In classic Erin Nicholas style; Forever Mine is fun, sexy and features an ensemble cast that rivals those of well loved television shows like Friends and Big Bang Theory. I loved every minute of this book! ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
The second book in New York Times bestselling author Erin Nicholas’s series about three geeky girls and the hunky guys who fall for them.
Maya Goodwin doesn’t believe in holding back. Ever. As a cop, she never hesitated to throw herself into harm’s way to save someone. Even after an injury on the job forces her to retire, she’s not afraid to keep risking it all to get the life she wants. With a new career teaching martial arts to kids already underway, she’s looking forward to the future – and taking a chance on the unbelievably hot Dr. Alex Nolan.
Maya – daring and spontaneous – is the exact opposite of what Alex always thought he wanted. But when a nine-year-old daughter he never knew existed shows up on his doorstep, Maya is the one who helps them hold it together. With love on the line, will the guy who’s always played it safe be willing to take the biggest risk of all?
Seriously people, if you haven’t started Erin Nicholas’ Opposites Attract series, you are missing out on some fantastic storytelling. I loved the 
first book in this series, Completely Yours, but I loved Forever Mine even more. Leave it to this author to take a serious genetic disorder and turn it into a romance plot line that not only works, but gives this book a realistic feel and educates at the same time. In classic Nicholas style; this book is fun, sexy and features an ensemble cast that rivals those of well loved television shows like Friends and Big Bang Theory. I loved every minute of this book!
All his life Alex Nolan has lived his life with limitations, but when he spots the kick-ass woman in purple leather giving a martial arts demonstration at the mall he is intrigued and when she goes out of her way to help a teenage girl in need, he realizes this woman is special and even when he is trying to devote all his spare time to his 9 year old daughter he just found out about, he knows that staying away from Maya Goodwin is going to be a challenge of epic proportions.
While Alex and Maya seem worlds apart in the way they live their lives, they have some fundamental similarities that draw them together. Both are prone to help others over themselves, both believe in pushing themselves to be the best, and the love with their whole hearts. When Alex asks Maya to help him learn how to use martial arts weapons and tutor him on everything about super heroes and things the appeal to his 9 year old daughter who deems herself a “geek.” The chemistry between them is electric and while Maya would love nothing more to act on it Alex feels that the time isn’t right since he is determined to make up for lost time with his daughter and do right by her. While Maya is pretty much an open book with Alex, he holds back including on something but Maya being the strong, determined, and take charge woman that she is figures out his secret and forces him to open up. I love that she pushed him, but even more I love that even when she was determined to change for him he refused to let her because her strength, determination and drive is what he found just as sexy as her outside package. The fact that Alex was determined to be the best father he possibly could to his daughter only made Maya more attracted to him even when he was pushing her away.
This book is about a relationship between a man and a woman, but more than that is celebrates all the special relationships in life; those between a parent and child, friends who are more like family, and even ex-lovers who become the best of friends; that is what sets this book apart and just one of the reasons I have always loved this author’s work.
Warm and wonderful, sassy and sexy, magnificent and masterful, Forever Mine is author Erin Nicholas at her very best!
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FOREVER MINE, #2
Excerpt
Alex laughed. He liked Maya. The thought hit him directly in the gut.
Maya smiled brightly, and he admitted that he was intensely attracted too. Now fast attraction—that he’d experienced before. But it had been a long time since even that had happened.
“I’m Dr. Alex Nolan. I’m on staff at Boston Children’s Hospital. I’m on their website if you want to look me up.”
Maya suddenly frowned. “I can’t believe I didn’t think of that.”
“Of what?”
“Googling pediatricians and finding out who you are after the mall the other day,” Maya said.
Alex raised an eyebrow. “Wouldn’t that be a little creepy?”
“Probably,” she agreed. “Maybe that’s why I didn’t do it.”
He laughed. “Well, to further decrease the creep factor, I do have a kid,” he said. “A daughter. Charlotte. We call her Charli. She’ll be ten next month. She’s very into superheroes, GR, and swords, and I know nothing about any of that. I liked the demonstration at the mall and thought I’d come check out your studio.”
“So you’re wanting to sign her up,” Maya said with a nod. “Okay, not creepy at all.”
“Uh…” Alex knew this was going to sound strange. “Actually I want to take the class myself.”
Maya frowned. “These classes won’t teach you about superheroes exactly,” she said. “They are kind of a combination of stage fighting and martial arts and self-esteem workshops.”
“I know.” He’d been on the website. Which is how he’d found out more about the studio. And where he’d stared at Maya’s photo before going in to look up more about her on the internet. Which was how he found out that her classes had won some local awards, she’d been a brilliant cop—who had not, incidentally, been fired for beating someone up—and that she regularly blogged about superheroes and their fandom and the psychology of that fandom. He’d bookmarked her page immediately.
“And the things you do in class sounds like the perfect bonding activity for Charli and me. I’ll take the class and then go home and teach her.”
Maya looked puzzled. “Why not just bring her to class?”
“She…” He swallowed. Charli would love Maya. Hell, if she saw Maya with those pointy-weapon-things, she’d want to be Maya.
But Alex had only seen Maya twice, and he’d already witnessed her get hit with a Bo staff, punched in the ribs, and cut with some kind of sharp hand weapon. Which reminded him that she’d been bleeding.
He looked down, but the bleeding had already slowed or stopped. Which was what happened when a person with normal blood got cut. But Charli didn’t have normal blood. She didn’t bleed faster, but she would bleed longer—because of the genetic mutation he had passed on to her.
He’d told her mother that Charli should be able to try whatever she wanted. But he’d also told her he’d keep Charli safe. If Charli took classes here, he would have to fill Maya and her staff in on the hemophilia and precautions and treatment…
“She has some special needs,” he said, cringing a little as he said it, knowing that Maya might easily jump to conclusions that were not at all correct. But it didn’t matter what she thought. This was the right thing for Charli.
But Maya didn’t even blink. “Okay,” she said. “I understand. Maybe…” But she trailed off while watching him thoughtfully without completing the sentence.
“Maybe what?” he asked.
“Maybe I could teach you and your daughter a private Super You class.”
He was surprised at her offer, but more—he was tempted. Which meant he had to say no. The timing for meeting a gorgeous, intriguing woman couldn’t have been worse. “I think a class with lots of other people, especially kids, would be better.”
“Why?”
Maya was direct. He liked that. And he could return the favor. “Because you look just as good in workout pants as you do in leather.”
Her eyes widened in surprise just a beat before her smile widened. “And that’s a problem?”
“It is when I’m trying to give all of my extra time and attention to my daughter.”
She studied him for a moment. “Okay,” she finally said with a nod. “And once you see the class, if you change your mind, she’s always welcome.”
Alex relaxed. “Thanks.”
“You’re not going to feel funny taking a class with a bunch of kids?”
“I love kids,” he told her.
“What about the tights and cape?”
“Tights and cape?” Alex repeated.
“The costume,” she said with a nod.
“Thought the participants all helped create their own character,” he said, realizing she was messing with him.
“They do.”
“Well, there’s no way in hell I would create a character that would wear tights.”
Maya’s gaze wandered over him, head to toe, before she said, Too bad.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Erin Nicholas is the author of sexy contemporary romances. Her stories have been described as toe-curling, enchanting, steamy and fun. She loves to write about reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines and happily ever afters. She lives in the Midwest with her husband who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books, her kids who will never read the sex scenes in her books, and family and friends who say they’re shocked by the sex scenes in her books (yeah, right!).
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Sounds good. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Slick
Going to be a great read.. Loved your thoughts on this book.