Review: Sweet sexy story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
As the fourth Kelly family novella begins, Marina, the youngest, is furious with her father.  All of the children feel that they are never good enough for their father and that he seems to enjoy putting them down.  Their mother said Mike Kelly loved his children but lacked a filter when speaking and he could be brutally honest.  As a highly decorated cop of 35 years, he is well respected by all, and Marina realizes that others don’t know him at all.With the siblings’ feelings about their father, Marina can’t understand why three of them became cops.  There are three generations of Kelly cops, including her uncle and cousins.  She decided she would not have anything to do with that profession and not even date a cop.Marina found a love of cooking with her mother and ended up owning a store, with baked items and gourmet dog treats, which are stocked in local stores.  After falling due to an armful of boxes, she heard a sexy voice offering to help her.  Levi Hawks has seen Marina previously and knows she wants nothing to do with cops.  Since he is interested in her, he doesn’t want her to know he is a detective yet – but how will he get her to go out with him?Levi comes from 5 generations of police officers.  His identical twin brother was a police officer for many years but switched to evidence collection with the coroner’s office.Levi lets Marina believe he is something other than a police detective, thinking that if she just gets the chance to know him, then he will tell her the truth.  He tries to justify not telling the truth right away to Marina, and, of course, things don’t work out like he wants.This is a sweet and sexy story and another engaging Kelly family novella.  I look forward to more of Ms. Collins’ work.