THE HEARTLESS BOYFRIEND (Bad Boyfriend #2) by Erika Kelly-Review & Excerpt Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 16, 2018
There’s not an athlete alive who can match Will’s drive and self-discipline…until an adorable two year old and a fiery chef land on his doorstep and turn his life upside down. If he wants to keep his girls, he’s going to have to learn to lead with his heart and not his mind.
Will Bowie is supposed to be training for the Olympics, but the toddler unexpectedly dropped into his life isn’t interested in his schedules. Still, he’s pretty sure he’s got things under control…
…until a sexy chef lands on his doorstep and offers a temptation he can’t resist.
Hours after losing her restaurant, chef Delilah Lua enters a cooking competition thousands of miles away from home. Winning would resurrect the dream that’s been stolen from her. If—no, when—she wins, she’ll go back with the capital to open her own place and enough fame to do it with flair. Her roommate, though, is a delicious surprise she hadn’t anticipated…
…but she’s not sure how to have her cake and eat it, too.
Despite the undeniable sparks in the kitchen, Will’s not about to give his heart to another woman who’s leaving, and Delilah must decide if the delectable future she could cook up with Will is worth more than a childhood dream.
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REVIEW: THE HEARTLESS BOYFRIEND is the second instalment in Erika Kelly’s contemporary, adult BAD BOYFRIEND erotic, romance series focusing on the Bowie siblings (Fin, Brodie, Gray and Will). This is seven-time World Games freestyle skier champion Will Bowie, and chef Delilah Lua’s story line. THE HEARTLESS BOYFRIEND can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalment is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Will and Delilah) THE HEARTLESS BOYFRIEND follows twenty-six year old chef Delilah Bowie in the aftermath of losing the restaurant she has always wanted. Heartbroken and lost, Manhattan born and raised Delilah heads to Calamity, Wyoming at the invitation of her friend Callie Bell, in the hopes of finding her place, and winning a cooking championship to prove everybody wrong. Enter Will Bowie, seven-time World Games freestyle skier, and the man with whom Delilah will fall in love. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Delilah and Will, and the potential fall-out as Delilah is offered an opportunity of a lifetime but an opportunity that comes with restrictions and rules.
Will Bowie found himself in the eye of the storm when his career was threatened by a long-time rival. Rumors of a pay-off and ill-gotten gains found Will having to defend his talent and career all the while struggling to raise a two year old dropped off at the family front door. A product of his past, will struggles with parenting a two year old child, a struggle that become readily apparent when his methods result in a less than favourable outcome. Delilah Lua had waited twenty-six years to own and operate one of the family-run restaurants but Delilah found herself on the outside looking in, ensuring a deep divide between duty and family. Meeting Will Bowie and two year old Ruby meant a second chance at a family and love but Delilah and Will would constantly butt heads about the ins and outs of raising a precocious and precious two year old child. A cooking contest for a coveted position at a local spa restaurant ensures Delilah the possibility of making it on her own.
The relationship between Delilah and Will begins acrimoniously. Hired to work as a chef on the Bowie family ranch, our heroine becomes a surrogate mother to little two year old Ruby Leigh but Will’s ideas about parenting vary greatly to the ideas of everyone else. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
All of Will’s brothers play secondary and supporting roles including Fin and his fiancé Callie (The World’s Worst Boyfriend #1), Brodie and Gray, as well as their mother, Uncle Lachlan, housekeeper Marcella, and Will’s long time manager Alex. Ruby Leigh is the sweetest, heart-warming and precious character ever introduced into a romance story line-an innocent child whose world has been turned upside down by the death of her mother, the only parent she has ever known.
THE HEARTLESS BOYFRIEND is a story of family and friendship, betrayal and revenge, starting over and letting go of the past. The premise is inspiring and encouraging; the characters are real and energetic; the romance is seductive and sensual. THE HEARTLESS BOYFRIEND is an emotional yet tender look at one man as he struggles in the face of betrayal and lies, and one woman as she must overcome the rejection of family, and her sense of self-worth.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one -THE WORLD’S WORST BOYFRIEND
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Reviewed by Sandy
He didn’t know what to do with all her softness and warmth and…and…sweetness. She was just too much for him. He wanted to push her away, tell her he was fine, to go make her pancakes or whatever she was making. But he couldn’t. He just couldn’t let her go.
Instead of reading his body language, his impulsive houseguest hugged him tighter, her hands caressing his back.
It unnerved him. And, oh, damn, that telltale tingling at the base of his spine meant he was getting aroused.
He breathed in the scent of her shampoo—like an expensive perfume—and felt the swish of her silky hair on his bare arms.
She gazed up at him with a look in her eyes that burned through whatever was left of his discipline, because he knew that just one lick of her lips would make him lose it completely.
His arms hooked around her back, his hand pressing the top swell of her bottom. That mouth, wet from her tongue, parted with an invitation he didn’t know if he could resist.
“You’re a good man, Will. Misguided, but good.”
“Misguided?”
That sexy mouth turned into a mischievous grin. “Yeah. You really are.” And then the connection snapped when she withdrew her arms and turned back to the counter. “I’ll see about finding somewhere else to stay in the morning.”
“Delilah?”
When she turned to him, he knew. He didn’t want to let her go.
“All the chefs are staying on the ranch, so they can take the train into Owl Hoot. The choice is yours, obviously, where you want to live, but the invitation is still open for you to stay here.”
Will wasn’t a stupid man. He knew something good when he saw it. And Delilah Lua was a gift. She brought a lightness and joy to this house it’d never had.
And, even if it was only for six weeks, he and Ruby would damn well take all she had to offer.
Award-winning author Erika Kelly has been spinning romantic tales all her life–she just didn’t know it. Raised on the classics, she didn’t discover romantic fiction until later in life. From that moment on, she’s been devouring the genre and has found her true voice as an author. Over three decades she’s written poems, screenplays, plays, short stories, and all kinds of women’s fiction novels. Married to the love of her life and raising four children, she’s lived in two countries and seven states, but give her pen and paper, a stack of good books, and a steaming mug of vanilla chai latte and she can make her home anywhere.
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