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The Sins Of His Past (Silhouette Desire)

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Deuce Monroe is back in his hometown after losing his major league baseball career to a foolish stunt involving a racecar crash, the latest of many stunts he's pulled in his lifetime. He figures he'll slip in and help out at his father's bar until the day he takes over when his father retires, but he didn't figure on Kendra Locke, his best friend's little sister had already beat him to it.

Upon his arrival, he discovers Kendra has turned the bar into a cyber café and coffee shop instead. The foolish stunt he pulled with her was never calling her after their one amazing night together ten years before.

Kendra has been in love with Deuce Monroe all her life. The one night they spent together had been incredible and yet changed her life unexpectedly and immeasurably. That he'd never called her afterwards was a blow she still hadn't recovered from all these years later. Now she has a new plan for her life and once again Deuce threatens to destroy her dreams.

Now I'm not one to shed a tear when I read books, but this book really touched me. Heartwarming and wonderful, Roxanne St. Claire's The Sins of His Past would make anyone believe in the power of love.

I've been carrying this book around for a week chomping at the bit to read it because I wanted to immerse myself in it and not read it in bits and snippets of available time. I'm so glad I did because this is a book to relish slowly without interruption. Do yourself a favor and immerse yourself in this amazing book today.

Roxanne St. Claire is an incredible writer and I highly recommend this book. It's going directly on to my keeper shelf with all her other wonderful books.
Seriously, don't miss this one!!

Roxanne St. Claire had me at hello with this book. Deuce and Kendra are meant to be and from chapter one, the tension sizzles between these two lovers with a past. This book screams for more, more in the series, more for these people, as you sympathize for the characters, feel their plight and want heaven and earth to shift in order for them to find each other again. The writing is crisp, natural and very sensual. If you don't fall in love with Seamus "Deuce" Monroe, well, then there's no hope for you. ::BG:: A pleasurable, quick, fulfilling read all around (that I would have finished in one day if not for the day job!)

Once I began this wonderful story, I just couldn't put it down. What is it about Roxanne St. Claire's style that pulls the reader in? I think it's her passion for story telling and the amount of time she takes to develop her characters.

This book immediately stole my interest......an old crush, the incredible hunky bad boy returns to town and let the "games" begin.

Kendra, is incredibly sensitive to others, has a secret from her past she doesn't want Deuce to find out about but still can't resist his badboy charms.

Deuce, well he's every woman's dream and learns several lessons real quick. This passionate and steamy story will just plain steel your heart.

From the Back Cover:

For one incredible night, Kendra Locke gave Deuce Monroe everything she had. Then he walked away without a backward glance to chase his big-league dreams as far as they would take him. Years later, after one daredevil stunt too many, Deuce was back in his hometown, ready to pick up where he left off.

Kendra had no intention of letting him. The consequences of that one night had shattered her dreams. Now what Deuce wanted threatened her future...especially when he tempted her with the sensual promise of more time in his bed. Could she be the one to walk away?

While searching for a new suspense romance I came across the wonderful Bullet Catcher series by Roxanne St Claire. I enjoyed these books so much that I thought I'd give a few other of her books a try. I am very glad that I started with the Bullet Catcher series because I thoroughly disliked this book.

Deuce Monroe or "Deuce is Wild" is the local hometown hero who went off to persue his dream of proffessional baseball, big thrills, and a good time. Kendra Locke or "Ken-doll" is the girl he left behind with stars in her eyes and a broken heart after a one night stand that left her world upside down but his still on the fast track. With dreams of a Harvard degree dashed Kendra comes up with a new plan for her life only to have Deuce sweep back in again to wreck her plans. It's been years since he's come home or even called. It's only after his baseball career is over due to his reckless behavior that he comes home expecting to run the family bar owned by his father. However, big changes have been made since he's been home. The bar isn't a bar anymore and his father's getting married.

I found Deuce to be both selfish and vain. The way he treats his father is a prime example of that. He hasn't seen or spoken to his father in so long that he didn't know he was engaged or even that his hair had turned to gray. And the way he thinks Kendra would have "forgotten" that he never called after their one night together and that she'd just be willing to pick up where they left off.
Kendra was pretty much a doormat. She didn't have any back bone or will power at all. She still acted like some love struck teenager with a crush. She would resolve not to get involved with him but all he had to do was start flirting with her and she was flirting right back. It made me sick. I just didn't see his appeal.

I'll admit I'm a huge fan of Roxanne St.Claire's Silhouette Desire novels. But baseball? Not so much. In fact, most books with "jock" heroes, I usually put down. But, since I enjoyed this author's other works I thought I'd give this book a try. I'm glad I did.

Kendra Locke is ready to complete her dream of turning monroe's, a local sports bar, into an internet cafe, and she has the help of Deuce Monroe, former pro ball player's father. Then Deuce comes back to town and wants the bar for himself. With a past thick with emotional entanglements, Kendra fights against her attraction to Deuce. He hurt her before; she's certain he'll do it again. Deuce has come home for good, and he just wants Kendra to believe it.

In spite of the baseball in the story, I found myself drawn into the characters' lives. Their very real attraction kept the sexual tension simmering between the characters, and I found the story to read very real, like two adults trying to work things out.

A very good book, and I enjoyed reading it very much.

Kendra finally has her life together and is just about to become full owner of "Marlowe's Place" - an ex-bar turned cyber cafe until Deuce Marlowe, ex-baseball player returns home after losing his pro contract to take over his father's business. Deuce and Kendra had a one-time fling before he left for the major leagues. He never called and she never told him a devastating secret. Is he back to ruin her life or can they start again with the secret between them?