Blog Tour Review: Hollywood Blackmail – Jackie Ashenden

Lizzie Kent needs to forget the past. She lives in total anonymity, immersing herself in nursing to help her forget. But when a man from her previous life turns up in her clinic, the life she’s tried to create for herself may come toppling down.

Ash knows what he wants and he wants Lizzie, the girl who left him all those years ago. As Hollywood’s greatest action superstar no one says no to him, but when Lizzie refuses to acknowledge their shared past, he has to resort to a little old fashioned blackmail.

Will Lizzie revisit her past to enable her future with the man she loves, or do old wounds run too deep?

Series: Seacliffe Medical #1
Release Date: January 13th 2014
Publisher: Entangled Indulgence
Source: Pump Up Your Book Tours
Reviewer: Sheri
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

This story had an interesting premise that sucked me in right away. I loved being in Lizzie Kent’s head, she is snarky and quirky and just the right amount of sarcasm to help me relate to her.

Ash is a bit of jerk at times, but I could tell he didn’t really mean to be a jerk. He just wants Lizzie to look at him the way she used to. He’s so used to getting his way that he pulls out all the stops to get his way with Lizzie.

They both have to learn to compromise and learn to love the grown up versions of each other. I really liked that they did have issues, that it wasn’t just he’s rich, and sweeps her off her feet and there are no problems. It was nice to read a story that even with the rich superstar plot there was a healthy dose of realism thrown in.

I look forward to trying more stories by Jackie Ashenden, she has a style that I enjoyed.

Ash was still sitting on the couch, leafing through that wretched nursing magazine. Black hair had fallen over his forehead and he had a bit of stubble going on. Despite the expensive clothes and the bandage on his face, he looked dark and dangerous and thoroughly disreputable.
And sexy. So sexy…
Lizzie pushed that thought out of her head and crushed it for good measure. She clasped her hands in front of her and opened her mouth to speak.
“Hang on,” Ash said, holding up a finger, keeping his gaze firmly on the magazine. “I haven’t finished this article.”
He could not be serious. It was a nursing magazine. About nursing. Not whatever magazine big Hollywood stars liked to read. “Oh come on, you’re not actually reading that, are you?”
“Of course I’m actually reading it. Now wait just a damn minute until I’ve finished this article.”
Lizzie battled the urge to pick up a cushion and hit him with it. The arrogant bastard. “Look, just because you’re a star—”
“Shush.”
“You can’t—”
“If you don’t let me sit here and finish this article I’m going to come over there and kiss the life out of you.”
Lizzie realized her mouth was open. Shut it. Would anyone notice if she killed him? Beat him to death slowly with a cushion? Surely they wouldn’t.
Calm. Breathe deep. Do not think of kissing.
What she needed was to find a new yoga studio, get back into it again. But some idiot had told her she looked familiar in some way and she’d had to quit the studio she’d been going to, and hadn’t had time to find another.
She flexed her fingers. Resisted the urge to look at her watch. Tried not to think about what would happen if she kept talking and whether he’d actually make good on the threat.
You want him to.
Ha. No. Not in the slightest.
Eventually Ash lowered the magazine and folded his arms, looked at her expectantly. “Okay, so what did you want to talk to me about?”
“You’re really that interested in a nursing magazine?”
“Why shouldn’t I be? I’m interested in a lot of things.”
“Yes, but nursing?”
There was a glint in his eyes. “I find I’m becoming more and more interested by the second.”

Jackie has been writing fiction since she was eleven years old. Mild mannered fantasy/SF/pseudo-literary writer by day, obsessive romance writer by night, she used to balance her writing with the more serious job of librarianship until a chance meeting with another romance writer prompted her to throw off the shackles of her day job and devote herself to the true love of her heart – writing romance. She particularly likes to write emotional stories with alpha heroes who’ve just got the world to their liking only to have it blown wide apart by their kick-ass heroines.

She lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband, the inimitable Dr Jax, two kids, two cats and some guppies (possibly dead guppies by the time you read this). When she’s not torturing alpha males and their stroppy heroines, she can be found drinking chocolate martinis, reading anything she can lay her hands on, posting random crap on her blog, or being forced to go mountain biking with her husband.

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