Lori has a nice, safe job and a nice, safe fiancé. She has played it safe most of her life. Until she finds that nice, safe fiancé in bed with another woman. But the ultimate betrayal is that he is willing to play sexy bedroom games with the neighbor that he wouldn’t play with Lori, no matter how often she asked. She kicks him out of her bed, out of her house, and out of her life. Now she’s ready to make her fantasies come true. She starts at Exposé, a sex club where anything goes.

Mike has been attracted to Lori since moving in next door. She is taken though, and even if she were free, she’s not his type. Too sweet, too innocent, too nice. So what in hell is she doing at Exposé? He doesn’t know, but he’s determined to protect her from the other guys in the club…and from himself. Determined to protect her even if it means bringing her pain.

By the time Mike realizes Lori doesn’t want or need to be protected, it’s almost too late.

After she finds her fiancé in bed with another woman, Lori decides to go to Exposé, the sex club that she’s always been curious about. It’s there that she sees Mike, her neighbor. Though she’s never thought of him in a sexual light, now she’s looking at him in a whole different way. Mike uncovers things about her sexuality that she had no idea existed. Then, after one hot weekend together, Mike abruptly pulls away from Lori. Now, she’s not only lost the lover that had just begun to show her what she wants, but the friend that she’s had for the past several years.

I liked this book, but it lost me at the end. The now ex-fiancé ended up being a psychopath. What made it work was Mike figured out what an idiot he was being before Lori was almost killed. So at least it wasn’t the “I almost lost her and can’t live without her” epiphany that you sometimes see.

3.5 out of 5.

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Timid and shy, in her wildest dreams, Allie never imagined Alex would look at her with anything more than friendship and maybe a little pity in his eyes.

One horrible night Allie is attacked and Alex comes rushing to her rescue.
He wonders if he is really needed when he finds a little hellcat fighting off her attacker. Much later that night, Alex holds that little hellcat in his arms.

Months later, he runs into Allie again and he barely recognizes her. She’s no longer the shy little wallflower she had once been.

Problem is…she doesn’t seem to want to have anything to do with him. Allie’s about to find out that Alex is the only man guaranteed to make her wildest dreams come true.

Allie is Mike’s sister from Good Girls Don’t.

I really liked Allie. When she realized how miserable she was with her life, she changed it. She didn’t cry and whine about how horrible things were. She changed what made her unhappy and found who she truly was.

After an unforgettable night six months before, Alex still dreams about Allie every night. Since he’s avoided her since that night, he is not prepared for the woman she’s become. When he sees her again, he knows that he won’t let her go. Yet again, Shiloh takes what could become a cliche (man sees transformed woman and falls in love) and makes it work. Alex wanted Allie before he saw the changes in her. It’s the change in her that makes him realize that if he doesn’t step up and show her he wants her, he’ll lose her forever.

4 out of 5.

This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.