Title: Stripping Her Defenses (Ex Ops, #2)

Author: Jessie Lane

Released Date: October 31, 2014

Book Blurb:

He can’t change the scars on her body… but fate will give him a second chance to mend the scars he put on her heart.

Riley Sullivan and the Ex Ops Team are headed to Miami undercover… as bikers. Following up a lead, the men will perform their investigation acting as members of the Regulators Motorcycle Club with the club’s permission. Surrounded by hardcore bikers and investigating missing strippers, Riley finds the last person he ever expected to see again—his ex-wife.

Kara Sullivan left the man she loved after a tragic accident cost them their unborn son. After years of therapy, she’s come to grips with the loss and has re-emerged from the pain a brand new person. That doesn’t mean she’s ready to face the man who inadvertently broke her heart, and who she’s hurt in return.

Riley has never stopped loving her and he never will. He’s ready to fix their marriage and move on with their lives, however Kara’s reluctance to renew their relationship isn’t their only problem. Danger lurks just around the corner… and there’s a chance she could disappear permanently.

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Stripping Her Defenses’ Dream Cast

Riley is your all-American guy, but with a few alpha man tendencies. I have to admit, Chelsea Camaron helped me pick out this dream cast because according to her, Riley Sullivan is her book husband. Who she game me though, oh boy… he was a pretty close fit for how I saw Riley in my head. She also happened to pick an actor who starred in one of my favorite movies, Starship Trooper. Casper Van Dien. *swoons* He’s so handsome that I sort of want to steal him from Chelsea Camaron. ;D

For Kara, I would cast Nikki Reed. She comes across as both a subtle exotic beauty from her mixed ethnic heritage, with a touch of the girl next door. For me, she fit Kara perfectly except I imaged Kara a good bit curvier. That aside, she’s a fabulous representation of my good little Navy SEAL wife turned stripper!

 

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Stripping Her Defenses (Ex Ops, #2)
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Secret Maneuvers (Ex Ops, #1)
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About the Author

Jessie Lane is the best selling author of The Star Series, Big Bad Bite Series and the Ex Ops Series.

She lives in Kentucky with her two little Rock Chicks in the making and her over protective alpha husband. She has a passionate love for reading and writing naughty romance, cliff hanging suspense, and out-of-this-world characters that demand your attention, or threaten to slap you around until you do pay attention to them.
Jessie writes Adult Paranormal and Contemporary Romance & Upper YA Fantasy/Paranormal Romance.

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$25 gift card to Amazon/B&N and signed paperbacks of Secret Maneuvers & Stripping Her Defenses + swag

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Coming Soon from Jessie Lane and Chelsea Camaron

ICE (Regulators MC, #1)
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Model: Shawn Dawson

Photographer: Golden Czermak/Furious Fotog

Cover Designer: Mina Carter

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Loosely attached to Chelsea Camaron’s Hellions Series and Jessie Lane’s Ex Ops Series.

She’s an investment banker.
He’s an outlaw biker.
A little bit of heaven is about to meet a whole lot of hell.

Morgan Powell was raised to be perfect, to set an example for her sisters to follow. Her life has been dedicated to making something of her career, so she wouldn’t know what to do with a man even if you gave her an instruction manual.

Brett ‘Ice’ Grady spends his days trying to keep up with his teenage daughter, his nights consumed in Regulators’ MC business. He has no time for anything more than a casual hookup.

Two worlds collide when the dangers of his life crash into the calm of hers.

Can she go beyond her own boundaries and chip her way through to the man known to be as cold as ice?

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BLP REVIEWS – Rebecca

I should state going into this review that I’m biased because I am a Jessie Lane fan, I love their paranormal Big Bad Bite Series and Walk on the Striped Side is one of my all-time favourite shifter books.

So …………….. The Ex Ops Series

Secret Maneuvers

I read Secret Maneuvers some time ago but reread it this week before Stripping Her Defenses, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it – fast paced, well executed, damn fine secondary characters as always and leaving you wanting more.
Some mistakes from the past haunt us forever… unless fate steps in with a second chance.

One ‘Dear John’ letter haunted Bobby Baker’s every living moment. It was the letter he’d stupidly written to his high school sweetheart, Belle, right after he had left to join the Army. The letter in which he’d told her that he wasn’t so sure they were ready for forever yet. Before he could let her know that the letter, and his second thoughts, were nothing more than a mistake, she disappeared from the small Georgia town they had both been raised in.
Fifteen years after the letter, Belle unknowingly walked back into Bobby’s life when her job as an ATF Agent forced her to work with a group of men secretly headed by the CIA to help her track down whoever was involved in funnelling black market weapons to a drug cartel in Mexico.

