New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author
Lexi Ryan
Adult Contemporary Romance
Release: December 22, 2014
Synopsis
He talks dirty to me, but I don’t know his name.
He wants to tie me up, but I don’t know his face.
He turns me on, but I couldn’t point him out in a crowd.
I’ve fallen for an anonymous stranger, and tonight the anonymity ends. Tonight I want more than typed secrets and texted promises. I want something reckless. Heat. Passion. The thrill of being entirely possessed.
Because I suspect this anonymous stranger isn’t a stranger at all.
Lizzy Thompson met riverrat69 online through Something Real, a service promising to deliver meaningful relationships by forbidding its users to share names or photos until they’ve reached a certain benchmark. She was looking for love. He was researching an investment. They hit it off. Talked and flirted, hid behind screen names and cartoon avatars.
Now they’re breaking the rules and meeting in person. But Liz is prepared. She’s picked up hints and followed clues.
She’s ninety-percent convinced she’s discovered the identity of her dirty-talking online friend.
She wonders if her ex-lover Sam Bradshaw knows her identity too.
When she rolls the dice on one reckless night, her chance at something real could crumble.
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Review
What was supposed to be one wild night where Liz went after the one man she wanted has now spiraled out of control and left a reckless disaster in its wake where lines have been crossed and unwanted feelings have been felt that refuse to go away. Lust quickly turned into genuine feelings, but with outside influences, secret correspondences, and feelings of betrayal running rampant, a real relationship between Liz and Sam doesn’t seem feasible or perhaps even wanted after more truths are learned and lives are thrown even more off balance.
Something Reckless would be wanting a relationship with someone who only sees you as a convenient bedmate.
Something Reckless would be to have feelings for someone who you feel betrayed by.
Something Reckless would be to want a forever with someone who only sees you as a right now instead of a forever.
But perhaps the most reckless act would be to believe everything at face value and not look deeper for the real answers.
Liz and her dynamic group of female friends and sisters sure make for good storytelling. Lexi Ryan has taken each one and shown her darkest secrets, fears, and desires and then readers witnessed them struggle to claim the man they love and get their happily ever after. And now it’s Liz’s turn. Because her something wild didn’t turn into the something real that she wanted it to, she’s joined Internet dating services to help her quest to find her one. The “fun one” – the “wild one” wants what her friends and sisters have and she’s hoping that her recklessness will help her claim her man, but what she doesn’t know is that it also might be her undoing.
Liz Thompson is another fantastic Lexi Ryan heroine who struggles with inadequacies and the strong need to be taken seriously. She’s watched her sisters one by one find happiness and she craves for that herself, but she’s afraid of the rejection that may occur if she goes after the one man she craves, Sam Bradshaw. But her serial dating isn’t working and even her sexy correspondences with an online friend are all envisioned as Sam being the sender. Her heart knows Sam’s the man for her, but too much has happened between them, leaving her struggling to get her happily ever after with another man while continuing to want Sam to claim her.
Sam’s life is just as out of control as Liz’s is. Things have happened in the past that are hard for him to get past, leaving him wading through women and never really wanting to stay with any of them because they’re not Liz – the one woman who occupies his heart and his body – too bad his brain won’t allow it. On the outside, Sam’s a smooth talking alpha male whose dirty talk and bedroom prowess makes him a must have for all women, but on the inside, he’s a mess of overwhelming emotions and over analyzing thoughts. He knows what he wants…what he craves, but he has to allow himself to take it, and it just might be too late before he decides to.
Reckless acts have cost Liz and Sam a real relationship numerous times, and as readers head into their final book, Something Real, it will be interesting to see what decisions are made with the enlightening news learned at the end of Something Reckless and if Liz and Sam can still have what they both desperately want when mass chaos is about to ensue.
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 poison apples
Excerpt
“You look amazing in this dress. I’ve been pretending all night that there’s something I want to do more than get you out of it.”
