MIDDLE OF KNIGHT (Jack and Jill #2) by Jewel E. Ann-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: October 10, 2015

The living seek forgiveness. The dead seek revenge.

A first love.
A last breath.
A haunting past.

Armed with a sinful past and an equally sinful body, Jackson Knight absolves his vow of celibacy to pursue Sergeant Monaghan’s unsuspecting—older—housekeeper.

Ryn Middleton, on the cusp of turning forty with a snarky daughter, a killer dog, and an abusive ex-husband, finds Jackson’s advances humorous and unbelievable. After intense negotiations including Vera Wang, Ed Sheeran, and sex four times a day, Ryn accepts Jackson’s marriage proposal on their first date.

What could possibly go wrong?

While struggling to lay claim to the woman of the dreams he never had, Jackson is forced to deal with a grief-stricken Jillian trying to hold on to her past without letting go of her future—the doctor who took her heart and the Sergeant who gave her a new one.

Beyond the hope for light, lies the middle of darkness, the illusion of truth, and a haunting past.

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REVIEW: MIDDLE OF KNIGHT is the second installment in Jewel E.Ann’s contemporary adult JACK AND JILL romantic, suspense series focusing on thirty year old twins Jillian and Jack Knight (aka Jessica and Jude Day). Their continuing story finds hero and heroine looking towards a future that doesn’t include their past. But the past has a habit of breaking free and threatening any chance of future happiness when Jack (Jude) finds himself falling in love with an older woman whose own past continues to haunt her present; and memories of the past continue to haunt Jillian(Jessica Day) Knight. MIDDLE OF KNIGHT should not be read as a stand alone as each installment builds upon the previous storyline.

Told from alternating timelines-past and present- as well as alternating between dual third person perspectives (Jack and Jill), MIDDLE OF KNIGHT follows three intersecting paths: Jill’s past and history with the love of her life Dr.Luke Jones: Jack’s relationship with an older divorcee-Ryn Middleton- whose abusive ex still has some semblance of control over his former wife and daughter; and Jill who has found herself falling in love with a man who does not have long to live.

MIDDLE OF KNIGHT is an emotional storyline about two siblings who are hiding in plain sight; a witness protection program of sorts where Jessica and Jude Day are now living as Jack and Jill Knight in a new town, a new state with new identities and new pasts. But our siblings want a future that does not involve lies, secrets or threats against their lives, and MIDDLE OF KNIGHT finds Jack Knight looking towards a happily ever after with the woman that he loves; and Jill Knight pining for the man she left behind. While Jill’s present focuses on the few remaining days and hours of her relationship with AJ Monaghan, the reader is pulled into an emotional free fall where there will be no happily ever after for AJ and Jill. This particular part of the story is heartbreaking, impassioned and real; the ‘in your face’ agonizing pain and tumultuous journey of two people whose love was never meant to last is intense and full of anguish.

Jewel E. Ann’s JACK AND JILL series takes a passionate look at love and loss; life and death; falling in love and letting go. The premise is powerful and visceral in its presentation; the characters are animated and fierce; the romance(s) is emotional, intimate and anxious.

I have been a big fan of Jewel E Ann since the release of her first novel HOLDING YOU. I am not much of a fangirl; I don’t kiss author a$$, and I don’t lie about the books I have read and reviewed, but if you are looking for a new author, a new book or series that will rip out your heart and leave you emotionally spent, then pick up one of Jewel E Ann’s novels-you won’t be sorry.

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Reviewed by Sandy

End of Day
Jack and Jill #1
by Jewel E Ann
Genre: adult, contemporary, humor, romantic suspense
Release Date: August 17, 2015

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 17, 2015

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in the sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.

Four caskets. Two bodies.

Jessica and Jude Day witness their funeral and that of their parents a few yards away from mourning family and friends. Stripped of the only life they’ve ever known, the Days say goodbye to San Francisco forever.

Six months later, two thirty-year-old misfits with elite self-defense skills and penchants for alcohol, sex, and trouble arrive like an earthquake to Peaceful Woods, a retirement community in Omaha, Nebraska, that thrives on rules and gossip. Welcome home, Jackson and Jillian Knight.

Jackson celebrates his new beginning by embracing his job and wiping his cavalier past clean with a temporary oath of celibacy. But Jillian’s past is branded into her soul—the deaths, the insanity, Dr. Luke Jones, and the need to make her lovers bleed. Her chance for redemption comes in the form of a next door neighbor, one Senior Master Sergeant Monaghan. He’s sexy, dangerously alluring, and riddled with emotional issues from years of service. He’s also … So. Damn. Grumpy.

Their mission is simple: Let go, start over, don’t kill anyone, and pray that nobody wakes the dead.