From New York Times best-selling author Cristin Harber and Tarina Deaton comes an exciting collaboration…
Please, Jordan. It’s Emme.”
The last thing Major Jordan Grant expected was to be pulled off his unit’s deployment for a civilian mission. But when Titan calls, you answer — especially when the mission is to rescue the younger sister of your childhood best friend.
Moments away from death, NGO nurse Emme France could only pray for a miracle. The last person she expected to see in the smoke and dust was Jordan Grant, her teenage crush and litmus test of all the men she’d dated ever since.
Lying low at Titan’s exotic Abu Dhabi headquarters while the media furor around her rescue settles, Emme and Jordan explore a mutual attraction that is no longer young and innocent. Days in the desert paradise ignite desire and blur reality…until they return home, where Jordan rejoins his deployed unit and Emme is left alone to reevaluate her life and priorities.
Their passion was forged in the fires of combat. Will the home fires be enough to keep the burn alive?
As an Air Force medic, Bree Marks saw the worst the War on Terror had to dish out. Now a physical therapist, she uses her experience to help other veterans heal from their physical wounds; while she battles her own emotional damage.
Blaming himself for his best friend’s suicide, former Army Ranger Jase Larken, retreated from life. To honor his best friend’s memory and assuage his guilt, he started an outdoor adventure company to help veterans with PTSD.
Bree had better things to do than catch her cheating fiancé in bed with another woman. Jase is something better – for a night at least. For the first time in years, Jase wanted more. When he finds her again, he doesn’t give her another chance to run.
Jase’s possessiveness grates on Bree’s independent nature. She’s dealt with her fair share of alpha-male, door kickers and doesn’t need one telling her what to do now. But as a new danger emerges, Bree and Jase must face their pasts, before someone’s obsession with Bree destroys any chance they have of a future.
As an Air Force medic, Bree Marks saw the worst the War on Terror had to dish out. Now a physical therapist, she uses her experience to help other veterans heal from their physical wounds; while she battles her own emotional damage.
Blaming himself for his best friend’s suicide, former Army Ranger Jase Larken, retreated from life. To honor his best friend’s memory and assuage his guilt, he started an outdoor adventure company to help veterans with PTSD.
Bree had better things to do than catch her cheating fiancé in bed with another woman. Jase is something better – for a night at least. For the first time in years, Jase wanted more. When he finds her again, he doesn’t give her another chance to run.
Jase’s possessiveness grates on Bree’s independent nature. She’s dealt with her fair share of alpha-male, door kickers and doesn’t need one telling her what to do now. But as a new danger emerges, Bree and Jase must face their pasts, before someone’s obsession with Bree destroys any chance they have of a future.
5 Why can’t we hogtie Bree? Stars.
I’m blown away by this book, by this author and by the characters, not just the main characters but all the characters. I really do not know where to start. But I can say that this book is epic. Yes. EPIC. Guess what? It is the author’s debut, crazy right? There aren’t enough stars to give this book. Okay so fangirled enough. Now my review.
Bree Marks is a secret bad arse. We first meet her when she comes home and her reaction is hilarious I was cheering her on.
She leaned a shoulder against the doorjamb and crossed her arms, drawing on the stillness. “Hey, Chad, sweetie. Are you busy?”
“Bree! Shit! What are you doing home? You’re early. This isn’t what it looks like.” “One, I live here, seeing as how it’s my house and all. And two, you’re really going to go with ‘this isn’t what it looks like’? Did you slip and fall and this lovely woman was nice enough to catch you with her vagina?”
I nearly peed my pants at that moment but it kept on getting better and better.
Bree Marks is a fantastic heroine. She is strong, sassy, intelligent and hard working. To me she is real. This is refreshing as most heroines can come across fake. She is successful and rich but doesn’t live beyond her means. As a physical therapist she now helps those who come back from war. She was special ops and is a total kick arse lady. I want to be her when I grow up. She is scary yet sweet. On a side note how awesome is her gun safe? Bloody awesome.
Jase ‘the walking orgasm’ Larken is everything you want in a Hero. Strong, bossy, caveman but adorable all at the same time. He is currently trying to get his company off the ground V.E.T Adventures. To off a safe haven for those who have problems adjusting after their service is finished. It is a personal matter for him to see this flourish. But it isn’t about easing is conscience no matter his regrets.
After a cheating ex not that she was really bothered about it, Denise her best friend does what any best friend would do. Get drunk, makes an offhand remark. Let the chase begin.
After a night of passion and things not wanting to be awkward Bree does a runner, Jase is NOT happy. But he wants what he tasted although he isn’t sure.
