FALLING FOR HIS BEST FRIEND (Out of Uniform #2) by Katee Robert-Review and Book Tour
Falling For His Best Friend
Out of Uniform 2
by Katee Robert
Genre: adult, contemporary, romance
Release Date: May 19, 2015
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Avery Yeung’s biological clock just went off early. Thanks to her family’s medical history, she’s running out of time to get knocked up. And the only guy within donating distance? Her overprotective—and irritatingly hot—best friend. So clearly she needs an anonymous donor…
Anonymous donor? Over Sheriff Drew Flannery’s dead body. While daddyhood will never be in the cards for a man with his past, Drew won’t let Avery shop for a “popsicle pop.” He’ll do what’s right for his best friend by doing his best friend. But only if they do it properly.
But there’s nothing “proper” about it. Between the bed, the kitchen counter, and against his squad car, Avery and Drew are having the hottest sex ever. They can’t get enough of it—or each other. And without knowing it, they’ve crossed the one line that could ruin their friendship forever…
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REVIEW: FALLING FOR HIS BEST FRIEND is the third installment in Katee Robert’s contemporary adult Out of Uniform romance series. This is specialty shop owner Avery Yeung, and sheriff Drew Flannery’s storyline. FALLING FOR HIS BEST FRIEND can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.
Told from dual third person points of view FALLING FOR HIS BEST FRIEND is a friends to lovers storyline that focuses on Avery Yeung and her biological clock. With no prospective lover or husband in the future, Avery looks into in vitro fertilization with the intent to have a baby before her twenty eighth year. With a family history of cancer Avery has discovered she has the same genetic markers and is hoping to have a baby before it is too late. Enter Avery’s best friend and town sheriff Drew Flannery-the man who offers up to be the baby’s father. What ensues is a struggle between best friends who fear that sex and falling in love will destroy the friendship they have since childhood. To complicate matters, Avery’s paternal grandparents and father are Asian and what she proposes isn’t an acceptable arrangement.
The relationship between Avery and Drew is one of friends to lovers. Since the age of six, our leading couple has been one another’s support system when everything began to fall apart in their younger lives. Their deep friendship disguised the love they have for one another but Drew’s past and screwed up family history find our hero walking away at a time when Avery needs him the most. The $ex scenes are intimate, spontaneous and provocative.
The secondary and supporting characters include Drew’s brother Ryan and his wife Brianne-whom we met in book one IN BED WITH MR WRONG. We are also introduced to Avery’s sister Alexis who has a difficult time with Avery’s decision to have a baby and the impending birth of her nephew or niece. The world building focuses on small town relationships and the local bar where the town drunk reminds Drew of the father who destroyed his life.
FALLING FOR HIS BEST FRIEND is a fun and sexy romance with a little bit of heartbreak on the side. Katee Robert never fails to deliver.
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Reviewed by Sandy
All she had to do was pick up the phone and make the call.
Well, she refused to be a coward, and there was never a better time than now. She dialed, hating herself for holding her breath, and nearly hung up in a panic when he answered,
“Flannery.”
Her nervous energy got away from her, and words popped out of her mouth before she could think better of them. “Morning! Just calling with your daily sex status report.”
A heartbeat, and then he laughed. “Okay, I’ll bite. How’d I do?”
“Oh, you know, just fine.”
“Fine?” A car door slammed somewhere in the distance.
“Sweetheart, that was a far sight better than ‘fine.’”
She was going to get through this with sheer bravado. The only other option was to sit down and talk about their feelings, which so wasn’t on the menu if Avery had anything to say about it. A little more relaxed now, she settled onto the rocking chair and propped her feet on the chest. “It was a solid six.”
“That’s so cute when you mix up your numbers. Yesterday was a ten.”
She paused, pretending to consider. “Oh, no, definitely not a ten. I would have noticed if Sam Elliott or Sean Connery showed up.”
“You have seriously questionable taste.”
