Wilde Thing (Wilde Series, #1)
Janelle Denison
SHE CAN'T STOP THINKING OF HIM Serious bad boy. That's what Liz Adams thinks when she catches sight of dark, gorgeous Steve Wilde sitting at a table in her coffee house, giving her a look of bold, satisfying appraisal that has nothing to do with her espresso skills. Still, the man is the best P.I. in town, and the only person who might be able to help Liz track down her irresponsible, free-spirited cousin...if she can manage to spend more than two minutes in his company without surrendering to the wild fantasies dancing in her head... HE CAN'T STOP WANTING HER Oh, baby. That's what Steve Wilde thinks every time he comes into Liz's cafe and catches sight of her sexy figure behind the counter. But a man can only pretend to be interested in the pastries for so long. Now that Liz has opened the door to him, Steve intends to storm right through it, along with her defenses, and show the aloof beauty what she's been missing...and what he intends to do about it, slowly, deliberately, deliciously... NOW, THERE'S NO STOPPING EITHER OF THEM Now, in a cat-and-mouse game where the thrill of the forbidden is never quite enough, a business arrangement is about to yield to pleasure...and the temptations that can only be found when hearts run wild...
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Pretty decent contemporary romance. I felt that the main guy was pretty standard hunky bachelor Gary Stu who of course falls in love with the sweet and sexy Mary Sue. A couple of good things about this Mary Sue was that she was no innocent virgin, and was managing her own coffee shop, and was willing to work as the phone sex operator to help try to find her cousin.
The sex was fairly steamy. I thought that Steve was a smidgen dominating/aggressive, though he mellowed out as the book progressed. The pirate scene really was weird, because it was presented as Liz wanting to be forced into something she secretly wants, but it was right along that line of force/consensual. I think Denison did well to have a moment or two of hesitation and a couple of sentences along the lines of 'of course he would never hurt Liz, but his threat sent a thrill through her'. Just didn't do it in particular for me.
My number one problem was actually a structural/editor miss, where as the book progresses, in some spots the timeline was mentioned to be just a couple days and in other spots it was up to a month had passed. I was under the impression it had been about a month until post-party, when suddenly it was like 'well, their week of passion was over'. So this could have been relatively easily fixed but was annoying.
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