Title:
THEN CAME YOU
Author:
Jill Shalvis
Release
Date: July 1, 2014
ISBN:
9780425270172
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Publisher:
Berkley
Summary
Veterinary
intern Emily can’t believe she wound up in the small town of Sunshine, Idaho,
instead of the Los Angeles clinic she had always imagined. Now she has to put
her plans to move to L.A. on hold for a whole year while she fulfills the
obligation of her vet school scholarship.
Then
Wyatt, her gorgeous one-night stand from a Reno vet conference, introduces
himself as her new boss. And Emily is just as drawn to his seductive looks and
quiet strength as she was on that very steamy night. She soon learns that Wyatt
isn’t just a laid-back doctor, but a delicious alpha male tempting her away
from her carefully laid-out plans...
Excerpt
Emily
sat on a fallen log and leaned back. When she was little, she’d loved to try to
star watch. In LA, this was tricky because of all the city lights, not to
mention smog. Doing it here, in the land of the big sky, was a whole new ball
game. “I’m not lonely,” she said to the horse, who snorted again and swished
his tail.
“Good.
Cuz you’re not alone.”
Two
long legs came into her peripheral. Wyatt crouched at her side and looked into
her face. “How are you?”
“Fine,”
she said.
Nodding,
he sat on the log at her side and leaned back, presumably to look at whatever
she was looking at. “Pretty night.”
His
hands were behind him, his shoulder and a part of his chest brushing her arm
and shoulder. Actually it was more like he was encircling her within his arm
span, which was considerable. It was a guy move, an alpha guy move, and it made
her feel ... protected.
She was
getting far too used to that, she thought with a sigh. “Where is everyone?”
“Gone,”
he said, and there was an odd quality to his voice that had her taking a second
look at him. He didn’t take his gaze off the sky so she got him in profile, the
tousled hair, the fine lines crinkling the corners of his eyes from long days
out in the sun, the square, scruffy jaw. A broad shoulder built to take on the
weight of the world.
He’d
been working his ass off, here at Belle Haven, helping Dell take up the slack
for the out-of-town Jade, and then going home and helping his sisters with the
monstrous house they were fixing up. He did so much for everyone, and she found
herself wanting to do something for him. Make him smile. Make him relax. Make
him forget, even for a few minutes… She nudged him with her shoulder.
He
nudged her back and turned to look at her then, his eyes dark and unfathomable
behind his glasses.
Chickening
out, she turned her head this time, and stared up at the sky as he had been
only a few seconds before.
“Emily.”
When
she didn’t tear her gaze off the stars, he leaned in and nipped her ear.
Sucking
in a breath, she looked at him again. His was still dark, but there were things
swirling in those dark depths now. Need. Heat.
Affection.
He
stole her breath.
“Let
the record state,” she said, reaching out to snatch off his glasses, “that I
don’t always make the first move.”
He
blinked in momentary confusion, and probably also because he could no longer
see. He opened his mouth to say something, but she sank her fingers into his
hair and kissed him, hard and long and deep.
“Emily,”
he said when they broke for air, his voice rough and husky.
She
climbed into his lap and then pushed him backwards off the log so that he fell
to his back in the wild grass with her straddling him.
Laughing,
he slid his hands beneath her top and up her back, drawing out a delicious
shiver from her. Then his hands slid slowly down her spine, and into the
backs of her jeans. “Let the record also state,” he said in a delicious
growl. “Who made the rest of the moves.”
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My Review: 5 stars
This is the first book I've read from Jill, but definitely won't be the last. I really loved Emily and Wyatt together. I would say that if I were in Emily's shoes that first day, I would have been embarrassed as hell. But some things are meant to be. The chemistry between Wyatt and Emily was off the charts. I loved that Wyatt was always there when Emily needed help or was afraid. Emily took some big risks doing what she did, rescuing those dogs. She unknowingly put herself in danger, and she didn't know that until is was almost too late. I loved that Emily went after what she wanted, and Wyatt also to some degree. However, I would have liked to slap him upside his head for his stubborn ass ways towards the end. I loved Wyatt's sisters, they were a little crazy, but so fun. I loved that they didn't hold back anything about how they felt. Wyatt had this effect on Emily that just made her unable to think clearly, I really enjoyed that. But I wanted to shake Wyatt and tell him to voice what he wanted because he really needed to. Jill did a fabulous job with this book, and I couldn't have been happier. The characters were very real and so life-like, I loved the story line and how everything fell apart and then together again. I couldn't stop reading until this book was finished, and then I wanted more.
Author
Biography
New
York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras
full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her
books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill's bestselling, award-winning
books wherever romances are sold and visit her website for a complete book list
and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
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