Summer Heat Wave by Lauren Smith
This review is from 2021 and is kept here for reference. Titles, prices and availability may have changed.
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Recommendation
This was the perfect book to read out by the pool one day. It is filled with humor and lust and dangerous “fake”foreplay that leads to some explosive heat! What starts as a phony relationship between Blair & Denver turns into a sexy buildup of want and need. I loved his claim over her. He was so possessive, especially in bed, and Blair is like putty in his hands. Who can blame her?! Lauren set the tone of this book with a family feud and as we all know, the more you are told you can’t have something, the more you want it. This book was everything I didn’t know I needed on a hot summer day!
Excerpts
“Did you miss me while you were at work?” She pressed a kiss to his neck as her hands moved down farther until she was playing with the buckle of his belt. His breath turned shallow as she traced the silver buckle with her fingertips. Pure euphoria filled her at the thought of the power she wielded over him, how her touch had turned him rigid with hunger.
“You’re my everything, Blair.” He murmured her name seductively, his lashes fanning down as he gazed at her mouth and licked his lips. “You’re the breath in my lungs, the beat in my heart, the blood in my very veins. I am nothing without you.” His eyes lifted back to hers, and God help her, she believed every honeyed word dripping from his kissable lips.
She licked her lips, leaning in a little rather than away, and the sensual predator inside him took over. He leaned in too and slanted his mouth over hers, unleashing all of his pent-up desire and forcing her startled lips apart as he plunged his tongue into the recesses of her mouth. Blair tasted sweet, and with just one kiss he knew there wouldn’t be just one mistake. There would be dozens—all night, and every position, every surface . . .
Publisher synopsis
He is a tempest with wild, dark, dangerous desires…
Billionaire hotel developer Denver Ramsey’s life was destroyed fifteen years ago and now he wants revenge and has just the means to get it, by seducing the daughter of the man who took everything from him.
They say there is a fine line between love and hate…That’s more true than Blair Ashworth ever imagined when she comes face to face with a devastatingly gorgeous man who hates her with every fiber of his being.
In order to secure a promotion and part ownership of her dream company, Blair will do just about anything Denver demands…especially in the bedroom. Drawn into his dark, sensual game of playing an engaged couple at his exclusive Resort in the Bahamas, Blair falls deeper under Denver’s spell and finds herself in the eye of his storm…
Review published September 28, 2021