Veena’s review of Intimate (Intimate Relations, Book 1) by Kate Douglas
Contemporary Romance published by St. Martin Paperbacks 01 Dec 15
If you’re looking for an edgy romance with spine-tingling suspense, then this is the story for you. I love jewelry – both the buying and the wearing of it – and love the sensuousness of the intimate jewelry modeled by Kaz in various settings in this book. I wish someone would buy me some rubies. Sigh! Perhaps there will be a surprise in my Christmas stocking this year.
Kaz is a gorgeous model who is totally right for a campaign famous photographer Jake Lowell is working on. Considering she’s just been fired, it should be a no brainer, but he whisks her away to the California wine country before she has a chance to reconsider. It’s her tattoos and piercings, as well as her beauty, that make her so right for the campaign, but it’s the unstoppable chemistry between them that takes them beyond the professional into the way too personal in short order.
Jake should be in alt, but, unfortunately, he’s getting ominous text messages that suggest that he and Kaz are being stalked. Is Kaz’s narrow escape from being run over by a car also part of the same menace? Or purely an accident? His worry is impacting their fragile new relationship. They both have secrets from their past which stand in the way of a more long-lasting relationship between them. As the gritty story emerges on both sides, it is definitely apparent that they are totally made for each other. However, the real story that finally emerges will totally blow you away because it is so unexpected.
Kaz does a remarkable transition from being fired on page 1 of the book to becoming the face of Intimate shortly thereafter and then becoming the face and voice of yet another brand, thanks to an introduction from Jake. While her professional career seems to be taking off, the threats on her life are also escalating. Can Jake figure this out before she’s taken away from him for good?
Kaz and Jake are phenomenal characters, but the supporting cast between her roommates and his brother and best friend are wonderful. I can’t wait to read their stories.
Grade: A
Summary:
HER BEAUTY IS POWERFUL.
They call her Kaz. She’s a gorgeous model with a good head for business-until now, at least. Kaz has just been fired from her latest photo shoot for having the wrong tattoo in the wrong place at the wrong time. But a chance encounter with photographer Jake Lowell could make everything right again…if Kaz is willing to accept his proposition. What does she have to lose?HIS DESIRE IS DANGEROUS.
Jake has been searching for the perfect model to pose for a body-jewelry shoot-one that will leave no room for modesty. Is Kaz, who is nothing if not professional, ready to bare it all for a man she is not sure she can trust? It’s an offer that’s too good to refuse…and as Kaz finds herself growing more comfortable with Jake, the attraction between them reaches arousing new heights. But while the artist and his subject learn more about each other in the intimacy of wine country, evil lurks in the shadows-and soon it becomes clear that someone else has designs on them…
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