Need You for Mine (Heroes of St. Helena, #3)
Marina Adair
Every red-blooded male in St. Helena wants Harper Owens…as a friend. Despite her efforts at seduction, Harper seems to be destined to end up alone. The only guy with a knack for unleashing her inner vixen is firefighter and resident rule-breaker Adam Baudouin. Agreeing to a faux-mance could help him secure a promotion—and save her family’s lingerie shop, the Boulder Holder. But playing with fire has consequences. Especially when the flame comes courtesy of St. Helena’s own Five-Alarm Casanova… None of Adam’s quick-and-easy hookups have prepared him for a connection this extraordinary. There’s more to the milk-and-cookies art teacher that he’d love to explore. But first he has to convince her to trust the town’s most notorious playboy. Even tougher—he’ll have to trust himself to be the real-life hero this warm and sexy woman deserves.
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0 0It's going to be hard for me to explain why this got 3 stars instead of 4 stars. I loved the story. Loved the characters, loved the concept, loved the romance. Maybe it's that it took too long to get to the romance. I understand a slow build...the feelings of anticipation and excitement. But this had a slow build and then some. So much so that I was skimming, which is a huge indicator to me that my brain feels what I am reading is not crucial to the story. (Or it's something I read before and the author is repeating herself.)
If you are a fan of Marina Adair you will still very much enjoy this book. It was wonderful to read Harper's story and I'm glad her story was also Adam's. The senior citizen brigade of the town always keeps things interesting and fun. Plus, I really liked that the author let us see why these two never got together in the past instead of trying to put a new history on them that we hadn't seen in the other books.
Now that the Baudouin siblings have all had their stories told I'm wondering if we'll get more books in this series. Since it's called the Heroes of St. Helena I can only assume we'll see some of the other firefighters and police officers get stories.
One last thing. I really don't like the cover to this book. Neither of the people on the cover look anything like what they are described as in the book. The outfit on the female is not Harper's style in her old ways of dressing or her new way of dressing, among other things. I'm not always going to like the covers that are chosen for books and my view of what a character looks like may vary greatly from the next person. But seriously, when it looks nothing like described it bugs me.
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