My Favorite Things: Blog Tour: TroubleMaker #2: Favorite Places by Kelly Gendron

About The Book:

Title: Favorite Places

Author:Kelly Gendron
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A five-minute trolley ride, one troublemaking luggage, and two stolen identities. Six months later, two strangers discover they’re married. She wants an annulment. He has other plans.

Being illegally hitched is about the only way Chase Lennox would ever be shackled to any woman. But when the multimillionaire playboy finds out he’s married to the woman who caused him to lose the biggest deal of his life, Chase decides before he gives his new wife an annulment, she’s going to help him close the deal he’d lost.

Jessina Landi has a three-foot radius comfort zone. The last man she let into it cost her a lot more than a broken heart. And the huge debt she owes for that trust, well, it’s due. If she takes Chase Lennox's up on his offer, it’s sure to cover the bill.

There’s an annulment waiting at the end of their rainbow… well, that’s if they can get through the next two weeks without consummating the marriage.

Excerpt:

"Finish getting ready. We're outta here in a few minutes.” He turned his back to her.

Jessina struggled to recover from the total body meltdown he’d so easily triggered. "Are we heading back to your apartment?"

"Yes," he responded just as he disappeared from the doorway.

"Good." She raised her voice. "You can drop me off at the bus stop then."

Chase's head swayed back in the doorway. "Come again?"

"I'm going home, but I'll be back in time for Caplin's arrival on Thursday."

He stepped back into the room. "Why do you want to go home?"

The question caught her off guard. She'd assumed he'd be pleased to be rid of her. Nonetheless, telling him the truth wasn't an option. "As you said, the only reason we needed to spend time together was so I could get to know you, so we can convince Caplin we're married."

His forehead wrinkled. "And you feel like you know me?"

"Well enough to pull off a bullshit marriage, yes."

"Hmm." He rubbed his chin. The intensity of his stare held her captive. She clung to those dark eyes, waiting for him to say something. He dropped his hand and took a step toward her.

"I don't want you to go." His low, husky words resonated in her ears.

Her body hesitated, heart skipped, and nerves stammered. All of her senses failed her. She couldn’t have heard him right. "What?"

"There are a few more things you need to know about me in order to successfully pull this off, Jessina."

Every single one of her senses came back to life as he moved closer.

"Will you stay just one more night?" He stopped in front of her. "So I can show them to you?"

"What?" Heat flushed through her body once more. "What sort of things?"

Dark, ravishing eyes dropped to her mouth as he drew a finger down the side of her cheek. It trailed along her neck, gently grazing her shoulder and caressing the length of her arm. "The sort of things I would do with my real wife." He looked back up at her, his hand now settled on her hip. The weight of his touch caused her stomach to clench with desire. His hand shifted to the small of her back, and her next breath got caught in her throat. "I want to show you how my wife would make me feel when I'm this close to her." He applied light pressure with his hand to her back, and the space between them descended. Their bodies became one.

"Chase…" His name fell from her lips in a near whisper when his hardness pressed into her tight-with-desire belly.

"Jessina…" he hissed back in a throaty murmur.

My Reviews:

Troublemaker #1: Broken Fences

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Broken Fences by Kelly Gendron is the first book in her TroubleMaker series.

Dusty has moved on past the broken-fence and Colden James and the night she lost her virginity. It was either move on or mope miserably for SIX whole years. Besides, his brother Jimmy said he's married with three kids. Definitely time to move on right? Except when Colden steps back into town and into her bar he walks straight back into her heart.

Colden has been working undercover for the FBI for the past six years and made one stupid mistake. He's been carrying around a picture of Dusty this whole time. Now it's missing and his cover might have been blown. He heads back to Odessa and watches over her from the shadows. The bad guys have seen her picture but there's no way they're ever gonna lay a hand on the woman he loves.

When Colden finds out his little brothers wedding is just weeks away he emerges from the shadows, now having a legitimate reason to be home after all this time. Now if only he can convince Dusty that she belongs to him, that he's not really married with three kids and that he has always loved only her...

A lot of funny, a little action, plenty of heat and voila! You have one great story on your hands. I especially liked how acquiescent Dusty becomes when Colden gets his "Commanding" voice during their intimate moments.

TroubleMaker #2: Favorite Places

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Favorite Places by Kelly Gendron is the second book in her TroubleMaker series. The star of the tale...A piece of luggage that happens to have a long lost twin. No, not really, but it does pretty much all begin with the luggage!

Jessina bumps into Chase, quite literally, on the trolley from the airport. They both have the same luggage and there's a massive mix up. So massive that they find out six months later that they are actually married and need to get their "Marriage" annulled.

Chase has a very low opinion of women. In his own personal experience they are only out for one thing, money. When Jessina storms into his office demanding an annulment he's all on board. Until he realizes that there is something she can help him with before he signs the papers.

This was a humorous, romantic story of how your past shapes you and not always for the good. It's a story about becoming strong enough to change and overcome your past in order to enjoy your now and to make a better future for yourself.

I'm eager to read more from this author.

20 Fun Facts:

1. My first bike was a boys BMX. It was blue.

2. I owned an iguana, a baby mouse my dad caught in the house, countless chameleons, and a snake my uncle caught while fishing.

3. I got my first Barbie doll when I was 15 years old (as a “gag” gift)

4. If you haven’t guessed it yet. Yes. Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy… at least, until I kissed my first boy.

5. I went to cosmetology school.

6. First and only fan letter ever written was to Keanu Reeves.

7. My husband asked me to marry him at Fenway Park on the Jumbotron.

8. My son was born on Ground Hog day.

9. I flipped/beat the Pac-Man game twice. My dad gave me $2 for doing it.

10. Hallmark movies make me cry like a baby.

11. I always have nail polish but never a nail file.

12. I’m a Superhero Junky.

13. First phone ringtone ever ~ “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”

14. My mom’s nickname for me is “Kelisha.” It was the name of a princess in a romance novel she read years ago.

15. Friends nickname for me is “Kelbell”

16. My husband’s nickname is “Tank.” Not sure why, he’s not built like a tank.

17. My first vehicle was a S10 pick-up truck.

18. I sang “Country Roads” by John Denver in my grammar school talent show.

19. Day job ~ Nurse.

20. “Stolen Vows” was the original title for my latest release, “Favorite Places.”

About The Author:

Kelly resides in a quiet suburb somewhere between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY. Her day job? Kelly works in health care representing a group of nursing facilities in the WNY area. She’s been faithfully writing for three years but did write her first book ten years ago. She put it down to raise her son as a single mom and then picked it back up when she and her son finally grew up. That's when she settled into her newly married adult life and started to seriously write again. She's dabbled with Romantic Suspense stories, but recently she's been on a contemporary kick. The recipe for the men in her stories: a dash of bad boy attitude, a cup of strong and confident and, of course, besides being packed with magnificent bodies, and doused with shameless aptitudes, they must have a tender heart you want to rip out of the pages (or your e-Reader) and take to bed with you at night.