In the latest tantalizing Rule Breakers novel from Jennifer Chance, an irresistible alpha male follows his ex into a deadly standoff—and reignites a heated affair.
For Erin Connelly, being a good girl isn’t such a bad thing. She’s working her dream job at a Boston art gallery and staying out of trouble, which is more than she can say for her deadbeat mom. Unfortunately, her mother’s latest misadventure lands her in the clutches of a Mexican drug lord. Now the only person who can save her is the one man Erin has no business asking for help: the sexy-as-sin army ranger who just so happens to be her former high school sweetheart.
Zander James is no gentleman—and no officer, either, thanks to Erin. Four years ago, she made a call that terminated his highest aspirations . . . and their relationship. He’s never forgiven her, but when he learns that Erin’s embarking on a half-baked rescue mission, he sure as hell can’t let her go alone. Now, with a treacherous enemy lying in wait, the electrifying tension between them may just be Zander’s undoing. Because while he may be able to keep Erin alive, he can’t promise to keep his hands off her.
Staff Sergeant Zander James had pulled many impossible missions in the last four years, certainly since he’d shipped out to a desert life of blazing days and freezing nights, his unit constantly thrust into the worst of every possible situation. At this exact moment, however, his assignment was epically simple: to let go of Erin Connelly’s hands, and allow the woman who’d well and truly jacked up his life four years ago to crawl back to whatever miserable existence she was living, never to betray him again.
Unfortunately, it appeared that said mission had already been compromised. All his careful strategies and well-laid plans to handle this fucked-up little reunion had completely fallen to shit.
Because something was wrong.
Erin was scared. Worried. And not just the garden-variety worry that she’d always seemed to wrap around herself like some sort of fucking shroud, every second of every day. This worry was real, immediate. It vibrated off her like a living thing.
Too bad he didn’t give a damn. He’d stopped giving a damn about Erin Connelly the night she’d not only sold him out, but then proceeded to completely cut him out of her life. After he’d enlisted in the army—his only choice with West Point off the table—she hadn’t written him, not once. He hadn’t expected her to write him, of course, but he sure as hell hadn’t come crawling back to her, either. Weeks had turned into months, months to years. All that time without an email or a text—and with him making only one, supremely ill-advised phone call. Hadn’t seemed so long, in the end.
In the beginning, that was another story.
But none of that mattered, he reminded himself. She didn’t matter.
Except now, as he stared into a pair of bright blue eyes he knew so well they were
goddamned imprinted on his skull, he found himself unprepared for the shock to his system. His hands tightened on hers, and he fixed his glare on Erin Connelly’s startled face for one long, impossibly perfect moment, taking in the parted lips, the flushed cheeks, the stricken expression of a woman far more affected by him than she’d either planned or wanted to be. Good. “Now?” he asked bluntly. “Now, at my father’s funeral, this is when you want to ask me something?”
And, just like that, Erin’s chin came up, her shoulders firmed. That was new. “I apologize,” she said, her words suddenly as clipped as his, almost emotionless. “Of course not,what was I thinking. I’m so sorry.” Nice. She’d learned some evasive tactics of her own while he was gone. She opened her mouth as if to say something else, then thought better of it, substituting different words: “Your father will be missed.”
She moved to pull away, and Zander felt the action like a visceral tug, as if Erin held a direct line to his heart and she was towing it along with her. And since the entire point of this little maneuver was getting that shit to stop, he tightened his own hold, keeping her close. “What’s your question?” he asked.
WANT IT by
Jennifer Chance is the third book in the series, but don’t worry, you won’t get
lost if you haven’t read ROCK IT or FAKE IT yet. You’ll be missing out
because well, who doesn’t love a sexy rocker? But you definitely don’t NEED to
read them to know what is going on in WANT
IT.
So, let’s start with stating the fact, I’m not a big fan of
second chance romances. I like them alright, but I reaaallllyyyy love the
intensity that comes from when you first meet someone. With that being said, I
won’t say it’ll take A LOT to win me over, but it will certainly take some
really good chemistry between the characters to sell it to me.
Let me tell you, Zander and Erin definitely had that
chemistry and more! What intensity I didn’t get with the first time meeting
someone, I got with intensity of seeing your ex for the first time after the
relationship ended so badly. And the intensity of them finally understanding
one another in a way they didn’t the first time. I was sold after the first
chapter and couldn’t put it down until I knew what happened to Erin’s parents
and if Zander would ever forgive Erin for what happened in the past.
Jennifer Chance is the award-winning author of the new adult Rule Breakers series. A lover of books, romance, and happily-ever-afters, she lives and writes in Ohio.
Steph, thank you so much for reading Want It and for your review!! I hope you have an absolutely amazing New Year. :)
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