Wild Kisses (Wildwood, #2)

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…

• ISBN10: 1503940764
• ISBN13: 9781503940765
• Publish Date: 10 January 2017
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Montlake Romance
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[EBookObsessed]

Romantic and sexy. I just loved Avery and Trace.

This is the second book in Skye Jordan's Wildwood series and while it appears that the main characters met in the first book, it did not detract from this story. In fact, because of it, we jumped right into Wild Kisses with no need for any additional set up. It flowed nicely and I never felt that I missed out. Their romance begins from the first pages and because of the prior meet, it never feels like instalove. It all balances very nicely to give us a sweet, sexy, romantic story.

Trace is an ex-con trying to rebuild his life and his construction business. He is also trying to take care of his father who is suffering from dementia. Trace has agreed to take on the conversation of the old family bar into Avery's new cafe/bakery for an affordable cost in order to prove his talent to the naysayers in town. This is Trace's chance to get his life back on track and he can't let his attraction to Avery derail that but every time she does something sweet, he can't help falling further and further for Avery.

Avery has just gotten out of a loveless marriage and has returned to Wildwood in hopes of rebuilding her life. Avery can't help her own attraction to Trace but he has a bit of a reputation with the ladies around town and she feels that her lack of sexual experience wouldn't interest him. She can feel the tension building when she and Trace are together but he keeps running away from her. After eight years of a husband who no longer showed her any affection, she withdraws whenever she feels rejected by Trace.

Avery and Trace were such likable characters and you have to feel for them as they try to fight their attraction for different reasons. Once they finally stop fighting the attraction and things get hot and steamy, Trace no longer fears that the job will get between them, but that Avery's chance at a new life and a new business will be smeared by hooking up with an ex-con. And it is not hard for someone who wants to cause trouble for them, to use Trace's past to try to ruin their success and destroy their blooming relationship.

I definitely enjoyed the blossoming romance between Avery and Trace and I hated how everyone was so against their relationship. I was actually sorry to finish this story and say goodbye to Trace and Avery.