For Jake Wrigley, the future is bleak. Some people are
survivors, but he’s getting by on his bad-boy looks and charming smile. He owns
a gym, gets into bar fights, and wrestles his demons with rough workouts—both
in and out of the bedroom.
For Alyson Road, the future is bright. Life can only improve
from where she grew up. She graduated at the top of her law class, cares for
her ailing mom, and in her job, she defends those who can’t afford anyone else.
Her work is thankless but honest.
Jake’s twin brother has been covering his ass for as long as
they’ve been alive, but that all changes when Jake finds himself in front of
the fiery public defender, his future in her hands. For the first time ever, he
doesn’t want to involve his brother, finally realizing he needs to stand alone,
be his own man.
Even if Jake’s never absolved of his past wrongdoings or his
heart is never scrubbed of the blackness that resides there, he can do one good
deed—protect the beautiful lawyer who touched his soul—until helping her nearly
becomes his own undoing.
The blurb for this book grabbed me right after I fell in
love with the cover! Can you say YUM! Even though this book can be read as a
standalone, I chose to read book one Resolution Lane first. I would say reading
the Lane Wrigley’s book does enhance your enjoyment of Absolution Road which is
about Jake Wrigley.
I will say that after reading Resolution Lane, I was very
nervous about this book. In book 1, Jake is not a great character. I wanted to
hit him a few times and I was scared I wouldn’t like him in Absolution Road.
But I was WRONG!!! I really liked Jake. I felt that he had grown up some and
was incredibly likable. For someone who needed to be saved by his brother, he
was fiercely protective and it was so sexy.
Alyson is a great heroine. She was tough and grew up very
poor. But she became a lawyer and a damn good one too. When she gets together
with Jake the couple couldn’t have been more opposite. But Aly triggered
something in Jake to be better and take care of her no matter how much she
didn’t want him too.
One thing this book had that RL didn’t have was a bit of a
mystery to it. I will say that I figured it before the characters did but I
enjoy the twist. The twists kept coming toward the end and I really loved where
the author went with the story. I also really liked her writing and will be
definitely looking for more great books from Rachel Baufeld.
Leaning my chair back on its two
rear legs, I couldn’t help but laugh again before trying to contain myself.
This chick and her soft demeanor were all business. Of course, she would be.
Who else would work on Christmas Eve? I was pretty certain she could have made
me wait until the day after Christmas to post bond, but here she was defending
the public on the most holy night of the year.
Add a big heart to the brain,
tits, and long legs I’d already noted in her plus column. Maybe I didn’t want
to bang her, but rather cherish this sweet thing? The reality of that seemed
slim, seeing as the smart, good girls didn’t go for me. Nor did I expect them
to. I was the bad boy, and I had the guilty conscience to back that notion
right the fuck up.
“Of course, Ms. Road. It’s Jake,
by the way. Just J-A-K-E. Full name is J-A-S-O-N, but I haven’t been called
that in twenty years.” I mocked her spelling with my very own rendition,
teasing the schoolgirl, looking for a reaction like I was in the third grade.
“So, let’s get down to brass tacks and get my ass outta here so you can head
home to your . . . husband? Boyfriend? He must be waiting for a gem like you to
come home to start the holiday, right?”
No harm in trying.
As I spoke, she narrowed her
eyes and glared daggers at me. “Are you done with probing into my personal
life, interrogating me? I’m pretty sure I’m not the one in jail.”
Obviously annoyed, she followed
that volley with another few leg switches. Left over right, right over left. I
wanted to grab her knees and spread her limbs and dive in, let my tongue dig
deep into her folds, make her let go of all that stuck-up bullshit she had
going on while screaming my name. She probably tasted like sweet honey.
Rachel
Blaufeld is a social worker/entrepreneur/blogger turned author. Fearless about
sharing her opinion, Rachel captured the ear of stay-at-home and working moms
on her blog, BacknGrooveMom,
chronicling her adventures in parenting tweens and inventing a product, often
at the same time. She has also blogged for The
Huffington Post, Modern Mom, and StartupNation.
Turning
her focus on her sometimes wild-and-crazy creative side, it only took Rachel
two decades to do exactly what she wanted to do—write a fiction novel. Now she
spends way too many hours in local coffee shops plotting her ideas. Her tales
may all come with a side of angst and naughtiness, but end lusciously.
Rachel
lives around the corner from her childhood home in Pennsylvania with her family
and two dogs. Her obsessions include running, coffee, icing-filled doughnuts,
antiheroes, and mighty fine epilogues.
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