Shine Not Burn

by Elle Casey

Andie Marks, known as “Party Girl” in her college days, is now a whip-smart lawyer on the fast track to success. Determined to move on from a bad break-up, she joins her girlfriends for a wild bachelorette weekend in Las Vegas, promising to let her hair down just this once.

Vegas is a blur of cocktails and blackjack, and in the middle of it all she meets Mack, a real-life cowboy with a winning hand and an irresistible body. They get lucky in the casino and luckier back at the hotel, a hot night of passion that was definitely not part of Andie’s life plan.

By dawn Mack is gone and all she has to remember their one-night romance is a hangover and a pile of casino chips. Or so she thinks…

Revised edition: This edition of Shine Not Burn includes editorial revisions.

• ISBN10: 1503945219
• ISBN13: 9781503945210
• Publish Date: 28 July 2015 (first published 1 July 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Montlake Romance
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 351
• Language: English

Reviews

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I loved every minute of this charming and sweet story. Mack is the perfect book boyfriend. He is a handsome cowboy and a wonderful mixture of smart, macho, sweet and sensitive. Mack and Andie meet in Vegas and quickly fall in love after a night filled with drinking and gambling.
Andie is a successful attorney. She had a bad childhood and the only thing that kept her sane was coming up with her life list and then working to achieve the goals on the list. She is feisty and smart but also filled witI enjoyed every minute of this charming and sweet story and I immediately fell in love with the characters. SHINE NOT BURN is funny, has witty dialogue, it is well written, has realistic characters and it pulled at all my emotions.

Mack and Andie meet in Vegas and there is an instant attraction between and they have a wild time together. They drink too much, have hot sex and end up getting married by an Elvis impersonator. Then they each go their separate ways. Two years later, Andi is looking Mack up to annul their marriage, so she can marry Mr. Right. You see, Andi has a life list and she will not let anything get her way of achieving her goals. Mack is not on Andie’s life list, even if he is a handsome cowboy.

Andie needs control in her life. She is a successful attorney and she is feisty and smart but also filled with insecurities. Andie doesn’t have any family support, but she does have her two best friends. Her friends and her personal assistant had me laughing out loud so many times. The things that come out of their mouths are hilarious and they let Andie know exactly what they are thinking, whether she wants to hear their opinions or not.
Mack is the perfect book boyfriend. He is a handsome cowboy and a wonderful mixture of smart, macho, sweet and sensitive. He lives in a small town in Oregon and is a successful rancher with a loving and caring family. Mack is exactly what Andie needs, but she is stubborn and will not admit it. After all, she does have her list and being married to a cowboy who lives in Oregon certainly is not on that list. Mack understands Andie and accepts her for who she is with all her flaws and they have chemistry sizzling between them from the moment they meet.


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[leelu92]

Loved this book!!! It was funny and sexy and I loved Mack and Andie together. My only negative was I wanted MORE Mack! Mack was incredible very much the alpha with Andie and he also totally got her and her sense of humor.

This was only one of many passages that cracked me up:

"I really liked this cowboy. Mack. But I didn't know a single thing about him other than the fact that he doesn't wear underwear and he's got a big cock-a-doodle doo that he definitely knows how to use. YeeHaw. "

Yeeeeeehaw indeed! The sexytimes with these two were blazing hot, mainly due Mack's dirty talkin' ways. Good googly moogly.