Because I Can (Necklace Trilogy) by Lisa Renee Jones-Review tour

Because I Can (Necklace Trilogy 2) by Lisa Renee Jones-Review & Excerpt tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 14 ,2021

Allison’s journey continues as she finds herself in a dark, seductive world, and everything she thought she knew about herself, has changed.

Torn between past and present, she is still a prisoner of her own fears and inhibitions. But as the mystery of the necklace and the missing woman who owned it evolves, one man will help Allison see the light.

But where will that lead her? To him? Or someplace else?

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REVIEW: BECAUSE I CAN is the second instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult NECKLACE erotic, romantic suspense trilogy focusing on former FBI agent turned author Dash Black, and former editor turned museum cataloguer Allison ‘Allie’ Wright. BECAUSE I CAN should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after the events and cliffhanger of books one WHAT IF I NEVER. There is a slight cross over with the author’s INSIDE OUT series.

SOME BACKGROUND: Allison Wright’s arrival at Hawk Legal finds our heroine facing reclusive billionaire Tyler Hawk, who offers Allie a temporary position organizing an upcoming charity auction, a position recently held by another Allison but the delivery of a priceless necklace pushes Allie to begin an investigation into the woman no one can find, the woman who was the intended recipient of the diamond necklace. As our heroine enters into her three month position, she will meet charismatic author Dash Black, the man with whom Allie will fall in love but all is not well between Dash and Tyler, and Allie becomes a pawn in a game of one-upmanship between the two men trying to control her life.

Told from first person perspective (Allie) BECAUSE I CAN picks up immediately after the events of book one wherein someone has broken into Allie’s temporary apartment, an apartment currently owned by Tyler Hawk. In an ongoing effort to protect the woman with whom he is falling in love, former FBI agent turned author Dash Black pushes Allie to move into his place, where he can better protect our story line heroine but Allie isn’t one to jump at commands, and finds herself focused on running when Dash begins to push too hard. As Dash prepares for a meet and greet in New York, Allie discovers the other Allison’s journal, a journal that creates more questions than answers. What ensues is the continuing romance and relationship between Dash and Allie, and the potential fall-out as both of their pasts collide, forcing Dash to push Allie out of his life.

BECAUSE I CAN continues to focus on the building romance and relationship between Dash and Allison Wright, Allison’s employment with Riptide vs Hawk Legal, and the search for the truth into the whereabouts of the original Allison W. As Dash’s past resurfaces with the intent to make trouble, Allie’s past intends to make our heroine pay for sins of the father. The fast paced premise is intriguing, captivating and provocative; the romance is edgy and intense; the characters are lively, spirited, powerful and flawed. BECAUSE I CAN ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

There is s a familiar feel and presentation to the series. For fans of Lisa Renee Jones, the NECKLACE TRILOGY is similar in premise and comparable to the author’s INSIDE OUT SERIES.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one WHAT IF I NEVER

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Reviewed by Sandy

“You’re always one push from being out the door. We just did that. Are we going to do it again?”“You’re pushing now,” I say. “That’s the point. You know you’re pushing me. Is that what you want? Because we both know whatever this is, doesn’t fit into your rule book for women.”

“The rule book was gone the minute I met you, Allie. And damn straight I’m pushing you, but not away. To be safe.”

“It feels like more.”

“Because you want it to.”

“Because it is,” I insist.

“No. You’re looking for a reason to run.”

“Oh my God, stop saying that to me, Dash. Because I’m angry at you does not mean I’m going to run or stop lo—” I catch myself before I confess way too much, before I confess my love for him. What am I doing? I try to deflect from my slip up. “Stop saying that to me.”

He reaches around me and opens the door. Before I know his intent, we’re inside the tiny bathroom meant for one, and he’s locking the door.

“We can’t be in here, Dash,” I whisper urgently. “Adrianna will be looking for us.”

“And yet, we are,” he says, his fingers tangling in my hair, tilting my gaze to his as he says, “I’m just making sure you know there’s nowhere to run. I’ll follow. That’s what you’ve done to me, Allie. That’s how much you’ve taken from me.”

