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Review

4 stars!

Another great read from J.B. Salsbury , the fifth in her Fighting series as Baywatch finally gets his HEA.

Mason is originally from California and moved to Las Vegas to be a part of the UFC. I fell for him in the last book of the series where we saw him as a potential love interest for Eve, but of course we all know how that worked out.

Women don’t like nice guys. When given a choice, they’ll always choose dudes that treat them like shit and give them something to fix.

Mason is the nice guy. He’s the fun, caring one who treats women like princesses. But now the nice guy is all bitter and angry at having lost the girl, and on top of that, his younger brother has arrived in town with his gang buddies looking to hang out, and who are obviously up to no good. Mason has spent almost his whole life bailing his brother out of trouble, and when he rocks up to his hotel room he’s expecting the worst, what he doesn’t expect is to meet his match in gorgeous stripper, Trix.

Trix was introduced earlier in the series as Gia’s roommate. She is an exotic dancer who bounces from man to man, never getting emotionally involved, and thinking nothing of it. She uses her body to make money, and she takes her pleasure wherever she wants with whoever she wants, seemingly uninterested in anything deeper than that. Her initial reasons for getting into the life are dark and devastating, but she’s lost herself along the way and now just seems to be existing in this place that she never expected to be, and completely resigned to the fact.

When Mason and Trix meet there are immediate fireworks – but not the good kind. He’s a dick to her, she bitches back, and they think that’s the end of it. They don’t expect to run into each other again and when they do, they certainly don’t expect anything to come of it, but there is a mad attraction between them that neither of them can resist and a connection quickly develops between them that is so much more meaningful than that. Mason sees so much more of Trix than she shows to the world – he sees beyond the stripper to the girl inside, he treats her with care and respect, and he makes it clear that he wants her for who she is, not what she looks like, and he sweeps her right off her feet.

Wow, I love Mase! Of course we all love a bad boy, but there’s something about this sweet, loving man who wants to open his life to somebody. He wants to love and be loved in return, and he knows how to treat a woman right, and seeing the way he sees Trix, and the way he treats her just melted me.

Her body and the honor of pleasuring it should be a prize to be won, not a tool to be passed around as she claimed the other night.

And of course Trix is powerless to resist – not that she even wants to – and a beautiful romance develops easily, naturally, and with lots of emotion.

“I want you. More than I should.”
… “You’ve got me. Whether you should or not. You have me, baby.”

But as perfect as Mason and Trix are together, their road to their HEA isn’t an easy one. Firstly there’s the issue with Trix’s job, Mason’s acceptance (or otherwise) of that, and what it means for a relationship between them. And then there’s the build-up of their personal dramas. Mase’s brother is in so much more trouble than he ever imagined – dragging both of them into a dangerous situation – and Trix’s quest for answers to the tragedy of her past and her quest for vengeance is threatening to consume her. Scary situations individually, but it all combines into an exciting, nail-biting and shocking climax that will change everything.

I loved this book. Like the others in the series, the love story is emotional, passionate and all-consuming, with drama that adds to the intensity without overwhelming it, and enough light, fun and sweet moments to make it a truly enjoyable read. I loved the involvement of Trix’s family in the story, and loved both her and Mason’s relationship with them. The other couples from the series all appear and of course I loved catching up with them, and then it all ends with an epilogue that is absolutely magic and had me tearing up at the beauty of it all.

I’m loving this series so much!!

4 stars .

 

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