Author:
Rhenna Morgan
Series:
NOLA Knights, #2
Length:
approx. 85,000 words
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Imprint:
Carina Press
eBook ISBN
& Price: 9781488054167,
$3.99 USD
MMP On-Sale: March 31,
2020
MMP ISBN
& Price: 9781335962645,
$8.99 USD
Book
Description: Book two of NOLA Knights, the heart-stoppingly sexy spin-off
series by Men of Haven author Rhenna Morgan
As an avtoritet
for the most powerful crime syndicate in New Orleans, Kir Vasilek doesn’t act
without purpose, doesn’t speak without thought and never, ever loses his cool.
The lives of his brothers, his family, depend on it. But then Cassie McClintock
strolls back into his life, and staying cool is next to impossible. Cassie was
the one who got away—and Kir is willing to break all his own rules to keep it
from happening ever again.
It’s one thing to
report on the Russian mafia; it’s quite another to sleep with one of them,
especially one as dangerous, and as sinfully sexy, as Kir Vasilek. Even though
the information he once provided helped make her career—and the memory of his
touch still keeps her up at night—Cassie knows too much about his world to go
down that path.
But when Kir
reaches out for help after a rival family comes for one of his own, Cassie
doesn’t want to say no, either to investigating a gruesome murder or to the
heat that pulls her right back into his arms…and his heart. Taming Kir—and
helping to save the family she’s come to call her own—is not the story she
thought she’d write, but it’s the one she’s determined will get a happy ending.
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MY REVIEW:
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the 2nd book of a series. I did not read the first book and I didn't seem to have any trouble understanding what is going on.
Kir is a bodyguard/right hand man to one of the most powerful crime syndicates in New Orleans. He has stayed single for many years. He keeps a cool head no matter was is sent his way so he can protect those he loves. Cassie was the one who got away and she is now back into his life and he is making sure it stays that way. To say he is the bad boy is an understatement but Kir makes you feel like Cassie and his family are the most important things in the world and to keep Cassie in his life he will do anything. I loved getting to know his "family" and they make you want to be a part of it even though you know it is dangerous and your life will always be in danger being a part of them. They make you feel loved and important. I could not put this book down.
Kir is a bodyguard/right hand man to one of the most powerful crime syndicates in New Orleans. He has stayed single for many years. He keeps a cool head no matter was is sent his way so he can protect those he loves. Cassie was the one who got away and she is now back into his life and he is making sure it stays that way. To say he is the bad boy is an understatement but Kir makes you feel like Cassie and his family are the most important things in the world and to keep Cassie in his life he will do anything. I loved getting to know his "family" and they make you want to be a part of it even though you know it is dangerous and your life will always be in danger being a part of them. They make you feel loved and important. I could not put this book down.
HERS TO TAME by
Rhenna Morgan Excerpt
“Please take this in the spirit it’s intended, but you
work for a man who’s suspected of leading a growing crime family. I don’t think
me telling you where I live is a good idea.”
“1023 South Franklin Avenue.”
Cassie stopped so hard she wobbled slightly in her
heels. “How did you… I mean, I only just moved in there.”
His smile softened and his words were offered with gentle
deliberateness. “I’m a very thorough man, Cassie. You can’t possibly think I
wouldn’t learn everything I could about a person before I shared important information
with them.”
Very thorough.
Frighteningly so.
She shook the foreboding off and resumed her trek to
the station, albeit on slightly less stable legs. “All the more reason for us
to meet someplace public.”
“All right. Then I’ll pick you up and take you
somewhere.”
“Not necessary.” She checked both ways on the street
and hurried across. “Just tell me where you want to talk, and I’ll meet you
there.”
“I’m afraid my retrieving you and escorting you is
nonnegotiable.”
She frowned at him, but kept going. “You’ve got a lot
of points you won’t negotiate. Tell me why this one’s one of them.”
“Because while I’m very much interested in hearing
what you have to share, I’m not interested in anyone else hearing. The best way
to ensure our privacy is to make sure no one else knows where we’re
going—including you.”
She stopped just six feet from the station’s front
door. “You don’t trust me?”
“Should I?”
Hmm. He did kind of have a point. And given how she’d
stiffed him after their second date, he still might be wondering if she’d
simply used him. “Fine. Pick me up at my place tomorrow at eight. But don’t
pick any place fancy. A coffee shop, or someplace simple. And not Starbucks
either. It’s criminal what they charge for coffee.”
His mouth twitched as if it were all he could do to keep a wisecrack trapped behind his lips. “You seem
determined to expose me to establishments with limited standards.” He nodded,
the picture of gentility and confidence. “I’ll endeavor to pick a location that
suits your expectations.” He held out his hand, palm up. “Until tomorrow,
then.”
He had great hands. Not too smooth like someone
trapped in an office, but a man’s hands. Slightly calloused, with long fingers
and blunt fingertips. Of all the things she’d replayed from their time together,
his touch had been the most frequent. Which was exactly why she’d be smart to
avoid any and all physical contact with him going forward.
Glutton for punishment and well-mannered Texas girl
that she was, she slipped her palm against his.
Oh, yeah.
Still amazing.
Electric and warm. Supercharged and bristling with
promise.
And that was just her hand.
“Thank you again for the dinner. It wasn’t necessary,
but I appreciate it all the same.” Hating the breathiness in her voice, she
tried to release her hand.
Kir held it tight, the pad of his thumb subtly moving
over the tender spot between her thumb and her forefinger. As if he were
remembering other, more intimate places he’d touched her. “I assure you. The
pleasure was all mine.”
He gently released her, turned without the least
amount of hesitation, and strolled toward the parking lot like he didn’t have a
care in the world.
Watching him was something to relish. An indulgence she
didn’t even realize she’d taken until he
stepped off the sidewalk and turned to open the door
to his car.
Great. And now he’s busted you ogling him.
She swung one of the double glass doors open and
strode into the arctic reception area.
“Girl, that dude was hot,” Bonnie said before Cassie’s
eyes could adjust from the blinding sunshine outside. “He your boyfriend?”
“Oh, no.” She set the paper bag on the counter and
shook her head. “Just a contact that helped me out on a few stories a while
back.”
And ruined me for other men, but why quibble over
details?
Bonnie took the bag and opened it, but the look on her
face and her answering chuckle said she didn’t buy a word Cassie’d said.
“Uh-huh. Looked to me like he was plotting how to peel you out of your
professional getup.”
Yeah, it’d felt like that, too. But she wasn’t going
to think about that now. Or ever, if she could help it. “Nope. Just talking
business.” She waved toward the bag and headed back toward the newsroom.
“Good business, or bad business?”
Cassie swung the door to the hallway open and cast Bonnie one
last look. “I haven’t decided yet. Could have been the lottery, or the biggest
wrong turn of my life.”
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© 2020 by Rhenna Morgan
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A native Oklahoman, Rhenna Morgan is a
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you’re after, Rhenna’s stories pack romantic escape full of new, exciting
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