“Taken?” I demand. “That’s what I’m doing?”

“Yeah, baby, but it had to be that way. And I like it. Say what you were going to say. You’re not going to stop what?”

“Wanting you.”

His lips curve, his breath a warm tease on my lips. “Well just know this, Allie, I won’t stop wanting you either.”

My God, did we just tell each other we love each other in a public bathroom? “Dash,” I whisper. “Dash, what are we doing?”

“This,” he says, and his mouth closes down on mine again. And just like that, he’s kissing me with such intensity, such passion, I can only moan. I have a vague moment when I realize this is still about control. His control, not my control. The problem is I like it when he’s in control. I like his kisses. I like the way his hands feel on my body and when my skirt is at my waist, and only when my skirt is at my waist, do I jolt back to reality. I catch his wrists. “We can’t.”

“Until we do,” he says, cupping my face, kissing me again, Lord help me, his hand is between my legs, pressing under the silk of my panties.

 


 

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Lisa Renee JonesNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series.

In addition to the success of Lisa’s INSIDE OUT series, she has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists. Lisa is also the author of the bestselling the bestselling DIRTY MONEY and WHITE LIES series. And will be publishing the first book in her Lilah Love suspense series with Amazon Publishing in March 2018.

Prior to publishing Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women’s Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at www.lisareneejones.com and she is active on Twitter and Facebook daily.

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What If I Never(Necklace Trilogy) by Lisa Renee Jones-Review Tour

What If I Never (Necklace Trilogy 1) by Lisa Renee Jones-Review & Excerpt tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 19, 2021

Allison Wright is delivered a package meant for a different Allison—a unique, expensive necklace. Determined to right the confusion, she seeks out the proper recipient, a journey that takes her to the doorstep of Tyler Hawk, a good looking, recluse billionaire who deals with fine collectibles such as the necklace. She also learns that Allison, his employee, quit her job registering and restoring his vast assortment of collectibles. Ironically, Allison is the daughter of a rather famous archeologist who is also employed by a local museum, and her love of such things has her jumping at the opportunity. Soon she is spending her evening and weekends immersed in the job the other Allison left behind.

As Allison begins diving into the job for Tyler, secrets about the other Allison begin to surface that have her concerned for her safety. And as she starts hunting for answers, her path crosses with the enigmatic famous author who has a business endeavor with her boss. Dash Black is a man who is dark and edgy, intense and yet quiet. Funny and yet somehow reserved. He draws her in, sets her pulse racing, and her body on fire. She knows there’s a dangerous edge to him, but she can’t seem to care. She’s addicted to everything he is and she simply can’t turn away, no matter what the cost. As Allison is drawn into the life and mystery of the other Allison, a mystery demands answers and passion burns hot. Allison will travel a path that leads to shocking truths and a side of herself she never knew existed.

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REVIEW: WHAT IF I NEVER is the first instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult NECKLACE erotic, romantic suspense trilogy. This is former FBI agent turned author Dash Black, and former editor turned museum cataloguer Allison Wright.

Told from first person perspective (Allison Wright) WHAT IF I NEVER follows Allison Wright as she endeavors to return a priceless diamond necklace to the intended recipient at Hawk Legal but Allison’s arrival at Hawk Legal finds our heroine facing reclusive billionaire Tyler Hawk, who offers Allison a temporary position organizing an upcoming charity auction, a position recently held by another Allison W. As our heroine enters into her temporary position, she will meet charismatic author Dash Black, the man with whom Allison will fall in love but all is not well between Dash and Tyler, and Allison becomes a pawn in a game of one-upmanship between the two men trying to control her life. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Dash and Allison, and the potential fall-out as Tyler struggles to accept Allison’s relationship with Dash Black, revealing there is more to Dash than Allison could have ever known.

