TITLE: More Than Meets the Ink
AUTHOR: Elle Aycart
ISBN# 978-1-61118-431-0
PRICE / TYPE: $7.99 eBook
PUBLISHER: Loose ID
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
James Bowen found it quite humorous as he watch the two
women do the army crawl across his dad’s back yard. He had been watching them
slither in the morning dew long enough when he stood in their waiting to be
noticed. Life in a retirement community
was pretty boring, so this definitely peaked his curiosity. He quickly learns
his neighbor, Mrs. Cooper is on a rescue mission to save Amy, her cat, that Mr.
Bowen was holding hostage in retaliation for trespassing. James follows along
playfully with her serious banter, but it was the beautiful accomplice that
stood next to her that caught his eye.
Tate Cooper was visiting her mother from Boston when she
finds herself roped into this farce of a rescue mission. She tries to explain to her mother that cats
wander off all the time, but soon finds herself crawling across her neighbor’s
back yard just to appease her. Tate is
mortified when their mission is discovered by the neighbor’s sexy son that is
until she saw his tattoo and pegged him as a bad boy. Since they are two of the youngest people in
community, James invites Tate to the evening’s line dancing party in hope of
getting to know her better.
They decide that a fun, no commitment sexual summer fling
would suit them just fine, but someone always seems to interrupt when things
begin heating up. Their chemistry is highly combustible, so they are forced to
try alternate means of satisfying each other until the right time. But when things heat up, Tate feels the
pressure and bolts home back to the real world of her family’s failing
restaurant. Since her father and brother
were killed in a car accident and her mother and sister wanted nothing to do with,
Tate was left to run the restaurant and put her life on the back burner. After
a mysterious kitchen fire and emails telling her to close the business, she was
at a loss. The Italian restaurant had been in her family for 50 years and she
wasn’t about to let it go that easy. So
when James reappears, she can’t fight the desire any longer. He rolls up his proverbial shirt sleeves and
helps her in more ways than one. Tate
has been doing it alone for so long that she resists until she realizes how
good things are with him around. When he discovers the darkest that is hanging
over the restaurant, James puts all his kill and knowledge to the test to save
her.
This was an amazingly fun book to read. The characters were snarky and fun. James and Tate’s sexual power was tangible
and consuming. The way he loves her is
the stuff fairy tales are made of, but fear almost ruins everything. Fear and
her preconceived notion that tattoos equaled bad boys and she wasn’t interested. But, James teaches her that tattoos don’t
make the person, and there was “More than Meets the Ink” with him. I was totally shocked to find out who was
behind the emails and fire. The author did a fabulous job blending red hot
romance, mystery and danger with this story and, even happier when I discovered
it’s part of a series.
Michele gives this book
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