The second sexy, stand-alone romance from bestselling authors
A.L. Jackson and Rebecca Shea is here!
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Blurb
The next sexy Hollywood Chronicles stand-alone novel from bestselling authors, A.L. Jackson and Rebecca Shea . . .
Elle Ward, daughter of Hollywood’s hottest director, has sworn off actors for life.
She knows their games and she refuses to play them.
That is until the day she collides with one of LA’s most promising actors.
Kas Cowen isn’t looking for love until it literally runs him down.
One look at Elle and he’s hooked.
He crashes into her life and flips it upside down.
Now he has to convince Elle he’s more than just a pretty face.
Little did they know they were up for one wild ride . . .
Review
“It’s going to happen, Princess. Count on it.”
3 stars!
The second instalment in the Hollywood Chronicles series, this is another quick, fast-paced celebrity romance from AL Jackson and Rebecca Shea. It’s fun, sexy and swoonily romantic with a touch of fairytale – as in, switch off from the outside world, and enjoy the wild ride.
This book ties into the first, and actually takes place at the same time, which I thought was really cleverly done. Elle is the best friend of Kaylee from One Wild Night, and she is the one that didn’t show up to her direct father’s Hollywood premiere, leaving Kaylee to literally fall into superstar Pax and start their story.
Well, Elle had her own drama that night, while ogling a hot underwear model on a billboard she backed her car into a man on a motorbike, and what do you know, it’s billboard guy in all of his hotness, who is injured, understandably annoyed, but still surprisingly playful.
“Are you hurt?”
“What does it look like, Princess? I just got mowed down with a BMW. I think my ankle’s broken.”
“Oh God.”
“I usually like to hear that under different circumstances. Why don’t we try again when I’m not so…incapacitated?”
My eyes narrowed. “Are you coming on to me right now?”
“Did you just run me over right now?” he shot back.
Kas the underwear model is immediately smitten by the woman who ran into him, and he uses his broken leg as a way to get close to her, declaring her as his next of kin at the hospital, and moving himself into Elle’s house upon his discharge from hospital so that she can care for him in his temporarily disabled state. It’s completely unrealistic and slightly ridiculous, but for the sake of a quick romance read, I was happy to go along with it because it’s such a fun setup.
Kas wants Elle. He makes no secret of that, and he does everything he can to make it happen. Elle also wants Kas, but when she learns that Kas is trying to break into acting, she refuses to go there with him, having been burnt by people using her and her family connections for selfish reasons. So we have mad attraction, building sexual tension, and no outlet. And the more time they spend together, the more their feelings deepen. It’s a powder keg ready to blow, and we just get to sit back and enjoy the chemistry.
Kas is such a swoony hero! He is beautifully romantic and he’s not afraid to let his feelings out, and I loved that! He’s passionate and sexy, and such a sweet heart, and I loved him!
The sexiest man alive, and there he stood, ready to adore me. “I think I’m falling for you.”
“Good thing, baby, because I’m already right there ready to catch you.”
Elle is a little bit more work. She is scarred deeply from her past experiences and she guards her heart fiercely. Honestly, she annoyed me, and I found some of her reactions to be very extreme and there just for the sake of building drama – which didn’t need to be as intense as it was, and is what stopped me from loving this book. The story already felt a bit surreal, but the conflict was eye-rolling and then ultimately resolved very easily and conveniently.
But it does finish well, with a sweet and satisfying conclusion to the love story, and I liked how it played out in the end (especially loving the tie-in to Jackson’s previous work).
3 stars
Advanced Review Copy generously provided by the authors in exchange for an honest review.
Hollywood Chronicles
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About the Authors
A.L. Jackson and Rebecca Shea are bestselling authors residing in Arizona. After being writing partners for five years, it only made sense that they’d put their minds together to bring their readers something fun, flirty, and sexy.
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