Allison Wrights works for Riptide Auction House in New York, but with the approach of the Christmas Holidays Allison has asked for some time off to visit her ailing mother in Nashville, but when Tyler Hawk offers Allison a temporary position in the wake of the ‘disappearance’ of the person who formerly held the job, Allison is immediately suspicious and slowly begins to unravel the clues as to the who, what and why.

The relationship between Dash and Allison is one of immediate attraction but her temporary boss doesn’t want Allison ‘fraternizing’ with the clients both on and off the job. Warned away by both Dash and Tyler, Allison is torn between the man with whom she is falling in love, and completing a job for a man whose attitude leaves something to be desired. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate.

We are introduced to Tyler Hawk, and his father Jack; Allison’s mother Cassie and her step father Barry; Dash’s sister Bella, as well as several employees who work at Hawk Legal.

WHAT IF I NEVER is a story of secrets and lies, power and control; splintered friendships, and struggling relationships. The premise is intriguing and captivating, and definitely, as the author has said herself, in the same vein as her Inside Out Series; the characters are curious, secretive, charismatic and embattled; the romance is seductive and impassioned. WHAT IF I NEVER ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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Reviewed by Sandy

NOTE: The excerpt is intended for readers 18+ due to adult content

Yes, please do send the press kit etc. And the below excerpt is a little longer.

His eyes soften and he catches my hand. “Come here.”
I let him ease me closer, and when he pulls me onto his lap again, I say, “Am I going to end up with my hands behind my back unable to touch you again?”
“Not unless you want me to tie you up and tease you.”
There’s no denying the idea of Dash in control and me at his mercy, is a delicious prospect I won’t even try to deny. And so, I don’t deny anything. Instead, my arms slide around his neck, and I lean into him. “Not this time, Dash. Please.”
“Well now, as long as you say please, you can have just about anything you want.” 
With his promise that I can have anything I want if I say please, Dash’s hands slide under the T-shirt I’m wearing and up my back. Molding me close, my breasts pressed to his hard chest.
“For instance,” he says, his voice low, a rough sandpaper tease on my nerve endings. “I’ll lick you anywhere you want to be licked if you just say please.”
I’m really, truly a rather shy person and no one has ever spoken to me so boldly as Dash has this night, but I’m different with Dash I’m starting to realize. More comfortable in my own skin and sexuality. I just can’t find it in me to hide from this or him. “What about where I want to kiss you?”
“Where do you want to kiss me?” he asks, squeezing my backside and Lord help me I can feel the thick ridge of his erection between my thighs and through his jeans I want to be gone now.
“Everywhere,” I assure him.
His lips curve and he says, “Is that right?”
“Oh yes, but you resist me, Dash Black.”
“I assure you, Allison, I am not resisting you.” Somehow him calling me Allison in this moment is more intimate than Allie, and I don’t know why. “I want nothing more than your hands and mouth on my body,” he says. “But you’ll have to allow me to kiss you everywhere first.” He drags the T-shirt over my head and by the time it’s on the ground his hands are on my breasts, and when my hands cover his hands, his finger strokes my nipples.
My fingers catch long strands of his light brown hair and I tilt his gaze to mine. Any control I’d thought to gain in that moment is lost when Dash pinches my nipples, sending darts of pleasure straight to my sex. I moan and he captures the sound with his mouth, kissing me with the kind of passion that a girl thinks she will never know because it can’t be real.
Oh, but it is. It so is.
My hands tunnel into his hair and when his gaze lifts to mine, I find hunger there. So much hunger, and all for me. He catches my hands and presses them behind me, bracing them on his powerful thighs, his arm wrapping my waist, securing me. Watching me now, he cups my breast and leans in, licking my nipple, sensations rippling through me, my sex clenching with impossible need, need for him.

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Lisa Renee JonesNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series.

In addition to the success of Lisa’s INSIDE OUT series, she has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists. Lisa is also the author of the bestselling the bestselling DIRTY MONEY and WHITE LIES series. And will be publishing the first book in her Lilah Love suspense series with Amazon Publishing in March 2018.

Prior to publishing Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women’s Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at www.lisareneejones.com and she is active on Twitter and Facebook daily.

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