Title: Falling Hard
Author: Lexi Ryan
Series: Blackhawk Boys #4
Release Date: May 23, 2017
An NFL player with a secret past, and the one woman with the power to turn his world inside out...
Former actress Emma Rothschild is partying in Vegas in disguise. But I’m not fooled. Five years ago, I knew that body better than my own, and I haven’t forgotten a single detail.
When Emma’s unexpectedly left alone in sin city, I agree to spend the weekend with her. As friends. Why not? If I can knock down the toughest guys in the NFL, I’m strong enough to keep my hands to myself, even if she is the sexiest woman I’ve ever met.
Emma is part of my past—years so shrouded in secrets that not even my best friends know the truth about who I am. I’m a single dad now and not interested in revisiting my old ways or trying to win back the only woman I ever let close enough to break my heart.
But this is Vegas, where all bets are off, and with Emma, nothing ever goes as planned…
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FALLING HARD is a sexy and emotional novel intended for mature readers. It’s the fourth book in the world of the Blackhawk Boys, but can be enjoyed as a standalone.
Football. Secrets. Lies. Passion. These boys don’t play fair. Which Blackhawk Boy will steal your heart?
Lexi Ryan knows just how to screw with my head and bring me to my very emotionally distraught readers knees. Falling Hard is just the latest book in the Blackhawk Boys series which has without a doubt been one of my favorites series. It's packed with hot guys (turned SUPER hot men in Falling Hard), strong women, sexual tension, and emotions. ALLL the emotions.
Falling Hard is Keegan's story. Oh this boy held my heart from the get-go in this series. I needed for him to have his happily ever after even before I knew his full story. But what I wasn't prepared for was his woman. Oh wow, Emma was just the perfect brand of feisty and vulnerable to break down Keegan's walls. I just love, love, love what Lexi did with this story. It covered the past, present and future and every hardship along the way. It hurt. It felt the best. It just all around rocked my world and gave me just the book I wanted to read. It's far from any cookie cutter book you would expect. It's straight up unique, sexy, and simply heart-melting.
You won't be disappointed with Keegan's story. Ms. Ryan did him justice in the best way possible and brought to the table and even greater story with his and Emma's love story. It will be hard to top, but I KNOW that Bailey and Mason's story is just going to rip my heart out with the terrific set-up at the end of Falling Hard. But I also know in true Lexi Ryan form she will redeem herself and make every bit of my turmoil worth it. Until I have that book, which I'm CRAVING, I'll be reveling in Keegan's HEA!
Happy Reading!
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review*
“You’re too beautiful,” I tell her. I run my thumb along her jaw. “Too fucking beautiful.”
“I’ve missed you. You’re the best man I’ve ever met.”
My stomach clenches and I shake my head. “Don’t think that. It’s a lie. It’s what I wanted you to believe. Don’t bring that lie into tonight.”
“How was it a lie?” She grins up at me, and I know a full confession would erase all the happiness from her face.
“When we were together before, I wasn’t the man you thought I was. I wasn’t good.” It’s the closest to the truth I’ve ever given anyone about my past.
“So you don’t want me believing you’re good?”
I pull her hips tightly against me as I exhale in frustration. She still thinks this is some kind of joke. “I’m different now, but then…”
She lifts onto her toes and flicks her tongue against my ear. “Don’t be so different. I like you a little bad.”
I groan and stop dancing. I don’t know how much longer I can do this without diving over the line. “Is that permission to stop being your friend?” I’m obsessed with knowing if she tastes as sweet as I remember. And if I swipe my tongue over the sensitive spot beneath her ear, will she gasp like she always did?
She shrugs and grins, and the dance floor tilts off balance. It’s crowded, and we’re surrounded by writhing bodies, cocooned in the crowd. I turn her in my arms so her back is to my front and settle my hand against the soft skin of her midriff. She arches her back and rubs against me.
I sweep her hair to the side, and when I press my lips to the long, smooth column of her neck, she trembles against me.
“Are you okay?” I ask against her ear. “Is this okay?”
“I—I’m not sure…”
“Tell me what you want. Not five years ago. Not tomorrow. What do you want right now?”
She reaches back and threads her fingers through my hair to guide my mouth back to her neck.
I don’t hesitate. I kiss and suck on that tender skin while we move to the beat.
The rest of the room fades and one song blurs into the next. A waitress comes by selling shots, and I buy two, one for each of us, and we lock eyes as we throw them back. At some point, I’m vaguely aware of Bailey checking on me, but my focus is one hundred percent on Emma, on this night that takes me back to when I was eighteen and so fucking in love it hurt. Tonight, Emma isn’t the woman who once broke my heart. She isn’t the girl who wrote me off with a simple goodbye note and apologies I didn’t want. Tonight, she’s a dream, my fantasy in the flesh, my reward for surviving the hardest year of my whole life.
When her face begins to blur, I realize I’m way more drunk than I ever intended. I need to sober up or I’m not going to remember a minute of this night. “Want to get out of here?”
She nods, takes my hand, and leads me out of the bar and down the hall to the elevators. My watch reads a quarter past two.
“Let’s get some food,” I suggest, but at the same moment, an elevator dings and the doors slide open.
Emma grabs my hand and drags me inside. “I don’t want food,” she says, punching a button.
I spin her around and press her against the wall. “What do you want, Em?” I drop my hand to her side to skim my knuckles over her skirt, and she widens her stance to part her thighs. “Fuck,” I whisper. I shouldn’t do this. Not here, not when any moment someone could join us on the elevator, not when we’re both so damn drunk it’s a wonder we can stand upright. But shouldn’t is so much weaker than want, and I want to touch her more than I want anything right now.
I’m faintly aware of the soft beeping of the passing floors as I slide my hand up her skirt and cup her between her legs. She gasps, and I rub my fingers over the damp lace of her panties, teasing her swollen flesh.
When the elevator stops and the doors slide open, she grabs my wrist and holds me still. “Please,” she whispers in my ear. “Please. Don’t stop.” Then she tilts her hips and rocks against my hand. I couldn’t refuse her if every person in the hotel was watching us.
Falling Hard is Keegan's story. Oh this boy held my heart from the get-go in this series. I needed for him to have his happily ever after even before I knew his full story. But what I wasn't prepared for was his woman. Oh wow, Emma was just the perfect brand of feisty and vulnerable to break down Keegan's walls. I just love, love, love what Lexi did with this story. It covered the past, present and future and every hardship along the way. It hurt. It felt the best. It just all around rocked my world and gave me just the book I wanted to read. It's far from any cookie cutter book you would expect. It's straight up unique, sexy, and simply heart-melting.
You won't be disappointed with Keegan's story. Ms. Ryan did him justice in the best way possible and brought to the table and even greater story with his and Emma's love story. It will be hard to top, but I KNOW that Bailey and Mason's story is just going to rip my heart out with the terrific set-up at the end of Falling Hard. But I also know in true Lexi Ryan form she will redeem herself and make every bit of my turmoil worth it. Until I have that book, which I'm CRAVING, I'll be reveling in Keegan's HEA!
Happy Reading!
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review*
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