Love Taker: A Nashville Nights Novel

Erin McCarthy

Feb 2017 · Sold by Loveswept

About this ebook

The Nashville Nights series is burning up backstage in this sensual friends-to-lovers novel featuring a good-guy cop and a woman who’s been looking for Mr. Right in all the wrong places.
 
Pretty-boy musicians are a fixture of the Nashville country scene—and Elle Hart, hairdresser to the stars, is beginning to think that they’re all total pricks. Elle’s dating choices have been a disaster, but at least she has Tucker. Though he’s easy on the eyes, no one would ever accuse Jason Michael Tucker of being a pretty boy. The humble and handsome sheriff's deputy from Elle’s hometown has always been there to comfort her—until the evening their friendship unexpectedly leads to the best sex Elle has ever had.
 
Tucker has been lusting after Elle since they were an item as teens, but he knows that their wild night of passion is a one-time thing. He’s an old friend, nothing more, and they’re too different to become a couple just because they’ve knocked boots. After all, she hates being back in their hometown, and he’s not so fond of the big city. But when Elle comes to Tucker with news that changes everything, he must help her come to grips with her traumatic past—or risk losing her forever.
 
Look for all of Erin McCarthy’s soulful Nashville Nights romances:
HEART BREAKER | DREAM MAKER | LOVE TAKER
 
Includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.

Ratings and reviews

**Review copy provided by the publisher and NetGalley for an honest review** Love Taker is the third book in the Nashville Nights series and it is about a second chance at love. Elle Hart lives in Nashville, is a hairdresser to the stars and she is the sister of recording star Jolene Hart. She has always felt like while she enjoys men, relationships with them are more work than they are worth and her latest foray's into dating prove to be epic fails. The one person she always has to turn to is Tucker, or more specifically Jason Michael Tucker, her high school boyfriend and best friend. Tucker is a sheriff's deputy in Elle and Tucker's hometown in Kentucky. Tucker has never had a desire to live anywhere else and he's happy with his job and living the dream he set out for himself. The only thing missing is a woman to call his own, but the one he really wants doesn't feel the same way, or so he thinks. When Elle has a particularly bad date, she does what she always does and calls Tucker to talk it though. When he ends up showing up at her house, multiple hours away, at 4 a.m., things heat up between them as he tries to comfort her. Will their sleeping together cause a rift in the friendship or will it somehow bring the two of them closer together? This book was a good addition to the other two in the series and while the characters from the other two books appear in this story, you can easily read it as a standalone. It was a sweet story of friends who turn into lovers and I'd recommend it.

Nashville Nights just got hotter. This is the third of the series it helps to read them in order BUT you go not have to. I always love a good friends to lover story & this one has lots of twists & turns. Elle & Tucker have their share of baggage BUT I love how Erin McCarthy always writes believable story lines...esp when she includes the dirty that can happen in real life!

Love Taker is the third book in Erin McCarthy's Nashville Nights series and it is my favorite. Best friends since they were teenagers Elle Hart and Jason Michael Tucker tried the dating thing, but distance, careers and failed relationships kept them apart unless they needed a friend until one night they crossed the "just friends" line. Tucker has loved Elle for as long as he could remember, but Elle always kept them in the friend zone where Tucker didn't want to be any longer. Elle didn't want anything to change in their relationship because in doing so she would have to admit that she cared more about him then she was ready to admit. What if it didn't work out? The possibility of losing her best friend was worse than never fully allowing their relationship to grow into something more. I was given an ARC from the author/publisher. All conclusions are mine and mine alone.

About the author

New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy sold her first book in 2002 and has gone on to pen more than sixty novels and novellas in the paranormal, contemporary romance, and young adult genres. A RITA Award finalist and an American Library Association winner of the Reluctant Young Adult Reader award, McCarthy is a member of Romance Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and Ohioana.