Hold Me
(Cherry Blossom Lake #3)
by Tawna Fenske
Then Zoe walks in with her library smarts and innocent eyes and one helluva dirty idea.
I guess living in hospitals for two decades didn’t leave much time for dating.
Or any kind of fun, really.
Zoe’s a virgin with a bucket list, and guess who’s on it?
No way am I satisfying her desires.
She’s my boss’s little sister-in-law, and besides.
I’m maxed out with my sick dad and a secret I’m not ready to share.
I’ll help with the unsexy things on Zoe’s list.
Problem is, everything from a foul-mouthed pinball machine to my dopey dog keep conspiring to push us together.
Even cooking class and an oddly sexy oil change lead straight to temptation.
Girls like Zoe don’t end up with guys like me.
It’s basic math even this high school dropout can do.
So how come I can’t stay away?
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
Cal Cornish has tick marks on his tackle box for every girl he’s slept with. My library co-worker, Shanice, shared that one. She also said she knows a woman who went home with him one night and had six orgasms before she floated home at midnight, forever ruined for other men.
I wait while she shoves everything into her mom-mobile, then slams the door like she’s trapped a Sasquatch inside.
I want to be prepared just in case. And I want something that says, ‘I’m a sexy, confident woman’ and not, ‘my sister still puts Hello Kitty underpants in my Christmas stocking.’
I move to the next rack and finger a flimsy set in neon pink. It’s mostly strings, and I could achieve the same effect with a hot pink highlighter pen. “I guess I’d have to get a Brazilian wax job.” Maybe I should add that to my list. “Either that or I’ll look like a hamster wedged in a drawer.”
“I can tell by looking at you.” “Tell what?” I feel itchy and self- conscious. “You’re good at it.” Zoe licks her lips. “You kinda just scream sex.” “I try not to,” I say. “They kicked me out of Walmart last time.”
Shanice appears then, books in her arms, her dark eyes sweeping from my feet to my face. “Girl! You look like you just had a quickie in the bathroom.”
My Review:
I wiggled, smirked, and giggle-snorted with glee as I zipped through this delightfully amusing missive. While I have loved every installment in this refreshingly clever series. I deeply treasured these authentic main characters, they were knowable, adorable, and highly endearing. Ms. Fenske’s writing just keeps getting better and better.
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When Tawna Fenske finished her English lit degree at 22, she celebrated by filling a giant trash bag full of romance novels and dragging it everywhere until she’d read them all. Now she’s a RITA-nominated, USA Today bestselling author who writes humorous fiction, risqué romance, and heartwarming love stories with a quirky twist. Publishers Weekly has praised Tawna’s offbeat romances with multiple starred reviews and noted, “There’s something wonderfully relaxing about being immersed in a story filled with over-the-top characters in undeniably relatable situations. Heartache and humor go hand in hand.”
Tawna lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband, stepkids, and a menagerie of ill-behaved pets. She loves hiking, snowshoeing, standup paddleboarding, and inventing excuses to sip wine on her back porch. She can peel a banana with her toes and loses an average of twenty pairs of eyeglasses per year. To find out more about Tawna and her books, visit www.tawnafenske.com.
