

“If you blow her a kiss back”, AJ muttered, “I’m taking away your man card. During a rec league football game, where AJ had gotten hit and winded – he was just lying on the ground assessing whether he had been hurt and catching his breath, AJ tells fellow football buddy Wyatt (who is looking in the stands at his new girlfriend Emily): Let’s expound upon AJ and his character….I got a sense of AJ and his manly ways early on. It certainly gave me a flavor of what was in store for me 🙂 And if there’d been a few others, some that had involved a different kind of altercation altogether between them, of the naked and sweaty variety, well, those were her little secret.” She’d dreamed nightly about strangling him, drowning him… Very satisfying dreams, too. “In fact, during her PT she’d actually hated him. And she did not disappoint with this newest book in the Animal Magnetism series!ĭarcy, early on in the book, thinking about AJ: I know I will be engaged and entertained. Growing closer than they’d ever imagined possible, Darcy and AJ have to ask themselves: how much between them is pretend? What’s the real thing? And where does it go from here?Īs a reader, I appreciate Jill Shalvis for what she is, a story teller beyond compare. But he’s already been battle-scarred by a strong-willed, vivacious, adventurous woman like Darcy, and he’s not making the same mistake twice-until he and Darcy are forced to fake a relationship. She needs the money to fund her passion project: rescuing S&R dogs and placing them with emotionally wounded soldiers.Ī.J. Now the shoe is on the other foot and he needs her to play nice and help him secure grants for his patients. Colten, the guy who’d rejected her when she’d needed him most.

Darcy Stone is game for anything - except sexy Navy veteran and physical therapist A.J.
