For Love of Bourbon by Katie Jennings – a Review
Description
Along Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail lies a distillery that’s a cut above the rest. For years, the Brannon family has perfected their signature whiskey. Ava Brannon, the new face of Lucky Fox Whiskey, dedicates her life to preserving that legacy. When Special Agent Cooper Lawson comes to investigate her father for his ties to the Irish Republican Army, she has no choice but to face the deadly secrets of her family’s past. Only nothing is as it seems, and her burning attraction to Cooper could either be a recipe for disaster or her saving grace.
Review:
For Love & Bourbon by Katie Jennings is a wonderful standalone romance suspense novel. I have enjoyed every book I have read by Katie Jennings, as she writes wonderful family stories surrounded by romance, family drama and mystery. I wasn’t sure what to expect with this story taking place in Kentucky in the world of whiskey and bourbon. However, I loved this book, and could not put it down until the very end.
For Love & Bourbon is about the Brannon family, who run a distillery that is considered one of the best. Ava Brannon is our heroine, and she is the granddaughter of the founder. Ava is not only beautiful, but she is smart, strong, independent, hard working and savvy. She is the voice of Lucky Fox whiskey, and runs tours every day.
Cooper Lawson, our hero, is an FBI agent sent to Kentucky to find evidence that ties Ty Brannon (Ava’s father) to the Irish Brannon’s. The FBI suspects her father of funding the IRA and their brutal war.
The backdrop of the story is about the grandfather, Joe who grew up in Ireland and left them many years ago to start his in own distillery in America. The Irish side of the Brannon’s are tied to the Irish Republican Army, which will bring the FBI in to investigate the Kentucky Brannons, even though the two families have not talked to each other in all these years.
Cooper arrives in town a day early, and decides to take one of the tours of the distillery. He meets Ava, and is immediately smitten. She too finds herself attracted to him, but keeps it all business. The next day Cooper arrives with his team and they take over all the computers at the distillery and in the Brannon mansion. Ava is not too happy to find out that Cooper is an FBI agent, which threatens to destroy her family with this investigation. Eventually, as she begins to drag out information from Cooper and his partner, she begins to work with Cooper to find out the truth.
What follows is an exciting story, which will escalate into danger, as the truth of the past comes back to haunt the Brannon family. In the midst of this turmoil, slowly Ava and Cooper find themselves becoming romantically and sexually involved, which both know has no future. Will Ava and Cooper find a way to stay together?
The last 1/3 of the book was pulse pounding excitement, filled with betrayals, murder, danger, as the two sides come face to face in a wildly exciting race to the finish. Katie Jennings has done it again, with a fabulous exciting story, a sexy couple, great secondary characters, as well as the wonderful family background. I suggest you read For Love & Bourbon, as I really loved this book, and you will too.
Reviewed by Barb
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