Friday, June 24, 2016

review || RAW REDEMPTION { blog tour } by Tessa Bailey


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Entangled: Select Suspense | June 13, 2016 | Romantic Suspense
Crossing the Line, book 4
★★★★1/2

SOURCE: INDIESAGE PR

Disgraced cop Henrik Vance is having a shit year. Banished to a derelict undercover squad, he’s been tasked with hunting down the daughter of Chicago’s most dangerous criminal. His obsession with saving the beautiful girl destroyed his career. And this time, it might cost his life.

Ailish O’Kelly doesn’t need a hero. She’ll save herself from her father’s violent criminal dynasty, thank you very much. Unfortunately, the sexy as sin cop who crashes her hideout isn’t hearing reason—especially not after the kiss that becomes muchmore.

His boss wants her as an informant. Ailish wants Henrik to keep whispering filthy things against her skin. But she knows too well the evil they’re up against, and when it comes down to protecting the man who owns her body and soul, she only has one choice…
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{ about tessa bailey } .

highres-MJB_5140.jpgTessa Bailey is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving cross-country to New York City in un

der four days. Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.

She now lives in Long Island, New York with her husband of eight years and four-year-old daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.

{ excerpt } .

Henrik’s sigh blew her hair back like a stiff gust of wind. “While I’m with you, Ailish, I’m working. There are lines I can’t cross.”

Even knowing it was a little evil, nothing could suppress the pop of excitement in her belly. She was alone with a man—a gorgeous man—who wanted her. But had to keep his hands off. It was a tease’s paradise, and they were both screwed. Or not screwed, depending on your point of view. “We can’t sleep together.”

“No.” He dropped his needful gaze to her breasts again. “We can’t.”

She executed her best nonchalant shoulder shrug. “Oh.”

“You’re smiling again.”

Ailish couldn’t stifle her chuckle. Man oh man, she really liked this big ol’ man, and they’d only just met. He deserved a fair warning about what he was getting himself into. “Henrik, you should probably put as much distance between you and me as possible. I really like that you want me. And I probably won’t be able to help trying to keep it that way.” She drew a lazy circle on his abdomen with her index finger, watching in awe as the ridged muscle shuddered under her touch. “For instance, I’d love to tell you I’m wearing cheap white panties and you can see clear through them in the right light.”

His body did this kind of heave, right at Ailish, flattening her backside against the sink. Their mouths were suddenly so close, she could feel his hot puffs of breath on her lips, feel his chest lifting and falling where it met her breasts. “I don’t like hearing that you’ve talked to other men that way.”

“I haven’t,” she whispered. “I don’t. I usually just—”

“I do not want to know.”

Henrik made a subtle move, just a downward roll of his hips that dragged his erection over the crotch of her leggings. But it wasn’t really subtle at all because he stopped right over her clit and nudged forward. She nearly jumped out of her skin, it was so unexpected, her body’s deluge of need so extreme. “H’oh boy.”

His mouth sifted through the hair covering her ear. “Tease me as much as you want. Just don’t try to send me packing again. Are we clear?”

“I told you I don’t like being ordered around.”

He rasped the stubble of his jaw against her neck. “You’d love the way I do it.”

{ review } .

I love a good redemption story, and this one is a bit two-fold.

We have disgraced cop, Henrik, fighting for redemption for the job he lost (although he still has a pretty kick-ass job now), and then there's the point of redemption where Ailish is concerned. It's because of her that he lost his job as a cop, after all.


These two were incredibly fun to read about. I was drawn into their story from the very first line. We have two hardheaded people, severely independent people at that, who find that it's ok to sit back a little and allow someone to love you -- that it's ok to want someone more than the obsession to have her and to keep her safe. Both have had not so great experiences in life when it comes to career and family, but together...

I felt that this book was great on the characterization and that the plot line, timewise, grew in a realistic fashion. Never did I feel that the book was taking too fast of a curve or was too unrealistic. And then the end made my heart happy so...

I have to say, the end of this series certainly came with a bang. I believe that Henrik may have been my favorite of the men, but each book definitely had it's high moments for me -- that, and I just loved watching all the previous couples interacting in this final story. This is a series you won't regret reading.

{ giveaway } .

Crossing the Lines Series Banner

RISKIER BUSINESS (Crossing the Line, #0.5)

Riskier Business #0.5 Cover
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RISKING IT ALL (Crossing the Line, #1)

Risking It All #1 Cover
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UP IN SMOKE (Crossing the Line, #2)

Up In Smoke #2 Cover
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BOILING POINT (Crossing the Line, #3)

Boiling Point Cover
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