finally have the serious role I've been dying for, and I screw it all up during a four martini dinner with my ex. Now, thanks to the morality clause in my contract, I might lose the role of a lifetime. My only hope is to convince the media (and my eccentrically conservative director) that I've entered a committed relationship. But when I use my brother's costume party to launch Operation Fake Fiancé, I end up in front of the camera with the wrong guy, leaving my reputation—and the fate of my career—at his mercy. Any other guy I could sweet talk into playing the supporting role I need, but not Officer Cade Watts. Not the man who hates everything about me. Not the man who would most revel in seeing me fail.
He's everything she needs.
I don't care how good it felt to have her in my arms. I don't care that I can't close my eyes without remembering the way she tastes or the sound of her moan. I want nothing to do with Janelle Crane. Her scheme to fake an engagement to save her own career is exactly the kind of manipulative Hollywood crap I left LA to escape. But when her fan mail turns threatening and the tragedies befalling her former co-stars seem to be anything but coincidence, everything changes. Now I don't just want to play the part of Janelle's fake fiancé, I demand it. I won't let my jaded heart cost me another case. I may not trust Janelle but I do care, and the only way I know she's safe is if I'm holding her close.
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I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that HOLDING HER CLOSE was the love story of Nate Crane (from the Here and Now series)’s little sister, Janelle. I eagerly jumped into the story.
Janelle, beaten down by a cheating ex-husband and all the nonsense of Hollywood, finds herself at her brother’s house dressed for a costume party in an attempt to try and salvage what was left of her acting career. A case of mistaken identity has Janelle locking lips with Cade, a hot cop in New Hope, who has a grudge against anything Hollywood. But when Janelle finds herself and her old TV show roommates in the middle of a police investigation, Cade swoops in to save her despite his misgivings.
Lexi Ryan knows how to write a story, where the characters suck you in immediately. Janelle and Cade had me from the moment of their first kiss. Their chemistry was almost a secondary character, making me forgive every dumb act each of these characters did because I knew they would figure it out. This author is one of the few where I will forgive boneheaded acts and ill thought out declarations because I know it’s the character fighting against the inexplicable chemistry with the other.
This was a faster read than some of the other New Hope related stories and there were times when I felt the storyline was rushed a bit, but that didn’t ultimately take away from the essence of the story or the characters. This was another solid entry into the New Hope line of characters. I can’t wait to see what the author has planned next
Shannon
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