Review: I fell for the marine in the very first chapter!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2013
Falling for the Marine is the second book in Samanthe Beck’s McCade Brothers series and follows Lover Undercover, a book I freaking loved.  Well, Samanthe has done it again….I fell for the marine in the very first chapter!  This book was yummy goodness!!Having a whole lot of not-so-great in her life, Chloe Kincaid is ready to turn her luck around.  Looks like lady luck has another idea in mind, however.  Chloe finds herself in a *cough* compromising position and is handcuffed to her bed frame…with the keys having fallen down her HVAC vent.  With no other option, she yells for help and is rescued by her hot and sexy neighbor.  After that debacle, she plans on avoiding him at all costs but when he shows up on her massage table to deal with an injury, clearly she realizes avoiding him isn’t an option.  Lady luck ends up having the last laugh when circumstances between Chloe and her hottie neighbor lead to faking an engagement….that in turn leads to some very NOT fake feelings between them.  Has Chloe’s luck finally turned around?Never having had to deal with physical limitations, USMC Major and helicopter pilot Michael McCade is not happy being grounded after a lower back injury.  Things start to look up, however, after he walks into his therapy appointment and finds the delicious damsel in distress he rescued the other night as his massage therapist. But when things get too hot during their session, he has to rescue her again….apparently there’s only specific, above the belt touching allowed during a massage.  Feeling responsible for Chloe’s current situation, which involves a lack of a job and apartment, he invites her to stay with him until she gets back on her feet.  Unfortunately his chivalrous actions end up going much further when his CO finds out about his living arrangements.  Shacking up with a girl is kinda frowned upon…well, unless that girl was his fiancée.  Problem solved! If only it was that easy. Soon Michael starts to have dreams of Chloe being his real fiancée….can he convince her what they have may be real after all?The undeniable and instant attraction between Chloe and Michael was intense and delicious.  Chloe had more than a few admirable qualities about her. She had great optimism despite being unlucky in love before.  She has a free spirit but in the end, knows she needs to put her heart on the line.  Michael is the ultimate loyal, responsible, big-hearted alpha male with looks to kill.  On the flip side, his vulnerability shows with his injury and it made me love him even more.  He figures Chloe out almost instantly and calls her out when she tries to shut down.  Their personalities work so well together and it was such a treat to be able to see their relationship grow into something very real.  There were more than a few fun peculiarities in their relationship that I adored and the very end was abso-freaking-loutley PERFECT!  I laughed and cried and was so happy with the way Samanthe wrote Michale and Chloe’s book ending.  Pure perfection for a couple that started out quite the opposite!Samanthe has a way about her writing that pulls the reader in from the very beginning and holds that interest until the end….I love that.  I will be looking for more from her and can’t wait to see what else she has in store for the yummy McCade brothers!  Thank you, Ms. Beck, for another marvelous read!