Just One Taste (Dirty Dare Series #3)

Carly Phillips

Blurb:

One grumpy billionaire.

One sassy-sweet supermodel.

Add in a tropical private island paradise.

What could go wrong?

As owner and CEO of Dirty Dare Spirits, thirty-three year old, Asher Dare has it all. Money. Power. Women whenever he wants. A private island retreat when he doesn’t. People he trusts? He can count those on one hand. When one of his best friends asks a favor—hide his twenty-one year old, supermodel sister, on the island until a scandal blows over—Asher can’t say no. But he doesn’t have to like it.

The daughter of a Senator and a Presidential candidate, Nicolette Bettencourt always acts with decorum. Yet through no fault of her own, scandal seems to follow her every move. When nude photos surface, the uproar puts her father’s campaign at risk. And forces her into hiding with Asher, the hottest—and grumpiest—billionaire she’s ever met.

Under soothing tropical breezes, Asher discovers that Nicolette is nothing like the spoiled brat portrayed in the tabloids. She’s warm, sexy, and a temptation Asher must resist at all costs—or he risks betraying his closest fr

iend, bringing a powerful political dynasty to its knees… and losing the woman he loves.

Themes: Contemporary

Rating: 4.5 stars

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Review:

The next Dirty Dare has finally met his match and finds love in the most unexpected of women in the new installments of Carly Phillips’s amazing Dare World. I loved this story and found myself anxious, crying, and smiling alongside the characters as they found their way from casual acquaintances forced together into true lovers. Nikki Bettencourt is rudely awoken to a scandal that forces her to flee her condo and the city in order to find some peace and the safest place for her, according to her protective older brother, is one a private island in the Caribbean where no one can find her. But she isn’t going to the island alone; Nikki’s brother has asked his best friend Asher Dare to escort her to the island and keep her company as she hides out, but as soon as he lays eyes on her the challenge becomes keeping his hands off her. With the sparks between them, Asher has to work to resist Nikki, until she convinces him that he doesn’t need to resist. As their time on the island comes to a close, the question becomes with the feelings that have developed between them last and bloom into so much more or will it be just one more missed opportunity for both of them. This story was filled with laughs, two people overcoming personal roadblocks, and learning to open their heart to others to find love and I enjoyed each moment of it. Nikki has had a very difficult life, not in that she’s missed out on anything material, but that she has never had the love and support of her parents, or anyone else except her brother, leaving her wary or others, emotionally vulnerable but with a hidden strength that keeps her going despite it all. It was wonderful watching her reaching for what she wanted with Asher and forcing him to accept the connection between them so they would have a chance for happiness even for a limited time. Asher was another matter entirely, while I understood his hang-ups about women, given his past, it certainly angered me that he kept denying his true feelings for Nikki until it was almost too late. Like so many men he put his feelings into a hard shell and whenever he feels threatened he pulls back into himself. The passion between these two is off the charts from the very beginning and there is no denying they are made for one another. I am dying for the next (two) stories that are coming our way in this world and the little surprise announcement we got at the end of this book made me cheer. Carly Phillips wins again and this series just gets better and better!