Wild Kisses by Skye Jordan
Newly divorced, Avery Hart returns home to Wildwood eager to take on her dream opportunity and transform her family’s dive bar into her own bakery. The contractor for hire isn’t just a master with his hands—he’s big, built, and wears a tool belt like nobody’s business. Despite being an ex-con, Trace Hutton is irresistible. Too bad he’d never go for someone as inexperienced as Avery.
Trace needs to focus on the job at hand, not daydream about smearing icing all over the sexy baker…and licking it off. This job is the key to getting his construction company back on its feet after his time in prison. Besides, no one deserves a fresh start more than Avery, and she certainly won’t get that with him.
After a delectable night of passion (and pie), Trace craves something more. But he’ll be damned if he’ll let his checkered past crush her dreams. And as Avery starts to realize how Trace fulfills more than just her physical needs, she struggles with whether to let her history decide her future, or explore the wild new possibilities of forever…
Caroline's Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This author is new to me but I most definitely plan to read more of her books. This novel is book 2 of a series. The characters are interlinked but you can read it as a standalone. It’s written in the third person.
This story initially has the feel of a great small-town romance but, honestly, it was a little bit gritty in places and a whole lot of HOT!!
“I want to touch you. I want to taste you. I want to inhale you. I want to crawl under your skin and nest.”
Trace Hutton is still trying to get back on his feet, building his construction business, years after serving time in prison. He’s burning the candle at both ends looking after his dementia-suffering father, and working solidly to get his current project finished, without being distracted by its beautiful owner.
Avery Hart has been back in Wildwood for a little while. She ran away as a teenager with her sweetheart, who joined the army. Now, she’s divorced and back, and putting everything she has into turning her father’s old seedy bar into a bakery/café.
Their attraction was immediate upon meeting, however, Trace feels he has nothing but bad vibes and his bad reputation to offer a sweet, innocent girl like Avery. Avery feels inexperienced and burnt by her ex. Nonetheless, their chemistry is palpable and, even though Trace tries to do the right thing, they find themselves crossing the friendship line. What starts out as a one-night, no-strings thing becomes addictive. Throw in deeper, tender feelings, and they’re in a whole lot of trouble, especially in their small town where gossip is everyday fodder.
“They held each other’s gaze a long, hot second. A hot second that turned Trace’s mind 180 degrees. He didn’t want to let anything go – not last night, not the bond they’d formed, and sure as shit not the gorgeous creature looking up at him.”
Avery and Trace were great characters. Avery is a darling but she’s pretty tough, capable, and very mature for her age underneath her sweet exterior. She has a fantastic work ethic and strives to make people happy. Trace might be an ex-con but there’s absolutely more to him than meets the eye. He has a firm core of goodness and altruism that he keeps well hidden, but Avery could see right through to the heart of him. I loved their mutual attraction and their compulsion to be together. I loved that Avery really didn’t care what other people thought of them because deep down, she knows Trace.
This was a fabulous story, well-written, addictive, and incredibly sexy!
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