Ask Me If I Care (SWAT Generation 2.0, #4)

by Lani Lynn Vale

Ares saw him for the first time at a Kilgore Police Department benefit dinner. She’d gone with her dad as his plus one. Hayes Romine had gone by himself and brooded silently across the same table as her, drinking whiskey and not saying a word.

It only took that one time for her to become interested.

The next time she saw him, he was doing another benefit—but this one requiring a whole lot fewer clothes. And that was when she knew. She wanted him. Badly. But the morose Hayes was too busy thinking about his sins to see what was right in front of his face—Ares.

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Hayes Romine knew the moment that he saw the feisty Ares Downy again that he should’ve stayed away. Maybe if he hadn’t done the stupid calendar, he wouldn’t be questioning every single woman’s intentions.

Maybe if he’d listened to that niggling feeling telling him to stay away, he would’ve been able to do his job a little better. But seeing her with a knife to her throat, in the middle of a building set to blow, made his usually well-wired brain start to malfunction.

Because nobody was allowed to touch her like that—only him. Nobody was allowed to scare her, either. Not and live to tell the tale.

• ASIN: B07V1XSQBP
• Publish Date: 14 April 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 239
• Language: English

Reviews

[Romance Schmomance]

After 7 consecutive meh reads, Ask Me If I Care was the one that broke that streak. But let's be real, LLV is always clutch with her books. I always looking forward to them and none of them have let me down. Plus, what's not to like when you have a brooding yet sizzling hero that is Ares and the school counselor who will do anything in her power to stand up for her students.

I love that LLV's books are all very different, she's always adding some sort of no way factor into each and every one of them. Her books constantly draw me and I don't think I'll ever get tired of them.

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[thebookdisciple]

Ask Me If I Care is another hit from one of my go to authors, Lani Lynn Vale! In this edition, we get Hayes, a former military man who now works on the SWAT team, and Ares, a school counselor whose brother is also on the SWAT team. Hayes has that sullen, brooding thing down (you see it in the last book) and Ares spends her whole day talking!

These two are very different, but they certainly have chemistry. Ares' high school boyfriend was Hayes step-brother. Weird? Normally. But Ryan is such a douche and its been over 6 years that it was really kind of a non-issue. This book continues the serial killer hunt that begun in the previous book, Maybe Swearing Will Help. Hayes' dad is the famous psychologist who profiled the killer. We do learn the identity of the killer in Ask Me If I Care and its a very interesting plot!

Hayes and Ares' are a great couple and their romance will give you plenty of swooning! Ask Me If I Care will give you steamy romance, some laughs, and one crazy killer! What more could you want in a binge read?

 

•   POV: dual 1st


•   Tears: no


•   Trope: police


•   Triggers: Obviously, the killer. But bullying is also prevalent in the story since Ares is a guidance counselor at the local high school


•   Series/Standalone: stand alone within an interconnected series


•   Cliffhanger: no


•   HEA: yes with epilogue

authors like Amy Daws, Sara Ney, Aurora Rose Reynolds, Harper Sloan...then you will probably like Ask Me If I Care!

 

Ask Me If I Care

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