Slut. Hooker. Whore.

The taunts never bothered me. They only see what I allow them to see, and a Las Vegas stripper is the perfect cover.

My life had direction. I had a mission—until the man I needed vanished and is presumed dead.

It’s time to move on—give up the dream for revenge—and no one shows me that more than the mop-headed fighter with eyes the color of the ocean.

If anyone can teach me just how sweet life can be, it’s him. But first, I’d have to let go.

Mase. Baywatch. Mayhem.

I’m known by many names, but there’s only one that stirs panic and worry in my gut every time I’m called it.

Brother.

I’ve bailed him out of trouble for years, so when he turns up in Vegas and asks for me, I’m prepared for the worst. And the worst is exactly what I get in the form of a lilac-eyed beauty named Trix.

She’s everything I hate about Vegas: a stripper, loose with her body and her morals. But there’s something about her, a complexity that she buries deep, and I’m determined to uncover it.

The deeper I go, the less I understand. When I finally learn the truth, we engage in a battle where life and death hang in the balance.

Fighting could kill us both, but if we win, forever is the prize.

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I’ve been waiting for Mase’s book…he’s always been the odd man out, and I wanted him to find his girl and his place in the fighting world, and that’s exactly what J.B. gives readers in Fighting for Forever. The girl is not someone Mase would have chosen for himself because she seems to be his direct opposite in how they choose to live their lives. But just like with all people, there’s more to Trix than her profession and the reasons behind her choices are not black and white like Mase assumes at first.

The sting of coming in second is something that Mase has felt on two occasions, indicating that maybe the nice guy doesn’t finish first. For that very reason, after Eve’s rejection, Mase takes a bit of the asshole route, but it never truly sticks because Mase is straight laced, looking for his forever. Mase’s first interactions with Trix illustrate Mase’s cynical attitude towards women but also establishes that first impressions are not always the right ones, and in this case, they couldn’t be more wrong or more stereotypical.

The Trix before her sister’s murder is nothing like the one she’s created after it; she’s turned herself into everything she abhors, living to learn the truth and avenge her sister’s death and achieving that end game by any means necessary.

There’s a lot of angst in Mase and Trix’s story…a lot of self-doubt and self-deprecation on Trix’s part and Mase doesn’t make it easy on her at the beginning, but they slowly realize how well they fit together…now they just have to fight past the bullshit that surrounds them and Trix’s unrelenting pursuit to have their forever.

I absolutely loved Fighting for Forever; the love story that exists in it is more than the one that develops between the hero and heroine. It’s the love of siblings…of family…of self and the risks and steps people are willing to take to hold on to those relationships and have them flourish. Trix is a complicated heroine and J.B. does a fantastic job of illustrating the internal conflict that festers inside of her over her choices for her sister and those for herself. In a way, I think that’s the main plot line – Trix’s forever and what that entails because the choices she’s made for the last four years could mean very different things for her future, but if Mase is in her corner, willing to battle for the one he wants for Trix, her forever will be that much better.

A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 Poison Apples

JB Salsbury, New York Times Bestselling author of the Fighting Series, lives in Arizona with her husband and two kids. She spends the majority of her day as a domestic engineer. But while she works through her daily chores, a world of battling alphas, budding romance, and impossible obstacles claws away at her subconscious, begging to be released to the page.

Her love of good storytelling led her to earn a degree in Media Communications. With her journalistic background, writing has always been at the forefront, and her love of romance prompted her to sink her free time into novel writing.

For more information on the series or just to say hello, visit JB on her website, Facebook, or Goodreads page.