One Shot
Chances, #1
by BJ Harvey
Release Date: November 16th 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance
The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . ONE SHOT
(Chances, #1) . . . You want to get in at the beginning of this
series. There was a lot here to take in. Great characters. Great friendships. A
smart, witty, strong, female, Kenzie. She had the most unbelievable encounter
every and it was all gone by dawn. Cinderella this was not but hey, a girl had
a right to dream. That was until he returns and this time he was not alone.
The drama
(family and other), the sadness, the pain, the laughs, the tears, the honesty,
the intensity. One read and so much that could make you very happy you picked
up the book or make you wish that you did not. I got a full body read that gave
me a chance to experience a full range of emotions. I was taken on that ride,
that journey, that discovery. Millen and Kenzie were h2o, the meshed until they
didn’t. The working was jut pure
chemistry and compatibility. The not working was interference, obligations, and
enemies.
Must
read and don’t stop. You will get frustrated. You will get aggravated. You will
want to throw you eReader/print copy, whatever. But you have to stick with it.
You will love this read. Its intense, consuming, and gives so much.
I am
excited to see where BJ takes us next. There are some really good characters
within this read. Some are not so nice, others are supportive, each have a
story that could be told and enjoyed.
Chances series:
One
Shot – Chances, #1
Second
Chance – Chances, #2
Third
Strike – Chances, #3
I
think for sure it must've been a dream because there’s no way a guy could look
like that, touch me like that and be so in tune with me on every known level,
and disappear, leaving me with nothing but a good story to tell my friends.
When
he walks into my bar three months later, everything I thought I knew and what
we’d had disappears in the blink of an eye and the blinding light of the
three-carat diamond on his fiancée's hand.
It
seems what I thought was a dream is now my most complicated reality, and I've
got absolutely no idea how to fix it - or if I even want to.
EXCERPT
Present Day
I have
tingles, and not the kind that feel great in all the right places. The ones I’m
feeling right now are the hair-standing-up-on-the-back-of-your-neck,
someone-walking-over-your-grave kind of feelings that you get when something
bad is about to happen.
Unable to
ignore them any longer, I turn around from my stock take sheet and come face to
face with my worst nightmare.
Lana
fucking Mason, childhood best friend turned high school nemesis and arch enemy,
and…
A man
stands beside her, his eyes as wide as mine and—if I’m not mistaken—he looks
kind of pissed off. At me.
And just
like that, this moment has just gone from bad to worse.
Hold on!
I’m the one who should be annoyed, with him. It wasn’t me who did a
disappearing act three months ago, and now he’s here, standing with her.
Of all the fish in the sea, he had to go for the smelliest, rottenest one.
“Kenzie,”
she says, all saccharine sweet, like she wouldn’t choke on the first dick that
came close to her perfectly-made-up lips. “Long time no see.”
Forever
wouldn’t have been long enough, Lana.
“We were
in town running errands and thought we’d stop by. I wanted to let you know what
I’ve been up to.” Without preamble, she holds out her hand as if she’s the
Queen of Sheba and I’m a lowly minion at her bidding. But that’s the last thing
I care about, given that I’m being blinded by a huge, shiny rock on her ring
finger.
What in
the ever-loving fuck?
I don’t
get a chance to hide my surprise, or the fact that my eyes dart to Millen, his
jaw twitching like crazy, his grey eyes that I remember turning molten with
lust now blazing with some unreadable emotion.
Why is he
angry at me when he must’ve known that I’d be here?
Lana
turns her head and beams at him all doe-eyed and vomit-inducing, reaching out
her arm to Millen before returning her attention to me, positioning herself to
deliver the final death blow.
Then she
says them. The words I don’t want to hear—let alone believe.
“I have
amazing news. First, my daddy just bought this place. And second, meet Millen,
my fiancé…”
Yep.
Dead. Done. The see-ya-later, don’t-let-the-door-hit-your-ass-on-the-way-out
kind of done.
Then Drew
walks through the front door. Drew who warms my bed most nights. Finally,
a friendly face.
However,
one look at Lana’s expression and I know this moment has just gone from bad to
plain awkward. It’s like the universe is making a joke at my expense.
Drew’s
already big smile grows impossibly larger when he spots the two people standing
in front of me.
“Mills!”
he says, pulling Millen into a man-hug the likes of which I’ve never seen Drew
hand out before. He turns to the she-bitch and wraps his arms around her too.
“Lans.”
Lans?
“What are
you guys doing here?” Drew asks.
“You know
them?” I blurt out, my brain unable to engage quick enough to care about
putting a filter in place.
Millen’s
eyes snap to Drew then back to me. “You know Drew?” he asks at the same time as
Lana juts a hip to the side and asks Drew, “You know Kenzie?”
“Millen
is my best friend from college,” Drew happily informs me, and his smile falls
at the same time that all of the blood rushes from my face.
Awkward,
meet Mortifying. Also here are Shame, Embarrassment, Anger, Disgust, and over
in the corner there is Complete and Utter Confusion and her friend I’m Going to
Have to Move to the States and Join a Women-Only Commune with Cats and
Unlimited Batteries.
With
nothing else to say—at least, nothing that wouldn’t take a bottle of Jack and a whole lot
of time—I decide to just go with the flow and revert to my old trusty
auto-pilot because seriously, what else is there for me to do?
“Soooo,
would anyone like a drink?”
BJ Harvey is the USA Today Bestselling Author
of the Bliss Series. She regards herself as a smut peddler, suspense conjurer,
and a funny romance thinker upper. An avid music fan, you will always find her
singing some hit song badly and loving every minute of it. She’s a wife, a mom
to two beautiful girls, and hails from what she considers as the best country
in the world—New Zealand.
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