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Tessa Bailey
Book ArchiveContemporaryMolten
Brent Mason and Hayden Winstead can't stand each other. She plans exclusive parties for her rich familys charities. Hes a rough and tumble cop who rigs explosives for a living. Could two people be any less suited for conversation? They think not and prefer to keep it that way.
Unfortunately, their two best friends are deeply, disgustingly in love. Forced together, the mutual attraction simmering beneath the surface of Brent and Haydens non-relationship grows with every argument until it explodes into a scintillating night of mind-blowing sex. And it wont be the last, as far as Brents concerned.
Hayden has a secret, though. Her fathers company is relying on a merger to save them from financial ruin, and only Haydens marriage to the CEOs wealthy son can secure the deal. If shes to protect her family, shell have to forget Brent. And he has no intention of being forgotten.
Tessa Bailey is one of the great creators of the dirty talking alpha male. The lines her heroes—and heroines—say are drop-dead sexy and stomach butterfly-inducing. That little warm feeling you get in your belly when you read or hear something that gets your *ahem* motors running appears so many times in Asking For Trouble, I almost broke my favorite quote highlighting finger. Sure the story is good, the characters are lovable, and it’s nice catching up a bit with characters from the last books (though not necessary to read prior to this book), it’s the off-the-charts lines she gives us that make our insides flutter and melt that makes Asking For Trouble a MUST read. [November 2013]