Just one gorgeous weekend away from reality. Then they can go on like it never happened…Riley Fisher doesn't have time to chase after men. As a single mother working two jobs, she barely has time to eat or sleep. But a girl has needs. So when handsome veteran Sam Brooks asks her out, she decides she deserves some R&R. She doesn’t expect anything else from him—after all, he’s hardly the type to get serious.
Sam came back from Afghanistan lucky to be alive, despite PTSD that hits whenever he lets down his guard. His therapist told him to forget about relationships. When he meets Riley, he’s not planning on breaking the rules. She’s cute, petite, and a total smartass—not even his type. But she’s hard to forget. Especially once he runs into Riley and her toddler on a rustic mountain getaway and sees what he’s missing. Her kid makes him laugh all day. And Riley makes him burn all night.
Too bad a relationship is impossible. But they can enjoy the attraction. It’s not like they’re going to fall in love…
MY REVIEW:
When Riley Fisher married Evan she thought
it would be forever. Boy was she
wrong. After dropping out of college to
help him finish his degree by working and when she ended she would go
back. Well before that could happen she
got pregnant and it seemed it was for the best.
She figured that she would go back once he was established. But not the way it worked out.
Three months after giving birth and
although she had noticed a change in his personality she never saw it
coming. Evan came to her and said he had
found someone else, when Luca their son, was three months old. As if that wasn’t bad enough he says not only
did he find someone else, but that this new girlfriend was pregnant. He said he was sorry and then cried as if
that somehow made it better. She tried
to care, to feel something, but all she could think of was her son. That this was not what she wanted for him a
broken home like she grew up in.
Then one day this handsome olive skin,
green eyed, and a body to die for guy came into the jewelry store she worked
in. A mutual friend had sent him to get
a piece of jewelry made for his niece.
His niece was graduating from high school. On his return trip to pick up the item he
thought she didn’t charge enough for the beautiful item she had created from
the keep sake pieces and asked her out to dinner to repay her. Surprising her and himself.
You see Sam Brooks was an ex-Marine who
had three tours of Afghanistan. His last
tour being the hardest. He lost all of
his men as well as getting shot himself and receiving a Purple Heart. He just could resolve that in his heart and
mind that he made it and not them especially the ones that had families. He was a severe case of PTSD which had been
treated upon arriving back home but it had been 7 years and he was still having
the nightmares.
For the most part he had been able to keep
it in check but the first therapist had made the statement that he should never
have a relationship. For no woman should
have to deal with his nightmares. So Sam
stayed far away from them. One
nightstands were his thing. Not by
choice but by orders really.
But his dinner with Riley was
causing feelings, things he tried not have and avoid at all cost. Their overnighter hit a glitch when her baby
daddy brought her son, Luca, home early from his weekend with her ex. The son Sam knew nothing about and why would
he she planned only for a one night stand also.
“No hits, no runs, no errors.”
Which freaked him out. Which
Riley called him out on since she said you were going to find a graceful way to
exit and never call again and don’t act like you weren’t. Bam!
See if this couple are able to master an ongoing
fling or will their pasts be a little too much to make it more? Will it be worth a shot or did they just
shoot their own feet? It is funny and it
is sad all rolled into one but with a HEA.
I give this 5 stars. Provided by
netgalley.com.
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