Review: Too Hot Too Handle – Katie Rose

Katie Rose’s Boys of Summer series returns for a delicious double-header—with the story of total opposites who are drawn to each other like moths to a flame.

Nikki Case is no fan of baseball. Her ex gambled away a fortune on the sport, and now her PR firm has tasked her with cleaning up the league’s most notorious bad boys. The New Jersey Sonics are known for wild womanizing and booze-fueled brawls, so Nikki expects the worst. Her first stop in the battle to win hearts and minds is star hitter Jake Baldwin—a legendary ladies man so smokin’ he threatens to melt her tough-girl armor.

Although his teammates prank her without mercy, Jake admires the way Nikki gives as good as she gets. She may be the queen of frost, but there’s kindling beneath those sultry curves—and he’s just the man to ignite it. But when a PR nightmare lands the Sonics in headlines across the country, Nikki is ready to walk. Only then does Jake realize how important she is to the Sonics’ success—and that winning the love of a good woman is no game.

Series: The Boys of Summer #2
Release Date: January 27th 2015
Publisher: Loveswept
Source: NetGalley
Reviewer: Karen and Iris
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

This is a delightful, fast paced baseball romance. Nikki Case is the best PR specialist in the business and is hired by the Sonics Baseball Team to improve the team’s image. The players are hard drinking, womanizing practical jokers’ and always getting into trouble and management is worried the bad press from all their escapades is hurting ticket sales. They are a rough and tumble group of guys and don’t want anyone telling them how they should live their lives. So they aren’t happy when Nikki is hired and tries to change the way they dress, act and look.

Jake Baldwin, the shortstop for the Sonics, is a party boy and a big flirt. He even has his own groupies who follow him around called Baldwin’s Beauties. One of his teammate’s bets Jake he can’t make Nikki fall in love with him. Nikki is prim and proper and his teammate’s doubt even Jake can get her to loosen up. Jake is cocky and takes the bet, because he has never met a woman he can’t seduce.

I liked everything about Nikki. She is smart, talented and successful at what she does and doesn’t need a man to lean on. She’s proud of her reputation and won’t jeopardize it for anyone, especially a playboy like Jake.

I thoroughly enjoyed this fun, well written story about Jake, a bad boy, baseball player and Nikki an uptight PR executive. Jake’s a nice guy, who’s the heart of the Sonics and the spark plug for the team. It’s exciting to watch the battle of wills between Jake and Nikki. This is the second book in The Boys of Summer series and each one is a stand-alone.