GRR Reviews Wild Irish Ride by Jennifer Saints

Wild Irish Ride is a star-crossed lovers story with a stalker threat. The ending was really lame though. Else this would have gotten a higher rating.

Alexi Jordan had lived a controlled life except for a brief fling at seventeen when she was rescued by then young Jesse Weldon, 19. But they never did the deed even when she offered. She never saw him again. Twelve years later, Alexi received damning photos of her fiancee's infidelity merely 30 minutes before their wedding. Alexi stormed off, vowing to follow her heart rather than family pressure. When she happened to run into Jesse again, she kissed him and asked him to get her away... // Jesse knew he did the right thing... he wasn't going anywhere and he can't take Alexi's gift. Except he walked out, and was knocked out, and woke up having been framed for larceny, and was shipped off to the Marines the next day. Only the Jordan family could have done that. He was sadder but wiser. Twelve years later, he is a security specialist only visiting his brother back in town helping to deliver some equipment when he ran into Alexi... and he's rescuing her... again. And this time, Jesse and Alexi will resume what they started twelve years ago... but someone is in the shadows pulling strings... as it was clear a deranged stalker is after Alexi, and it is someone close... VERY close...

VERY nice shift from serendipity to romantic suspense. I wish the ending could have been handled better, which I won't spoil.

Category: Contemporary / Romantic suspense

Primary Plot: Star-crossed lovers meet again, when he rescued her from her wedding she didn't want, but someone else is stalking her...

Overall Rating: 4/5

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GRR Reviews Hard Irish Luck: A Southern Steam Novel by Jennifer Saints

Hard Irish Luck is one heck of a romantic suspense where a guy went in with a disguise, but ended up falling for the enemy, so to speak. The plot had been used before, but it's very nicely executed.

Jared Weldon, running Shamrock Construction with his brother, was sure that McKenna Construction was doing something underhanded to beat them in bids. Jared, not willing to losing his wild bachelor lifestyle, is determined to find something wrong with his enemy, and will even go undercover to do it. A chance encounter had him rescue a pretty girl in a bar. Only later did he realize the girl he rescued was no other than Roxanne "Rocky" McKenna, who took over after her father had a stroke. When he rescued her again the next day at her jobsite and was injured, he misrepresented himself as a security agent in his (other) brother's Security company... // Rocky McKenna had a bitter divorce three years ago and is determined to run the company as a tight ship, esp. when her father is now in the hospital, in a coma, barely clinging to life. But that kiss and rescue by Jared awoke something in her that cannot be denied. When Jared rescued her again, Rocky denied her life is in danger, but Jared was too sweet to pass up. They continue their liaison, and Jared wanted to confess, but one incident after another threatened to kill them both... And the hints point back to the turbulent past of the Irish Republic Army... and some deep family secrets that had been hidden for decades...

A lesser author would have simply put the motivation of the bad guys as "greed", but this one had a twist on that theme that added to old family secrets that had been hidden for decades. This is a great example of romantic suspense.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: Man in disguise wanting to destroy his competitor's firm fell for the other firm's leader, but someone's after them both...

Overall Rating: 5/5

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