Maddy Cassidy has hit her stride at Montgomery University. She has great friends, stellar grades, and sees no bumps on the road to a drama-free junior year. Classes haven't even started when sparks fly between her and Elijah Hart, a moody Navy SEAL who's landed in academia after a devastating battlefield experience. He's not planning on falling for anyone until Maddy's looks and brains start to get under his skin. Will someone as beautiful as she is be able to look past his life-changing injury? And will Elijah's passion for Maddy be able to protect her from an unexpected danger? **Contains plot-driven descriptive consensual sex**
MY REVIEW:
Absolutely loved this book. It was the first out of the series that I have read. Not realizing I have two others and that I have read it out of order. This is number four. I hope the other two measure up.
This book is centered around Maddy Cassidy. She is a Navy brat who has been all over the world. She is the only in a family with two older brothers and one younger. To say she was a tomboy would be an understatement. She loved dressing up and she was boy crazy. She was always model beautiful yet never felt it, a swimmer good enough that she earned herself a scholarship to her college, and she was beyond smart. Being a Physics major did not win her a lot of dates. But her mother always told her there would be the right man out there that would love her for both her mind and her body so never compromise.
Now, however, it was her junior year and she was feeling more reassured about who she is as a person. She was doing well in school. Had great friends. Most of all no drama in her life. But also, no boyfriend either which was leaving her lonely while all her other friends had their boyfriend to cozy up to. She was back five days early to campus and at the pool when she meets a tall, sexy, strong swimmer like herself. Turns out he is a Navy SEAL and a professor at the college new to the school. When he joins her and some acquaintances at the jacuzzi he is on crutches and it turns out he is an amputee.
Explaining why his almost perfect form in the pool was off just slightly. She couldn’t figure it out but she hadn’t been looking not that it makes a difference to her. Everyone else gets out and it’s just the two of them. They start talking all is good until he starts snipping at her and becoming rude. So, she fires back and tells him off. At which point she gets out of the pool.
She was just glad that her dad had made all of his children tough because she was not going to let any man think he could be rude and disrespectful to her and get away with it. Not happening on her watch. As she walked away Elijah Hart couldn’t help admiring and wanting that sexy little vixen even more then when she walked into the center to swim. Most of all he liked that she did not treat him with kid gloves and just like any other man. Not an amputee as everyone else sees him now or at least most people see him now.
Days went by each avoiding the time slot to swim there for fear of running into each other. She was a physics major and he was a professor on the other side of the campus so they would never meet that way. Until one day there is a knock at her door while she is talking to her roommate. She opens it and it’s him. They are both shocked.
Each wondering what the other is doing there when she figures it out first when her BFF behind her gasps. You see her BFF had kept saying her year ago Hawaii fling was on campus and she was afraid he would just show up. Making her boyfriend upset. So, much for now for her future day and night for that matter, fantasies about this guy she thought. She already knew what he was like in bed she had gotten a blow by blow from her friend. Whatever. Right? Wring!
He’s only there as a friend he is there for them to be friends. Oh yeah, to be rude to her too. For some reason, he can’t seem he can’t seem to not like to piss her off. He can’t help himself when he’s around her. It’s like foreplay. She jumps on it too. With Josie seeing the sparks she formulates her own plan…
This was a fun, action-packed, twist and turn of a story. The characters were exotic and exciting. I loved how Maddy was a strong and vocal young woman yet she had a soft sensual side too. I give this: 5++++ stars. Provided by netgalley.com. Follow us at www.1rad-readerreviews.com.
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