“Shit, I don’t know what the hell it was. It was just…different. The way she handled herself last night. You know how we can be, especially when we’re drinking. Loud and obnoxious.” “You mean drunken jackasses.”
But there is a high level of suspense for me anyway. I was constantly trying to guess who dunnit and well doubts were sowed to whether or not I got it right. As an alpha male what is the most logical thing to do? Yes get her to move in with you.
This book shows deep rooted pain, guilt but there are tender moments it is all so well balanced even the banter and sex scenes hot by the way. I want give the down and dirty but here is some sweet.
Until the night you walked into The Deck. You laughed, and it fixed something. Like sewing a wound back together. Sigh, major sigh
Here is some banter with more sweet.
Bree snorted and blew out a snot bubble. Denise threw her head back and laughed while Bree glared at her. “Get me a tissue, you cow.”
“I love you. Snot bubbles and all.”
“You can’t leave me, Bree. For any reason. You hold my heart together.” Tears welled up again. She blew another snot bubble.
There is a serious side to this book one where it hits me straight to the heart. The author knows what she is talking about you can tell there is no false BS going on here. Quite the opposite. Nothing is ever gender specific and Ms. Deaton shows that here.
For me there is always that one book that stays with you. Last year it was Athica Lane by Brynne Asher. This year Stitched up Heart shot straight to the top of the list.
I can’t wait to read more by this author. A must read if I do say so myself.
Denise Reynolds’s tightly controlled life is thrown off kilter when she’s given custody of her young cousins. There are days she has a hard enough time getting herself out of bed, never mind two precocious kids.
If that wasn’t enough, Chris Nolton comes strolling back into town as suddenly as he left it. She’d broken her own rules and given him a chance once before, only to have him ghost on her. But he’s not there for her this time. No, he’s leading the FBI Task Force intent on capturing the kids’ biological father. A man who was sent to prison for manslaughter. A man who was released five years too early. A man who wants his kids back.
The past has a way of repeating itself and once again, Denise finds herself defending the innocent against the evil of world. One wrong decision, one second guess, could have devastating consequences. To protect the most important people in her life, she’ll need to trust the one man with the power to break her.
Tarina has spent her entire life in and around the military – first as a dependent and then as an enlisted Air Force member.
In 2015, a friend challenged her to complete NaNoWriMo. She dusted off one of the many stories she’d started over the years, threw it in the trash, and started all over.
Her debut novel, Stitched Up Heart, released in September 2016. The military gives her plenty of material to work with and she strives to create characters who authentically represent all facets of the military life – the good and the not so great.
Tarina is still active duty and a single mom of five-year-old twins. Her favorite hobby is sleep. She has delusions of retiring from the military and being a stay-at-home mom.
Before you read this book, you need to go back and read Half-Broke Heart it gives you the reader a better understanding of the characters and their back stories.
4.5 ‘Murphy’ Stars
After everything that has happened to Denise she never expected to become guardians of K-Squared. Those two slayed me. Well done for creating such adorable kids. But trouble is brewing.
Denise never thought that she would see Chris again but now he has come a calling and he is there to sort out the trouble. Chris wanted to get back into Denise’s good graces in another way but Murphy doesn’t play by the same rules.
Chris and Denise are an amazing couple, they have their ups and downs but they work for it and I loved seeing these two together. They have chemistry as read in Half Broke Heart.
We see more of Jase & Bree and fingers crossed we get Graham and Paige maybe?
I loved every single moment of this book. I was floored by how action packed and fast paced it was admittedly the latter made me dock half a star. Sometimes the moments could have been longer but where just suddenly over, I wanted to savor this and as soon as I got into it I was nearly finished with the book.
Which really does speak for TD writing skills. She owned it and made this book her bitch.
She’ll suck you in, make you smile, and laugh. Gets you to squeeze a tear out here and there. Rips your heart out. Stomps on it a couple of times for good measure.
But then
TD puts it back in again not in the way that you wanted it but hey you got it back. Makes you squeeze out a tear again. Makes you laugh and smile and you get a sweet and utterly adorable ending.
TD got it spot on with Denise being upset with what happened and her realising that she needs Chris and that it would be worth it.
From New York Times best-selling author Cristin Harber and Tarina Deaton comes an exciting collaboration…
“Please, Jordan. It’s Emme.”
The last thing Major Jordan Grant expected was to be pulled off his unit’s deployment for a civilian mission. But when Titan calls, you answer — especially when the mission is to rescue the younger sister of your childhood best friend.
Moments away from death, NGO nurse Emme France could only pray for a miracle. The last person she expected to see in the smoke and dust was Jordan Grant, her teenage crush and litmus test of all the men she’d dated ever since.
