Frisk Me
New York’s Finest #1
New York’s Finest #1
By: Lauren Layne
Releasing July 28, 2015
Forever
After a photograph of Luc Moretti saving a tourist
hits social media, he instantly becomes New York's most famous and beloved cop.
When a major network decides to run a special on the "American Hero,"
Luc's boss gives him no choice but to cooperate in the name of good exposure
for the department. Luc doesn't mind the celebrity status-what he does mind is
the gorgeous brunette journalist who's been assigned to follow his every move.
Especially since she also happens to be the same knockout that rejected him
rather publicly the week before.
Ava Sims is a woman who gets what she wants. And
what she wants is to be CBC's lead anchor-but to get there, she'll need to nail
the fluff piece on the playboy cop. Luc Moretti is everything Ava knows to stay
away from: a stubborn charmer with a hero-complex. But the more Ava gets to
know Luc and his oddball family, the more she realizes that beneath the swagger
and the blue uniform is a complex man who makes her heart beat too fast. Soon,
Ava's doing the unthinkable, and falling for the best of New York's finest ...
A woman stood in the back
corner of the room, helping herself to coffee from the fancy coffee machine
Brinker kept for his own personal use.
Her body was mostly hidden
by one of the horrible potted plants that Brinker’s wife insisted gave his
office “homey character.”
And then she stepped into
plain view.
He couldn’t help it; he
checked her out. Everything about the woman demanded a second look, the legs in
particular.
Luc had never really
considered himself a legs-man, being more of an “equal opportunity” guy when it
came to female body parts. (Although, if his mother ever asked, he’d swear up
and down that he only ever noticed personality. Maybe the eyes.)
But the legs on this one
were damn near perfect. For that matter, the high breasts and slim waist also
earned high marks.
Her subdued black skirt
and white blouse should have been boring, but they’d obviously been perfectly
tailored to fit her trim frame perfectly.
The black high heels were
icing on the already perfect cake.
Then he looked at her
face, and for a second, Luc felt just a little bit dazed.
If anything, her features
were even more perfect than the body. Her eyes were maybe just slightly too
large for her otherwise petite features, but there was no doubt about it, the
woman was stunning.
And yet, there was
something else there too, just beyond the jolt of sexual awareness.
Recognition.
Luc might not have his
brother Vincent’s photographic memory, but he was pretty damn good with faces.
And he was pretty sure he knew this one. His brain scrambled to place her, but
he kept coming up empty.
Her eyes narrowed almost
imperceptibly on Luc, and his narrowed right back. He definitely knew her from
somewhere.
She gave him a slow, knowing
smile. “Fifth and Fortieth, three years ago.”
He shook his head to
indicate he didn’t follow.
“You’re trying to figure
out how you know me. Three years ago, you gave my news van a parking ticket,
and we exchanged…words. That’s where you know me from. I’m Ava Sims.”
Nonna stole the show for me! She is such a feisty eighty-something year old, and I love they way she dishes it out with her grandsons. Luc and Ava have some really good chemistry and in and out of bed and I liked that they didn't jump into bed immediately. Her betrayal is pretty predictable, but it did not detract from my enjoyment of the story. Great intro to the Moretti clan, looking forward to the next book!
I received an ARC via NetGalley for the purpose of an honest review. I was not compensated for this review, all conclusions are my own.
Lauren Layne is the USA Today Bestselling author of
contemporary romance.
Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in
e-commerce and web-marketing. In 2011, she and her husband moved from Seattle
to New York City, where Lauren decided to pursue a full-time writing career. It
took six months to get her first book deal (despite ardent assurances to her
husband that it would only take three). Since then, Lauren's gone on to publish
ten books, including the bestselling Stiletto series, with several more on the
way in 2015.
Lauren currently lives in
Chicago with her husband and spoiled Pomeranian. When not writing, you'll find
her at happy hour, running at a doggedly slow pace, or trying to straighten her
naturally curly hair.
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