REVIEW ~IN TOO DEEP BY LEXI RYAN~

Title: In Too Deep

Author: Lexi Ryan

Series: Blackhawk Boys #5

Release Date: May 23, 2017

My Rating: 5 Stars

New York Times bestselling author Lexi Ryan brings readers a sexy NFL player who's pulled out all the stops for one more chance with the love of his life.

I have four months to make my wife fall in love with me or let her go forever.

I loved Bailey Green long before she watched her loser ex take his last breaths. I held her while they lowered his coffin into the ground, stilled her shaking hands when the nightmares would tear her from sleep. I waited for her through her grief. But while she was always willing to let me in her bed, she refused to let me in the one place I longed to be—her heart.

Tired of playing second string to a dead man, I let her go. I moved to Florida to begin my NFL career and tried to pretend my perfect life didn’t leave me empty. I’d almost given up. Until one drunken night in Vegas, we stumbled down the aisle and said, “I do.”

In exchange for the divorce she wants so badly, she’s agreed to remain my wife until the end of the year. She has no idea the favors I’ve called in or the lies I’ve told to get her here, but if I succeed, none of that matters. 

My secrets always seemed justified, but Bailey has her own—secrets that explain why she always pushed me away, secrets that make me wonder if I should have let her. Now we’re in too deep and I might lose the only girl I’ve ever loved and the best friend I’ve ever had.

In Too Deep is a sexy and emotional novel intended for mature readers. It’s the fifth book in the world of the Blackhawk Boys, but can be enjoyed as a standalone.

I knew this book was going to be good. I have waited and waited for Mason and Bailey's book, and felt for them in every Blackhawk Boys book from the beginning. But I don't think I was expected THIS book. It was emotional. It tore my heart out. It made me cry and I DO NOT cry when I read books. I don't. But Bailey and Mason's story just took every bit of pent up emotion that they shared in the past 4 years and just forced them to confront it head on. Their stories are far more intertwined that they even realize going into IN TO DEEP, and every new revelation just floored me.

I can't get over how perfectly made Mason and Bailey are for each other, yet how epically twisted of a deal life handed to them, but without every single one of their obstacles they wouldn't have learned and grown into the people that found complete and utter solace in the other. The beauty of Mason and Bailey is in the fear, in the past, in the present, and most importantly in the future. I would love nothing more than to see these two 10 years down the road. That's a book I desperately need. But for now I will revel in the wonderful story Ms. Ryan handed to her readers and bask in the perfectness that surpassed even what I expected from Mason and Bailey's HEA.

Happy Reading!
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review*

(click the cover to learn more and buy)

New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance novelist Lexi Ryan is a former college English professor turned full­time writer. She lives in rural Indiana with her husband and two children. When not writing, she can be found enjoying yoga, reading copiously, hanging out with her family, and thanking her lucky stars.