Feels Like the First Time + Giveaway
ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: FEELS LIKE THE
FIRST TIME
Author: Marina Adair
Series: Destiny Bay, #2
On Sale: April 25, 2017
Publisher: Forever
Mass Market: $7.99 USD
eBook: $5.99 USD
In the tradition of New
York Times bestselling authors Rachel Gibson, Kristan Higgins, and Jill
Shalvis, comes the second book in a funny and charming new small-town
contemporary romance series by Marina Adair.
What's wrong with a little
white lie?
There are a lot of things
Ali Marshal doesn't do: pink anything, a day without chocolate, and Hawk, her
sister's ex-husband. Sure, he's a sexy former NHL star who can make her pulse
pound with just a wink. But he belonged to Bridget first. And no matter how
long she's had a crush on him, how great he's always been to her dad, or that
her sister is engaged to someone else now and Ali needs a date to their
engagement party, she can't give in to temptation. Can she?
It's been years since his
disastrous marriage crashed and burned, and Bradley Hawk has finally moved on.
So when Bridget blows back into town with her new fiancé, throwing the
engagement party of the year, he could care less . . . until Ali tells one
little lie that lands him smack dab in a fake relationship. After one promise
to be Ali's date and two of the hottest kisses he's ever had, Hawk can't deny
how much he wants her. But what happens when this fauxmance starts to feel
very, very real?
My Review
When I hear the words "hockey player", I am in. The best part about Bradley being a hockey player is that he played for the Chicago Blackhawks. A favorite hockey team of mine. So, from that point on I knew that Bradley was a winner. Of course getting to be introduced to him in his boxers was a nice opening.
Ali is a sweetheart. Although, she might have been too much of one. Her sister, Bridget tried to stomp her into the ground. If it was not for Bradley having Ali's back; Ali would have taken a back seat to Bridget. Bridget was so mean towards Ali that she turned me off. Anytime Bridget was in the mix, I would quickly rush over her parts.
Finally there was the romance between Ali and Bradley. It was charming and heart-felt. It just was not knock your socks off type of romance. Yet, I did have an enjoyable time reading this book and look forward to reading more from this author.
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THE DESTINY BAY SERIES
LAST KISS OF SUMMER, #1
FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME,
#2
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marina Adair is a #1 National
bestselling author of romance novels and holds a Master of Fine arts in
creative writing. Along with the Destiny Bay series, she is also the author of
the Sugar, Georgia series, the St. Helena Vineyard series, and her new Heroes
of St. Helena series. She currently lives with her husband, daughter, and two
neurotic cats in Northern California.
As a writer, Marina is
devoted to giving her readers contemporary romance where the towns are small,
the personalities large, and the romance explosive.
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Ali nodded because she needed him
more than she needed her next breath.
The intensity of her feelings terrified her. They always had.
Even at seventeen she knew what she felt went beyond the run-of-the-mill
teenage crush. She’d been in love. Sure, it was a young, simple love, but it
was love all the same.
Only he’d loved someone else.
So when he married her sister, she
did her best to let him go. But no matter how painful it had been for her, and at
times the ache was so acute it had been paralyzing, she was never able to set
him completely free. Choosing the pain over the loss.
Now he was back, looking at her how
she always looked at him, as if he’d never let go, and Ali gave in to the
fantasy. Played out the what-ifs she carried with her for over a decade. He’d
been hers for so long, she let herself believe that she was his, too.
He was asking for right here, right
now—this she knew. Tomorrow, reality would creep in, and everything would go
back to the way it was. But tonight, sitting on this beach, overlooking a world
bigger than the two of them, Ali wanted to feel what it was like to be loved by
the man who owned her heart.
“I want,” she said.
“What do you want, Aliana?” he
whispered, the sound of her name on his lips doing crazy things to her. Crazy
girly things that made her feel delicate and desirable.
“I want you.” She trailed her hands
down his pecs to that flat stomach and lower, loving how his muscles rippled
and curled under her touch. “I want you to pamper me so hard I won’t remember
how to walk come morning.”
Hawk’s eyes darkened, and his mouth
was on hers. Hard and demanding, and just how she’d imagined. There was no
warm-up, no testing the waters. He was kissing her as if he knew what he
wanted.
And he wanted Aliana.
Their mouths were fused together,
her hands gripping his shoulders for purchase, but his fingers were gentle, languidly
exploring her face, her neck, the curve of her shoulder, slowly moving down her
arm and bringing the wide neckline of her shirt with him.
He never stopped kissing her, but
she felt his lashes flutter open, realized that she’d never closed her own. Then
his deep brown eyes locked on hers, watching her as they kissed, and it was
erotic and unexpected. As she watched him back, she felt his lips curl into a
smile. Could feel the dimples on both cheeks come alive under her touch.
“You like to watch,” Hawk growled,
and she felt her cheeks flush.
Ali never considered herself a
watcher. But Hawk was such a beautiful and commanding man, she’d never been able
to look away. Not even now, when her body was begging for release. He was that
good—a simple kiss and she was so turned on, she could feel her body shaking.
That smile turned cocky.
“It’s not like I stand there
peering through your bedroom window at night,” she said, leaving out that night
he was at the bar. His bedroom window during the morning, when he was walking
around after a shower. She was more than guilty.
“I’ve peered through yours.”
And to prove he wasn’t the least
bit ashamed, he lowered his head and placed an openmouthed kiss on her shoulder,
those eyes of his never leaving hers. Not even when he moved lower toward her
collarbone, his mouth working her with a softness that took her by surprise and
a reverence that made her feel as if she was precious.
Ali wasn’t sure what to do. Hard,
challenging, complicated—that was what she was used to. But this was light,
simple—too easy to be real. It confused her as much as it terrified her.
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