“What would you do with me if you got so lucky?”
“I’d keep you up all night, for starters.” He slides a hand into my hair and traces the side of my neck with his thumb. His groan rumbles through me. “Tell me what you came here for.”
I thought that was pretty clear. “I’m wearing extremely slutty underwear. What do you think?”
His nostrils flare and his breathing goes thready. “I think I’m going to have to up my game, because now I want to see it.”
I have to bite back a smile. “Good,” I say. My heart thumps out a beat, probably Morse code for please and thank you.
“How slutty is this underwear of yours?”
I lick my lips. “Oh, it’s damn near whorish.”
“Let me see it, Liz.”
I lift my chin and prop my hands on my hips. “Seriously? That’s all the seduction I get? Let me see it?”
He steps closer until I have to crane my neck to look at him, and holy hell he smells good. “What game are we playing here, Rowdy?” he murmurs against my ear. “Is this the one where we pretend we don’t want each other and sleep alone . . .” His fingers skim down my shoulder and my eyes float closed. “Or is it the one where I make you come so hard you scream my name and tomorrow you act like you want nothing to do with me?”
“Are those my only choices?” I ask, but I keep my eyes closed, focusing on the feel of his rough fingers dancing across my skin. The truth is, I don’t want to play either game. I’m done playing games when it comes to Sam. I’m done pretending I don’t want him when I do, and I’m done pretending our annual one-night stand is enough for me.
“Tell me you aren’t going to run away in the morning. Promise me you won’t shut me out again.”
I don’t know what that means, and I’m too scared to analyze it. My eyes are still closed when he takes my chin in his fingers and tilts my face up to his, still closed when he brushes his lips over mine and when I open under him because I’m helpless to this man’s kiss.
“Promise me,” he repeats.
“I won’t run away.” Then I unzip my dress and let it fall to the floor in a puddle, and my boldness is rewarded. Sam’s lips part and his breath escapes him in a rush.
He steps back and takes me in. The bra is strapless, black lace demi-cups that lift my breasts until they threaten to spill out. The panties—what there is of them—are a thong in matching black lace. Their fine lace straps sit in a sharp V high on my hipbones.
A ringlet of hair escaped my up-do, and he takes it between his fingers and twirls it around. I deserve a medal for not melting right here at his feet.
He hooks his index finger under the black bow between my bra cups. “Did you wear this for me?” His voice is a husky whisper that I can’t deny.
“Yes.”
His fingers skim my belly, trace over my hip, following the lace of my thong behind me to where the straps meet at the small of my back. My breath catches as he takes the fabric path over the curve of my tailbone and down, his fingers bringing every nerve ending to life as they pass. Electric pleasure whips through me.
“Fourteen months since I’ve touched you,” he says. “Fourteen months since I’ve gotten to hear the way you breathe when you’re turned on, since I’ve gotten to listen to you scream as I make you come. Tell me you haven’t thought about it.”
“I’d be lying.”
“Don’t lie,” he says, eyes hot and intense. “Just tell me you want me.”
Copyright Lexi Ryan, 2014
Adult Contemporary Romance
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“You need a good guy. A long-term guy. One who does dates and romance and emotional strings…I’m just an asshole who wants to tie you up, make you come, and walk away.”
Samuel Bradshaw is a man with a reputation—the kind of reputation that should have me running the other way. Instead, it has me searching for the shortest distance to his bed. I won’t be the starry-eyed girl who thinks she can change a man like Sam, and despite what he thinks, forever is not what I need. I need the things he makes me feel, the way he turns me on, and the promise of pleasure in his eyes. This promises to be SOMETHING WILD.
About the Author
New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author Lexi Ryan’s novels have been described as intense, emotional, and wickedly sexy. A former college professor, she now writes full-time from her home in Indiana, where she lives with her husband, two children, and a neurotic dog. Find her on Facebook or Twitter to chat about books, TV, and her children’s latest antics.
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