Title: Tricks (Take It Off #6)
Author:
Cambria Hebert
Release: February 16, 2014
Love can play tricks on your heart… After serving several years in the United States Marine Corps, Sergeant Tucker Patton decides to hang up his uniform and go to work at a private investigative firm owned by his buddy. His boxes are packed and he’s got one foot out the door when a phone call changes everything.
Instead of going to North Carolina, he heads to New York City to literally step into the life of his twin brother, who died under suspicious circumstances. But pretending to be someone else isn’t easy.
Especially when the person you’re supposed to be is wanted dead.
Not only that, but he’s going from being blissfully single to living with his brother’s woman. An uptight, no-nonsense lawyer.
Charlotte Rose Carter doesn’t have time for fun and games. She graduated with honors and made all the right moves fresh out of college to jumpstart her career as a successful young lawyer. She even snagged the most eligible bachelor in New York City’s corporate world.
So what if her and Max’s relationship isn’t burning up the sheets? So what if their life doesn't read like a chapter from a sizzling romance novel? This is the real world, and in the real world that stuff is just fantasy.
Until it isn’t.
Suddenly, just the slightest touch or a single glance from Max has her heart doing somersaults. Suddenly, the lackluster relationship begins to spark, and Charlotte finds herself tied in a knot of desire.
But she has no idea about the tricks being played right under her perky little nose.
Author Bio:
Cambria Hebert is the author of the young adult
paranormal Heven and Hell series, the
new adult Death Escorts series, and
the new adult Take it Off series. She
loves a caramel latte, hates math and is afraid of chickens (yes, chickens).
She went to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major, and ended
up with a degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always
have good hair. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and
children (both human and furry) where she is plotting her next book. You can
find out more about Cambria and her work by visiting http://www.cambriahebert.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cambriahebert
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Cambria’s website: http://www.cambriahebert.com
{Excerpt}
Chapter One – TuckerMy mouth felt like it was packed with cotton. You know that dry but slightly sticky feeling? My tongue moved and it brushed against the roof of my mouth, and the cotton came with it.I grunted and opened my eyes, only to immediately shut them again. I wasn’t ready for morning. Shit, how much did I drink last night? My body was still heavy with sleep, my limbs not wanting to cooperate.One of my arms was flung wide and I pulled it in to rub a hand over my sleepy face, hoping it would wake me up a little more. I knew I needed to get up… I just couldn’t think of the reason.Something shifted beside me and I felt the covers lift and drop. The soft sound of footsteps reached my ears. It wasn’t a something. It was a someone.I went home with someone last night.Opening my eyes again, I glanced to my left in time to see a woman wearing nothing but a pink thong step into the adjoining bathroom and quietly close the door. Well, now I remembered the reason I went home with her.Her ass was luscious.Vague memories of last night filtered through my hazy, beer-soaked memory of skin against skin and a low seductive laugh. What was her name again? Veronica? Violet? Shit, I hadn’t a clue.Tossing away the covers, I swung my legs over the side of the mattress and looked down. I was buck-ass naked. I looked around for my clothes, which were lying in a pile near the door of the bedroom.Must have been in a hurry to get naked. I smirked. I was always in a hurry to get naked. Especially when I was with a woman with an ass like that.I glanced back at the closed bathroom door as the toilet flushed and the tap water turned on. That was my cue to leave. I had on my boxers and jeans before the door opened.Rushing out the door with shirt in hand seemed a little immature, so I turned. And, man, did I get an eyeful. There was no way in hell her boobs were real. They were too perfect. Large round, creamy globes sat high atop her chest. They gave way to a flat stomach with a light-reflecting stud in her bellybutton. The pink thong was still in place but left little to imagination, and her long, tan legs stretched all the way to the floor.Her hair was dark, her features exotic, and her lips were full.Even drunk, I had great taste.I motioned with my chin, a little what’s up gesture, and draped my T-shirt over my shoulder.