Review: 4.5 Stars to this Beautiful Love Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
(Originally posted on my blog: [...]**I received an eARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review**There is no hanky-panky in this book.  I repeat: there is NO hanky-panky in this book!  And you know what?!  I LOVED IT!  It made their relationship all that much more real, for me.  The chemistry is TOTALLY obvious, and they didn't need to sleep together to prove it. (Ya'll know how much I love me some steamy romances, but this is perfect just the way it is.)April Church is terrified of motorcycles...and the people who ride them.  Honestly, she has every right to be.  And to top it off, she assesses risk for an insurance company, meaning she has all the statistics about motorcycles to back up her fear.  But what will happen when April allows stereotypes and fears to rule her life?  April has longed to be a part of the Summerbrook Ladies League.  However, she's going to have to work really hard to get in, since she wasn't born into that particular pedigree of family.  When her only option for helping her favorite little boy is to participate in a fundraiser with the local bikers instead of the Ladies League, well, she is freaking out!  Not only will this DEFINITELY not help her get into the Ladies League, but she is terrified of everyone she's supposed to be working with...especially Bull, whom she is very attracted to, which scares her even more.Bullworth Clayton may look like your stereotypical biker, but there is a lot more to him under the leather clothing, long hair and tattoos.  In what starts off as kind of just a joke, to see how far he can push April, Bull begins pushing her buttons, and trying to learn things about her.  But, out of all this comes a need to protect April.  He's really starting to fall for her; but Bull knows that he can never be with someone who can't go riding off into the sunset on the back of his bike.Ben...the reason that everyone is coming together.  This brave little boy is fighting leukemia with everything he's got.  But, the medical bills are stacking up, and he is literally fighting for his life.  The entire community seems to be participating in one fundraiser or another.  Ben's grandpa is one of the local bikers that is working on the same event as April.  This throws her for a loop, making her start to wonder if these bikers are different than those bikers that hurt her father so many years ago.  It is going to take every fiber of April's being to keep working with the bikers, but avoid telling her father a single thing about it.  And Bull, well he went through losing his brother to a brain tumor years ago.  He wants to do anything he can to help Ben.  And to help April get over her fear of motorcycles...This story is beautifully written.  There is an undeniable attraction between April and Bull, not matter how much they fight it.  Even when they both start to think they should just enjoy what little they can while it lasts, they know as soon as the fundraiser is over, they may never see each other again.Where could this all possibly lead?  Well, you'll just have to read it and find out!