CarolKat Reviews Dangerous Secrets by Lisa Renee Jones

Publisher: Lisa Renee Jones
Series: Tall, Dark and Deadly Boxed Set Book #2
Format Read: Kindle Book
Source: Owned by the reviewer
Release Date: January 7, 2013
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Blurb from goodreads:

Being a divorce attorney for the rich and famous isn't all it's cracked up to be. Julie Harrison has learned that love doesn't last, and she's sworn never to make the same mistakes as her mother, or her clients. She uses the games men play to keep them at a distance. The only man who managed to break down her walls was Luke Walker, a Navy SEAL who loved her and left her, and changed her forever.

When Luke arrives back in New York, running Walker Security with his brothers and having left his Navy SEAL days behind, he sets his sights on Julie, the woman he's always wanted and couldn't have. Except, she runs from him every time he gets close.

But now, one of Julie's clients, a powerful judge, gets involved with a dangerous cartel, and his soon-to-be-ex wife ends up dead. Julie's next on the list, and she finds herself on the run from those who believe she knows too much, and counting on Luke to keep her alive. In the deepest, darkest moments of the night, passion will bring them together while danger threatens to tear them apart. Can Julie and Luke trust each other and find their happy ending before they find ... the end?

CarolKat Reviews Hot Secrets by Lisa Renee Jones

Publisher: Lisa Renee Jones
Series: Tall, Dark and Deadly Boxed Set Book #1
Format Read: Kindle Bundle
Source: Owned by reviewer
Release Date: January 7, 2013
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Blurb from goodreads:

Royce Walker, a former FBI Agent, who’s opened a private security firm with his brothers, has always had the hots for the prim, proper Assistant District Attorney, but considered her hand’s off because of a family connection. However, when danger threatens Lauren, he isn’t willing to stand by and watch her get hurt. Now the passion for survival is only rivaled by the passion burning between them. And that passion, might just be the death of them both.

CarolKat's Thoughts:

Lauren Reynolds is a beautiful brunette assistant DA, her best friend Julie is a blond bombshell divorce attorney and instigator. We meet these two beauties at Lauren’s fathers birthday party where they are discussing Lauren’s need (or not) to find a man. Therein we find one of my favorite conversations in this book, a description of Royce Walker just before he is introduced to Lauren.

“He’s your midnight fantasy,” she said, a wicked smile on her lips. “Or so a certain brunette told me just last weekend, after a few glasses of wine.”

Royce Walker. She was talking about Royce Walker. Lauren’s throat went dry at the mention of the sexy State Security Advisor who also ran a private security company with his two brothers. And, most definitely, had been the object of her ‘midnight fantasies’ on more than one occasion.

“He’s here tonight?”

“Over here, Royce!” Julie called out, and then grinned. “He’s not only here, he’s headed our way. You can thank me later.”

Thus begins this tale of political intrigue, high profile death penalty cases, sprinkled with hang-up calls and notes implying the worst.

Royce and Lauren begin a relationship. But, Royce has a secret, one that if told, would make keeping her safe impossible.

Adding to this, her father is a Senator with a controlling trophy wife, an ambitious Step-brother and an ex-fiancé. All who have their own delusions of what Lauren should being doing and with whom. 

Another wonderfully hot, sexy, twisted plot from Lisa Renee Jones, earns another five stars from me.

ARC Review: CarolKat Reviews Revealing Us by Lisa Renee Jones

Publisher: Gallery Books
Format Read: Print ARC
Series: Inside Out #3
Source: The publisher in exchange for an honest review
Release Date: September 10, 2013
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Blurb from goodreads:

The third installment in the sexy Inside Out erotic romance series—in the seductive tradition of Fifty Shades of Grey.

You've discovered Rebecca's secrets. You've discovered Sara's secrets. Now Sara will discover "his" deepest, darkest secrets...but will those secrets bind them together--or tear them apart?

