Too Wild to Tame

Tessa Bailey

Sep 2016 · Sold by Forever

About this ebook

A buttoned-up businessman and a gorgeous wild-child . . . what happens when opposites definitely attract?
 
By day, Aaron Clarkson suits up, shakes hands, and acts the perfect gentleman. And at night, behind bedroom doors, the tie comes off and the real Aaron comes out to play. But he knows that if he wants to work for the country’s most powerful senator, he’ll have to keep his eye on the prize. That’s easier said than done, though, when he meets the senator’s daughter. She’s wild, gorgeous, and 100 percent trouble.

Grace Pendleton is the black sheep of her family. Yet while Aaron's presence reminds her of a past she’d rather forget, something in his eyes keeps drawing her in. Maybe it’s the way his voice turns her molten. Or maybe it’s because deep down inside, the ultra-smooth, polished Aaron Clarkson might be more than even Grace can handle.

Ratings and reviews

Aaron Clarkson is the man with a plan. His ambitious nature and smooth demeanor have landed him right in the middle of the action. His road to politics does not include getting distracted. One wrong move could incur another scandal. Enter Grace. A woman who is not afraid to dance to the beat of her heart. When she cares about something, she gives it her all and nothing stands in her way of doing what is right. So why is she drawn to the bad bad boy of politics? Why does Grace make Aaron want to become a better man? Too Wild to Tame is full of surprising twists, searing heat and the most important lesson of all: It's okay to be you. The Clarksons are an unconventional family but behind the tragedies, scandals and arguments there is love.

Aaron Clarkson is the mover and shaker, the take-charge man, the man that always has a plan. And right now, his plan is to put his recent crash-and-burn behind him, the one that almost derailed his career, and get back in the game. Aaron isn't about to let a chance meeting with free-spirited Grace Pendleton throw him off course, but he's never met anyone like Grace before, and she's about to show him a whole other side of life. I am absolutely in LOVE with the Romancing the Clarksons series by author Tessa Bailey. This interesting and complex cast of characters has grabbed my heart and run with it, and I could not be enjoying these books more. Aaron is an interesting guy. He's the Clarkson that sees things the way that they are, that calls a spade a spade and to heck with emotions or feelings. It's just the way that he's always been, and he's comfortable with the status quo. A stop in Iowa during their cross-country trip to grant their dead mother's wish presents the perfect opportunity for Aaron to do what he does best. He knows the game of politics inside and out, and, if he can just spin things the right way, he'll be back in the thick of things in no time. Aaron comes across as self-centered, and a little bit amoral, and I wondered how he was going to redeem himself. Until Grace showed up. From moment one, she is the flame to his moth, and a force of nature that he cannot evade. It was insane. Everything was insane. She was forcing him to consider light and shadows, when he'd only ever dealt in black and white. And she was the light. Shining bright enough to flay him. He'd operated until now as if people were only hiding selfishness, the kind he didn't bother to conceal. But not Grace. She contradicted everything he held true and it made the earth shake under his feet. Grace knows what it's like to have her inner spark dimmed, and she's not doing it anymore. Living life on her terms, righting wrongs, doing good, Grace calls to something in Aaron, something long-buried, and makes him question everything that he thinks that he knows and wants. Grace is not without her own issues, having dealt with some very heavy issues in her past. But she looks deeper than Aaron's surface, and finds something that calls to her, too, believing in him before he believes in himself, in them. But when it finally clicks for Aaron, when he finally sees himself, the real him, underneath all of the shell that years of negative self-talk had created, it's magic. He'd been thrown into a vast ocean without a life jacket, and she was reaching out with something resembling help, but it was so foreign and nothing like he'd ever experienced that gripping on to it was difficult. Slipping. It kept slipping. What finally forced him to hold...on was Grace. She was in the same ocean. Maybe she was always there. What if having him reach out and clasp on was the rescue she needed? There are plenty of super-sexy moments in between all of the self-actualization that goes on. I mean, oh, MY, the heat. Aaron is one dirty talker, and the scenes between him and Grace are intense, and, at times, raw. When wide open meets tamped down, the point of intersection is sheer passion, and it is off-the-charts incendiary, which is something that I've come to expect in Tessa's books. This series just keeps getting better, and I cannot believe that I have to wait until next year to get the other books. These are stories that you don't want to miss. They're hot, they're emotional, and they wrap you right up and take you along for the always-interesting ride. 5 stars for TOO WILD TO TAME. Get these. Now. You can thank me later.

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About the author

Tessa Bailey is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after her high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans, and laptop, and drove cross-country to New York City in under four days. Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend, and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.

She now lives in Long Island, New York with her husband and daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.

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