Title: Red Card
Author: Carrie Aarons
Genre: New Adult Romance
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Blurb
She spent five years planning a future that will never exist. He spent five years trying to erase a past he can’t forget.
London is Leah Watson’s fresh start. When she secures the perfect internship during her study abroad semester, with an infamous celebrity public relations firm, she is determined to forge her own path - one that is nothing like her life back in Oklahoma. That plan is tested when British football’s bad boy, Killian Ramsey, decides that she's the one he wants and he's playing for keeps.
Will she put her future on hold - again - for the type of man she swore she'd stay away from?
Killian is one bloody good football player. After a tragedy shattered his entire world, the cocky and arrogant face he puts on for the media is a complete lie. When he meets Leah, his heart starts to beat for the first time in years. But when the feelings get too real, his perfectly constructed facade starts to slip.
Will he risk it all to be with her - taking whatever penalties are thrown his way - or will he play it safe?
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Excerpt
Trying to dash off to find the British Prince of Moodiness proves difficult in the six-inch stilettos the stylist had strapped onto my feet. I didn't wear clothing like this. I was the Oklahoma girlnextdoor, cute and pretty in my sundresses and boots. I didn't do skintight, short or heeled. I could hear the snickers of the PR handlers around me as I stumbled like a baby calf off of the carpet in search of my responsibility.
Turning down the block and moving away from the mayhem, I spotted a tall figure in the shadows. I'd read enough about Jack the Ripper before coming over here to be spooked, but then I saw the shine of a metal flask being raised to the lips, and I could only take one guess as to who that was.
I marched up, as best as I could in the shoes. "You need to come back and walk the red carpet."
Killian's skyblue eyes twinkled with sly amusement and barely restrained anger. "Oh, and you're going to make me, huh America's Sweetheart?"
The smell of what I'm sure was overlyexpensive whiskey blew across my face as he exhaled. He pretended to give an air of nonchalance, but I could read his body language better than he thought I could. He was so coiled and tense, he gave a cobra ready to strike a run for its money. Rage and sorrow poured off of him in waves, blanketing the dark side street in misery so abundant that I could feel it down to my bones. And something else. I don't know why it struck me, perhaps because the emotion was running through my veins as well. But this man...he was lonely.
"You're cheeky, I like that." He raised the flask in a salute to me and tilted his head back as the amber liquid disappeared into that appealing mouth. Damn it. This bad boy with a bad attitude was not going to ruin my career or my time here. I was done letting people decide the future for me, sweeping me along in the current just because I let them.
I knocked the flask straight out of his hand, sending little droplets of whiskey landing on both of us.
"Listen you jackass! I don't know who you are. In fact, I don't care if you're the Prime Minister of this country! This job, I really need it. I'm taking this shot and succeeding at it if it means I have to put my blood, sweat and tears into it. And some London bad boy parading his pissed off attitude around for the world to see is not going to stop me! So button your jacket, plaster a smile on, and get on that carpet!"
My breathing was ragged, all of the energy I'd saved up to get through the event suddenly spent. Jetlag, homesickness and heartbreak were taking over, and I could feel the pull of all three from the inside out.
The leer on Killian's face only proved that my tirade was all for nothing.
And then he moved. It was a blur of motion and speed before my back was against a brick wall. He'd pinned me, like a wolf circling in on their prey. Nervous tremors washed over my flesh, and I could hear the roaring in my ears. I was half afraid he would actually rip my throat out for speaking to him that way. The other half of me was too incredibly aroused to care.
"I am bad. But I'm not a boy, I'm a man. Have you ever been with a man, little lamb?" He chuckled darkly, leaning his entire form into me and pinning my hips with his hands. "No, I don't think you have."
~My Review~
5 Stars
I Was Provided A ARC By The Author
(Possible Spoilers)
Leah Watson's life revolved around her boyfriend for the last five years, planning a future together, being the perfect girlfriend. When all of sudden that future is thrown out the window. Left confused and having no idea where her future was going now, Leah jumps at the opportunity for a internship at a public relations firm. She boards that plan from Oklahoma to London with the hopes of starting over and finding herself. She's thrown into the work as soon as she lands, feeling like a fish out of water and stuck watching over one extremely sexy, British, bad boy, Killian Ramsey. But Leah is ready to handle whatever is thrown her way. Even when Killian is driving her crazy with his attitude. And while pushing all her buttons and making her crave his touch.
Killian Ramsey "the bad boy" of football is battling demons from his past. He doesn't tolerate many people. And he especially doesn't trust the press. His past is dark and he wants to leave it buried. He has a successful career, and all his focus is set on keeping it that way. Not letting anyone in, make those parts of his past easier to keep away. But when a beautiful american comes into his life, Killian cant help but be drawn to her. When Killian experiences what a feisty women she is, one who does not take his BS, he sets out to make Leah Watson his personal assistant. He can't wait to seduce her and show her how great they would be together.
But Killian and Leah never expected that giving into the hot, all consuming passion between them, would ever lead to anything more. They have to face their pasts, rumors, the press, and more to keep what they have from falling apart.
I absolutely loved this book! I couldn't get enough of this story or these characters, I fell for them hard.
Leah is a beautiful female lead. She lost was lost when we first met her, and trying to find the women that she was, that she lost along the way. But she's strong women and she found a new part of who she is when she started fresh in London. I loved her feisty, sassy, yet vulnerable attitude. Her ability to forgive and love, her determination, she went after what she wanted and stayed true to herself. Killian also helped her grow, by showing her adventures and letting her know her dreams are just as important as his.
Killian is such a swoon worthy book boyfriend. Sexy, broken, cocky attitude, sexy accent, vulnerable, dirty talking alpha who is super sexy. Did I say sexy to much? I don't care cause Killian Ramsey is one sexy man! You understand his need for space and control, his temper. He has faced so much pain, and was dragged through the media. He lost trust in people. I loved how he grew to love and trust again with the help of Leah.
Together you couldn't ask for more with this couple, you get love, angst, romance and plenty of sexiness. The passion between these two. (Blushes) WOW! ;)
When I was first introduced to Carrie Aarons writing with the Over The Fence series, I loved her writing. But I really fell in love with her writing, with Red Card.
I'm impatiently waiting to get a hold of whatever she releases next.
This a author, who's books you NEED to read.
Author Bio
They say those who can't do, teach. Well, Carrie has no hand-eye coordination, and her idea of romance is a Netflix marathon complete with Thai food. So, she writes sports romance novels instead.
Beginning her writing career as a journalist, Carrie wrote about real-life crime and scandal before turning to the fantasy world of fiction. She lives with her husband in an apartment they are constantly outgrowing.
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