Blurb
Aubry Kaiser doesn’t like people—actually, that’s not right. She loathes people. With her crippling anxiety, there’s no way she can demo her favorite video game at a convention with five thousand other people. Maybe if she brings someone to act as a shield…
But the only person available is the sexy cowboy she can’t stand.
Quinn Baldwyn is in a mess of his own. He’s been dodging his wealthy family’s matchmaking attempts—and life advice—for years, but with his sister’s wedding on the horizon, he needs of a shield of his own.
He and Aubry can barely hold down a civil conversation, but in bed…fireworks. And the closer they get to Quinn’s sister’s wedding, the more he realizes that he might actually like Aubry.
Now it’s up to him to convince her she might actually like him, too.
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Excerpt
She pinched the bridge of her nose. “If I say you’re right, am I ever going to live it down?”
He didn’t answer, and she opened her eyes. Their reflection was slightly distorted in the passenger window, but even she could see he had a seriously tense look on his face. She belatedly realized that they were pressed together, her back to his front, and that he was…
Oh my God. She couldn’t resist leaning back into him, just a little. Yep, that’s not a micro penis. A shiver worked its way through her, leaving goose bumps in its wake, and her nipples perked right up, showing through the thin fabric of her T-shirt. There was no way he didn’t feel her reaction, not with his arm creating a band across her ribs, his forearm against the underside of her breasts.
Even as she noticed, he started to release her, his hand sliding over her stomach, but he stopped when he hit her hip, his pinkie finger dipping below the waistband of her shorts, just a little. It wasn’t anywhere near anything vital, but that little intrusion made her moan all the same.
“Fuck.” The word was barely audible, but she felt it in the way his body tensed behind her.
She shivered again, torn between telling him to back off and getting the top button of her jeans all undone for him. If she didn’t make a decision—and fast—he was going to back off again. It was written all over the tension she could feel emanating from his body.
Aubry started to reach for his hand, still undecided on whether she wanted to encourage or threaten him, but he moved, bending down to brace one hand on the truck in front of them, the other still on her hip. The move brought his mouth against her ear, and his harsh exhale made her shake.
She arched against him. She couldn’t help it. Her body took over, a primal part of her knowing he could give her all the pleasure she could handle, and was only too happy to extend an invitation by rubbing her ass against his hard length.
His grip on her hip tightened, but he didn’t try to stop her. “You’re playing a dangerous game.”
She knew. They had to stop for so many reasons, the least of which was that they were on the side of a freaking highway and it was only a matter of time before a car drove past.
But she didn’t want to stop.
BLP REVIEW ~ Tracy
Katee Robert is now a firm favourite of mine and her books are on my auto 1-C list – I don’t even have to check the blurb to know I’ll want to read it…. and she’s done it again with FOOL ME ONCE. I absobloodylutely loved Aubry & Quinn’s story!
Having previously met both characters in book 1 of the series I was intrigued as to whether or not this pair could ever get along… Both characters were nothing like I expected and that’s where the fun started!
I know that Katee said at the beginning of the book that she ‘has a penchant for “unlikeable” heroines’ but hell, I liked Aubry from the get go (maybe that’s the part of me that doesn’t play well with others coming out!! LOL). Her ‘foot in mouth’ inability to hold a thought in her head at times, the vulnerability that hides behind all that sass and attitude and the passion and care she has for the people and things that matter to her all came together to create a really likeable leading lady.
Quinn was very different that I expected too. I was waiting for a total player who couldn’t ever be interested in a gal like Aubry but he proved that theory very wrong. He was actually a bit of a sweetheart – all be it a very hot, sexy and dirty mouthed one – and I liked that there was more to him that I had initially thought there was.
Their story is HOT AF…… These two had serious off the charts chemistry and they took full advantage of their attraction and time together. They were also entertaining, the banter was laugh out loud funny and both had their own family issues that had shaped how they were as individuals to certain degrees that rounded out the story and made them all the more interesting.
Katee had me fully invested in FOOL ME ONCE from the start. I wanted to see how these two worked out, hoping all the time that they could find common ground and realise that they worked really well as a couple. I was delighted that we caught up with Jules and Adam – even if it was only briefly and kinda sad, and we got a glimpse of the leads from book 3 in the series too! – but all that aside, her writing and the joy that Aubry experienced in her gaming (and that Quinn felt watching her when she was in her element) made me want to head off and fire up the PS4, load up COD and go enjoy some virtual ‘shoot ’em up’ fun – now that is an activity I never do, so that KR’s writing had me actually considering this was quite something!!!
Another great read in the fab ‘Foolproof Love’ series I cannot wait for book #3!
FOOL ME ONCE gets a solid 5 stars from me!
xxx
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
New York Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author Katee Robert learned to tell stories at her grandpa’s knee. Her favorites then were the rather epic adventures of The Three Bears, but at age twelve she discovered romance novels and never looked back.
Though she dabbled in writing, life got in the way—as it often does—and she spent a few years traveling, living in both Philadelphia and Germany. In between traveling and raising her two wee ones, she had the crazy idea that she’d like to write a book and try to get published.
Her first novel was an epic fantasy that, God willing, will never see the light of day. From there, she dabbled in YA and horror, before finally finding speculative romance. Because, really, who wouldn’t want to write entire books about the smoking-hot relationships between two people?
She now spends her time—when not lost in Far Reach worlds—playing imaginary games with her wee ones, writing, ogling men, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
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