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This is Carey Slade’s book! (Fighting for Flight‘s Jonah and Raven’s now 21yr old son) 

 

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Blurb

I never should’ve loaned him my lucky pencil.

Like every female in high school I was captivated when he spoke to me. I had no idea that moment would cause irrevocable damage.

Over two years later I’m face to face with Carey Slade again. This time I won’t get caught up in his good looks and oozing charm. I work three jobs and get straight A’s. I can’t afford to get distracted. Not again.

Rowan and I have history. History I plan to take to the grave. 

My football career depends on me passing a class and Rowan is assigned as my tutor. I never thought I’d see her again after high school. She’s different from the girl I remember—confident, smokin’ hot, funny as hell.

I’m the man responsible for ruining her life.

If I have my way, she’ll never find out.

 

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Review

4 stars

Fans of the Fighting series will be all over this novella, the story of Carey – son of Jonah and Raven from Fighting for Flight. It’s a fun, sweet and sexy NA romance that can also be read as a standalone

Jonah Slade is a college football star, campus playboy, and son of an MMA legend. Spoiled, and a bit entitled, he has failed an accounting exam and needs a tutor to help him get his grades back up, and he is assigned Rowan, a girl he knew in high school. Rowan watched Jonah from afar in high school until an incident in their senior year derailed her whole life. She has fought so hard to get where she is and every day is a struggle, but she’s working hard for the life she’s dreamed of. Jonah and Rowan are from completely different worlds, but they form a quick friendship that is full of banter and flirting… mostly on Carey’s part.

She puts the paper down in front of me and leans over, giving me the perfect view of her white lace bra. “…Carey, are you listening?”
“Uhhh… no.” I can’t stop staring at her boobs. I knew she had them. I didn’t know they’d be so perfectly round and creamy. I bet her nipples are red–.
“You’d be better off if you’d actually look at the paper.”
“I disagree.”

Things move quickly, and it’s a fun, sweet and sexy ride as Carey learns what is it to want something more than just sex from a woman, and he manages to win Rowan over. She is such a fantastic heroine – strong and sassy, and I just loved her. And I loved watching them find their way forward together.

“If we do this, you’re mine.”
Her eyes flicker with defiance and fuck me, I feel that in my dick. “And you’d be mine.”
“One hundred percent yes.”

Carey isn’t an instantly loveable character, but there’s something charming about him, and he shows great growth throughout the story. But he is keeping a secret, one that threatens to destroy everything they found together. It’s something that the reader knows about from the beginning, so we know it’s coming, and I was thrilled that it played out so well – realistically, functionally and bringing just the right amount of much drama.

But on the whole this is a light and funny read. I laughed out loud so many times at Carey’s antics and inner monologue, and one of the highlights in this book for me was seeing the awesomeness that is whole Slade clan all grown up and together.

“You’re doing the right thing. If you really care for this girl, you need to respect her boundaries.”
“But how do I get her to understand that I want to be more than friends–”
The plate slips from my dad’s grip sending a wave of dishwater to the floor.
“Really,” I say dryly. “You’re so fucking shocked by me wanting a relationship with a girl that you drop a damn plate?”
“It was slippery.”
I roll my eyes. “Anyway, I need her to know I’m in this for the long haul. However long it takes, I want to be with her. Committed. I want her to be my…my…”
“Girlfriend,” Jack pipes up from the opposite side of the kitchen with his back facing us.
“You got fucking bat ears or something?”
He waves a finger indicating the walls. “Good acoustics in here.”
“Suck a dick, Daniels. You hear that?”
“I did, but you know that’s your sister’s job – ouch!” He rubs his arms where I just landed a solid punch.
“You deserved that,” my dad says to him.

The introduction of Carey’s roommates is also fantastic.  They are a great bunch of guys, and I’m so excited that they will each be getting their own stories in an upcoming series.

This is a great little read. It’s funny, sexy and romantic, with a lot of heart. I loved it.

4 stars.

 

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