Sexy Motherpucker: A Sexy Single Dad Romance

Lili Valente

May 2017 · Bad Motherpuckers Book 2 · Self Taught Ninja

About this ebook

Brendan Daniels is the sexiest man alive. The captain of the Badger’s NHL team is also clever, kind, funny, and was my good friend…until we cruised out of the friend zone one weekend with a red-hot fling. 

Come Monday morning, I wanted to keep riding the Big O train to happy town, but Brendan wanted someone who was “stepmom” material.

A.K.A, not me, apparently.

The problem? I’m crazy in love with him and his daughter. So when he asks me to be his pretend girlfriend for a long weekend with his former in-laws, I say yes.

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Laura Collins is the last woman I should be thinking about taking in the back seat of my car, in the woods behind my in-laws’ house, or in a hotel room where we’re sharing one very small, very squeaky bed.

I need a steady influence for my daughter, not a fling with this too young, too impulsive red head. So what if she’s beautiful and intense and passionate and has the biggest heart I’ve ever known?

I don’t want to fall in love. I really don’t.

But when it comes to Laura?

Hell, maybe I’m just not cut out for faking it.

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Ratings and reviews

Aaah, Brendan, you’re so fine, you’re so fine, you blow my mind. I felt like Laura should have been signing this by the end of this absolutely fabulous story of sort of, not really friends to lovers tale of will they, won’t they. Brendan and Laura hooked up for a weekend one summer, but Brendan got cold feet when he thought he was second choice or worse a rebound from Laura’s sister snagging Laura’s best friend, and Brendan’s team mate. He left Laura high and dry and not knowing what she’d done wrong. She was used to Mr. Sexy Pant’s cranky moods but thought they had something, now she’s back in the friend zone!!! But, when Brendan needs her help pretending to be his real girlfriend she agrees. It all gets too close and comfortable. The weekend doesn’t go quite to plan. Throw in a scruffy mutt, a diaphragm and the ski-run from hell and you’ve only seen some of it. Add Brendan’s 7 year old daughter and stir. Chloe was ‘the bomb’ as book daughters go. She was funny, sweet, kind and so brave. Brendan was a super hot, sexy dad and alpha male. Laura didn’t let him walk all over her. She maybe cut him a bit too much slack due to his being a widower and the way he lost his wife. But all in all, another fantastic story. Can’t wait for Tanner and Diane’s to come out.

Single father and NHL captain, Brendan Daniels, has been getting by since his wife, Maryanne’s death three years ago. His in-laws are concerned by his lack of dating and female influence for his seven-year-old daughter, Chloe. He talks Badger’s PR manager, Laura Collins, into pretending she is his girlfriend on a long weekend to their house. Problem is, she is in love with him, and he has made it clear he is not interested in her as more than a friend. This contemporary sports romance is suitable for adult audiences. I have been looking forward to reading Brendan’s and Laura’s story since we were introduced to them in book one, HOT AS PUCK. The two are friends. They are both attracted to each other, but there are a bunch of misunderstandings that prevent them from becoming a couple. I like Laura. She is wonderful with Chloe. Brendan is a great guy. He is the Badger’s team captain. He is hard working and completely devoted to his daughter. I appreciate Lili Valente’s writing style. There are a lot of humorous sections in the story. I love the text messages and journal entries. The scene with the dog steeling her diaphragm was humorous. I could relate, when I was fourteen, my dog stole my bra and paraded it around the house during a party. I was mortified, and I could totally sympathies with that scene. SEXY MOTHERPUCKER is a fun and heartfelt story. It was believable and has a great ending. I am looking forward to Brendan’s sister Diana’s and Tanner Nowicki’s story in the next book of the series, PUCK AHOLIC. I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book.

I've had a little trouble articulating the thoughts in my head for this review and getting them transferred to the page. Don't get me wrong: I absolutely and unequivocally loved Brendan and Laura's story, but searching for new and creative ways to express once again what a spectacular tale Lili Valente has penned is increasingly challenging. Sexy Motherpucker delivers a story of two souls profoundly attracted to the other like a moth to a flame, one struggling with rejection, and the other failing to recognize the perfect match for his life, his family and his heart. Brendan and Laura have always been able to banter with one another as friends. But after they take their connection to a physical level over a few summer nights, Laura believes their relationship has changed. But when Brendan suddenly sprints away returning his heart back to its protective cocoon, he leaves Laura dejected and trying to accept that they’ll never be more than friends. But Laura finds herself hoping to be able to break through the protective walls Brendan has built around his heart. And despite how he tries, Brendan can’t get his mind off those magical nights and the beautiful woman he spent tangled up with, their limbs twisted in hot sexual passion. Though their feelings for each other do finally burgeon, will Brendan and Laura be able to let go of the boundaries each of their hearts has created and find their way to building a life together and sharing their love with one another forever? Brendan and Laura were an absolutely perfect match, and the hot and sexy connection they shared virtually shot sparks from my iPad. Sexy Motherpucker brought forth such a myriad of emotions from me including moments of nail biting as well as hysterically laugh out loud moments leaving me with tears in my eyes. In addition to the amazingly sexy and steamy romance, Ms. Valente has included one delightful element to Sexy Motherpucker which was Brendan's daughter, Chloe. She added such a fun and entertaining twist to this fantastic and sexy romance which definitely drew me in even deeper, if that’s even possible. Once again I proclaim that Lili Valente remains the queen of hot and sexy romance winning me over with her characters every single time, and Sexy Motherpucker is no exception. I now am left anxiously waiting to get my hands on her next novel to meet another new couple and read a story I know I am going to fall in love with.

About the author

Author of over forty novels, USA Today Bestseller Lili Valente writes everything from steamy suspense to laugh-out-loud romantic comedies. A die-hard romantic and optimist at heart, she can’t resist a story where love wins big. Because love should always win.

 

When she’s not writing, Lili enjoys adventuring with her two sons, climbing on rocks, swimming too far from shore, and asking “why” an incorrigible number of times per day. A former yoga teacher, actor, and dancer, she is also very bendy and good at pretending innocence when caught investigating off-limits places.

 

You can currently find Lili in the mid-South, valiantly trying to resist the lure of all the places left to explore.

 

Lili also writes super naughty books as L. Valente.

Visit her at www.lilivalente.com