Lying low at Titan’s exotic Abu Dhabi headquarters while the media furor around her rescue settles, Emme and Jordan explore a mutual attraction that is no longer young and innocent. Days in the desert paradise ignite desire and blur reality…until they return home, where Jordan rejoins his deployed unit and Emme is left alone to reevaluate her life and priorities.
Their passion was forged in the fires of combat. Will the home fires be enough to keep the burn alive?
Rescued Heart is another fantastic addition to the Titan World Series. I can’t get enough of them. I hope when you read them that you feel the same.
5 Emme Lou Who & Jingle Balls Stars
Major Jordan Grant Army Ranger, scarred, slightly tortured as always known the Army but lately he feels as if something has been missing. After meeting Jordan briefly in Stitched up Heart I did a little happy dance when I saw this. Jordan intrigued me the tortured Hero, the man who has lost his way. The man who needs to find a purpose again.
Emme a nurse practitioner decided to go to work in Mali for a non-profit organization while treating patients she is kidnapped and held for ransom. The ransom money is ten million dollars. Money the friends and the family do not have.
Jordan’ best friend’s little sister Emme shared a kiss together as teenagers. Chaste, innocent yet special. Jordan realized that Emme had turned into a beautiful woman but felt that the age difference was a hindrance and well there was his best friend and their father to contend with. Since that kiss he avoided her like the plague. He didn’t want to admit his feelings although they were there.
Emme’s father a General has pulled in every favor that he has been owed
Enter the Titan Group.
A simple rescue mission. To make things easier Jordan has been requested by name to go along so that she has someone she knows, he is pulled off his upcoming deployment which he isn’t happy about although he hesitates he agrees to help although there are some incentives for him involved he doesn’t help out because of them.
Jordan stays on to take care of Emme when they get to Dubai and the underlying feelings or the crush turns into so much more but what happens when they are back in the real world. Jordan will be deployed for six months but they both want it to work. They are great together. They have an easiness about them that is endearing and just wants you to have them have their happily ever after. Emme is strong heroine, sassy but let her insecurities get in the way but Jordan also had insecurities but they manage to work out their differences but in saying that Emme should of held on slightly longer.
Normally I am quite stingy when it comes to giving 5* and originally it was a 4* star read for me but this book is like a good whiskey hence me changing my mind.
Ms. Deaton’s talent flawlessly extended the Titan World and you can’t help but not forget the world around you when reading Emme and Jordan’s story. All the elements that balance out the book the angst, the romance, the suspense and the couple in itself are perfect and I can’t wait to read more of the author’s work in the future.
Parting words from the author:
And Team Titan – I hope I lived up to your expectations and did your boys proud. – You sure did in my opinion.
As an Air Force medic, Bree Marks saw the worst the War on Terror had to dish out. Now a physical therapist, she uses her experience to help other veterans heal from their physical wounds; while she battles her own emotional damage.
Blaming himself for his best friend’s suicide, former Army Ranger Jase Larken, retreated from life. To honor his best friend’s memory and assuage his guilt, he started an outdoor adventure company to help veterans with PTSD.
Bree had better things to do than catch her cheating fiancé in bed with another woman. Jase is something better – for a night at least. For the first time in years, Jase wanted more. When he finds her again, he doesn’t give her another chance to run.
Jase’s possessiveness grates on Bree’s independent nature. She’s dealt with her fair share of alpha-male, door kickers and doesn’t need one telling her what to do now. But as a new danger emerges, Bree and Jase must face their pasts, before someone’s obsession with Bree destroys any chance they have of a future.
“No.” She felt Jase release a breath as if he had been holding it, waiting for her answer. “I had no intention of hooking up with anyone on Friday. I just didn’t want to sit around my house drinking and whining about what an asshat Chad was. I can’t even remember the last time I had a one-night stand.”
“Then why’d you leave? You didn’t even give it a chance.”
“You don’t exactly seem like the kind of guy who’s lacking for female companionship. I didn’t want it to be awkward with you pretending like you’d call and me pretending like I believed you were going to. It was just easier to leave and not deal with the whole thing.”
“I haven’t been a monk.” He wrapped his other arm around her, shifting them so they were face to face. “But I haven’t taken a girl home with me in longer than I can remember. I woke up with your perfume in my nose and the taste of you in my mouth,” he said as he ran his nose up the side of Bree’s neck. “I was pissed when I woke up and you were gone.”
He moved a hand under the hem of her shirt. The warm night air caressed her stomach as he exposed her skin on his slow path up to her breasts.
Bree’s breath caught in her throat. His words, combined with his touch, fueled the slow burn of her desire.
