Burn For Me by Dee Tenorio
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Full (151 pgs)
Other: M/F
Rating: 5 Cherries
Review by: FernOnce burned is all it takes…
A Rancho Del Cielo Romance.
Twelve years ago, Raul Montenga left home to live life on his own terms. Yet for just as long, his nights have sizzled with erotic dreams of Penelope, the girl he left behind. Enough is enough. It’s time to find out if the sparks are real, or all in his head.
Not that he expected a warm welcome, but her cold shoulder and icy rejection sting more than he cares to admit. So he’s more than a little surprised to find her tomboy daughter standing nervously on his porch…claiming to be his child.
Dr. Penelope Gibson’s worst nightmare isn’t that her daughter wants to know her daddy. It’s facing—and keeping at arm’s length—her biggest youthful mistake. Now he’s back and the feelings she’d thought frozen solid are melting fast. Along with her inhibitions, her clothes and her better judgment.
Problem is, Raul’s not content to stop at getting acquainted with her daughter. He wants it all—Penelope’s love, her body and her soul. After twelve years building a life without him, though, she’s not sure she trusts him—or herself—enough to try.
Warning: This book features a wildly hot Latino firefighter dead-set on a mission to seduce. Contains bad words, fiery tempers and scorching sex. Oven mitts required.
Whenever you finish up a story, flip to the last page, and experience a profound pang of loss because the ride is over, you know you’ve just read something extraordinary. Dee Tenorio has written a book that will strip your heart apart, piece by agonizing piece, and just when you believe that there is no possible way you can ache more than you already do for the lovable Raul and the heartbroken Penelope, she’ll stretch you out, lay you bare, and force you to bare a portion of your soul just as they do.
While the work is composed of various components, this is, in my humble opinion, Penelope’s story. Initially, you’re not sure what to make of her. Our bodies have natural cleansing cycles when they best viagra for women http://appalachianmagazine.com/2015/01/19/government-creating-poverty-in-appalachia/ want a lighter diet, more liquids, and greater elimination than intake. Abnormal sperm caused due to testicular cancer, viagra india prices testicular surgery or testicular infection. The flavors that are generally find at appalachianmagazine.com generic cialis price online pharmacies are chocolate, strawberry and black current. If free cialis sample your reproductive organ responds to the treatment. She’s aloof, but loves her daughter, and wants to do the best she can by her. Then Raul returns, and Chloe takes it upon herself to go and meet the man she believes–from reading her mother’s journals–is her father. It is then that you’ll take a trip into the past, and your stomach won’t stop forming knots until you’ve completed the journey and have time to absorb and reflect on the experience.
The carefree adulation that finds a nineteen year-old Penelope inside a tiny closet with Raul during a wedding reception, losing her virginity in the most deplorable way imaginable because she wants to believe he might actually love her, is only the first in revelation of events that have molded the present. When she relives what should have been a happy memory, you’ll share her regret. Her consequent pregnancy following Raul’s departure is devastating, and she’s forced to shoulder the shame of being an unwed mother that puts herself through college with the only the assistance of her mother to depend on. The experience changes her from the cheery idealistic girl in love, to a woman with a daughter, suffocated by responsibility. This is the foundation of the story, and Pen takes center stage. The father/daughter aspect with Raul and the tom-boyish Chloe is equally important and endearing, but Penelope’s inability to forgive events of the past that have haunted her are the driving force. It’s rare to read something in which you want the heroine to “hold-out”, as it’s usually a tactic to string the audience along. But here, you want justice for Pen. She’s suffered so much, and as much as she deserves a HEA, Raul should have to work for it.
On the flip side, a heroine is only so good as her hero, and I absolutely adored Raul. He’s sexy, he’s charming, and in this case, he accepts that Penelope’s love is something he’s going to have to earn. Aware of his many mistakes, he wants to be a father to Chloe, and something more to the one woman he could never forget. He pushes where he needs to push and backs off when he knows he’s gone too far. And in the end, his decisions and actions are what allow Penelope to heal, trust, and learn to love again.
Burn For Me is an absolute must read you don’t want to miss. I can’t wait to read more from Ms. Tenorio.
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