I felt Indecent Exposure almost had two sides, a light-hearted, fun side and an overwhelming emotional side, both equally important and making it a strong and satisfying romance. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
Is there a problem, Officer?
Jack Garrett isn’t a police officer yet, but there’s already an emergency. His new firearms instructor—the one who just dropped every jaw in the academy gym—is the same sexy Irish stranger Jack locked lips with last night. The Olympic gold medalist and expert markswoman is now officially off-limits, but Jack’s never cared much for rules . . .
Katie McCoy’s been cooped up in a shooting range for too long. A wild love affair is just what she needs to let loose, though she never imagined it would be with her smokin’ hot trainee. She cannot get involved with Jack—but a quick fling? Perfect. Falling hard for a charismatic recruit with an equal amount of sex appeal and secrets? Bloody stupid.
Jack’s charmed the pants off plenty of women (literally), yet few have ever looked beyond his perfect surface. Until Katie. He’ll do anything to keep her in his life . . . except tell her about his past. But a tiny lie of omission never hurt anyone, right?
Somehow I missed the first book in Tessa Bailey’s The Academy series, but after reading Indecent Exposure I will be rectifying that soon. I felt like this book almost had two sides, a light-hearted, fun side and an overwhelming emotional side, both equally important and making it a strong and satisfying romance.
I wasn’t really sure how I felt about Jack Garrett for a good part of this book, while he seemed like a nice enough guy; he seemingly had no ambition and flitted through life in a haze of booze and sex. Then he meets Katie McCoy, a woman whose life has been nothing but structure, training, and doing her best to make her strict father happy, but knowing she can never replace her brother in his eyes. From the minute they meet there is a charge in the air, it is exciting and electric and it has them both feeling unbalanced in different ways.
Their connection was undeniable and it wasn’t all about lust, from almost the beginning they were sharing things about themselves they rarely shared with anyone including the people closest to them. With Katie in the states on a short work assignment, they know their time is limited which only ratchets up the intensity between them. I loved watching Jack share his love of New York with Katie and even taking her to visit some sites that while a bit gruesome were some places she longed to see. I admired Katie for her strength and her ability and the fact that she realized that there was more to Jack than the front he seemed to present to the world and that she encouraged him and made him begin to see his self worth. Jack inspired Katie to look at life a bit differently, to let loose and enjoy, something she’s never had a chance to do, and in doing so she discovered so much about herself and even with pressures from home mounting it was hard for her to deny that she loved the changes she’d made in her life.
One part of the story that troubled me was I felt like Jack was tying his sobriety into his need to be a better person for Katie. I really felt like he needed to take some time away from her to discover who he was without the aid of alcohol before he plunged head first into a serious relationship, but I can’t deny they were good together.
Completely engrossing, touching, yet with a sense of whimsy, I loved Indecent Exposure.
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