Search
Me
by
Katie Ashley
Release
date: July 2nd, 2013
BLURB
~ Twenty
year old Lane Montgomery never imagined her usually boring summer in the
boonies would require her to trade her toe shoes for hunting boots or her
monotonous college textbooks for treasure map deciphering. Never would she have
imagined after breaking her grandmother’s precious Native American statue,
danger, a lost treasure of Cherokee Gold and a hostage situation would arise.
Nor could she predict that the one man destined to protect her and her family
was her childhood nemesis and former crush, Maddox Diaz.
Returning
after three years in the Army, twenty-three year old Maddox Diaz is confronted
with more than he bargained for when agreeing to help his childhood buddy and
deepest regret, Lane. Suddenly he is thrust into a dangerous game of cat and
mouse with armed and ruthless treasure seekers that results in car chases and
gun battles all in the presence of the one girl who still manages to haunt his
dreams and drive him wild with desire.
Lane is determined to deny the sizzling
chemistry with the man who stole her virginity and broke her heart. She just
wants to stay alive with her heart intact. Will she be able to resist the man
whose body sets fire to all her senses?
AUTHOR
PROFILE ~ Katie
Ashley is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Best-Selling author of The
Proposition. She lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her two very spoiled
dogs and one outnumbered cat. She has a slight obsession with Pinterest, The
Golden Girls, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, Supernatural, Designing Women, and
Scooby-Doo.
She spent 11 1/2 years educating the Youth of America aka teaching MS and HS English until she left to write full time in December 2012.
She also writes Young Adult fiction under the name Krista Ashe.
She spent 11 1/2 years educating the Youth of America aka teaching MS and HS English until she left to write full time in December 2012.
She also writes Young Adult fiction under the name Krista Ashe.
Review
*ARC received from author for Honest Review*
Do you remember watching The Goonies when you were younger?
Hell, even now I get the same rush watching it even knowing what to expect. Search Me is all about that thrilling
feeling of the unknown when you’re on an adventure that threatens your life but
also promises the ever renowned
“treasure” at the end. Lane Montgomery gets the same feeling and quickly
sucked into her own adventure. She’s a student and a ballerina hoping to one
day open her own dance studio. Not normally one to trek through the woods or
have gun-toting criminals shooting at her. When a mysterious treasure map is
found behind the frame of an old Native American painting and a good friend of
Lane’s is injured she has little choice
but to follow the map or lose those closest to her. Little does she know, that
map will turn her ordinary life into a movie much like her famous father’s
detective novels. Lane teams up with Maddox, a long-lost love from her past,
she’d much rather forget. Maddox was recently released from the military with a
medical discharge and carries a few chips on his shoulder. The two bump heads
as much as they want to bump uglies…
“He grimaced as he
surveyed some of the calluses and blisters. ‘Jesus, ever hear of a pedicure?’… “For
your information, those are caused by toe shoes. Every ballet dancer has really
crappy looking feet.” – Maddox and Lane
Search Me was a
great read. It had action, adventure and of course romance. In fact I loved the
romance bit because I found myself hating Maddox and his cocky, assholish
attitude as much as I loved him and wanted his clothes to mysteriously come
off.
Search Me was
incredibly hard down. There is so much going on it’s like pausing in the middle
of an action packed movie. You constantly want to know what will happen next?
Will they find the gold? Will they get caught? Killed? And when will they
finally give in to the insane attraction? Will they be able to work it out?
I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of historical
detail that revolves around the plot-line. It was very interesting and rather believable
in the real world. And then there is Maudie and her obsessive artifact
obsession, when she bought a similar desk to the one in ‘National Treasure 2’ I
loved her even more.
“The very guy I had
written off as being an utter and complete asshole was actually heroic when the
chips were down. It was emotionally unsettling on so many levels.”-Lane
Somehow I felt everything moved so quickly. I wish there was
a bit more mystery to the treasure map. For instance it said to go three
different directions which turned out to be unnecessary once they figured out
the final destination. I would have liked them to continue having to search for
clues and then find the treasure. It seemed a little easy, of course, when you
throw in armed killers, I guess you have no choice but to speed things up.
“…all the cabins we
have to break into, we pick the one owned by trashy perverts.”-Lane
Search Me was a
thrill ride of the best variety. Lane was a very likable character though I
wish she gave Maddox a harder time. It was sad to see it end, the adrenaline
was pumping and I was not ready for the adventure to be over. The epilogue
could have been a bit longer and perhaps taken place more in the future but I’ll
take it. Who knows with the way Maudie collects historical artifacts, this may
not be the last adventure for Maddox and Lane. Search Me has a bit of everything and I would definitely recommend
it if you’re looking for an adventure yourself.
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I loved this book. It is action packed and has romance. You are taken on an adventure to find treasure and love.
ReplyDeleteA great combination of romance, mystery and catch me if you can.
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