Chain of Command

HelenKay Dimon — 2015

Book one of Greenway Range Retired marine Sawyer Cain can't forget all he's seen and lost, but he can try to start over. Opening a gun range with his closest friends is the first step toward a new life—one where he finally buries the guilt he can't seem to shake. So much depends on the property he needs to buy…and the gorgeous but completely frustrating woman who refuses to sell it. Hailey Thorne is done—with loss and with anything military, after the closest thing she had to an uncle died in Afghanistan. When Sawyer shows up on her porch he has military written all over him. He's one more in a long line of people who wants the land she inherited, and suddenly he's everywhere she goes. Hailey can't get the broad-shouldered, dirty-talking, dead-serious man out of her head. Or her life. Sawyer's not above using his skills in the bedroom to try to convince her to sell, and Hailey is more than willing to let him. Their pleasure-only arrangement works…until emotions get in the way. But Sawyer has a secret he's convinced will have Hailey hating him forever, and Hailey's not willing to risk loving anyone she could lose. 72,000 words

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Samantha Emery@samj

Oct 17, 2021

Check out this and my other reviews at My Blog Copy received via netgalley in exchange for an honest review ★Book Basics★ Genre : - Cont Romance Series : - Book 1 in the series. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)] Would I read more by this author/or in this series? - Yes Rating 4 stars I truly enjoyed this book. Both main characters were likeable, and even though they were on opposite sides of the fence so to speak in certain issues, there was no game playing. They knew they were attracted to each other, and both knew full well the issues they clashed on, outside of any romantic entanglement. Plot wise, it could have maybe been tightened up, a plot about the ex of a friend seemed to provide some drama and then fizzle to nothing. I expected more of a reason for Sawyer to feel guilty about Rob's death. Hailey was a bit too hung up on her reasons for not wanting to get involved with a military man for me. But, it is a book chock full of emotion, and a great cast of secondary characters. There is a sub plot involving Sawyer's sister and friend with some page time given over to the POV of the sister. Normally, I am not a huge fan of page time being given to setting up the next book, and laying the groundwork so obviously in the current book I am reading. But it was done so well here, I did not mind at all, and I am looking forward to more in this series.