Charm Me (Cherry Blossom Lake 2) by Tawna Fenske-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 5, 2024

Call me cocky, but it’s a fact women fall at my feet. So why does this one want to kick me in the junk?
Might be my work for her uncle’s legal defense.
Or the dubious ways I earned my millions.
Or the scandal that cost my career. Or hell.
Maybe it’s just that I’m not a nice guy.
A fact I’m regretting once Lucy storms in and gets me rethinking my rule on dating single moms.
She’s funny and smart and so sexy it shouldn’t be legal.
Take it from a disbarred lawyer.
One desperate to dodge this desire sparking like frayed wires in a champagne flute of kerosene.
A few stolen kisses and I’m suddenly starved for a simple life on this sweet lake, but that’s absurd.
Guys like me don’t belong in small towns. Towns this charming, this good, this…pure.
It should be easy staying chaste with Lucy, since our encounters include a precocious pre-teen, one misguided bat, and a goat who won’t take no for an answer.
But nothing’s easy with a woman born to boss five grumpy brothers.
Big as they are, those guys don’t scare me.
Not like my feelings for Luce and her daughter. Those have me quaking in my Gucci loafers.
So does this big-ass secret bearing down like a toxic tsunami.

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REVIEW:CHARM ME is the second instalment in Tawna Fenske’s contemporary, adult CHERRY BLOSSOM LAKE erotic, romance series focusing on the Spencer-King siblings. This is thirty-two year old, former attorney turned private investigator Peter Marcus, and thirty year old single mother/bank fraud investigator Lucy Spencer-King’s story line. CHARM ME can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Peter and Lucy) CHARM ME follows in the wake of the ongoing investigation into a possible case of arson, and a family destroyed by greed and avarice. Peter Marcus, disbarred attorney turn investigator has been hired to disprove a case of arson, and the ensuing fraud against the Spencer -King family but Peter never expected to fall for Lucy Spencer-King, a single mother who is experiencing some issues of her own. As Peter digs deeper into the possibilities, he will find himself struggling between head and heart, whether to help Lucy and her family, or walk away knowing the information he has, can change the future for everyone involved. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Peter and Lucy, and the potential fall-out misunderstanding and hurt feelings threaten our story line couple.

The world building continues to focus on the investigation into the possible arson, and defrauding the Spencer-King family, and Peter’s own issues of swooping in and saving the people he loves.

The relationship between Peter and Lucy begins acrimoniously as Lucy is suspicious of Peter’s intent. Lucy is a single mother whose ex is all but absent from their daughter’s life, and Peter finds himself falling for a woman, and willing to go above and beyond to make things right. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are reintroduced to Lucy’s siblings: Jake and Cassidy (Try Me 1), Kaleb, Lucy’s twin Mason, Parker, Cassidy’s sister Zoe Brooks, as well as Lucy’s daughter Harper, her ex Wyatt, Lucy’s cousin Hazel, and Peter’s sister Samantha Marcus.

CHARM ME is a story of family, relationships, friendships and love. The premise is endearing and captivating; the romance is seductive and passionate; the characters are charismatic and determined.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one TRY ME

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Reviewed by Sandy

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When Tawna Fenske finished her English lit degree at 22, she celebrated by filling a giant trash bag full of romance novels and dragging it everywhere until she’d read them all. Now she’s a RITA Award finalist, USA Today bestselling author who writes humorous fiction, risqué romance, and heartwarming love stories with a quirky twist. Publishers Weekly has praised Tawna’s offbeat romances with multiple starred reviews and noted, “There’s something wonderfully relaxing about being immersed in a story filled with over-the-top characters in undeniably relatable situations. Heartache and humor go hand in hand.”

Tawna lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband, step-kids, and a menagerie of ill-behaved pets. She loves hiking, snowshoeing, standup paddleboarding, and inventing excuses to sip wine on her back porch. She can peel a banana with her toes and loses an average of twenty pairs of eyeglasses per year. To find out more about Tawna and her books, visit www.tawnafenske.com.