Smoldered by Rachel Blaufeld
Asher Peterson is a self-made man, owner of the Electric Tunnel, Sin
City’s hottest adult entertainment spot. Brazen and formidable in
designer T-shirts and motorcycle boots, he seems unflappable whether
he’s making his rounds through the decadent decor of the Tunnel, or
whipping through the desert heat on his bike. But inside he is a
shattered man, desperate to understand what unconditional love from a
woman feels like.
Hiding the effects of his emotionally stunted youth behind a gritty persona, and keeping his fractured soul buried deep while seeking out his baser instincts, Asher is convinced he is man enough to leave the past in the past. The only clue to his broken soul is his deep-seated need to provide safety and a good life for emotionally damaged women within the glamorous walls of his strip club.
Fooling himself that he deserves little in life, Asher keeps his big heart tightly guarded with everyone but Sienna Flower, his friend, business partner, and headliner. Until, that is, the night he runs into his childhood friend, Natalie Parker. While trolling a rival strip club, perusing their offerings for his own personal pleasure, he collides with his past. Coming face-to-face with a woman he only knew as a girl, he’s shaken when he finds the dark-haired beauty in a precarious position. Now all grown up, she’s a hardened soul who reminds him of where he came from, and stirs within him the need to protect yet another woman.
Known as Nat to most everyone, Natalie is a single mom to Quinn. But when she’s under the bright spotlights in a thong, she’s known as Natasha or Nataleigh Dallas. A girl who once had everything going for her, she’s now a jaded stripper with only room for her son in her life, and has erected impenetrable barriers around her heart. The strength of those walls is challenged the night a man she has known since childhood steamrolls his way back into her life, flashing those smoky-gray eyes that have always melted her.
A man she has loved from afar since she was a young girl, one who lights fire to her walls, burning deeper, setting everything ablaze––smoldering her.
Asher and Natalie, two people who are equally tormented by their own demons, set out to rescue each other as part-time lovers in a torrid, desperate workplace affair. Thinking they can remain friends while keeping their hearts at a safe distance, they find themselves at odds when their situation morphs into a messy, tangled mess.
Ripping free of each other proves impossible as they learn that the very web that connects them goes much deeper than they ever expected.
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This book, once I was done with it, I just could not stop thinking about it. And the title is so perfect...SMOLDERING HOT! This was the first book by Rachel that I read, and I hooked and went straight away to buy book 1 in this series. And although this book is part of a series, you can totally read it as a stand alone and not be lost.
Asher and Nat were a hot mess. Asher is all alpha and Nat is so stubborn - I wanted to reach thru the page and shake her a time or two. Having both grown up in the part of Vegas far from the lights of the strip, they were both determined to leave that world behind and make a new life away from their pasts. And even though Asher is still in Vegas, The Electric Tunnel is his ticket, making a name for himself. So when he runs into Natalie at another club and see the hard, broken girl, nothing like the friend from his childhood. He does what he always does - turns into the overbearing, over protective, savior to the women that occupy his life.
Rachel Blaufeld is a social worker/entrepreneur/blogger turned author.
Fearless
about sharing her opinion, Rachel captured the ear of stay-at-home and
working moms on her blog, BacknGrooveMom, chronicling her adventures in
parenting tweens and inventing a product, often at the same time. She
has also blogged for The Huffington Post, Modern Mom, and
StartupNation.
Turning
her focus on her sometimes wild-and-crazy creative side, it only took
Rachel two decades to do exactly what she wanted to do—write a fiction
novel.
Now
she spends way too many hours in local coffee shops plotting her ideas.
Her tales may all come with a side of angst and naughtiness, but end
lusciously.
Rachel lives around the corner from her childhood home in Pennsylvania
with her family and two dogs. Her obsessions include running, coffee,
icing-filled doughnuts, antiheroes, and mighty fine epilogues.
I found this series when the author contacted me about doing a trailer for her. My trend for this year seems to be leaning more towards the dramatic, adventure, romantic, alpha hotness - and this series has all of that and more. Although the big secret, you kinda figure out right away, it still doesn't take away from the excitement of the plot. I loved Justin and I think you will too!
