Title: Held Against You
Author: Season Vining
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A gorgeous bounty hunter. A wanted woman. A passion they can't deny.
Accused of a horrific crime and on the run, Kat has been rejected by everyone she loves. She's a fugitive from her past, flitting from town to town with nothing but the clothes on her back--until she meets a man who literally stops her in her tracks.
A notorious bounty hunter with powerful instincts, he never fails to capture his prey. But there's something about Kat that gets under his skin-and it's not just the naked innocence he sees in her pretty eyes. Behind his ice cold demeanor, he has his own darkness... and now his lively, vulnerable mark is about to crack him wide open.
As they travel across the country together, both captor and captive are unable to deny the spark of attraction between them. Will their journey bring them together…or will their dangerous secrets tear them apart?
Why, oh why, did I let this book sit on my shelf for so long? It was funny, suspenseful and interesting, and I truly regret not picking it up sooner, but loved that I finally did.
Kat is on the run. Fleeing after making bail, she's alone and headed as far from trouble as she can get. She has nothing to her name, no one to protect her and no true hope for the future. And when she's captured by a dark and dangerous bounty hunter, she knows her days of freedom are numbered.
But she's not counting on the attraction that burns between them. He's a mystery to her -- to everyone -- and as they make their way back to Texas and her fate together, Kat and her bounty hunter start to lose the fight against their need for one another. Will their secrets and mistakes destroy them, or can they build something strong from the ashes of their broken pasts?
After letting this book sit on my bedside table for a few weeks, I finally picked it up, only to finish it in one night, all the time wondering why I didn't read it sooner. Held Against You was a little gem. The references to '80's music and film, the increasingly silly nicknames given to her captor/HIM (as per the chapter titles), and the banter between these two were great. The mystery was a little predictable but still very enjoyable, it had a couple twists that were delightfully left of center and the steam factor was spot on.
I really wanted to get to the end of this book, for all the right reasons -- I wanted to know about the mysterious bounty hunter and what his story was, I wanted them to realize they had a good thing and make their escape, I wanted to cuss at them for their blindness and bad decision-making at times. I just wanted to read it. It was enjoyable. Nothing taxing or horrifically trying to read; nothing heart-shattering, but not complete fluff, either. There was good balance here, between nail-biting story and romance and sexiness.
Season Vining is a new-to-me author, and one I will be very interested to read more from in the future. If her males are as sexy as this "fugitive recovery agent" and her females as playfully fun and strong as this eighties lovin' fugitive, then she has a fan in me.
~ Review by Beth
SEASON VINING is an author, a designer, a philanthropist, a bookworm, a cook, inked, and a night owl. She loves John Hughes films, tattooed boys, and celebrating anniversaries of her 29th birthday. She lives in Louisiana, where she likes to spend time with her corgi, Chap.
Season is a graphic designer by trade and adores all form of art. She's a fan of live music, vintage cars, and people who know the difference between their, there, and they're.
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