The Bribe by Willa Nash is now live!
Duke Evans didn't expect to interrupt a beautiful woman in a staring contest with a bison on his favorite hiking trail. He also didn't expect to see her again after rescuing her from the surly beast. As the sheriff in Calamity, Montana, he's had his fair share of surprises but none as pleasant as pulling over a shiny black car and finding his mysterious hiking companion behind the wheel.
Only, she lied to Duke. She gave him a name as fake as her hair color. According to her driver's license, her real name is Lucy Ross, the famous country music singer whose sudden disappearance has been a hot topic in the media over the past two weeks.
He's not sure why Lucy lied about her identity or why she's in Calamity. And she's not talking. Instead, she offers him a bribe to keep her secret.
But Duke doesn't want her money. He wants to know why this woman is on the run. And as long as the star shines on his badge, he's going to find out.
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Duke Evans was as addictive as hot stage lights and a silky, Southern
twang.
He’d almost kissed me. And I’d almost let him. I’d find a way to get
over this bribe issue if it meant indulging my crush on the local sheriff.
Sure, things would get awkward when I brought him a wad of cash. After all,
maybe the reason he’d almost kissed me was for the money.
The woman who hadn’t been kissed in a long, long time didn’t care.
“What’s your plan for the rest of the day?” Duke asked as he drove
toward the farmhouse. He rolled down the windows and the breeze tousled the
long strands of hair that had escaped his hat.
“Not much. I’ve been on a baking spree.”
“What’d you make?” he asked, his voice low and smooth.
Duke drove with one hand on the wheel while his other arm was propped on
the console between us. I hadn’t really noticed a man’s driving posture before,
but as with everything Duke, the should-have-been-mundane details jumped out at
me like fireworks. His entire demeanor shouted confidence. He was so relaxed in
his skin and sexy as hell. The man was driving and I was practically drooling.
He glanced over and raised an eyebrow. Right. He’d asked me a question.
I faced forward and unscrambled my brain. “Cookies. Cinnamon rolls.
Banana muffins.”
“You’ve been busy.”
“There’s not much else for me to do. Going from a hare’s speed to turtle
pace has been an adjustment. At this point, I’m searching for things to do.
Hence the running this morning.”
“My mom’s a teacher. She always says it takes her a couple of weeks
every summer to slow down and transition from kid wrangler to domestic
goddess.” He reached into the cupholder and plucked out a packet of gum. “Want
one?”
“Sure.” I unfolded the wrapper and popped the sweet mint stick into my
mouth as he did the same, then I opened my mouth to say something and . . . whoa.
We were rolling through a different neighborhood than the one I’d walked
through, but instead of staring at the homes and getting my bearings, my
attention was locked on the bob of Duke’s Adam’s apple and the flex of his
strong, square jaw.
I bet he had a talented tongue. My experience with men was relatively
limited—fame was a jealous lover and wanted nothing more than your undivided
attention—but if a man could chew gum like that, I bet his tongue knew its way
around a woman’s lips.
And other places.
What I thought about The Bribe
When small town Sheriff Duke Evans pulls over a young woman during a traffic stop, he realizes that there is whole lot more to the woman behind the wheel. He finds himself in the middle of the high profile disappearance of singer Lucy Ross.
Lucy has her reasons to keep her disappearance secret and she's not about to spill them. So she offers a bribe to Duke for him to keep her secret and not to dig any deeper into her life. Neither one of them anticipates that their palpable chemistry will ignite into something more.
Duke is a great guy. He's respected in the town and liked by many. He's sexy and good at seduction. He doesn't play games with people. There's some real attraction between these two characters, which is really well done. It just flows so well from sexual tension to passion igniting between them.
There's a great cast of secondary characters which make The Bribe a good start to the series and a nice dash of suspense that keeps things moving along quite nicely. I was drawn into the story quickly and the characters kept me turning the pages. I adore a bit of action and suspense in my romance and The Bribe brought it all. Loved it.
Overall, a nice start to this series.
An ARC was provided. This is my honest review.
Willa Nash is USA Today Bestselling Author Devney Perry's alter ego, writing contemporary romance stories for Kindle Unlimited. Lover of Swedish Fish, hater of laundry, she lives in Washington State with her husband and two sons. She was born and raised in Montana and has a passion for writing books in the state she calls home.
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