BOOK 1 - CHARITY'S WARRIOR
Charity
Powers is a young, intelligent woman that has left behind her
predictable small town life, and even more predictable lover, to gamble
on a fresh start in New York. She arrives with no leads or friends, just
an armful of optimism and determination. When an attack at a local bar,
a possible kidnapping attempt on her, is thwarted by a stranger, her
life takes on an unforeseen turn.
Gorgeous and overly-experienced Justin Collins saves Charity from her attacker, and continues to save her in many other ways. "He's just the right mix of gentleman and caveman,” is how she describes him. He gives her exactly what she wants, and almost everything she needs, but his damaged past makes it impossible for him to commit.
At a new job, she falls into an online relationship with JP, the company’s owner. She hasn’t seen him, but he fills the gaps of Justin’s absences and feeds a fire Justin left unattended.
The return of her ex-lover exposes the dangerous secrets around her—one of these men has the power and connections to keep her safe at any cost, and the endless love for her to use this power or give it up to keep her.
Gorgeous and overly-experienced Justin Collins saves Charity from her attacker, and continues to save her in many other ways. "He's just the right mix of gentleman and caveman,” is how she describes him. He gives her exactly what she wants, and almost everything she needs, but his damaged past makes it impossible for him to commit.
At a new job, she falls into an online relationship with JP, the company’s owner. She hasn’t seen him, but he fills the gaps of Justin’s absences and feeds a fire Justin left unattended.
The return of her ex-lover exposes the dangerous secrets around her—one of these men has the power and connections to keep her safe at any cost, and the endless love for her to use this power or give it up to keep her.
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BOOK 2 - CHARITY'S SECRET
The
unbridled heat continues between the beautiful Charity Powers and her
gorgeous and passionate assassin for hire, Justin Collins. He exists
only to love her and keep her safe, but that’s not so easy when she is
such a force of life. Charity makes it her mission to heal Justin’s
wounded path, but to do it, she must hide terrible, dangerous secrets
from him that risk their entire relationship.
The holidays arrive filled with wonderful sentiments that leave each of these lovers closer than ever, but just as the celebrations come to a close, one of their dearest friends is brutally attacked. There needs to be retribution, and both Justin and Charity deliver it. In the process, evidence of a traitor is discovered on the Panther team, jeopardizing not just everything they’ve worked for—but their very lives.
Discovering Charity’s secrets devastates Justin, but his broken heart is no rival to the fury of learning that his beautiful obsession is being hunted. Rescuing her leads him to the truths of this past.
Nothing can contain Justin’s devotion and intensity. Charity has to be kept safe. The traitor and their enemies, personal and political, must be eliminated if they are going to survive.
The holidays arrive filled with wonderful sentiments that leave each of these lovers closer than ever, but just as the celebrations come to a close, one of their dearest friends is brutally attacked. There needs to be retribution, and both Justin and Charity deliver it. In the process, evidence of a traitor is discovered on the Panther team, jeopardizing not just everything they’ve worked for—but their very lives.
Discovering Charity’s secrets devastates Justin, but his broken heart is no rival to the fury of learning that his beautiful obsession is being hunted. Rescuing her leads him to the truths of this past.
Nothing can contain Justin’s devotion and intensity. Charity has to be kept safe. The traitor and their enemies, personal and political, must be eliminated if they are going to survive.
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BOOK 3 - CHARITY'S PASSION
Charity
Powers and Justin Collins face down their final challenges and elicit
desires in the last of their passionate series. Almost a year has passed
since their romance began and they’ve overcome obstacles together that
they could never have endured alone—and they’ll need each other now more
than ever!Their powerful love is ready and eager for the next evolution of their relationship, but Brian Marker has returned for his revenge. The gifted assassin in Justin can sense the ruthless killer all around them, hunting them, closing in, and it’s time to begin the plans he’s been protecting from everyone, even Charity. Senator Lewis moves closer to the presidential candidacy with Panther’s help, and a power struggle larger than anyone was prepared for unfolds around them. Panther Inc. must pass hands to Garrett so Justin and Charity can run across the world to drive their stalker out into the open to face them.
Charity and Justin refuse to let anything come between them and their lust for each other. They accept their fate with all the erotic heat they both have craved from the beginning, a fire so intense that it ignites flames in those around them.
But there are always dark and dangerous corners and those wicked souls hiding within them. With the light at the end of the tunnel before them so bright that they can see the rest of their happy lives together, will Charity and Justin make it to God’s alter in bliss—or tragedy?
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