Lucian Badd saved my life. He jumped into the freezing water of the Ketchikan harbor after I fell in. He took me to his room, stripped my wet clothes off, and wrapped me in a warm blanket.
That should have been it. I should have hit the road as soon as I could, because I’m a vagabond, a drifter. A homeless orphan with no family and no future except what I create for myself. Which is why getting tangled up with a guy—no matter how tall, dark, quiet, and sexy he may be—is a really terrible idea.
Yet…I kissed him anyway. And that one kiss? It set my world on fire, turned everything upside down.
I know I shouldn’t get involved with him. I tell myself I won’t. Yet, I still get pulled in by him and his seven brothers and their wives and girlfriends—by the concept of family, something I haven’t had in a very, very long time. Something I never thought I’d have again.
Every moment I spend with Lucian turns my present into perfect, and puts my future at risk.
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As the second youngest Badd brother, I’ve lived my entire life in the long, broad shadows cast by my older brothers—the burly, bad boy bartender, the Navy SEAL, the trick pilot, the athlete, and the rock star twins. Even my younger brother, Xavier, finds a way to outshine everyone in the room with his unassuming charisma and dizzying intellect. More and more lately, I’ve been asking myself where I fit in.
And then Joss Mackenzie fell into the Inside Passage in the middle of a freak snowstorm, and in so doing, fell into my life. I saved her from the icy water, but can I can I save myself from falling for a girl I know is only going to end up doing the one thing she does best—leave?
It’s evident from the first kiss what the answer is—there’s no saving myself, not from the magnetic appeal of her wild, untamable spirit, or the exotic allure of her caramel skin and long dreadlocks and golden-brown eyes and perfect body. I’m helpless against this attraction.
But as I seek to find myself and my place among my larger-than-life brothers, will I lose my heart to the exotic beauty with walls a mile high and a tragic past?
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Seriously? Author Jasinda Wilder has yet done it again!
I am in freaking love love love with another Badd Brother!
Just saying right now if I could clone myself, I would do it 7 times right now and be with every single one of these hot, delicious, vicariously gorgeous Badd men she has created.
Okay, so my cherries are cooling off from all the hotness of Lucian Badd.
He is out of all the brothers so far (we still get one more, Xaiver), the one I can relate to the most.
Yes, every raw emotion Lucian & Joss had in this book, it stuck to me hard because I felt as though I was them.
The not fitting in, the what if's, the silence, it all was very relatable to how many of us feel at times.
Lucian is such a loving bookworm and Joss is his equal. Both Joss & Lucian are holding back with frustration that makes you want to slap some sense into them. Especially Joss. Once finding out why her past haunts her present makes you sympathize for her and fall hard for her too.
Lucian is a lonely lost soul in his crazy family and my heart wants him to find his happy.
Joss literally falls into his life and shows him that focusing on what you want is key to finding his happiness, even if it means having to not be his introvert self anymore and opening up to the ones that love him, including himself.
And yes you will get all of the Badd Brothers making appearances in this story.
Go one click and get ready to go on another Badd adventure!
I am in freaking love love love with another Badd Brother!
Just saying right now if I could clone myself, I would do it 7 times right now and be with every single one of these hot, delicious, vicariously gorgeous Badd men she has created.
Okay, so my cherries are cooling off from all the hotness of Lucian Badd.
He is out of all the brothers so far (we still get one more, Xaiver), the one I can relate to the most.
Yes, every raw emotion Lucian & Joss had in this book, it stuck to me hard because I felt as though I was them.
The not fitting in, the what if's, the silence, it all was very relatable to how many of us feel at times.
Lucian is such a loving bookworm and Joss is his equal. Both Joss & Lucian are holding back with frustration that makes you want to slap some sense into them. Especially Joss. Once finding out why her past haunts her present makes you sympathize for her and fall hard for her too.
Lucian is a lonely lost soul in his crazy family and my heart wants him to find his happy.
Joss literally falls into his life and shows him that focusing on what you want is key to finding his happiness, even if it means having to not be his introvert self anymore and opening up to the ones that love him, including himself.
And yes you will get all of the Badd Brothers making appearances in this story.
Go one click and get ready to go on another Badd adventure!
**ARC kindly provided in exchange for an honest review***
5 Cherries Popped
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New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and internationally bestselling author Jasinda Wilder is a Michigan native with a penchant for titillating tales about sexy men and strong women. Her bestselling titles include Alpha, Stripped, Wounded, and the #1 Amazon.com and international bestseller Falling into You. You can find her on her farm in northern Michigan with her husband, author Jack Wilder, her six children, and a menagerie of animals.
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