Bobby planned to use this mission to try to soothe Belle’s hurt feelings while proving to her that their love was meant to be forever. He would use every dirty trick he’d learned since he had joined the Army to maneuver her back into his life for the long haul. Belle was not making it easy, though, as she continued to keep him at arm’s length in the hopes that mistakes of her own would never come to light.

Not gonna lie, there were times I wanted to take a baseball bat to Bobby and inflict some serious damage! But this a story of second chances (more than two in Bobby’s case!), first loves and what ifs all interwoven into a military action story.

“Ever since I met you, even my feet stopped belonging to me and became yours because all they ever seem to want to do is travel to wherever you are. My heart only lives and beats when you’re where I can see you. Touch you. Kiss your lips and show you the physical equivalent of how deeply I love you. My soul fucking died after I sent that stupid letter and you disappeared. I’ve spent the last fifteen years walking around as a shell. Not a living, breathing human, but a robot going through the everyday motions. You were, are, and will always be more than my life. More than my beating heart, or any other physical reaction my body has. You’re my everything, my fucking essence. I cease to exist unless I’m with you.”

I really felt for Belle and Bobby through their reconnection because life is messy and complicated, sometimes the decisions we make while right at that particular time have far reaching consequences that you cannot anticipate or foresee. Belle at first comes across as an incredibly strong woman and it’s not until Teagan and Seth have their say with Bobby that we realise life has hurt her more than she shows.
Bobby’s reaction to the news of what he has missed and some of his subsequent behaviour is where my friend Slugger and I wanted to get to know him! But Jessie Lane then writes pieces like that above and you want to forgive him, you want him to give Belle that happy ever after and for them to have the family life together they should always have had. Bobby frustrated me for a fair amount of the book, however, I still enjoyed it and even on the reread didn’t skim any.

The secondary characters were as outstanding as always, special mention has to go to Declan just because it’s Declan! Jaxon and his observations on relationships and military tactics were very funny, subtle and almost scary!

A Solid Four Star Read for me

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Stripping Her Defenses

Ex Ops Series: Second Chance Romance with a hint of Suspense

He can’t change the scars on her body…
but fate will give him a second chance to mend the scars he put on her heart.

Riley Sullivan and the Ex Ops Team are headed to Miami undercover… as bikers. Following up a lead, the men will perform their investigation acting as members of the Regulators Motorcycle Club with the club’s permission. Surrounded by hard-core bikers and investigating missing strippers, Riley finds the last person he ever expected to see again—his ex-wife.

Kara Sullivan left the man she loved after a tragic accident cost them their unborn son. After years of therapy, she’s come to grips with the loss and has re-emerged from the pain a brand new person. That doesn’t mean she’s ready to face the man who inadvertently broke her heart, and who she’s hurt in return.

Riley has never stopped loving her and he never will. He’s ready to fix their marriage and move on with their lives, however Kara’s reluctance to renew their relationship isn’t their only problem. Danger lurks just around the corner… and there’s a chance she could disappear permanently.

Riley for me was not a character who had stood out in my mind on the previous book so I was taken by surprise at exactly how much I liked him. Nah I’ll correct that, how much I wanted to do dirty, dirty things with him because I liked him that much! He sort of sneaked up on me and it all became clear why he was so withdrawn in the previous book. Some serious regrets there that he would change in a heartbeat.

Kara I was pretty unsympathetic to in the beginning – however the way depression is explained and dealt with really opens your eyes – it’s a tricky, largely misunderstood problem that they beautifully, clearly explained and my heart went out to her and to Riley as this affects not just the one going through it but all their loved ones as well.

This story is second chances the same as the first but with a completely different feel to it. Kara has spent years finding and accepting herself, she’s in a good place; body, mind and soul all at peace. A chance run in with Riley shows both of them that there is still unfinished business between them as well as love and a very healthy chemistry. That chemistry when it explodes in the backseat of her car…….. Well, panty melt. Who knew Riley was like this?!?!?!

This book is also the introduction of The Regulators MC which is a series Jessie Lane and Chelsea Camaron are writing together. Being the unfaithful book whore that I am, and hey you’ll see what I mean when you read it, I wanted to do REALLY DIRTY things with Ice (yep Riley was forgotten that fast!) and as I adore MC books this just made it all even better, bikers, military men, hotness, sex, a damn sweet story and oh, did I mention bikers and sex?

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On the whole I devoured this one and thoroughly enjoyed it, there is a lot going on but I thought it was a good introduction to the new series, adored Riley and Kara, want to console Ice and have to say that at one point Jessie Lane stopped my heart. I sat there looking at my kindle thinking NO, she wouldn’t? Would she?

Another solid book from these two talented writers who just get better and better………………………