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January 20, 2015 10:14 am
Congrats & Happy Release to Ella Fox!
Strictly Temporary is LIVE!
ONLY $0.99
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/17SD9yN
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/14MFqcs
Goodreads Link: http://bit.ly/1CTZPva
Just a Small Towne girl…
Raised on fairytales and dreams of true love, Arden Winger left for college with a smile on her face and a happy, hopeful heart. Fast-forward seven years and that small town is behind her, but not the baggage she’s been carrying since she left.
Just a city boy…
It’s not that Exton Alexander had anything against relationships—he just never had the desire to try. Not necessarily jaded, Exton considered himself a realist. Little did he know, the one woman that would change everything was about to rock his world. This Alpha male knows the second he lays eyes on her that Arden is special– now he just has to work past her defenses.
Small Towne Judgments…Small Towne Prejudice…Small Towne Bullying
That’s the kind of town Arden Winger grew up in, and she experienced all the “shitty behavior” that comes with being looked down at due to her upbringing in a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business and feels the need to exploit and gossip about it. Her life there and the subsequent actions of a group of assholes altered Arden’s life in inexplicable ways and forced her to face some hard truths about life – ones she refuses to adjust/alter even years later. Arden learned the hard way that being a hopeless romantic, absorbed in books is not the way for her to live because she refuses to be played a fool by anyone ever again…even if it’s a hot and sexy Hollywood heartthrob with the nickname of Triple X.
Exton Alexander may be media’s playboy, but the real man – the man who desperately wants Arden to see him as more than how the gossip rags perceives him – knows something about being played and exploited for someone else’s gain. Being in the public eye all of the time can weigh on a person and make it hard to find anything real, but he truly believes with only one encounter that Arden can be that person for him if she’d only stop placing roadblocks in their way and give into the feelings she has for him.
But Arden’s heart has been irrevocably changed by someone else’s actions, and it’s extremely hard for her to come back from it and truly give herself to another person, especially someone as high profile and womanizing as Exton Alexander appears to be. But as long as Arden only gives him her body, she can maintain the façade of their attraction and feelings for one another being strictly temporary so that she doesn’t get hurt again…at least that’s the plan.
I loved Ella Hart’s The Hart Family series, and I’m ecstatic that readers get more of Sabrina and Dante in her latest release, Strictly Temporary. I missed Sabrina’s larger than life personality, and I loved witnessing her interactions with Arden.
Arden and Exton’s story has the same heat and intensity as all of the stories in the Hart Family series, but what I loved most about Strictly Temporary is Arden’s backstory and the idea that the town she grew up in, Small Towne, can be anywhere in the country, making her circumstances extremely relatable to readers. Anyone who has grown up in a similar situation understands what it means to live in a place like that and go through what Arden dealt with, which only makes Arden more endearing to readers and makes them hope beyond hope that she’ll see that she’s not defined by anyone else’s perceptions and deserves all of the romance and non temporary things she can get her hands on.
Exton Alexander may not have wanted the nickname Triple X, but it’s one that fits him to a tee – he is one FINE alpha male and I love the fact that he fights for Arden even when she’s unwilling to see what’s standing right in front of her. He’s nothing like how the media portrays him to be, and while he may have been a ladies’ man, he only wants one woman to call his own and he’s willing to do just about anything to have her – even if it means fighting the woman herself.
What a fantastic start to what I suspect is going to be one hot and heart palpitating ride. With the information that is learned at the end of the first volume, it will be interesting to see the choices both Arden and Exton make and where that leads them.
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 poison apples
The bartenders in the VIP section are incredibly attentive and within sixty seconds of placing my order I’ve got a chocolate martini in my hand courtesy of a girl who looks like she should be a runway model as opposed to a bartender. Color me skeptical that the drink is going to be even halfway decent. Taking a sip, I let out a low moan of pure pleasure as the perfect flavor spreads across my tongue and I mentally scold myself for judging a book by its cover. She isn’t just a bartender—she’s a mixologist.
I hear a groan at the same moment that I feel someone standing right at my back. It sends a shiver through me as I lower my drink.
“I’ve never wanted a chocolate drink before,” a deep and incredibly sexy voice growls against my ear, “but listening to that moan made me want ninety of them.”
I have no explanation for why my nipples immediately become so hard that they could chip diamonds, nor do I know why I’ve got goose bumps. I’m reasonably sure that the reason my panties are damp is because whoever he is, he smells like liquid sex. Straightening my back and mentally erecting my barriers, I turn to tell the man with the fuck me voice to take a hike.
As soon as I’m turned to him, I realize my error. He was too close to begin with and now, I’m right against him, looking at a pair of sexy as sin lips. Suddenly my own feel desert dry and I lick them as I continue staring at his mouth and jaw line. Sweet holy hell—this man’s DNA could be bottled and sold for millions. I’m not even seeing all of his face and already I know that’s he’s beautiful.
A jostling from behind pushes him forward forcing us up against each other—enough so that I can feel that he’s semi hard. My breath leaves me in a whoosh, as my panties get even wetter, and my inner voice is now screaming at me to run—far and fast. Taking a deep breath I raise my free hand and set it on his chest, pushing him back from me. “Don’t touch me,” I snap.
Lifting his hands to his side so that I can see them he says, “Don’t be angry, Beautiful. I didn’t mean to close in on you like that. I just wanted to meet you.”
I am liquid just from listening to the husky tone of his voice, and it both annoys and terrifies me. Lifting my eyes up to check out the rest of his features, I shiver as I get a good look at the man before me. He’s well over six feet tall with jet-black hair and cognac colored eyes that are sending a very sexual message. Licking my lips, I try to think of something to say, then stop dead when my brain finally engages and I realize that I’m staring at Exton freaking Alexander.
Yes, you read that correctly.
I am face to face with one of the biggest playboys in Hollywood, Exton Alexander.
Ella Fox writes like a woman possessed whenever she gets the chance! She is the author of The Hart Family Series, The Renegade Saints Series and The Catch Series.
When she’s not writing, Ella indulges the gypsy in her blood and travels the country. Ella loves reading, movies, music, buying make-up, reading Tmz, Twitter and pedicures… not necessarily in that order. She has a wild sense of humor and loves to laugh. Her favorite thing in the world is hanging out with her family and watching comedy movies.
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