CarolKat Reviews Secrets Exposed: Tall, Dark and Deadly Series Prequel by Lisa Renee Jones

Publisher: Lisa Renee Jones
Series: Tall, Dark & Deadly Boxed Set, book.5
Format Read: Kindle Bundle
Source: Owned by reviewer
Release Date: January 7, 2013
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Blurb from Goodreads:

This set includes 3 full sized novels (195,000 words)

The Walker Brothers…

Tall, dark, and deadly, these three brothers run Walker security. Each brother is unique in his methods and skills, but all share key similarities. They are passionate about those they love, relentless when fighting for a cause they believe in, and all believe that no case is too hard, no danger too dark. Dedication is what they deliver, results are their reward.


Book 0.5 Secrets Exposed

Her enemy is her passion, her passion is her enemy.

Lindsey Paxton was once the number one defense attorney in New York. She fought for those who were innocent, but charged. Her instincts were her lifeline, never failing her, as they guided her in her choices of who to defend. Or so she thought. Until she won a case she would forever wish to have lost. Her client, an accused rapist, kills and rapes a woman only a day after being set free. Destroyed by her role in the woman's death, Lindsey blames her father's controlling ways for what she has become, and runs from her career and life. Years later - the past becomes the present . . . Her father has cancer, and Lindsey is forced to leave her career with the Washington branch of the FBI. She finds herself facing the responsibility of running her father's law firm with the reluctant help of hotshot attorney Mark Reeves, a man who sparks her temper while also managing to tempt her body, her mind, maybe even her heart. With his help she finds herself fighting the emotional battles of the past, tempted to trust both him and her instincts. Now, faced with a case inherited from her father so similar to her career-ending one, she now must decide if her instincts will lead her down the path to saving an innocent man or setting free another killer. But while she fights her own battles, someone watches, wanting from the past what he had failed to get the first time . . . Lindsey.

Blog Tour Review: CarolKat Reviews Being Me by Lisa Renee Jones

Publisher: Gallery Books
Series: Inside Out #2
Format Read: Trade paperback
Source: Meryl L Moss Media in exchange for an honest review.
Release Date: June 11, 2013
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Blurb from goodreads:

NOW OPTIONED TO STARZ for TV!

The sexy second installment in the Inside Out erotic romance trilogy, following If I Were You—in the seductive tradition of Fifty Shades of Grey.  

Fascinated by the dark fantasies in the journals she’s discovered, and the two men who have now found a place in her life, Sara McMillan finds herself torn between her new life and her past. Now, more than ever, Sara identifies with the lost journal writer, Rebecca, and is certain that something sinister has happened. 

In the arms of the sexy, tormented artist Chris Merit, Sara seeks answers about Rebecca and ends up discovering things about herself she never knew existed. Chris forces Sara to reconsider who she is and what she truly wants from life, but not before his dark desires threaten to tear them apart. Her boss, Mark Compton, offers her the shelter to understand just what those needs mean to her, and what they might have meant to Rebecca, but can she trust him to lead her to a final conclusion to Rebecca’s story? 

CarolKat Reviews If I Were You by Lisa Renee Jones

Publisher: Gallery Books
Series: Inside Out #1
Format Read: Trade Paperback
Source: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Release Date: March 12, 2013
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Blurb from goodreads:

When Sara McMillan finds a stack of journals in a storage unit, she’s shocked and enthralled by the erotic life the writer led. Unable to stop reading, she vicariously lives out dark fantasies through Rebecca, the writer—until the terrifying final entry.

Certain something sinister has happened, Sara sets out to discover the facts, immersing herself in Rebecca’s life. Soon she’s working at the art gallery Rebecca worked at and meeting Rebecca’s friends. Finding herself drawn to two dangerously sexy men, the manager of the gallery and a famed artist, Sara realizes she’s going down the same path Rebecca took. But with the promise of her dark needs being met by a man with confident good looks and a desire for control, she’s not sure anything else matters. Just the burn for more.