Wicked Lies by Lora Leigh Series: Men of Summer,
Published by St. Martin's Paperbacks Publication Date: September 1st 2015
Pages: 352
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Jazz has never been known as a good boy.
A good drinker. A good partier. A damned good builder, and a hell of a good liar. Those are all descriptions that come to mind when the citizens of Loudon, Tennessee think of the tall, muscular, laughter-filled charmer they know as Jazz. And Jazz will admit to all of them: he likes to play; he likes to tease. And a little white lie surely never hurt anyone.
Until the sexy, too-shy kindergarten teacher, Annie. Annie sets fire to his lusts as well as to his heart. But Annie has a past he wasn’t aware of. A past that will draw Jazz into the heart of a conflict he had never expected to face. His little Annie is under the protection of the United States Marshal Service for her testimony that has a high profile, very wealthy businessman facing death by lethal injection. A man that will stop at nothing to see her dead.
Now, Jazz has to pull in some serious favors, just as he finds himself fighting not just an overprotective Marshal that he believed was the new school principal, but also a woman determined to save the charming liar that has never been serious. One that has never faced reality. A man that has always sworn himself a bachelor. A man that now is telling the most wicked lies of his life to steal the heart of the woman that has stolen his soul.
I am having some mix feelings about this book. I really wanted to love it and just didn’t.
Its a story of a Kenni who’s family thought she was killed 10 years ago but actually has been on the run after she was attacked and her mother killed. She was saved by her uncle who taught her to survive until he was killed. She returns home and lives as someone else for 2 years before someone finally suspects that she is not who she says she is. Meantime after 2 years she connects with Jazz who as a teenager she had feelings for and he had feelings as well but never acted on them and then he thought she was dead. This story is about Kenni and Jazz solving the mystery of who attempted to kill her.
There a lot of plot holes that I am just having a hard time with. Jazz I think is suppose to be an ex marine but it was unclear while his best friend is suppose to be an ex Federal agent but they also have an association with a clan called the Kin that I didn’t quite understand. I also was confused about the relationship between him and Kenni. If they both had feelings for each other (some pretty serious feelings at that) he didn’t recognize her after she was what seemed liked stalking him for 2 years.
Her family had heard that she had been spot 10 years before and did attempt to find her but then all of the sudden just stopped and told no one that they had a suspicion she may be alive. In the meantime she has been living among them for 2 years and it took that long for anyone to suspect her. There was just too many of these open questions to full enjoy the book.
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