Welcome to my blog tour stop for COLTON K-9 TARGET which is been hosted by Harlequin Romantic Suspense-HARLEQUIN - Romance (U.S. & Canada)
COLTON K-9 TARGET
Aug 24,2021
Series:
Author:Justine Davis
Genre:Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Rating:5
Would I recommend it? Yes
Would I read More of the series? Yes
Would I read more by this author? Yes
My thoughts
First off like always I want to say a huge thank you to the publisher Harlequin Romantic Suspense-HARLEQUIN - Romance (U.S. & Canada), the author Justine Davis, and to NetGalley for the invite to join this blog tour as well as letting me read and review it.As well as a big thank you for introducing a new to me author and for still been one of my go to romance publishers .For those who don't know this Harlequin romance was always in my home thanks to my Grandmother who was a big read , they was her all time favorite romance books to read and when she passed away when I was still little I had I don't know how many bags of her books that I wanted to keep and all of them was Harlequin.unfortunately I don't have them any more but every time I pick up one of their romances it brings me back to reading some of them. In fact that's how I got in to reading romance Suspense, and when every I see one from Harlequin and its some thing I knew I'l read I tend to go head and pick it up, and as soon as I saw this one even before been invited to the blog tour , I had already knew that I wanted it to read it, one was because of the cover ( what can I say I love dogs ) 2 : part of the title said K 9 ( other thing I love in books wither their romance or not is when you have characters working with dogs wither their K9 , or search and rescue), and with those types of books I tend to read them in a day ,because their the ones that I get lost in when I'm having a bad day.And that's what happened with this one right from the start I got lost in it , from the characters themselves to the case they were working, as for the story itself it seemed to be romance then suspense ( but that was fine because like I said I needed something to just get me out of my head for while it it did its job).
Book Description
Man's best friend
…is this cop's most trusted partner
New to the Grave Gulch Police Department, K-9 detective Brett Shea feels like an outsider among its many Coltons. Even Annalise, his dog's trainer, is a Colton! But when she's attacked by a man pretending to be her date, Brett vows to track down the criminal. Though he's sworn off forever love—which is proving harder by the day—Brett will protect her at any cost.
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Harlequin.com: https://www.harlequin.com/shop/books/9781335759382_colton-k-9-target.htmlExcerpt of Colton K-9 Target by Justine Davis
Annalise stared into the darkness, hoping that forcing herself to keep her eyes open would perversely trigger the overwhelming urge to sleep. It was her last resort; she’d been lying here for two hours, unable to find a way to turn off, or at least slow down, her whirling thoughts.
And the fact that a few minutes ago Brett had come to her open doorway and lingered a moment didn’t help.
She’d heard the faint creak of a floorboard and felt a spike of that adrenaline rush before she realized it was him. That realization caused a spike of an entirely different kind until she heard him walk away and realized he’d only been checking on her.
What did you expect? That he’d climb into bed with you?
She rolled over and buried her face in her pillow, wondering why these wild thoughts kept careening into her mind. What kind of woman was she, to have been so very excited about her date tonight—never mind that it had all been a scam—yet almost simultaneously so attracted to this man who had no interest at all in her that way? Or in anything like the kind of relationship she was looking for?
I’m not looking for what you’re looking for.
He meant it. She didn’t doubt that. And she knew she should consider it fair warning. A warning some men would never bother to give. Why had he? She felt her cheeks heat at the thought that maybe he knew, how she reacted to him. Maybe she’d betrayed it somehow. That would be embarrassing. They’d always gotten on well in the joint training sessions with Ember, but her focus had been on the smart, willing dog, not on him.
Well, not any more than usual. Qualified, capable K-9 officers with a record like his weren’t thick on the ground, and he’d proven that rep well-earned in their first exercises together. That he was quietly competent and apparently unaware of his own looks were big points in his favor, in her book.
She’d assumed at first he was married, because how could he not be? He didn’t wear a ring, but some men didn’t. Then Troy had told her a week later he wasn’t and had never been.
You have to believe in love before you can give up on it.
She sighed into the darkness. That just might be the saddest thing she’d ever heard. Yet he didn’t seem sad to her. Or bitter. Just…closed off. Except with Ember. That alone told Annalise that he wasn’t completely closed off.
But that didn’t mean she should be lying here thinking about him.
And about what she would have done if he had climbed into bed with her.
“I can drive myself—”
“I know you can,” Brett said patiently to Annalise the next morning, “but I have to drop Ember off anyway.” He didn’t mention that he also didn’t want her taking off to go get lunch or something. He wanted her under observation at all times, and he’d already called Sergeant Kenwood to let him know to keep an eye on her; the man might be retired from active duty, but his instincts were as sharp as ever.
“But I’ll need my car to get home.”
“I’ll pick you up when I come get her,” he said, with a scratch of the Lab’s soft ears. “After I talk to the two other women this jerk targeted.”
“I want to take Apple and Jack,” she said. “I don’t want to leave them alone. They were scared, too.”
And that was Annalise Colton in a nutshell, he thought. “Fine. There’s room. And Ember won’t mind.”
And so he ended up with a carload of three dogs and the woman adored by them all.
Including you?
He yanked his mind off that fruitless path. He drove, trying to concentrate on mentally organizing his day.
About the Author
Justine Davis lives on Puget Sound in Washington State, watching big ships and the occasional submarine go by, and sharing the neighborhood with assorted wildlife, including a pair of bald eagles, deer, a bear or two, and a tailless raccoon. In the few hours when she's not planning, plotting, or writing her next book, her favorite things are photography, knitting her way through a huge yarn stash, and driving her restored 1967 Corvette roadster—top down, of course.
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Website: https://justinedavis.com/
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