One
More Night With You
The Blue Dynasty #5
By: Lisa Marie Perry
Releasing March 1, 2016
Harlequin Kimani
Loving
him is a dangerous job…
Former DEA
agent Josephine de la Peña loved Zaf Ahmadi once—and she's got the bullet scar
to prove it. No wonder she holds a grudge against her hacker ex. But now, just
as Joey's preparing for a new job with the Las Vegas Slayers, Zaf reappears,
insisting she's in danger. The sexual pull between them is still as intense,
and liable to hurt more than any gunshot.
Even if
Joey could forgive him for the botched drug bust that got her injured, Zaf
can't forgive himself. Obsessively hunting for the criminals who killed his
cousin warped his judgment. To protect Joey, he suggests he pose as her
boyfriend. As long as he can keep emotional distance, he can keep her safe.
Until the case presents him with a choice: pursue the vengeance he craves—or
try to turn one smoldering night into so much more…
How can you go on when you are betrayed by the one man you have ever loved? The man that shot you and reduced you to sitting behind a desk. But that is exactly what Josephine de la Peña. (aka Joey) did after getting shot by Zaf Ahmadi, when he turned away from the agency. Now five years later she is stuck behind a desk doing paper work and feeling like part of her has gone. But while on an undercover drug sting for her best friends parents, Zak turns up and claims to be protecting her from notorious mobster Gian DiGorgio. But does she allow him back into her life? And will she get over the devastation when he lives her again.
Zaf Ahmadi feels like a hollow man, he hurt the women he love and has lived with that pain ever since. But now he is back to protect her, if she will let him. But will he be able to keep her safe this time?
I was completely intrigued by the description of this book, so the moment that it was downloaded to my kindle app I jumped right in. Parts of this book were a little confusing, there were references that I didn't get and I assume they were from another book that is in this series? But I have to admit, I did LOVE the insinuation that her best friends parents were mobbed up (they are not)and that any dealings with them equals to almost giving a blood sacrifice (I'm exaggerating, but you get my point!), the whole chapter had me in stitches.
When it comes to the story and the characters, other than a couple of confusing points (If this is a series, I would have LOVED to read the previous books), the story and writing were enjoyable and smooth, I also really enjoyed the characters, but Zaf was clearly my favorite.
I give One More Night With You 4 stars.
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“Shy, Zaf?”
He didn’t find the boldness in her
tone authentic but accepted the words as a gauntlet thrown. He wasn’t shy; he
was desperate and venturing into trouble he couldn’t mend.
Zaf leaned, angled his head, and she
met him halfway. Her glossy lips were slippery under his kiss, teasing him as
if she was flicking a feather across his face.
“Can’t seem to make a solid landing
there, can you?” she uttered against his mouth.
The almost and not
quite and close misses were a game to her.
But not to him. For Zaf, this was
life and death.
“Joey…”
“Shh. Tell me something. You hacked
Willa Smart’s company to get to me. Was it for this, for a kiss from a woman
you used to screw?”
He’d done it because he was her
protector. Compromising a matchmaker’s compatibility program was the means he’d
taken to fulfill his obligation to her. Even if he’d lost his morality, he
still possessed a sense of duty—whether he wanted it or not. “You were more
than that. You’ve always known it.”
“Have I?”
The love that had once breathed
between them had been inconvenient and confusing, yet the realest element in
either of their lives. It had struck them unexpectedly. Neither was willing to
let it go, and for that they were both to blame. Because something that good
couldn’t last. Not for people like them who’d done what they had.
“I got to you because I’m on a job,”
he told her. Yeah, it was a vague explanation, but he wouldn’t divulge
particulars now. “The kiss is because I can’t fight it. I’ve thought about you
constantly since that night. It hasn’t been never-ending death, but it’s been a
never-ending mindfuck.”
“They put you down, didn’t they?
DC?”
“It needed to happen.”
“Down deep, Zaf. You didn’t turn up
at your parents’ place in Jersey or even in Pakistan. There was talk that you
were dead but I didn’t think that. I knew you wouldn’t get time, either, that
they’d rather have you on reserve than in a cell. About a year after… What I’m
trying to say is I tried to bring you back and I couldn’t find you.”
His mind spun through the past five
years. The US government had dragged his ass up for a few missions that needed
a sharpshooter of his caliber on the front line, but had thrown him back
afterward at his request. He was freelance—off record, off the FBI’s payroll,
damn near a ghost. He wanted it that way.
“Why’d you want to bring me back?”
“To ask you why you went dirty. You
cut a deal with those bastards when I thought we were on the same side. You killed me
when you turned, damn it.”
So she still believed he’d defected
to the drug-funneling terrorists he’d been quietly hunting since they’d
captured, tortured and murdered his cousin eight years ago. The feds hadn’t
gone out of their way to clean up his image, but what did it matter now? There
was so much that Joey didn’t know. But she’d been a thread in a web that was
bigger than DEA and even now it was necessary to lead her with lies.
“The kiss,” she said finally as
fresh tears welled. “Don’t fight it.”
There was something he didn’t
altogether trust about her spurring him on, but as he’d said—he couldn’t fight
it. Nor would he try. Giving her what she provoked, he let go of her hand to
hold her head steady. She yielded, opening her mouth to bring him home.
Lisa Marie Perry encounters difficult fictional men
and women on a daily basis. She writes contemporary romance fiction with plenty
of sizzle, energy and depth. Flawed, problematic, damaged characters are
welcome. Her tales feature exciting multicultural mash-ups, sexy guy-next-door
heroes and powerful larger-than-life alphas who are brought to their knees by
the love of complicated women.
According
to Lisa Marie, an imagination is a terrible thing to ignore. So is a good
cappuccino. After years of college, customer service gigs and a career in
caregiving, she at last gave in to buying an espresso machine and writing to
her imagination’s desire. She lives in America’s heartland and she has every
intention of making the Colorado Mountains her new stomping grounds. She drives
a truck, enjoys indie rock, collects Medieval literature, watches too many
comedies, has a not-so-secret love for lace and adores rugged men with a little
bit of nerd.