“Leaving so soon?” she asked, padding across the carpeting toward me.I didn’t even pretend to not look at her chest. Shit, this had been a one-night stand. She could think I was a dog all she wanted. Hell, she’d be right.‘Course, she clearly wasn’t the type of girl to be offended by my wandering eyes. She walked right up to me, wound her arms around my bare waist, and pressed those perfect tits right up against my chest. Then she rubbed around like she was a cat and I was her scratching pole.“Don’t you want to stay for breakfast?” she purred.“Much as I’d like to, I can’t. Got somewhere to be.”The woman whose name might or might not be Veronica pulled back and sashayed her ass across the room to a wooden nightstand by the bed. She bent at the waist, giving me the perfect view of said bottom as she scrawled something on a piece of paper.I considered staying longer, but if I did that, she’d think this wasn’t just a one-night stand. Girls were complicated like that. If our night stretched into morning, they got ideas. Ideas that maybe they would be the one to capture the guy no one else could. They would read something more into morning sex than the sex that occurred late at night when both our tongues tasted of beer.I might sleep around, I might like a variety of ladies, but I never gave false hope where there was none. I might be a dog, but I wasn’t an ass.Sweet cheeks (I had to call her something) swayed her hips back across the room and held out a scrap of paper to me. “Call me,” she said, flipping her hair behind her shoulder.I glanced at her chest one more time, then stuffed the piece of paper in the front pocket of my jeans.She leaned up and pressed her lips to mine, slipping her tongue between. I kissed her back quickly and then slowly pulled away. Reaching around, I palmed her ass. “Thanks for last night,” I said and walked out of her bedroom without even looking back.By the front door, I found my shoes and leather jacket and quickly finished dressing before stepping out into the cold morning air. I wasn’t going to miss this cold. I was actually looking forward to moving on, trying something new.A thin layer of frost covered the windshield on my truck. Instead of getting out and scraping it, I blasted the heat and let the engine idle, letting it melt on its own. While I waited, I pulled out the already crumpled piece of paper I was just given. Smoothing it out, I looked down, my eyes skimming over the number I was never going to call to look for her name.I laughed and crumpled the paper back up and tossed in on the floor of the truck.Rachel.Damn. I hadn’t even been close.
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{Details} ebook, 290 pages, Published
February 16th 2014
by Cambria Hebert. Source: ebook provided by author and tour host
{Rating} 5/5 - I loved it!
{Review}
I loved Tricks, the action, the intrigue, the romance. I smiled, I teared up, I was on the edge of my seat. I could not put it down. When I first read the description for Tricks I was interested but wary, a guy taking over his brother's life and his live in girlfriend? that's tricky and there's a lot of ways things could go wrong, for the story to land in soap opera-ville or Jerry Springer land but it doesn't. Hebert made me fall in love with these characters, to think about Tucker's actions and the intention behind them, to put myself in Tucker's place and think 'what would I do?'"The elevator doors dinged and slid open with barely a sound." (page 1, line 1)
I have a huge crush on Tucker. Smart, loyal, alpha male Tucker. He's such a good guy with a good heart - a heart that doesn't plan on falling in love. And he's got a hidden talent, which I won't spoil for you, but you will swoon. Charlotte is a very caring, driven woman who thinks she knows who she is and what she wants - until she doesn't. Until Tucker makes her question everything.
The chemistry between Tucker and Charlotte was great, I could practically feel the crackle in the air between them and the sizzle of all that sexual tension. But there is also sweetness and tenderness.
"In fact it seemed like he held me tighter. It was the kind of hold that anchored a person, the kind of hold that made me feel like even though I was falling apart, all of my pieces were going to stay where they belonged." (Hebert, location 2007)
Tricks is told in dual points of view - my favorite - so we get to see inside the head of sex-on-the-brain Tucker and regimented, logical Charlotte and see their emotional turmoil as events unfold and how they evolve.
This is the first book I've read by Cambria Hebert (all the books in the Take It Off series are standalone) and I was so impressed, her voice and style, the rhythm of her words, the pacing of the story - they were all great. I want to read all of her books!
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