Review: Love Plus One – Andrea Smith

A year ago 19-year-old Lindsey Dennison’s life took an abrupt turn. While away at Cornell for her freshman year at college, her parents’ marriage imploded. Lindsey learned the harsh truth about her father, and his involvement in criminal activity. He’d slipped out of the country with his lover on the eve of his arrest, deserting his only child. Lindsey was left trying to pick up the pieces of the life she now realized had been a house of secrets and lies for all of those years.

After her mother’s second marriage relocates her from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C., Lindsey decides to start fresh at a new college closer to where her mother, step-father and baby brother Bryce are now living. Life is different now for Lindsey, but it’s about to change even more. Trace “Taz” Matthews, an FBI agent is about to rock her world in more ways than one. Taz is a confirmed man-whore but Lindsey has a problem she’s certain he can fix . . . but will he?

Despite their best efforts, Lindsey and Taz are tossed together by fate on more than one occasion, and this G-Man doesn’t appreciate the distraction. Issues at home with her mother suddenly cause Lindsey’s life to become increasingly complicated. There’s a budding romance on the horizon for Lindsey with a wealthy and attractive guy she meets at school; but things are never quite as they seem. Lindsey will learn a brutal lesson about trust, compassion and strength. Taz will learn lessons about love, intimacy and honor, and that sometimes doing the right thing has consequences.

Series: G-Man #2
Release Date: June 10th 2013
Publisher: Meatball Taster Publishing
Source: Provided by Author/Publisher via Manic Readers
Reviewer: Karen
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LOVE PLUS ONE is the second installment in the G-Man series, each book is a stand-alone, but I would suggest reading them in order. The first book, DIAMOND GIRL is Samantha and Slate’s story. This book is Lindsey’s story.

The book begins at Samantha and Slate’s wedding reception where Lindsey and Taz are maid of honor and best man. After this, Lindsey and Taz are continually thrown together. They are attracted to one another but, Lindsey is only twenty and a junior in college, while Taz is twenty eight, and works for the FBI with Slate. Even though there is an attraction between them, they don’t feel comfortable following their desires because of the age difference and Samantha and Slate wouldn’t be happy.

Lindsey has gone through a tough year. Her mother and father have divorced and she has learned her father is a criminal. She is also unhappy because she hasn’t been successful in love.

Taz is a bad-boy and a player and has never had a series relationship. He has green eyes, tattoos and a great body. When he meets Lindsey, he can’t seem to stop thinking about her. He and Slate work on many cases together and are best friends. Because of their friendship, Taz tries to keep his hands off Lindsey.

Andrea Smith writes an entertaining story with mystery and suspense. I was never sure who the bad guy was. And what a bad guy he turns out to be. There are some graphic scenes of what he does to Lindsey that made me a little uncomfortable. Can bad-boy Taz learn to settle down?