Review: Fantastic first book......can't wait for the next one!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2013
Dean Jacobs is one serious 'player'.  Kaitlyn Cross does one bang-up job writing this guy who is such a hound-dog.  I really wanted to believe he'd get his comeuppance and boy does he get it back.I don't want to give away the issue that finally brings the handsome 'dog' down.  So I won't.Evy Burnett is a very attractive young woman who is starting out anew as the baker in her sister/brother-in-laws bakery/coffee-bar/drink joint.  I got the impression that Evy can bake....really bake.  Good detail on that, btw.Once Dean lays eyes on Evy he cannot wait to put his moves on her.  He's just out of bed with one (the psycho-Megan) and he's on the move to fresher pastures and Evy's pasture is looking pretty fine to our Dean.  I like that Evy wasn't immediately taken-in by Dean's good looks and charm.  Dean had to work for it!  So.......they fall in love and live happily ever after........NOT!Enter.......psycho-Megan and she is definitely the serpent who has invaded eden.  I got the feeling that Megan was pretty much stalking Dean.  She is definitely fixated on him.  Once Megan catches up with Dean again, he and Evy are in a fairly committed relationship which seems to have caught them both by surprise.  Dean was NOT planning a monogamous relationship with a woman he'd fall in love with.  Evy too, has fallen for Dean and they are very happy together...........until the serpent invades eden, that is!It's bad for the new love relationship.  It's bad for others who've been affected by what happens to Dean.  The fallout of what happens becomes an  impossible situation for Dean and what he's forced into is heartbreaking to both him and Evy.A big portion of this book explains the depth of Dean's being a 'player'.  Mostly it's his little head leading him around while he samples the tempting 'treats' that attract him and he hasn't even gotten to Evy's bakery yet (this is before he gets in with Evy).  The building romance between Dean and Evy isn't terribly in-depth and more of their falling in love would have been a welcome addition but that may be my personal wish and overall I feel this book builds towards what happens to Dean as a result of his choice of lifestyle prior to Evy.  The book makes the reader want to be mad at Dean and have him get his back and when he does we are ready to strangle those who bring him down.  I do believe that is what our writer intended.Will those who bring our dear good looking man down.....get theirs?Will Dean be able to hold-out and stay true to his love for Evy?Can Evy stay in love with the man she's lost and hope that he'll come back to her someday?Will Brooke and Ben get their liquor license back?Can Shaun open that business now that his career in dentistry may be over?Book two cannot come out soon enough for this reader.  I loved the angst in this book and hope everything can be resolved in the sequel book......oh...but not without more angst, pain, heartache, and hair-pulling (I'm talking about me ......and I hope to have some hair left after book two!).  Finally......I am hoping for the eternal HEA that we romance readers all strive to find in the end.