Breathe (Colorado Mountain, #4)

by Kristen Ashley

"In order to protect a father he does not respect, in Lady Luck, we learned that good cop Chace Keaton went bad, sacrificing his career and his future. But when the local police department's secrets are revealed and the wife he's forced to marry is murdered, Chace finds himself the town of Carnal's hero. Knowing how deep in the mud he was forced to sink, Chace feels he'll never get clean. The quiet, content future he envisioned of the love a good woman with whom he could build a family was now beyond his reach. The only thing he can do is find his wife's murderer. While searching for new leads, he runs into Faye Goodknight, the town's quiet, shy, pretty librarian. Chace has long since had his eye on what could possibly be the town's last remaining virgin but he has also long since given up hope he could make her his. Faye is pure and clean and Chace refuses to dirty her with his sordid past. Pure and clean Faye may be, but when the shy librarian is forced to go head to head with the man who she's had a crush on since he hit her hometown, Chace finds Faye is full of surprises. And he doesn't know what to do with her."--Author's website.

• ISBN10: 1455599123
• ISBN13: 9781455599127
• Publish Date: 11 December 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Forever
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[leelu92]

Re read 7/20/13 - 7/21/13



It's going to take me a day or two to get all of my thoughts together. I will say that I started this one at 9am and finished at 2:15 this morning.
Chace's evolution was fantastic. Faye was...beyond words. The crew from Carnal and Gnaw Bone were in full effect. (Oh and few surprise appearances) too
Again, I'll have more to add at some point.

ETA: I'm absolutely ELATED that this series will continue. I love my Mountain Men and I am especially interested in Deck and Deke!

[stacey_is_sassy]

I CAN'T BREATHE!!

I just spent the last two hours writing an epic review (well, in my mind it was epic) about Princess's and their broken Prince Charming's. Of course, Goodreads being the biggest computer glitchy capital of the universe (who else can I blame...HUBBY...it's all your fault) decided to spack out and I lost my review.

TWO HOURS!!!

I haven't written a review directly on Goodreads in forever and now I REMEMBER WHY!!! It shouldn't be this damn hard.

Let me just say that Faye Goodknight played the Fairy Princess. Chace Keaton played the broken Prince Charming. Chace's dad is the DOUCHEWAFFLE Evil King and Serenity played the fairy Godmother. Prince Chace swept in and saved the day and Princess Faye made their world sparkle and shine by bringing good books to the village.

I bloody loved it, the audio was friggin awesome and another KA audio goes on my WINNER shelf.

Bloody, bloody, poo, bum, gitfaced, spazzabrain...NOT HAPPY GOODREADS!!!!!

[Linda]

This review was originally posted on (un)Conventional Bookviews
Breathe was amazing! I think it's the Colorado Mountain story that played with my feels the most! I cried. I laughed. And it was righteous!



Not only did I stay up until after 3 am to finish Breathe, I had to message Brandee while I was reading because there was so much going on, and I knew she'd know straight away what I was talking about! Good thing we live in different time zones - at least this once it made me happy. For someone who usually rolls her eyes at 'older' virgins in her romance novels, I fell hard and quick for Faye! And she may have seemed very shy and reserved on the outside, but on the inside, she was a true firecracker! And she knew how to take care of herself... in more ways than one ;)

Another thing that worked very well for me with Breathe was Chace! I didn't really like him very much in the earlier instalments, but here, I got to know him better. And he sure was worth getting to know. What an intricate and complex character. His background hadn't prepared him to become a policeman, but that's what he wanted. And he worked himself through school before he managed to find work in a small town. As you may have already gathered, a lot of very bad things have happened both in Gnaw Bone and in Carnal. And in Breathe, things were brought up a notch.

Faye was such a good character, she had been lusting after Chace since he first arrived in Carnal, but because she was shy, she had always stayed away from him. He had found her intriguing, but he had been lured into a loveless marriage, and after what happened with his wife, he felt like he didn't really deserve happiness now. Finding Faye poking around in the forest where his wife had been murdered made him think differently about her. And seeing how Faye and her online friends were trying to figure out what the police hadn't ben able to was a hoot!

There are some pretty good crossover characters in Breathe, too. If you've read the Rock Chick series, you will recognize more than one character, and I have to say that made me fist pump. Written in first person point of view from Faye's perspective, and third person point of view from Chace's perspective, I felt very involved with the story. And I definitely got to know the main characters very well. With the length of the novel, I was surprised at how quickly I managed to read it - I think this had to do both with the fairly fast pace, and the fact that Ashley's writing just does it for me. Turning the pages became second nature.



Although I didn't like them together (as in, really), either "together" or together in the married way, it didn't faze me. Everyone knew the hero in any good romance had to have his fair share of experience. If he didn't, how was he going to be a good teacher, showing his lad love how to give him pleasure at the same time giving her more than she'd ever dreamed?

Chace's body was shaking, his mouth was grinning and his voice held a deep tremor of humor when he remarked, "That's quite a description" 
"I read, so I have a vivid imagination," I explained.

"Are you nuts? Krystal hissed, leaning into Twyla. "Do I look nuts?" Twyla returned, and unfortunately, the answer to that was yes, she did. 

[Eve1972]

Really liked this one, love Chase, loved Faith. I re-read this one on occasion!