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FALLING FOR JILLIAN Synopsis:
From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby comes the third romance in the Love Under the Big Sky series, featuring a veteran struggling with PTSD and the one woman who can help him recover—and learn to love again.
Jillian thought she was a city girl through and through; the fast cars, high fashion, and glamour—she loves it all. But when her ex tells her he’s having a baby with his new wife (after Jillian struggled for years to get pregnant), she hightails it back to Montana to cry on the shoulder of her best friend, Cara.
But in truth, Jillian would rather be comforted by someone else…specifically Zack, Cara’s brother-in-law. Zack is a veteran of the Iraq War who came back to the family ranch to raise his preteen son after the boy’s mother took off. He’s struggling to re-establish a relationship with his son, and warding off the demons of PTSD, which still haunt him. The last thing he needs is bold, brassy Jillian…but why can’t he keep his hands off her?
Review
Kristen Proby’s writing has a way of drawing readers in from the start, inviting them to become a member of the characters’ circle of friends and family, offering insights into their thoughts and feelings that only those within the inner sanctum would be allowed to understand. I felt that way in Proby’s With Me in Seattle series, and even though Falling for Jillian was my first read from her Love Under the Big Sky series, the same feelings consumed me as I became immersed into Zack, Seth, and Jillian’s lives.
Zack King is a single father and an Army veteran who carries scars so deep due to his rocky relationship with Seth’s mother and his memories of his time overseas and the losses he experienced that he’s extremely cautious when it comes to relationships, but ever since his and Jillian’s wild night together six months earlier, he can’t stop thinking about her and wanting her in ways that he’s never wanted anyone else.
Jillian Sullivan’s past relationship with her ex husband has also left deep wounds on her heart and psyche, so when she gave into her desire for Zack their first time together and he ended up walking out on her, she chalked it up as a learning experience and went about putting her life back together. But when Zack declares what he truly wants from Jilly, she can’t help but give into his desires because she definitely feels the same way.
Zack and Jillian’s story is a delightful and delectable read that illustrates what true friendship, family, and love look like. Zack is the complete hero package – dirty talker, hard worker, great father, and even when he messes up, readers can’t help but understand why he reacted the way he did to the things that transpired.
Jillian has been through hell, but she keeps fighting and that’s what will endear her to readers. She’s feisty and mouthy and demands respect, something that was hard for her to do when she was with her ex.
Zack and Jillian are the perfect match – the sexual spark between them is electric right from the start of the text and only continues to flame, and they’ll give each other the happy endings they both deserve if they can both get over their personal issues and allow themselves to fall.
One more aspect of the text and I assume the whole series that works so well is that the Montana landscape becomes its own character, offering comfort to both the characters and the readers and making the setting that much more inviting and enchanting, and when an author can do that, it makes for such a great story.
I’m definitely going to have to go back to read the first two books in the series now and see how Josh/Cora and Ty/Lauren began their stories, and I can’t wait to experience Proby’s characters and the setting all over again.
A complimentary copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 poison apples
Excerpt
“Okay, plug them in.”
I run to the porch and plug in the lights, then run back into the front yard to see them.
“Oh, they’re so pretty!”
“Thank God they all work,” he says as he tosses the black shoe down to the ground and then moves carefully down to the ladder. “It would be a bitch to have to take them back down.”
“I checked them,” I assure him, and when his foot finally lands safely on the snow and he turns to me, I hit him on the arm. “You shouldn’t have done that! You took ten years off my life!”
I throw my arms around his torso and squeeze him tightly, then back away.
“No, you shouldn’t have been on that ladder. If I catch you on one again, I’ll spank your ass until it glows.”
My jaw drops as I gaze up into his frustrated face. For once in my life, I’m speechless. I scowl as I pull myself together and clench my fists. “You wouldn’t dare . . .”
“Put yourself in danger again and see if I don’t,” he replies calmly and crosses his arms over his chest.
“Did you come here to bully me?”
He sighs and pulls his beanie off his head, pushing his fingers through the messy brown strands. I want to sink my fingers in that thick, dark hair.
“No. I came because you won’t answer your fucking phone so I can apologize for the other night.”
“I don’t want your apology,” I reply and throw the extra lights and staple gun back into the tote and turn away, but he catches my arm and turns me back to him, takes the tote, and sets it down.
“I’m going to give it anyway.” His jaw is firm. “I had no right to kiss you like that in the parking lot for everyone to see.”
I jerk back, mortified. “You’re apologizing for kissing me?”
And don’t forget to read the first book in the Love Under the Big Sky Series…
About Kristen Proby:
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kristen Proby is the author of the bestselling With Me In Seattle and Love Under the Big Sky series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong, humorous characters with a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type; fiercely protective and a bit bossy, and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves.
Kristen lives in Montana, where she enjoys coffee, chocolate and sunshine. And naps.
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