He promised to take me
as far as I could go—and I wanted to go to the edge.
My whole life has been a cover, a con, a lie. I was born into the grift, raised on the thrill of playing someone I’m not. As a rule, I never let anyone get too close—until Cole August makes it impossible for me to stay away.
Cole is tough, sexy, and intensely loyal, yet his secrets are dark and his scars run deep. Not many women can handle his past, or the truth behind his fierce demands. But something about him beckons me—and our desire is a game I must play.
I know he’s dangerous, that even his touch is trouble, but what is passion without a little risk?
My whole life has been a cover, a con, a lie. I was born into the grift, raised on the thrill of playing someone I’m not. As a rule, I never let anyone get too close—until Cole August makes it impossible for me to stay away.
Cole is tough, sexy, and intensely loyal, yet his secrets are dark and his scars run deep. Not many women can handle his past, or the truth behind his fierce demands. But something about him beckons me—and our desire is a game I must play.
I know he’s dangerous, that even his touch is trouble, but what is passion without a little risk?
There is an old saying that goes “you
don’t miss a good thing until it’s gone”, and that pretty much sums up how I
felt about Ignited written by J. Kenner.
Initially I thought I was never going to get into this story of Cole,
one of the notorious Three Knights and Katrina, reformed grifter who has had a
crush on him for like forever… I mean a really long time, because I just couldn’t
connect with the characters.
If you have read the previous two
novels in this series, Wanted and Heated, you have been introduced to Evan and Tyler, the other two
Knights who have found happily ever afters in their own lives. However, there was one last knight, Cole. He is a bad mama-jama with anger management issues who does not do relationships, and Katrina, a poor little
love struck former con-artist vying for his attention. Katrina is going all out
to get this man’s attention from spending invisible money to impress him at a
gala to explicitly telling him she has one less problem if he would just bang
her out. However, what she doesn’t know is that Cole sees her even when she is
not being so obvious but is afraid that he is not the guy for her. I know you
have heard or read this before but he feels that she is just too perfect for
him to taint.
So they go on like this for a good
portion of the novel and as I was about to lay my reader down and take a break
from all of the cat and mouse shenanigans between these two, something
happened. There was a shift in the storyline that steamed up the lens of my
glasses as I continued to read about the tom-kinkery that commenced and the actual
conversations that began to happen between these two were so grown.
I digress. Overall, I did not dislike
this read but there were parts in it that I didn’t particularly like either. I
mean basically, some of it seemed familiar from other books I had read from
this author. However, it wasn’t until I was finished with it that I saw how
good it actually was and why I like this author. And that reason is, J. Kenner
is definitely a wordsmith when it comes to her writing, so my recommendation to
you on this novel, is to jog over and read it.
Julie Kenner (aka J. Kenner and J.K. Beck)
is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall
Street Journal bestselling author of over forty novels, novellas and short
stories in a variety of genres.
Praised by Publishers
Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric
characterizations,” J.K. writes a range of stories including super sexy
romances, paranormal romance, chick lit suspense and paranormal mommy lit. Her
foray into the latter, Carpe Demon:
Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom
by Julie Kenner, is in development as a feature film with 1492 Pictures.
Her most recent trilogy of erotic
romances, The Stark Trilogy (as J. Kenner), reached as high as #2 on the New York Times list and is published in
over twenty countries.
J.K. lives in Central Texas, with her
husband, two daughters, and several cats.
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