
Author: Christine Bell
Publisher: Frog Prints Publishing
Publishing Date: May 24/2014
Genre: Coming of Age, Sports, Romance
Synopsis:
Book One: She's worth the fight...
Olivia Beckett's once-charmed life is falling apart. Her family is about to lose everything, and she has almost no chance of going back to college next semester. She can't even seek solace from her high school sweetheart. He's changed. She doesn't recognize the boy she used to know--his violent behavior is escalating and it scares the hell out of her. Her whole world is crumbling, and she has no one to turn to...
Sebastian "Bash" McDaniels is an up and comer in the boxing world working nights at the local college bar until he can land the fight of his dreams that will get him the hell out of Boston and away from his family's tragic past. He's weeks from his goal when Olivia Beckett comes tumbling into his life in a flash of silky dark hair and haunted eyes. When he saves her from a potentially brutal beating, they begin to grow close, but Olivia's ex isn't ready to let her go so easily.
Bash can't bring himself to walk away, but fixing Olivia just might leave him broken...
Book Two: Everything she believed in was a lie…
After facing the fact that her boyfriend was an abusive sociopath and their entire relationship was a sham, Olivia Beckett is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. If she was the only one suffering for her mistakes, she might be able to handle it. But when she went down, she dragged the one person she never wanted to see hurt down with her…
Bash McDaniels was just weeks away from finally blowing out of his hometown to make it as a boxer and never coming back. Saving Olivia Beckett from her violent boyfriend should’ve been a speed bump at most, but love stopped him in his tracks. Now, instead viewing Boston in his rearview mirror, he’s viewing it through prison bars…
Bash was her savior when she needed him most. Now, Olivia has to find a way to repay the favor, knowing all the while that freeing him might mean losing him forever…
Book Three: If he's going down, he's going down swinging…
Now that Bash has a second chance with Olivia, he doesn’t want to blow it, but if he tells her the truth about his nighttime activities, he could lose her forever.
Olivia loves that Bash is willing to stick his neck out for those he loves, but not when it might ruin his career...or worse. When she finds out he’s left her bed in the middle of the night to compete in an illegal, bare-knuckled fight run by a notorious Boston mobster, Mickey Flynn, in order to get his brother out of debt, she’s furious.
How can she trust Bash if he keeps lying to her? And how many more times can he put himself at risk before it finally catches up with him?
My Review:
Bash is a knight in shining armor, though his shining armor consists of a t-shirt he wears as a bouncer at the local bar and he hardly rides in on a white horse. Instead, he saves Olivia from becoming a victim of her abusive boyfriend in the ladies room at the bar. Olivia has enough going on in her life at the moment and doesn't need the complication of being saved by this very hot guy, but she is thankful for his interference because for the first time ever, she is afraid of Andy.
Olivia is a damsel in distress and Bash isn't sure why he does it, but he swoops in and frees her from the grip her rich, entitled boyfriend has on her throat. He knows it is going to be trouble and it's confirmed when he loses his job because the jerk's father knows a lot of people. And instead of Olivia walking away and leaving him in peace, she feels the need to prove to him that she isn't a helpless female. She hounds him until he agrees to teach her self-defense. It's just the beginning of a wild ride.
Throughout the three books, they learn to trust each other and fight side-by-side when life throws obstacles in their path. Their families create issues neither of them are prepared to handle, the justice system seems to be playing against them, and their general distrust of each other may just end their relationship. It takes a lot of hard work to get past the pitfalls, but they are up for the challenge.
Oh! And besides Bash, there are two more McDaniels brothers who have a story to tell as well. Their books are the following:
Trust Me: Books 1-3 ~ Matty and Kayla's story, and Between Us: Books 1-3~ Reid and Lola's story
