Review: Caught Me By Surprise!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2013
Book Blurb:She is love advice in a coffee shack, he's protection in a biker bar. When her past meets his present, it's a killer cocktail that might get them shot, stabbed, or otherwise dead. Tori Baldwin spends all her time traveling the states, running a mobile coffee shack, and handing out love advice with every cup. She's staked her rig in the parking lot of Cactus Cove - a local biker bar by all appearances - and plans to stay put for three months. Just long enough to make some money, without making any friends, before she moves to her next destination as she tries to stay ahead of a painful past.  Rain Brookshire is the leader of the Bantorus motorcycle club, and owner of the Cactus Cove in the small town of Pitnam, Washington. He wants the Lagsturns, a rival-bad-news motorcycle club, to leave town before they infect his town with trouble.  With bullets flying and the Lagsturns putting on the pressure, the only way to keep Tori safe - since she refuses to leave town - is for Rain to claim her as his woman. She has no idea that Rain's played his hand for all to see in the biker world. It doesn't help that Tori exhibits the three ideal classifications of his ideal woman - Classy, Sexy, and a total Goof - and he can't help but posture and lay down the law. But, when it appears Tori's life is in danger, and the Lagsturns are innocent, he isn't going to let the law stop him from keeping his woman safe.My Review:Honest to goodness, this book sat on my Kindle for weeks.  Despite its repeated good reviews and being told over and over to read this book, I just didn't.  That made me a fool.  Tori was a fun, albeit quirky character who doesn't even realize her appeal.  She tames bikers and their women, waitresses and bar owners.  There didn't seem to be anyone she didn't charm.  I liked her immensely, but even more so after I realized the trauma she suffered as a child.  While I admit to being annoyed with her in the beginning, once I was privy to what happened to her I was amazed that she turned out as well as she did.  She wasn't a perfect heroine, but she was a real one and that made me like her even more.  And Tori's perfect hero?  Rain!!!  GAH!!!  That man was smoking hot and irresistible on so many levels. Possessive, protective, loving, caring, sexy....the list goes on.  He was everything you could want in a hero.  Not only did he fight for her, he fought beside her, letting her realize he was there for it all and would not fail her.  Tori seemed to be her own biggest enemy and Rain tempered that with love and unfailing loyalty.  No other woman even entered his mind once Tori became a part of his life.  When Rain realized Tori was in danger all bets were off the table.  No one was coming between Tori and Rain.  If you throw in the fact that Rain is the leader of a biker gang, abhors drugs, and helps out in his community and he becomes the perfect man.I prefer my books on the naughtier side, my sex a little more detailed and frequent.  Aside from that, this book had everything I want in a book; great characters, suspense, an easy to understand plot, and a happy ending.  Unless the author decided to go back and make the sex scenes more frequent and graphic, there isn't a single thing about this book I would change.  I give it 4.5 of 5 stars and would recommend this book to anyone who was looking for a sweet romantic suspense.  I am hoping and keeping my fingers crossed that we see Sanchez get his own story too.