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Callahan is a lawyer and single mother who could do without all the current drama surrounding her twin, megastar brother Jamie, and his girlfriend who lives next door.
What she resented even more was the bodyguard Jamie dispatched when the paparazzi started getting out of hand, Caleb Clark, fresh out of the Army and Iraq, thought this would be an easy assignment but he hadn't yet come up against a woman as stubbornly independent as Ellen.
Nor had he expected it would be so hard to resist mixing pleasure and business,

For a time, Ellen's stubbornness started to wear a little thin but the more I learned about her past relationships, I began to warm up to her character.
She had many layers and had learned to be self sufficient as her brother garnered most of the attention even when they were growing up and her exhusband was a piece of work.
She had no appetite for being in another relationship and when Caleb emerges, she's pretty comfortable about considering a nocommitment, sex only arrangement.
He, on the other hand, wasn't in the market and had a reputation for being footloose, but not really a player, Caleb's very sexy and clever but she had him at hello,

It was enjoyable to have the tales

turned for a change with Ellen not wanting a commitment and Caleb really hoping for much more.
The sexual tension between these two was even better, complicating their lives in ways they never saw coming, I liked that we were able to have both of their points of view presented so I could be the voyeur while they figured things out.
Be prepared for some very steamy times, though, when they do decide to come together,

The volatile romance between Jamie and his girlfriend, Carly, added another level of excitement and humor as he worked to get out of the doghouse.
Ellen's son, Henry, added an interesting element as he played an important role in the story, Of course, his father added to the drama and not always in a good way, I liked how the secondary characters were woven into the story in a way that didn't distract but augmented Ellen and Caleb's relationship.


I enjoyed Ellen and Caleb's story, so much that I rolled right into the next book in the series, It is complex, aggravating at times, funny and had moments that tugged at my heart,

I received an ARC from NetGalley Ellen Callahan is a single mother who has worked hard for everything she has, When her brother becomes a pop star it brings the paparazzi to her door, Used to taking care of matters on her own, Ellen plans to do just that until Caleb Clark shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her bodyguard.


Caleb is trying his best to be stay professional with Ellen but it is getting hard to deny the attraction he feels for her.
Caleb has a lot on his plate when he decides he is going to have Ellen, but can Ellen let Caleb in or will she push him away

I loved Caleb, he is charismatic and drew you in right away.
Ellen was a bit hard at first but she grows on you as you begin to understand her back story, Great book, looking forward to the next book in the series, I am sorely lacking in all the words I need to describe how much I loved this book, I couldn't stop reading it, but I wanted to stop, because if I stopped, it wouldn't end, There are so many things to love about this book, So many emotions and feelings attached to it, I laughed out loud, snorted, cried, swooned, . . you name it, I probably did it, It hit me on so many levels, all of them good, Ruthie Knox just has an impeccable way of touching on emotions and feelings with a depth and clarity that is amazing to me.
There is so much humor and wit that couples with the tenderness and love and it just combines to create a captivating story.


I love Caleb, Plain and simple. Just love him. Ellen is every kind of amazing, She's a unique heroine and a great one, Henry is too adorable for words, I could just eat him up, Jamie and Carly were a great extra story with a happy ending that made me smile,

I could go on and on and on about this book, but my feelings are still so fresh I'm going to just savor the glow of finishing a great and lasting story.
After reading and loving sitelinkHow to Misbehave, I was ready to be swept off my feet with the first longer novel from Ruthie Knox.


And. Well. I wasn't.

And I'm trying to put my finger on why that was, exactly, It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the book I did, Three to me means I liked it, But, well,for a book by Ruthie is rather low,

Let's start with what I did like, . . The plot was interesting and engaging, I always enjoy small town stories, and the setting of Camelot, Ohio was no different for me,

And, of course, Caleb, If there's one thing Ruthie does well it's writing a strong, unfy, swoony male lead, He was hard in all the right places ahem, but still soft as well, She balanced him beautifully. Almost too beautifully, and I think that maybe why the spotlight shone so brightly on Ellen and, unfortunately, not in a good way.


Ellen. Hmm. Well, I didn't like her, I thought I was going to at first, She was all big brass balls and sharp wit and strength, And then that started to get old, At aboutin, I started to wonder when she'd give a little, At, I was ready to lead Caleb by the hand to the nearest bar and find him someone else, She grew as a character too little, too late, in my opinion, and even though by the end she'd balanced out nicely, it was not enough in my eyes.


The rest of the characters, though, I enjoyed, Ruthie's secondary characters have a way of coming to life right off the pages, Nana. Caleb's younger sister, Katie. His dad. Even Henry, though I'll admit to not loving the addition of the child in this book, However, after reading How to Misbehave, I was rather disappointed that we saw virtually nothing of Tony and Amber, Instead, we got this odd sideplot of Carly and Ellen's brother Jamie, I'm not a fan of the multiple romanticstory line plots, and this one was no exception, I want my books focused on two people, that's it,

The only other thing that didn't quite sit right with me was the three day timespan, In all honesty, it didn't feel like only three days while we were reading, but still, Three days and you're singing the happily ever after song That was a little hard for me to swallow,

Finally, the steam in this was way way low as compared to Ruthie's other books, and even as compared to the novella that started off this whole series.


All in all, not a bad way to spend a few hours, but nowhere near her best work, instead, see: sitelinkAbout Last Night, sitelinkRide with Me, or the first in this series sitelinkHow to Misbehave,



Ellen is a divorcee and a single mum, She strives to be in control of her own life and never be manipulated by a man again, Unfortunately the paparrazi have descended on her quiet little suburb due to her pop star brother getting involved with her next door neighour.

Then her brother hires a security company to keep watch and make sure her and her neighbour are safe, Cue Caleb, he is an ex milatary police who has just started his own security firm,
He starts what should be a standard easy job only to be made complicated by the client,
Ellen doesn't want any interference, crazily independent, she is convinced she is fine on her own,
Caleb finds he wants to make sure, more and more that this woman and her child are safe,
I was a little disappointed int his book, It was a good idea, good plot but I found the character Ellen, infuriating, I did not understand her problem, Sure her ex was a super dick but really did she have to dig her heels in this much She ruined for me what would have otherwise been a great romance book.
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