SOUTHERN NIGHTS and SECRETS / Sweet Southern Betrayal (The Boys Are Back in Town #4 & #3) by Robin Covington-reviews

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 19, 2016

Being a doctor is everything to me, but I’m not going to let bureaucrats tell me how to practice medicine. It’s about saving lives no matter what, screw them and their paperwork.

When the one woman I could never forget, Ginger Crawford, shows up as my boss all bets are off. The heat between us is tough to ignore but I have to if I want a future at this hospital. It isn’t easy. Every time we argue, I want her even more.

But I’ve got secrets she can never know, and she’s always going to be way too good for me. So it’s best if she hates me…at least that’s what I keep telling myself.

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REVIEW: SOUTHERN NIGHTS and SECRETS is the fourth (and final) installment in Robin Covington’s adult, contemporary, THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on a tight knit group of friends in the Washington DC area. This is Dr. Beckett (Beck) Sutherland, and attorney Virginia (Ginger) Crawford’s second chance story line. SOUTHERN NIGHTS and SECRET can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Beck and Ginger) SOUTHERN NIGHTS AND SECRETS follows the rekindling romance between ER physician Dr. Beckett Sutherland, and the hospital’s new attorney and Director of Operations Virginia Crawford. Beckett and Virginia were lovers back in university but our hero walked away knowing that he wasn’t the right man for the gorgeous law student. Fast forward nine years to present day where Virginia is the new lawyer for the hospital at which Beckett works, and the woman he will push away, once again. What ensues is the rebuilding of the attraction and heat between Beck and Ginger, Beck’s desire to become the ER Team Leader, and his struggle to save the world one drug dealer at a time.

Beck’s earlier years were spent on the mean streets of Washington where our hero was immersed in the drug trade and gang wars that were a part of his every day life. Fast forward to present day where Beck will once again be pulled into the mess that provides too many casualties in the ER-a mess that hits too close to home.

Virginia Crawford is an independent heroine whose own backstory is filled with a family battling demons of their own. Her short-lived relationship with Beck, years before, has found our heroine lost in a world of hurt when she discovers that she may be the deciding factor if Beck is to become the new ER Team Leader- a fact that does not go unnoticed by many members of the hospital staff.

The relationship is a second chance romance where Virginia is unwilling to lose her heart to a man who isn’t willing to commit towards the future. The sexual attraction and heat is palpable; there is no denying the pull between our leading couple but Beck’s prior history is complicated, and a warning that our heroine pushes aside. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive.

All of the previous story line couples play secondary and supporting roles. We are introduced to the hospital’s Director of Security Alex Rifkin, and the Vice President of Operations Douglas Bent who isn’t a fan of Beck’s ‘gung-ho attitude in the ER’.

SOUTHERN NIGHTS AND SECRETS is a quick read that looks at second chances, betrayal, and letting go of the past. The premise is slightly convoluted in that our hero takes matters into his own hands as it pertains to the local drug trade-the believability is questionable but saying that it is a fictional story meant to entertain; the characters are energetic and passionate; the romance is fated. SOUTHERN NIGHTS AND SECRETS is a captivating read with colorful characters and a sexy , second chance romance.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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SWEET SOUTHERN BETRAYAL
(The Boys Are Back in Town #3)
by Robin Covington
Genre: adult,contemporary, erotic, romantic suspense
Release Date: January 2014

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 13, 2014

Privileged and ambitious attorney Teague Elliott is on the fast-track to getting everything he wants. All he has to do is stay on the straight and narrow and a high-profile political career is his for the taking. Until he wakes up naked with a Vegas showgirl…

Risa Clay has worked hard to put her showgirl past behind her and start fresh. But she owes ten grand to the wrong people, and to pay off her debt, she agrees to betray a stranger. . .but she ends up with a husband and guilty conscience.

Savvy and determined, she double-crosses the mob, goes on the run, and turns up on Teague’s doorstep armed with a dangerous secret, a marriage license, and the power to ruin his well-planned future. She thought using Teague again would be easy, but the passion that exploded between them in Vegas didn’t stay in Sin City and betrayal is the last thing on her mind.

Now Teague has to choose between the future he’s planned for all his life, or the one with Risa that he can’t turn away from.

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REVIEW: SWEET SOUTHERN BETRAYAL is the third installment in Robin Covington’s THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on a tight knit group of four friends in the Washington DC area. This is attorney Teague Elliott, and Vegas showgirl / business entrepreneur Risa Clay’s story line. SWEET SOUTHER BETRAYAL can be read as a stand alone without any difficult. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Risa and Teague) SWEET SOUTHERN BETRAYAL focuses on the sudden marriage between Vegas showgirl Risa Clay, and DC attorney Teague Elliott. Teague is a fixer; a lawyer, on the fast track to make partner but his first priority is cleaning up his father’s past mistakes. When one of the firm’s biggest clients asked Teague to ‘fix’ a problem in Vegas, Teague found himself in league with the Mob, and an offer he flat-out refused. But a drunken night, following his sister’s wedding to his best friend Lucky (His Southern Temptation #2) ends with no memories, and a Vegas showgirl by his side Teague begins to wonder if the Mob’s reach goes too far. When Teague discovers that his Vegas one-night stand is now his wife, his future political career may be in jeopardy. What ensues is the building but short-lived relationship between Teague and Risa, and Risa’s attempts to fix the error of her ways.

Teague is a Harvard graduate; a man with aspirations towards the White House, and a man who cannot have any questionable black marks in his past-Risa is a questionable choice of mate, and would never be accepted by the political elite.

Risa is a Vegas showgirl; a small business owner who owes the Mob more than she can pay, and a woman caught between right and wrong.

The relationship between Risa and Teague is one of immediate regret following their one-night stand. The attraction to one another is palpable but Teague suspects there is more to Risa’s story than she is letting on. Their Vegas marriage will be short lived if Teague has anything to say but time together finds our couple falling for one another. The $ex scenes are intimate and erotic.

All of the previous story line couples, as well as Dr. Beck Sutherland, play secondary and supporting roles. Beck’s story will be told in the series final installment SOUTHERN NIGHTS AND SECRETS.

SWEET SOUTHERN BETRAYAL is an entertaining story about two people caught up with the Vegas Mob; an ‘opposites attract’ romance where political aspirations can be destroyed by reputation, and sins of the past. The premise is captivating; the characters are animated and passionate; the romance is a roller coaster of emotions, betrayal and acceptance.

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Reviewed by Sandy