01 High Risk - Vivien Arend - 3.5 stars

Rebecca James is an adrenaline junky.  While out on a rescue her partner dies and she loses her memory of the event.  Marcus Landers runs his Lifeline team.  When Becki shows up he tries to reignite their passion from their affair seven years previous.

The two of them push each other to be better.  In the bedroom, Becki lets Marcus be alpha male but in the outside world, she doesn't take any crap from him.

The downside to this book, Marcus' backstory of how he lost his arm was an afterthought.  The reader gets bits and pieces of her history.  His story isn't woven in until the very last chapter. If felt like the author realized she forgot his backstory and tacked it on the end.

04 A Wild Ride – Vivian Arend – 4*

Nicole Adams is having a secret affair with her brother’s best friend Troy Thompson.  When one of her sister announces she is pregnant she decides to cancel the fun and get serious and Troy is not a man who can do serious.  Troy knows he can do forever with her if she just gives him a chance. 

This book was hard to review.  I liked it a lot but there were things that were left hanging that I wanted answers for.  One of the big issues was everyone loves Troy but thought he was a womanizing flake.  Pretty much everyone in Nicole’s family love him just not with her.  They never give any reason other than he was so good in high school football but never went beyond that.  It just irritated me no one vocalized why he wasn’t good enough.

03 Let it Ride – Vivian Arend – 4*

Maggie Ward loses her husband in a car accident.  Clay Thompson has thought of her has more than a friend for a long time but would never do anything about it since he was friends with both of them.  When Maggie’s husband dies he steps up and takes care of her without any demands.  The book takes place over months.

This is one topic that I normally can’t stand.  You lose your spouse and then jump right into another relationship.  However, I think it was handled a little bit better than most in this book.  It takes place over the course of a year and isn’t instantaneous.  Clay and Maggie were cute together and watching their relationship progress from friends to lovers was interesting to read.

02 One Sexy Ride – Vivian Arend – 3.5*

Len Thompson has been in love with his sister’s best friend Janey but she is off limits until he finds out she is about to leave town for good.  He wants to have a no strings affair with her until she leaves.  The problem is he is in love with her and doesn’t want her to leave.

I had issues with this book.  Len was willing to be just friends with Janey forever until he finds out she has plans to leave.  His brilliant plan is to have a fling with her while she is in town and then let her go when she planned to leave town.  I get this all stems from how he lost his mom and what he went through but come on you love this woman and you are willing to let her go because of them.  I just can’t understand that.  Other than this the book was well written and enjoyable to read.

01.5 Baby, Be Mine – Vivian Arend – 4*

Gage Jenick has been friends of the Thompson family forever.  He has noticed Katy Thompson wasn’t just his best friends little sister but she was in a relationship with someone else.  When Katy breaks up with the boyfriend Gage is all in even though he is leaving for a work assignment for two months.  While he is gone Katy is in an accident which causes her to lose some of her memories.  Katy is also pregnant.  She remembers breaking up with her boyfriend but he swears they got back together.  Gage comes back into town and wants to pick up where they left off but Katy doesn’t know who is the father.  She feels she should give both men the opportunity to be involved with her pregnancy. 

This was an interesting idea that could have gone so very wrong but in this case was done very well.  I loved how Gage was all in with Katy no matter what.  He didn’t care if the baby wasn’t his he wanted to be with Katy and the baby.  He supported her even when life made it difficult for him to be involved.

01 Rocky Ride – Vivian Arend – 4*

The eldest Thompson, Mitch, has wanted Constable Anna Coleman in his life and bed for a while.  He speeds to catch her attention and she finally caves and they have a steamy affair but he wants it all not just a few nights.

I liked the interaction between Mitch and Anna.  She was a strong woman who didn’t take crap from anyone.  The big drama in the book is one of Anna’s co-workers thinks Mitch is trash and makes up a story of a promotion to get Mitch out of Anna’s life.  The way they handle the outside forces was interesting.