“I do not. I have excellent taste. Those voices…” She sighed, putting a little extra breathiness into it. “Actually, I’m adding Benedict Cumberbatch to that list. He’d be a ten.”
“No. Absolutely not. I draw the line at being outranked by a man with better cheekbones than most women. He is not attractive.”
“Don’t be jealous that you can’t make women come just by talking to them.”
“Two words—phone sex.”
Her laugh died. After what they’d just done, she didn’t like the reminder that he’d rocked other women’s worlds, but she’d better get used to it. This was Drew, and he’d never had a problem with the ladies. “Kudos to you, then.”
His tone shifted, the playfulness disappearing. “What are you doing for lunch?”
You. No, wait, she couldn’t say that. She still didn’t know where they stood. She couldn’t just assume they were going to keep having sex because they were joking about yesterday.
Avery twisted her hair. “I hadn’t decided.”
“I’ll make it easy on you—my place, noon.”
The growl in his voice made her shiver, but she forced a laugh. “Are we going to walk twenty paces and have a shootout?”
“If by shootout, you mean you’re going to come screaming my name, then yes.”
IN BED WITH MR. WRONG
Out of Uniform #1
by Katee Robert
Release Date:January 13, 2014
Genre: adult, contemporary, romance
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 13, 2014
The blind date from hell is about to get hotter…Brianne Nave is never doing her friends a favor again. When they begged her to go on a blind date, she didn’t expect someone so perfectly gorgeous. She’s a mousy librarian—totally not in this man’s league. And judging by his odd reaction when she opens the door, he knows it, too.
Air Force Pararescuer Ryan Flannery avoids his hometown at all costs. He’s not thrilled about the date until he’s shocked silent by the prickly little librarian’s sweet curves and kissable lips…and her smart mouth. When an argument leads to a kiss that spirals out of control, Ryan’s floored. How can two people have so little chemistry outside the bedroom when they fit together so perfectly in it?
When their friends strand them in a cabin to “work things out,” Bri’s not sure whether to kill him or put the industrial-sized box of condoms they find to use. Bottom line—Ryan’s career military and hates the tiny town she loves. He’ll leave, just like everyone else in her life. And if she’s foolish enough to give him her heart, he’ll take it with him.
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HIS TO KEEP
Out of Uniform 1.5
by Katee Robert
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Genre: adult, contemporary, romance
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He’s always wanted her. Now’s his chance to claim what’s his.
School teacher Marceline Bellini gave up everything—men, sex, anything resembling a social life—to raise her young daughter. To be the perfect parent. But when she attends an engagement party in her standard stick-in-the-mud mode, her friends begin plying Marcy with shots. Just enough to convince her that a little fun doesn’t sound like a bad idea… and having some naughty fun is an even better one.
Like finding herself deliciously pressed against a dark alley wall by the very familiar and very hot body of her best friend’s older brother.
After years of waiting in painful silence, police officer Aaron Robinson finally has Marcy’s attention. And man, does he have it. But nothing could have prepared either of them for the rush of fiery lust between them. So he’ll just have to convince Marcy he’s for real. And that a rainy, lust-fuelled romp is the first step to a lifetime of completely imperfect happiness…
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Katee Robert, learned to tell stories at her grandpa’s knee. Her favorites then were the rather epic adventures of The Three Bears, but at age twelve she discovered romance novels and never looked back.
Though she dabbled in writing, life got in the way—as it often does—and she spent a few years traveling, living in both Philadelphia and Germany. In between traveling and raising her two wee ones, she had the crazy idea that she’d like to write a book and try to get published.
Her first novel was an epic fantasy that, God willing, will never see the light of day. From there, she dabbled in YA and horror, before finally finding speculative romance. Because, really, who wouldn’t want to write entire books about the smoking-hot relationships between two people?
She now spends her time—when not lost in Far Reach worlds—playing imaginary games with her wee ones, writing, ogling men, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
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