My Thoughts
Erin started new schools all the time. This time would be different...she would meet Jake and he would break her heart causing her to leave town. Now she is back to take over at the library and she will come face to face with the man that hurt her as a child. She's all grown up and can't help notice that Jake is as well. There is definitely a chemistry between them that they can't fight for too long. Even though they will fight about everything else.
I loved Jake's family and friends who quickly surrounded and adopted Erin as well. Especially loved his relationship with his best friend who is also his partner and marrying his sister. I adored Jake's mom who was quick witted and made me laugh. Jake and Erin were smoldering together and I was rooting for their happily ever after from the beginning. I am a sucker for those second chance love stories and this one was wonderful.
I give Fight Me 5 hearts!
I loved Jake's family and friends who quickly surrounded and adopted Erin as well. Especially loved his relationship with his best friend who is also his partner and marrying his sister. I adored Jake's mom who was quick witted and made me laugh. Jake and Erin were smoldering together and I was rooting for their happily ever after from the beginning. I am a sucker for those second chance love stories and this one was wonderful.
I give Fight Me 5 hearts!
About the Book
Jake Stevens has it made. A local police officer with an open invitation to any number of beds around town, Jake has no desire to settle down with any of the ladies he entertains by night. After watching his best friend fall in love with his little sister, Jake is certain that love and marriage just aren’t in his cards. Heck, he’s not even playing with the same deck.
After Jake encounters a blast from the past one night, he finds himself swimming in uncharted waters. For the first time, Jake has found a woman he can’t get out of his mind. The kicker? The woman wants nothing to do with him.
Erin Anderson returns to the small Missouri town of Rivers Edge for a job after a twenty year absence. Erin spent years loathing the memory of Jake Stevens for his cruelness back in seventh grade. Now, Jake appears to be the same self-centered player he was in junior high, and no one seems to be able to push her button the way the cocky, yet devastatingly handsome cop does.
Between circumstances that keep thrusting them together and Jake’s persistence to annoy her, Erin struggles to fight her growing feelings for Jake. But, can Erin get past the hurt she felt all those years ago at the hands of a young Jake? Can Jake show Erin that what they have is worth fighting for?
*This book is intended for an audience of 18 or older due to graphic sex scenes and language.
**Can be read as a standalone.
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Excerpt
We don’t speak the entire ride back to my place. I still
hold the melted bowl of ice cream in my hand when he pulls into my driveway and
parks behind my Bug. I have no idea what he’s thinking. I’m sure he’s just
dying to get this crazy, overly emotional girl out of his truck.
“Well, thank you for the ice cream. I guess I’ll see you
around,” I say as I turn towards the door to hop out.
“Wait,” Jake says. The snow is coming down hard now and it’s
hard to see my front steps. “Please don’t go.” Jake’s voice is raw with
emotion. He sounds almost pained. I don’t want to turn and see his face. I know
that if I turn around, I might actually believe whatever it is he is about to
say. “Please look at me, Erin.”
I take a deep breath and slowly turn around, steeling myself
for the reaction I know is coming. When my eyes lock on his, I can’t fight the
tears that spring in my eyes. His eyes are so full of pain and hurt. It’s too
much. I need to get out of this truck.
“I need to go inside.”
“Erin, I’m…I’m so fucking sorry for what I did back then. I
have no excuse for why I did it. I was just a stupid kid who was trying to get
a rise out of you; trying to get you to notice me.”
“Notice you? Why would you want me to notice you?”
“I wasn’t lying at dinner that night when I told you I was
trying to get your attention. I liked you.”
“So you humiliated me and embarrassed me? Why? So I’d like
you? Do you have any idea how messed up
that is, Jake?”
“I didn’t say it was logical. I was a kid. A kid who was
used to getting exactly what he wanted, when he wanted it. I went about it the
wrong way. I’m sorry.”
“Well, you’re sorry. Great. Thank you.” I turn and open my
door. “I’m going inside. Thank you for the ice cream, again. Have a great
life.”
“Wait!” he yells as he whips open his truck door and meets
me around the front of the truck.
“What, Jake? You’ve apologized. You don’t have to be nice to
me anymore just to make yourself feel less guilt. I forgive you. You’re free.”
I blink rapidly in the falling snow. It’s hitting and melting on my face, my
hair, my coat.
“Is that why you think I’ve been nice to you? I’ve been
hanging out with you because I’ve felt guilty for what happened twenty years
ago?”
“Isn’t it?” I quip.
“No!”
I turn to walk towards my house, but Jake grabs my arm and
spins me back around. My body crashes into his like it’s being slammed into a
brick wall. He’s a foot taller than me so my face basically hits him straight
in the pecs. “I’m tired, Jake. I don’t want to fight with you anymore.”
“I don’t want to fight with you either, Erin.” Jake strokes his
thumb up and down my numb cheeks. His fingers feel warm against the frostiness
of my exposed skin.
“Then what do you want?” I ask, my eyes pleading with him.
For what, I’m not sure.
“I want…I just want…you,” he whispers the last word as his
full lips descend onto mine.
About the Author
Lacey Black is a Midwestern girl with a passion for reading, writing, and shopping. She carries her e-reader with her everywhere she goes so she never misses an opportunity to read a few pages. Always looking for a happily ever after, Lacey is passionate about contemporary romance novels and enjoys it further when you mix in a little suspense. She resides in a small town in Illinois with her husband, two children, and a chocolate lab. Lacey loves watching NASCAR races and should only consume one mixed drink because she’s a lightweight.
Lacey welcomes the opportunity to chat with her fans.
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