ARC Review: Just One Fling ( Dirty Dares #4)

Just One Fling ( Dirty Dares #4)

Carly Phillips

Blurb:

It was just supposed to be a fling.

Now she’s having his baby.

Winter Capwell knows all about billionaire Harrison Dare’s bad-boy reputation.

His all-pleasure, no-commitment rule worked well for her, too. Until fate changed everything.

Harrison never wanted a wife or kids. His incredibly large family provides all the siblings and children he needs. Besides, no woman has ever tempted him to give up his bachelor lifestyle.

Until the mysterious and sexy Winter entered his life.

But when someone comes after the woman he loves, he will stop at nothing to protect her and make her his. For good.

Themes:  Contemporary

Rating: 4.25 stars

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Review:

One night of passion leads to long-term consequences in this bad-boy with a heart of gold romance.  Carly Phillips’s Dirty Dares series continues with the Bad oy of Hollywood becoming domesticated in the best of ways as he falls in love with the woman that he never saw coming.  I have been with Carly through this entire journey through the Dare world, watching the family tree expanding and their friends and business partners finding love as well, but as each Dare finds their hearts stolen I find new and enchanting reasons to fall in love with the Dares. Winter Capwell has been keeping a secret for a long time, one that is about to change not only her life, but the lives of several of those she has come to call friends as well.  But in the midst of the secret coming out and the scandal that comes with it, she finds herself unexpectedly falling back into bed with the sexy Harrison Dare, even though they both agreed that their summer fling was over.  Now they are even more entwined as their relationships intermingle and the consequences of their unexpected night together bind them for life.  But someone is after Winter and will stop at nothing to get her out of his life, in a very permanent way.  Harrison and Winter fins themselves slowly falling in love, but can they admit their feelings for one another or will it be too late?  Some trope are winner for a reason and this story is based around one that is becoming increasingly common, though personally not my favorite, but Carly Phillips manages to always give it her own unique spin and keep the stories fresh and enchanting.

Winter is a woman that values her independence above all else; raised by a single mother and taught to depend on only herself, she isn’t willing to lose her heart and depends on any man, even though she is drawn to Harrison more than any man she’s ever been with.  She is sweet, sassy, and intelligent, even though she make mistakes, and finds herself more than once regretting decisions she makes in the heat of the moment. She was the kind of woman that I would love to have as a friends, supporting me and teaching me strength in the face of adversity, but I would be able to teach her that being vulnerable in love is not being weak.  Thankfully she has friends like that and learns to open her heart to Harrison so that they have a chance at future together.  Harrison comes off as the typical playboy in the beginning, but once he gets a heavy dose of reality, he comes to understand that not only is it time for him to settle into a love relationship, but that he wants that with Winter.  He offers her the strength and sweetness that she needs to believe in a man, someone that she can lean on in moments of need, but that will support her when she fighting her own battles.  I loved watching him interacting with his siblings and seeing how they supported him while also forcing him to grow up when the time came.  The passion that neither Harrison not Winter are able to bank is apparent at almost all time when they are orbiting one another, but once they open their hearts it adds layer of beauty to the heat that is undeniable.  I am dying for the last of the Dirty Dares, getting to see Zach fall under love’s spell and I hear there is a possibility of a new project in the works that might be interesting to read too!  Exciting and action packed, Just One Fling will take you on a journey off two lovers that finally grow to understand that loving someone offer both strength and freedom, not the weakness they always believed it would.

*eARC provided by author for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review.  No compensation was provided.