“I want another taste, Bree.” Jase’s tongue traced her bottom lip before taking advantage of Bree’s gasp,
diving in and tangling his tongue with hers. His hand traveled back down her side, over her hip, and grabbed her thigh. He pulled her leg over his waist, nestling his rigid length against her core. With no one to interrupt them, their hands roamed freely, lifting shirts, unbuttoning buttons, and skimming goose-pimpled flesh.
Jase tried to roll Bree under him, forgetting they were in a hammock, and nearly toppled them out of it. He put an arm out to break their fall, but his momentum propelled him out of the hammock and onto the wooden deck of the porch.
Wide-eyed, Bree stared down at Jase. “Are you okay?”
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Stitched Up Heart
5 Why can’t we hogtie Bree? Stars.
I’m blown away by this book, by this author and by the characters, not just the main characters but all the characters. I really do not know where to start. But I can say that this book is epic. Yes. EPIC. Guess what? It is the author’s debut, crazy right? There aren’t enough stars to give this book. Okay so fangirled enough. Now my review.
Bree Marks is a secret bad arse. We first meet her when she comes home and her reaction is hilarious I was cheering her on.
She leaned a shoulder against the doorjamb and crossed her arms, drawing on the stillness. “Hey, Chad, sweetie. Are you busy?”
“Bree!
Shit! What are you doing home? You’re early. This isn’t what it looks
like.” “One, I live here, seeing as how it’s my house and all. And two,
you’re really going to go with ‘this isn’t what it looks like’? Did you
slip and fall and this lovely woman was nice enough to catch you with
her vagina?”
I nearly peed my pants at that moment but it kept on getting better and better.
Bree
Marks is a fantastic heroine. She is strong, sassy, intelligent and
hard working. To me she is real. This is refreshing as most heroines can
come across fake. She is successful and rich but doesn’t live beyond
her means. As a physical therapist she now helps those who come back
from war. She was special ops and is a total kick arse lady. I want to
be her when I grow up. She is scary yet sweet. On a side note how awesome is her gun safe? Bloody awesome.
Jase ‘the walking orgasm’ Larken is everything you want in a Hero. Strong, bossy, caveman but adorable all at the same time. He is currently trying to get his company off the ground V.E.T Adventures. To
off a safe haven for those who have problems adjusting after their
service is finished. It is a personal matter for him to see this
flourish. But it isn’t about easing is conscience no matter his regrets.
After a cheating ex not that she was really bothered about it, Denise her best friend does what any best friend would do. Get drunk, makes an offhand remark. Let the chase begin.
After
a night of passion and things not wanting to be awkward Bree does a
runner, Jase is NOT happy. But he wants what he tasted although he isn’t
sure.
“Shit,
I don’t know what the hell it was. It was just…different. The way she
handled herself last night. You know how we can be, especially when
we’re drinking. Loud and obnoxious.” “You mean drunken jackasses.”
But there is a high level of suspense for me anyway. I was constantly trying to guess who dunnit and well doubts were sowed to whether or not I got it right. As an alpha male what is the most logical thing to do? Yes get her to move in with you.
This book shows deep rooted pain, guilt but there are tender moments it is all so well balanced even the banter and sex scenes hot by the way. I want give the down and dirty but here is some sweet.
Until the night you walked into The Deck. You laughed, and it fixed something. Like sewing a wound back together. *Sigh, major sigh*
Here is some banter with more sweet.
Bree
snorted and blew out a snot bubble. Denise threw her head back and
laughed while Bree glared at her. “Get me a tissue, you cow.”
“I love you. Snot bubbles and all.”
“You can’t leave me, Bree. For any reason. You hold my heart together.” Tears welled up again. She blew another snot bubble.
There is a serious side to this book one where it hits me straight to the heart. The author knows what she is talking about you can tell there is no false BS going on here. Quite the opposite. Nothing is ever gender specific and Ms. Deaton shows that here.
For me there is always that one book that stays with you. Last year it was Athica Lane by Brynne Asher. This year Stitched up Heart shot straight to the top of the list.
I can’t wait to read more by this author. A must read if I do say so myself.
About The Author
Tarina has spent the last 21-plus years in the Air Force trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Currently stationed in Washington DC, she will soon be packing up her twin heathens (i.e. 4-year-olds) and moving to the Middle East for a 2-year assignment. As a single mom, her favorite pastimes include repeating the word ‘no’, the phrase ‘not right now’, and napping. Oh, and writing in her “spare” time.
Having never lived in one place for more than four years, her roots aren’t deep, but the friendships she’s formed over the years are.
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