Review: Game for Marriage – Karen Erickson

He’s going in deep to make her his…

Struggling artist Sheridan Harper never imagined she’d spend a sizzling night with Jared Quinn, the smoking-hot star quarterback of her local professional football team, the San Jose Hawks. And she’s even more shocked when Jared’s publicist offers her a proposition: a fake marriage to keep Jared out of the gossip mags. Being that close to Jared would be too tempting, so to protect her heart, she insists on secretly including a clause forbidding sex between them.

Jared just wants to keep his starting QB job and keep it in San Jose. His reputation as a ladies’ man has landed him in the headlines one too many times, but there’s something about his kind, passionate new wife that tempts him beyond reason. Any sort of intimacy between them is completely forbidden, but as their bodies fall in deep, will their hearts follow suit?

Series:  Game for It #1
Release Date:  January 11, 2013
Publisher:  Entangled Publishing
Source: Provided by Publisher
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

This was an interesting one.  A hot shot quarterback in need of an image makeover and a local artist trying to save her fledgeling art studio.  I’m not sure if a marriage of convenience between our two leading characters was absolutely necessary, but it sure did make for an entertaining read.

Jared was gun shy when it came to press and the honestly of those he allows to be close to him.  He’s been burned a number of times and his need to change his image with a fake marriage was due to someone using him to better their own circumstance.  He doesn’t trust in his own feelings either, especially when it comes to his fake wife, Sheridan.  He fights against his feelings, especially considering their marriage contract, but when he finally trusts himself, his feelings and Sheridan he gets everything that he was craving.

Sheridan had issues that prevented her from truly trusting in her feelings for Jared.  She wanted to protect herself from having her heart torn by someone she was in love with.  She puts things in place to protect herself from Jared, but she finds that while Jared stays away from her it’s her own wants and desires that make her want so much more from Jared.

A quick, steamy read and another awesome entry into Entangled Publishing’s Brazen line.  Definitely one to pick up.

Cocktail Recipe

Cotton Candy Cosmo

1 1/2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce x-rated fusion liqueur
1 ounce cranberry juice
pink cotton candy
Directions:

1. Put the cotton candy in the martini glass.
2. Put the rest of the ingredients in a shaker and shake well.
3. Pour cocktail over the cotton candy, it dissolves instantly so present the glass before pouring.
4. Enjoy!

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