The Best Friend’s Guide to Taking Risks by Scott & Flockton

The Best Friend’s Guide to Taking Risks by Kadie Scott & Nicole Flockton

 

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Description:
Everyone knows that the biggest risk you can take with your best friend is to cross a certain line.

When it comes to relationships, Hunter Lancing is not a risk taker. Between his parents’ terrible divorce and his own bad decisions, he’s been burned. Computers make more sense to him. Everything has a rule. Everything is defined. Like his computers, his best friend is defined, constant, and comes with rules he won’t break.

Part-time children’s party princess Natalie Morgan dances to the beat of a drum no one else can hear. The only person who truly gets her and is never scared off by her sometimes zany ideas is Hunter. But she has a big problem. Natalie keeps having all these…feelings…for her bestie.

But on a weekend getaway, a game of risky dares and one-upmanship that was supposed to just be for laughs may just end up with both of them crossing the friend zone line.

 

Review:

The Best Friend’s Guide to Taking Risks by Kadie Scott and Nicole Flockton is a standalone novel. I do like a good friends to lovers read sometimes, and this one hits all the right spots.

Kadie Scott who also writes under the pen name of Abigail Owen ,who writes some amazing paranormal romances (which are some of my all time favourite books). Nicole Flockton is a new author to me, but I think I’ll be visiting her site to see what books she writes. The dual writing doesn’t always work for me, but in this case the reading is easy. Full of descriptions that have you visualizing the story as it unfolds.

Hunter has a well ordered life. After being burnt by previous relationships, it’s safter to have one night stands, that way his heart stays unharmed. The one thing he can rely on is his best friend Natalie, she’d never let him down or hurt him. And so he’d never cross that line (even though he’d thought about it!)

Natalie is just a joy to read, she reminds me of a fairy, spreading joy and glitter wherever she goes ? her job is also her company. She works as a Princess catering for parties, she makes her own costumes and gives it 110% she loves bringing smiles to the partygoers faces, what she doesn’t like is the put downs and snide comments some parents make!

A road trip puts the two characters together in a close environment, he’s looking at relocating to Texas, so a planned visit to the area he might move too seems like a good idea, the downside….. Natalie turns it into a a fun filled weekend with almost kisses and heated glances.

But can Hunter move Natalie out of the friend zone and into a lover he can have forever?

If you want a fun filled, feel good read, then you won’t be sorry if you grab this one. A friends to lovers story that will have you laughing at their antics and keeping fingers crossed for the princess to get her Prince. There is a little angst in here, but nothing worth a trigger.

Loved the karaoke and the dares these two made each other do. I also loved Natalie’s sisters (please can they have books too?) Can the two tell each other how they really feel? Or will they keep each other in the friend zone?

Reviewed by Julie

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Saving Penni (SEAL Team Tango 2) by Nicole Flockton-review tour

Saving Penni (SEAL Team Tango 2) by Nicoile Flockton-Review & Giveaway tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date My 11, 2021

Fort ‘Knox’ Porter never thought a trip to the convenience store could change his life, but that’s exactly what happened. Saving a woman from a gunman is all in a day’s work given his job. However his immediate and uncharacteristically protective reaction to her is something else entirely. No way could he hit on a woman who has just been through a trauma, so he lets her walk away…immediately regretting it.

As a PR expert, Penni Stewart’s life is one constant blur. Work. Sleep. Work. But one fateful afternoon she has a gun jammed in her side and a sexy Navy SEAL storms into her life. Only he walks away and she never expects to see him again…until he’s waiting for her one night after work. The attraction that flared at their first touch isn’t as one sided as she thought.

When it becomes clear that the danger from the hold up has followed her home, and Penni’s life is now under threat, Fort will do whatever it takes to ensure her safety. But will it be enough or will the one good thing in his life be ripped from his grasp?

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REVIEW:  SAVING PENNI is the second instalment in Nicole Flockton’s contemporary, adult SEAL Team Tango erotic, military romantic suspense series focusing on the secondary characters introduced by author Susan Stoker in her numerous series and story lines. This is US Navy SEAL Knox ‘Fort’ Porter, and PR agent Penni Stewart’s story line. SAVING PENNI can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Penni and Knox) SAVING PENNI follows in the aftermath of holdup at a local convenience store. Penni Stewart found herself in the middle of a potential holdup expecting her life to end any moment but for the rescue and take down by a complete stranger. Enter US Navy SEAL Knox ‘Fort’ Porter, the man with whom Penni would fall in love. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Penni and Knox, and the potential fall-out as the repercussions of that fateful day are about to place Penni in the direct line of fire.

Knox Porter knew something was different about the ‘holdup’ and possible ‘robbery’ at the local store but all evidence pointed to something different until Penni found herself the target of the local cartel. Hoping to protect the woman with whom he was falling in love, Knox pulled Penni into the world of the SEALs but Knox’s latest mission out of the country left Penni vulnerable to attack. As Knox struggled to in the face of losing the woman that called to his heart, all bets are off when it comes to professing his love and a happily ever after.

The relationship between Penni and Knox begins in the wake of Penni’s momentary fear of being held hostage but something about that day didn’t sit well with our story line hero, and in this he knows that to protect Penni he is going to have to move her into his house, and into his life. Penni Stewart’s life is spiralling out of control: from a client’s diva attitude to the Mexican drug cartel aiming its’ sights on our story line heroine, Penni struggles with issues of trust, including the man with whom she is falling in love. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are introduced to Penni’s roommate and best friend Angela, and reality star Symove Whittaker, as well as the reintroduction of Knox’s team of Navy SEALs: Leighton ‘Bird’ Nelder and his wife Imogene; Holden ‘Silver’ Murchison; IT specialist Tex; Robert ‘Hank’ Zadock; Rocket Cricket, Bird and former Delta Ops Ox. The camaraderie between teammates is friendly yet professional, fun yet powerful. Silver and Angela’s story is next.

SAVING PENNI is a fast paced story of friendships and relationships, power and betrayal, love and understanding. The character driven premise is exciting and entertaining; the romance is edgy and spicy; the characters are inspiring, colorful and real. SAVING PENNI is my first Nicole Flockton story but it won’t be my last.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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USA Today Bestselling author Nicole Flockton writes sexy contemporary romances, seducing you one kiss at a time as you turn the pages. Nicole likes nothing better than taking characters and creating unique situations where they fight to find their true love.

On her first school report her teacher noted “Nicole likes to tell her own stories”. It wasn’t until after the birth of her first child and after having fun on a romance community forum that she finally decided to take the plunge and write a book.

Apart from writing Nicole is busy looking after her very own hero – her wonderfully supportive husband, and two fabulous kids. She also enjoys watching sports and, of course, reading.

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