BURN IT UP (Desert Dogs #3) by Cara McKenna-Review and Giveaway
BURN IT UP
Desert Dogs #3
by Cara McKenna
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romantic suspense
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After a decade spent chasing shadier pursuits, Casey Grossier has come home to the badlands to settle down in Fortuity. Vowing to put his days of dirty money behind him, he’s cleaned up his act and become co-owner of Benji’s Saloon. But despite his efforts to be a better man, he can’t shake his crush on his sweet-faced bartender, even though the woman screams trouble.
Abilene Price hopes she can outrun her mistakes and build a safe, respectable life for herself and her baby. So she’d be wise to keep her distance from her boss, Casey, and the rest of his roughneck motorcycle club, the Desert Dogs. But she just might need their help. The return of a violent figure from Abilene’s past ignites a powder keg—and it’s only the beginning…
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REVIEW: BURN IT UP is the third installment in Cara McKenna’s contemporary, adult DESERT DOGS erotic, romantic suspense series focusing in the town of Fortuity, Nevada, and a group of motorcycle riding friends who call themselves the Desert Dogs. This is bar owner Casey Grossier, and new mom Abilene Price’s storyline. BURN IT UP and the Desert Dogs series is NOT a series about a motorcycle club, but a series about a family of brothers and their friends who like to ride.
SOME BACKGROUND: Eclipse Resorts and Casinos has made many enemies in the sleepy, small town of Fortuity, Nevada as they forge ahead with plans to build and open a new casino. Most of the townsfolk have some issues with the company, and with it will comes threats of a personal nature.
Told from third person point of view BURN IT UP follows the building relationship between Casey Grossier, and his employee Abilene Price. Abilene is a new mom; a single mother who has worked for Casey for close to a year, and with it comes feelings and emotions between the couple as Casey finds himself playing house with the woman and her child. Casey has grown to love the baby since she was born, but knows that to get involved with his employee could open a new can of problems. When Abilene discovers her ex, and the baby’s father, is about to be released from jail, Casey brings together his brother Vince, Miah Church, Raina Harper and Duncan Welch to form a protective circle around the woman with whom he is falling in love.
The relationship between Casey and Abilene begins as employer and employee, eventually turning to friendship than lovers. But Casey and Abilene both have dark and dangerous pasts, and it is those secrets that they keep from one another that will force Abilene to look at Casey in a completely different light. The $ex scenes are exploratory and seductive but ultimately a little boring.
The secondary and supporting characters include all of the previous storyline couples as well as Don and Christine Church, and Abilene’s ex boyfriend James Ware. The characters are raw, real and not without some skeletons in the closets. The world building continues to focus on the new Resort and Casino, their problems with the people of Fortuity, Nevada, and to what extremes the company will go to, to ensure their plans reach fruition.
BURN IT UP is a story of mystery and suspense; secrets and lies; betrayal and heartbreak. The premise is engaging; the characters are colorful and entertaining; the romance was a slow build to a happily ever after-for now.
But I did have some issues with the heroine as it pertained to her ability to judge others for their sins when her own sins were just as dark and dirty. Her lack of self confidence; her ability to manipulate others; her perceived sense of right and wrong; and her overall naivety was a bit of a distraction-she was a difficult heroine to like. There was also an issue with the resolution of the original conflict –it was unexciting and dull- but I suspect there is more to the story that has yet to be told. The introduction of a new conflict has fired up some heartbreak and more questions; the town of Fortuity will lose one of their own.
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Reviewed by Sandy
LAY IT DOWN
Desert Dogs #1
by Cara McKenna
Genre: adult, contemporary, romantic, suspense
Release Date: August 5, 2014
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RELEASE DATE: August 5, 2014
Backbreaking days, wild nights, and the hard hum of steel between your thighs…
That’s a life well lived, according to the Desert Dogs—four friends who call Fortuity, Nevada, their badlands home.
Vince Grossier is the self-crowned outlaw king around here. But when Fortuity’s slick new mayor invites a casino development to town, greed isn’t far behind—and it claims Vince’s good friend as its first casualty. With the law turning a blind eye to the mysterious death, Vince must seek his own brand of justice. The pretty photographer hired by the developers might be the key to uncovering the truth. And she’s a temptation too good to pass up.
Finally free of a controlling ex, Kim Paget’s not looking to be taken for a ride—not on the back of some tattooed roughneck’s bike and definitely not in his bed. But when she uncovers evidence supporting Vince’s suspicions of murder, Kim must entrust her safety to a man whose body threatens danger of a whole different kind.
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GIVE IT ALL
Desert Dogs #2
by Cara McKenna
Genre: adult, contemporary, romantic suspense
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Give It All
Desert Dogs #2
by Cara McKenna
Genre: adult, contemporary, romance, suspense
Release Date: February 3, 2015
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 3, 2015
A hot new Desert Dogs novel from the author of Lay It Down
Keep your friends close—and your enemies closer….
Bar owner Raina Harper can’t say for sure what Duncan Welch is to her. With her small Nevada town under siege by a ruthless casino development and still reeling from a spate of murders, she knows that trusting the public face of the corporate invaders is risky to say the least. Though, damn, it’s one fine-looking face.…
Duncan may be a mercenary when it comes to getting the job done, but he’s no villain. In fact, the calculating fixer soon finds himself in the bad guys’ crosshairs, framed and facing professional ruin. To clear his name, he’ll need help from Raina and her roughneck motorcycle club, the Desert Dogs. Gaining their trust won’t be easy, and the molten sexual tension between Raina and Duncan only makes things more complicated—especially since Miah Church, Raina’s friend and ex-lover, would sooner strangle Duncan than shake his hand.
One thing’s certain, though: If they don’t deal with their incendiary attraction soon, the whole damn town might go up in flames.…
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