Stacked Up
Worth the Fight, #6
Worth the Fight, #6
by Sidney Halston
Releasing May 30th 2016
Loveswept
Loveswept
Opposites attract in this seductive novel
from the author of Against the Cage (“Funny, steamy,
scorching.”—Toni Aleo), with a chiseled MMA fighter falling for a single mom
who could use a real man in her corner.
From
The Book Junkie Reads . . . Stacked Up (Worth the Fight, #6) . . .
Frustration. Anger. Disappointment. I was feeling all these things while reading this book but none of it had to do with the writing. It had to do with the story being told. This was the life that Penny, step-daughter to a television preacher was living with her young daughter. The things she went through. The fights she chose to fight. The ones that she did not. I could have kicked her butt myself on a few of these such occasions. She was gutsy yet a doormat. I may not make must sense but you would need to read to understand.
Penny and Travis had their funny moment, their steamy onsets, their scorching interaction, but there was still a sense of realness between them. Penny had a life she was working to provide for her daughter but she never lost sight of who she was and her needs. Travis was damaged and felt the party and fun was all he was good for. He childhood was not easy and it took a conservative looking woman and her child to show him there was more out there.
This was the first of the series that I have read but not the first book for Halston. I have others of her books and found much delight and pleasure. This was no different. You just have to get around your own personal expectation and enjoy the read for what it was.
**This ARC was provided
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exchange for an honest review.**
Worth the Fight series:
Against the Cage - Worth the Fight, #1
Full Contact - Worth the Fight, #2
Below the Belt - Worth the Fight, #3
Laid Out - Worth the Fight, #4
Fighting Dirty - Worth the Fight, #5
Stacked Up - Worth the Fight, #6
Blurb
Working two jobs to support her infant daughter is harder than anything Penny Richards has ever done, but it sure beats living under the rules of her stepfather, a television preacher who demands a picture-perfect family. And if Penny hadn’t struck out on her own, she never would have met Travis Calhoun. The intensely physical heavyweight brawler has a way of drawing out her wild side. But Travis lives fast, with no responsibilities—and that just isn’t for Penny.
Working two jobs to support her infant daughter is harder than anything Penny Richards has ever done, but it sure beats living under the rules of her stepfather, a television preacher who demands a picture-perfect family. And if Penny hadn’t struck out on her own, she never would have met Travis Calhoun. The intensely physical heavyweight brawler has a way of drawing out her wild side. But Travis lives fast, with no responsibilities—and that just isn’t for Penny.
Most of
the women in Travis’s circle wear tight clothes, high heels, and tons of
makeup—not pearls or plaid headbands. But once he works past Penny’s
inhibitions, Travis discovers a kindred spirit who longs to trust someone with
her body, and her secrets. Still, Travis can’t help but wonder if this rich
girl is just slumming it before she returns to her privileged life. Now it’s up
to Penny to prove that she wants her hard-edged, hard-loving fighter just the
way he is.
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If
there was one thing Travis knew with absolute certainty, it was that there
wasn’t a single female on God’s green earth that could look more out of place
in a strip club than Penny Richards. Her curly brown hair was held back with a
headband thing that reminded him of a private school girl, and not the sexy
ones he fantasized about. More like the pretty, yet awkward and out of place stuffy ones. She
had black straight-legged pants and flats that looked completely practical and
not at all sexy.
Even Ruby’s suggestive t-shirt looked unassuming on her.
Maybe it was those damn pearls she rubbed when she was nervous. He was used to
showy women with tight clothes, high heels, heavy make-up and poofy hair. Women
that valued their own self-worth by the reactions they received from men. Men
such as himself.
And,
if any man in the place knew that her mouth was as fucking unexpected as a
typhoon in Ohio, they’d be all over her. He hadn’t been exaggerating when he’d
said it was the best kiss of his life, her kiss had been slow and sweet and
quickly erupted into maddening need and desire.
The
problem was that since he’d first laid eyes on Penny, something had clicked. He
wasn’t sure what it was, but something had shifted inside of him. Something he
wasn’t sure could be put back together to its original state. Maybe it was
those big brown doe-like eyes that said everything but nothing all at the same
time. Her naiveté, her awkwardness, her big easy smile that hid something he
couldn’t seem to figure out.
He’d always thought it was strange that his
friends had fallen head over ass in love with their girlfriends and never again saw another woman. The way they
wanted to possess and protect their women had been incomprehensible to him.
Until
he’d met Penny.
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Author InfoUSA Today bestselling author, Sidney Halston lives her life with one simple rule: "Just Do It"--Nike. And that's exactly what she did.
After working hard as an attorney, Sidney picked up a pen for the first time at thirty years old to begin her dream of writing. Having never written anything other than very exciting legal briefs, she found an outlet for her imaginative, romantic side and wrote Seeing Red. That first pen stroke sealed the deal, and she fell in love with writing. Sidney lives in South Florida with her husband and children. She loves her family above all else, and reading follows a close second. When she's not writing, you can find her reading and reading and reading. She's a reader first and a writer second. When she's not writing or reading, her life is complete and utter chaos, trying to balance family life with work and writing (and reading). But she wouldn't have it any other way.
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