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They're a car crash waiting to happen...so why do they keep crashing into each other? From the moment Fetch gets knocked off his Harley, crawls into Driver's car and offers her an obscene amount of money to drive him from Sydney to Perth – no questions, no names, no chit chat – they're stuck with each other. By the time they arrive, they're stuck on each other. It's lust at full throttle, with no seat belts. It could be more, but he's a fake and she's a liar. They're both neck deep in crime, and only one of them is on the right side of the law.
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Another take-no-prisoners romance from Ainslie Paton, one of my few auto-buy contemporary romance authors. It's apparent from the start that neither the motorcycle club errand boy “Fetch” nor the buttoned-up female chauffeur “Driver” are what they appear at first glance. There's a lot of attraction but very little trust. After a fairly explosive start, the novel settles into a leisurely road romance as our hero and heroine gradually open up to each other while at first resisting, then giving in to, their urges in several extremely hot chapters. Then the stakes are raised and everything they gained together appears to be lost.
I'm being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers, but I can say that Paton did such a good job of building a credible relationship that develops over a few short days that I was almost sick to my stomach during the chapters in which the hero and heroine were angry with and distrustful of each other. There was a little too much heroine-humbling for my liking, although the hero does an impressive amount of groveling to make up for it. For the record, while “Fetch” does exhibit a certain amount of “I know what's best for you” attitude, he is nowhere near as controlling and manipulative as the hero in Paton's previous novel, Detained (which I still loved).
What else can I say? Great internal angst and external dialogue. Sex. Danger. A secondary character named Stud. And Paton throws in a sick abandoned dog! You will end up feeling bruised and battered by this novel, but ultimately redeemed.
ARC received from NetGalley in return for honest review.
