Southern Nights and Secrets

by Robin Covington
The Boys Are Back in Town #4
Publication Date: September 19, 2016
Genres: Adult, Entangled: Indulgence, Contemporary, Romance

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My Thoughts

*ARC provided by Publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review*

Beckett Sutherland is brash, cocky, kind of temperamental, and has a bit of a reputation with the ladies. He cares about people, especially kids, and he loves his job as an ER trauma doctor. He’s good at it, too, and he desperately wants a promotion to ER trauma lead. Except Virginia Crawford, an uptight, business-minded blast from his past, has just been named Beck’s boss…and she’s the one person capable of denying him the promotion he wants.

I really loved Beck and Ginger. Not only did they have a great and powerful dynamic between, but the story of their past intrigued me just as much as their re-meet in the present. And let me just say, Beck is one hot-blooded hero. Tattooed, pierced, and intensely passionate about his job and the people under his care, Beck is truly a man to admire…even when you want to shout at him for putting up walls and being a little too cocky, a little too intense, a little too “I know best for you and it isn’t me”. Still, it was easy to see why Ginger gravitated toward Beck, despite the knowledge that he had the power to hurt her.

If you’re like me and you love a great enemies to lovers, second chance romance with complex characters who will steal your heart and show you how to overcome the past, pick up a copy of Southern Nights and Secrets by Robin Covington. I enjoyed the heck out of it, and I absolutely loved the hero, Beckett.

Final Analysis

An Excellent and Most Entertaining Read!

4.5 Stars

Book Excerpt

From Southern Nights and Secrets by Robin Covington:

Virginia turned left and headed toward the area that contained the gym equipment, the smell of pool chemicals giving way to the combined aromas of gym mats, sweat, and disinfectant. She pulled the door open to the state-of-the-art facility that was touted as a perk to those recruited to work at this hospital. She nodded to the desk attendant, scanned the well-lit room, and let her ears guide her eyes. Sure enough, Alex had been right. All she had to do was follow the sounds of fists hitting a bag and there he was¾Dr. Beckett Sutherland.

She stood by the edge of the mats, hoping to catch his eye but it wasn’t going to happen. Virginia stooped to remove her heels before stepping on the rubber flooring and making a beeline for him.

He was wholly absorbed in his task, the sounds of his fist impacting violently with the bag and punctuated by grunts of effort expelled on each jab. His longish dark hair hung around his face, wet with the sweat that also ran down his bare torso and disappeared into the waistband of his gym shorts.

Virginia stopped a few feet away and waited for him to notice her, not crazy enough to surprise him within range of his fists. She took the time to continue her catalog of things the past nine years had changed in Beckett Sutherland.  The body, always lean and muscled due to his dedication to all things sports and his inability to sit still, was sharper, more predatory in build and size than she remembered. His face, always handsome, was stronger¾a fiercer rendition of his trademark boyish good looks.

The tattoo—a black, red and orange stylized dragon—covered his right side and that half of his back. When she’d asked about it back when they were lovers he’d replied as he thrust into her slowly that his destiny was to be a dragon slayer and that was his reminder. He’d never offered anything more than that cryptic explanation, and she’d never pushed for more. But the nipple bar piercings were new and her breath caught in an almost painful clutch with the impact of just how sexy they were.

He moved quickly, battering the bag with jabs and thrusts that would make any sane person afraid to get in between his fists and the target. Each move was quicksilver, exploding from different angles with each practiced shift of his body. If you blinked you would miss him and that would be a shame because he was gorgeous. Just simply gorgeous.

But she’d been fooled by the beautiful exterior before.

ABOUT ROBIN COVINGTON

A USAToday bestseller, Robin Covington loves to explore the theme of fooling around and falling in love in her books. Her stories burn up the sheets. . .one page at a time. When she’s not writing she’s collecting tasty man candy, indulging in a little comic book geek love, hoarding red nail polish and stalking Chris Evans.

A 2016 RITA® Award nominee, Robin’s books have won the Golden Leaf Award and finaled in the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice, the Book Seller’s Best and the National Reader’s Choice Awards.

She lives in Maryland with her handsome husband, her two brilliant children (they get it from her, of course!), and her beloved furbabies, Dutch and Dixie Joan Wilder (Yes – THE Joan Wilder).

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