Night Owl Reviews
Ember is looking for something more from life that what she sees now. Working two jobs and watching her alcoholic mom waste away isn't the way she saw her life going when she was a little girl. When one of the richest guys in town asks her out she couldn't be happier, at least until she sees him for what he really is. But as luck would have it, she just might have met someone who can take her away from everything that she has now if only she is willing to take a risk on a stranger. Saber wasn't looking for anything more than some quick cash at that bar, until Ember walks in. Then she is all that he can think about, he just has to have her. The pull she has on him is enough that he knows he'd regret it if he doesn’t at least take her home for a night. Funny thing is, when you get the girl away from the monster, you may just realize that you are the knight in shining armor that she has always wanted. Things are about to look up for Saber, if only he can convince Ember to take a chance and leap into his open arms. While I have read several other stories by Carter, this one was a little too fast paced for me. I really wanted to like these characters, but with the story being so short, even more so than a novella, it was hard to connect with the characters on any level more than sexual. The sex was great in this book, and definitely left me wanting more of that. The two main characters had great chemistry, but there wasn't too much build up to the main event, so it didn't flow well with the way I imagined these characters would have "acted" in a more full length book. I do hope these characters come back into other works by Carter, as their chemistry was steaming up my reader, and hopefully we get a bit more story with the sex.
