Title: Dirty Rich Cinderella Story: Ever After
Author: Lisa Renee Jones
Publisher/Year: CreateSpace Publishing 10/10/18
Length: 189 Pages
Series: Dirty Rich #5
Overview
Get ready for a steamy honeymoon, and a heart-stopping welcome home for Cole and Lori!
The unexpected is about to happen and while Lori has faced the demons of her past, she and Cole will face those of his past now.
My Thoughts
Well, that summary doesn’t give us much to go on, which is a blessing and a curse. The story where we see Lori and Cole come together is one that’s so intense, complex and thankfully full of a happy ending that we can just hope that they have their happily ever after. Well, there’s way way more to go on with this continuation of their saga.
We start off in Paris where they are enjoying their honeymoon, a trip that they’re able to take after closing a successful case where a man who was innocent continues to be found that way. It’s such a high profile case though that there’s unrest and protesting back in the US, that Cole at least gets advance warning that not all will be well upon their return. Bodyguards are put in place and we get to see the Walker Security men back in full force. Savage and Smith are fast becoming our favs.
Even before they head back to the states, we see Cole go into protector mode, which is something that has never worked for Lori. Yes she trusts and loves him unconditionally, but we also know that control is something that she needs to survive and without it, her life is upside down. Cole takes control away from her before they get home, and then once they are home because Lori’s attacked by a family member of one of the victims of the case that they just won. All heck breaks loose and there’s a fast and furious hunt for who’s truly behind everything.
In this continuation saga too, we get Cat/Reese back in a big way, along with Reid who we sort of saw this parallel timing from his story w/ Mia. I think that it’s really impressive how our author was able to write all these stories that are essentially parallel path without spilling too much to make it moot to read.
The even nicer thing about this plot is that there’s yet another twist that we never saw coming – the Ashley story line. we knew that she had left the firm to go to Paris with her boyfriend who turned out to not be who he seemed. As a result, we recall that Ashley needed the firm’s legal counsel to get back to the states and clear of charges. what charges – we never really learned. Well, in this story – it gets even dicier for Ashley since her ex seems to be back and there’s a deeper story than anyone could have imagined and to be honest, deeper still that i don’t know that we’ll ever get answers. Who is he, what did he do, what was Ashley’s role and what does she know that she’s not telling us.
If that’s not exciting enough of a plot line, we have the insane amounts of heat and chemistry between Cole and Lori to keep us going. They have the most intense scenes together that if you didn’t believe that heat and passion could leap off a page, well here’s proof that all is possible. Baby scares, romance that’s taken to another level, scenes that are elevated up a notch – and well, we get to the end of this book way faster than imaginable. So….on that note, on to the next and i hope you enjoy this!