Review: Found a favorite author with this one.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2014
Oh I hate to admit this, but when I saw the cover for this book I groaned and thought great another romance, going to be the typical story.  OMG was I wrong, so terribly wrong.  I fell in love with this story and with Blackjack in chapter one.  I still can’t put my finger on what it was that made me just ADORE this couple and their story, I wish I could but trust me, it is one of my favorite books EVER.This isn’t a love story with tons of hot sex; this is a real story of love.  Jack knows he has fallen in love the first second he sees Elise in his court room.  Being a new judge he is bound by the ethics of the system and has to make a decision and declaration right then.  This knocks Elise off her feet and the story begins.  Where Jack is used to getting what he wants, he has come to feel the obligation to earn what he has beginning as a teenager.  This is where he is going to struggle with Elise, he wants her but he feels he needs to earn her love and trust.Elise had a messed up childhood, most of the early years she can’t remember.  Although she is a forceful and successful attorney now, she has mother issues and fears of people leaving her so trusting Jack the sexy playboy judge is never going to happen.  When a crisis happens in her life she is forced to look at her past head on and figure out what it is she is most afraid of.I just LOVE the way these two interact with each other.  I am so in love with Jack it isn’t even funny.  Yes he has been pushed to my top three fictional boyfriends.  At times I wanted to be angry at Elise for keeping Jack at a distance but the author did such a fantastic job at showing us the true woman and broken child inside of Elise I couldn’t be angry at her.  Jack is just the gentleman that all women swoon over even though the media cast him in a playboy light; he is so far from that it is crazy.This was one of those books I couldn’t put down, even when I was forced to do the daily chores of life or try to sleep; I found my mind going back to those two.  They are seriously people I wish I had in my real life they were just so perfect, even with their fears and flaws; they would make the real world a much better place.  I will certainly be following this author and grabbing her next book.  I am actually having a book hangover from Jack and Elise………..sigh.reviewed for Crystal's Many Reviewers blog