11th Hour #1
Jackie Ashenden
Reviewed by Helen
OK let me take a breath here, what a story I am gobsmacked, this one is powerfully emotional, so very sensual the static between the hero and heroine could light up New York, Jack Knight is scarred physically and emotionally, Callie Hawthorne is so emotionally scarred it is a wonder she can get herself out of bed in the mornings, so what brings these two together and makes them fall in love? Jack needing a job and Callie supposedly needing protection. I can highly recommend this book first in The 11th Hour series woohoo.
Callie should be a happy healthy twenty two year old, she comes from a well to do family her father is a senator and they appear to be a happy family on the surface, but underneath lies a family controlled by an abusive father and husband. Callie learns to smile and do as her father wants but she also loves music and when she can she escapes to enjoy the nicer things in life and this is where she spots Jack across a dance floor he is scarred and gorgeous and she soon realizes that he wants her, he is her new 24/7 bodyguard assigned by her father.
Jack was in the marines until he was badly injured and discharged it has taken him years to heal and now he wants a job not some pen pushing job either so he is now in San Diego and applying to work for 11th Hour an unacknowledged company run by a very wealthy man Mr Knight, they are not so legal and are mostly ex-military, but for Jack to get this job he needs to prove himself and first job, protection of a wealthy senator’s daughter and from their first meeting Jack is feeling emotions that have been long buried and he sees in her things that he has kept from his past as well.
I loved this story from page one so many emotions flying off the pages it is compelling and mind boggling what both Jack and Callie have gone through, they are both from families where abuse was the norm, Callie has never known gentleness or love and when they come together their joining is dominant and rough but both are stunned by the heat and strength that they get from it. When Jack learns the truth about Callie he kidnaps her and all hell breaks out with her father and 11th Hour, but their love grows and Jack denies it at first he is convinced he is no good for Callie bit in the end it takes Callie, her music and some help from 11th Hour employees for the to find happiness, a beautiful HEA. I look forward to more in this series. MS Ashenden you rock a fabulous story.
Callie should be a happy healthy twenty two year old, she comes from a well to do family her father is a senator and they appear to be a happy family on the surface, but underneath lies a family controlled by an abusive father and husband. Callie learns to smile and do as her father wants but she also loves music and when she can she escapes to enjoy the nicer things in life and this is where she spots Jack across a dance floor he is scarred and gorgeous and she soon realizes that he wants her, he is her new 24/7 bodyguard assigned by her father.
Jack was in the marines until he was badly injured and discharged it has taken him years to heal and now he wants a job not some pen pushing job either so he is now in San Diego and applying to work for 11th Hour an unacknowledged company run by a very wealthy man Mr Knight, they are not so legal and are mostly ex-military, but for Jack to get this job he needs to prove himself and first job, protection of a wealthy senator’s daughter and from their first meeting Jack is feeling emotions that have been long buried and he sees in her things that he has kept from his past as well.
I loved this story from page one so many emotions flying off the pages it is compelling and mind boggling what both Jack and Callie have gone through, they are both from families where abuse was the norm, Callie has never known gentleness or love and when they come together their joining is dominant and rough but both are stunned by the heat and strength that they get from it. When Jack learns the truth about Callie he kidnaps her and all hell breaks out with her father and 11th Hour, but their love grows and Jack denies it at first he is convinced he is no good for Callie bit in the end it takes Callie, her music and some help from 11th Hour employees for the to find happiness, a beautiful HEA. I look forward to more in this series. MS Ashenden you rock a fabulous story.
5/5 stars for a fabulous story
Published
February 27th 2018
by Kensington Publishing Corporation
