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Friday, March 25, 2016

NOBODY BUT YOU (CEDAR RIDGE #3)

SOMETIMES YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN…

After an overseas mission goes wrong, Army Special Forces officer Jacob Kincaid knows where he must go to make things right: back home to the tiny town of Cedar Ridge, Colorado. All he needs to scrub away his painful past is fresh mountain air, a lakeside cabin, and quiet solitude. But what he discovers is a gorgeous woman living on a boat at his dock.

Sophie Marren has nowhere else to go. She’s broke, intermittently seasick, and fighting a serious attraction to the brooding, dishy, I’m-too-sexy-for-myself guy who’s now claiming her dock. Something about Jacob’s dark intensity makes her want to tease—and tempt—him beyond measure. Neither one wants to give any ground . . . until they realize the only true home they have is with each other.

Release Date: March 29, 2016
Forever Grand Central Press
Cedar Ridge #3
Review copy provided by publisher

Liza’s Review:

I absolutely adore every single book I read by Jill Shalvis. While I somehow missed the 2nd book in the Cedar Ridge series being released, I had no problems following along with Nobody But You as I read it.

I pretty much fell in love with the Kincaid family as soon as we met them in Second Chance Summer. While Jacob was only mentioned before since he was deployed with the Army, I was super excited to see him come home and get his book. I'm a big fan of military heroes, and have to say Jacob Kincaid is one of my favorites ever. I love that he has come home to recuperate and mourn the loss of one of his fellow soldiers who was like a brother to him. I also was excited to see Jacob finally reconnect with his family and especially his twin brother Hudson. Of course they had both said something stupid to one another when they were younger and have never made up all these years. I love that Jacob wanted to reconnect with his family and help out in any way he could.

Sophie Marren is such a strong and funny character to me. She had so many "I Love Lucy" moments I actually laughed out loud several time while reading Nobody But You. I loved she and Jacob were attracted to one another from the very first moment they saw each other, and I knew it wouldn't be long before they were together. I liked that Jacob saw Sophie as a strong woman and while he was there for her, he let her run her own life.  I loved watching Jacob and Sophie fall for one another. Neither one really was looking for a relationship, yet they had amazing chemistry and it only got stronger the more time they spent together. Seriously, there were some smoking hot love scenes between Jacob and Sophie.

I seem to fall in love with every single book I read from Jill Shalvis. She has been an auto-buy author for me for years. I love I know when I’m reading a Jill Shalvis book I’ll get romance, passion, love and lots of laughter. I highly recommend Nobody But You to all fans of contemporary romances.




Excerpt:

She eyed the bench a long beat but did eventually sit, perching primly as far from him as she could get and yet still be close enough to grab the bottle.

Smart woman.

She took the Scotch and drank. Her eyes watered and she coughed as she handed it to him. With a sigh, she leaned back to study the night sky. Her bared throat was slim and creamy smooth. An unexpected temptation. Remembering the flash of pain and vulnerability she’d unwittingly revealed, and that for whatever reason he’d somehow added to it, he spoke. “I’m sorry.”

She glanced at him as if she’d never heard a man apologize before in her life. “For…breathing?” she asked. “Having a penis? What?”

“You were upset because you didn’t know I was a Kincaid.”

She sighed. “That was just me looking for a reason to be mad at you so I wouldn’t…”

She bit her lower lip, clearly not wanting to go on.

But now he had to know. “So you wouldn’t what?”

“Nothing,” she said. “It’s just that I’m trying to make better choices.”

“Of which I wouldn’t be one.”

“It’s not necessarily your fault,” she said. “It’s that you’re a man.”

“Guilty as charged.”

“And I’m off men right now.”

“And on…women?” he asked with admittedly more than a little fascination.

She rolled her eyes. “I’m on no one, but thank you for proving my point on men.”

“I get that,” he said. “But being off men doesn’t seem to be making you very happy, or sound like a whole lot of fun.”

“Maybe I don’t need fun.”

He understood that. He’d felt the same way since Brett died. “What do you need?” he asked, honestly wanting to know more about her.

Instead of answering, she reached for the bottle. He waited until she met his gaze before letting go.
“Nothing,” she said a little too quickly. “Everything’s…perfect.”

“And your glass is half full,” he said. “So you’ve said.”

But he didn’t believe her. “How about a game?”

“I don’t play games.”

Now, that wasn’t exactly true. Whether she knew it or not, she’d been playing with  his head since he’d first laid eyes on her. “Three truths and a lie,” he said.

She stared at him. “As in you tell me three truths and a lie, and I pick out the lie?”

 “Yes.”

She considered this. “What do I get if I win?”

“What do you want?”

For the briefest of beats, her gaze dropped to his mouth.

Oh, hell yeah, he thought. Want me…

“My first boyfriend taught me that game,” she said.

“What did the winner get?”

“A kiss.”

Definitely still playing with his head… “Is that what you want, Sophie? A kiss?”

Again she stared at his mouth before dropping eye contact and wrapping that eye-stopping pink robe tighter around her body. “Do you?” she asked.

“Hell yes.”

Her gaze flew to his.

“Problem is,” he said conversationally, “if I kissed you, I don’t think I’d be able to stop.”

Her mouth literally fell open. The pulse at the base of her throat jumped. And she seemed to lose her words.

He went on. “But you should know, I don’t lose. That means you’ll have to tell me three truths and a lie.” And he’d hopefully get to know more about her.
She closed her mouth to bite her lower lip in what could’ve been indecision or excitement. Obviously he was hoping for the latter. “But hey, if you’re not sure you can handle losing, we can just forget about it,” he said.

The challenge lifted her chin and put sparks in her eyes. That’s it, babe. Show me what you’ve got.

“Bring it,” she said.

About Jill Shalvis
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill's bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.







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1 comment:

  1. I enjoyed this one, but there were some "too stupid to live" moments for me that irritated me. But still enjoy Jill's works!

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