DISTURBING HIS PEACE
Series: The Academy #3
Author: Tessa Bailey
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 24th, 2018
She’s got probable cause to make her move . . .
Danika Silva can’t stand Lt. Greer Burns. Her roommate’s older brother may be sexy as hell, but he’s also a cold, unfeeling robot. She just wants to graduate and forget about her scowling superior. But when a dangerous mistake lands Danika on probation—under Greer’s watch—she’s forced to interact with the big, hulking jerk. Call him daily to check in? Done. Ride shotgun in his cruiser every night? Done. Try not to climb into his giant, muscular lap and kiss him? Umm…
Greer doesn’t let anything—or anyone—distract him from the job. Except lately, all he can think about is Danika. He’s wanted the beautiful, cocky recruit since the moment he saw her. But she’s reckless and unpredictable, and Greer is painfully aware of what can happen when an officer doesn’t follow the rules. Probation seemed like a good idea, but now Danika’s scent is in his car and he’s replayed her voicemails twenty times. Christ, he’s a goner.
Danika’s melting Greer’s stone-cold exterior one ride-along at a time. Being together could have serious consequences… but breaking a few rules never hurt anybody, right?
4.25 ‘Rule Breaking’ Stars
Oh sweet Lord of Grumpy and ‘He-Man’ Thighed Lieutenants!
The final book of the Academy – and one of the most anticipated every since the very first one – is is here and let me tell you, not even after reading the previous books, I would expect the battle that it would be to put these two together. True definition of enemies to lovers combined with forbidden relationship!
Lieutenant Greer Burns doesn’t have weaknesses.
And not for the first time, I’m caught between wanting to lick her, head to toe . . . and telling her the gray academy T-shirt really brings out her eyes.
Idiot. You fucking idiot.
Even if she does hate me.
Why wouldn’t she? My default mode is insufferable asshole.
You know what happens when you put two stubborn control freaks together, that have crackling chemistry and lust going on from the very first sight?! An explosive story that is Disturbing His Peace that what!
Greer and Danika are blindsided by the attraction they feel towards one another from the very first day she set her foot in the Academy, and for long and excruciating months now, they have been denying and pushing aside – or at least trying, lol – the insane lust, and craving, the proximity to other makes them feel. And you can imagine how that went, two fully devoted and controlled professionals, feeling for months and months out of control. It was inhuman to resist all that time, lol…
My mouth is apparently making decisions without consulting my brain. Is the ache in my pants in control? Or even the knocking organ in my chest? Unacceptable.
Since orientation day at the academy, gravity has pulled me toward this man, and now I’m caught.
Every day, since the very first meeting, the fight has been monumental, and each day they feel themselves giving in, little by little, to their attraction, so when they really touch, for the very first time, there was no going back to ignoring the mutual physical want. It was a explosion of feeling at the first contact!
We both freeze at her use of my first name, for the first time ever. God help my cock tonight. I’m going to stroke myself blind to the memory of her saying it.
“Your mouth distracted me,” I slur into her neck, unable to stop the punctuated roll of my hips. “It does that a lot. I see it and I want it working for me. Want it to talk to me, want to kiss it. Use it. I think about that last part when my dick is in my hand.”
Lieutenant Greer, the rule follower, always ‘by the book’ man – instructor to Danika’s recruit – was such a complex and tortured hero. Fully dedicated to his job – which was his whole life until a certain recruit walked into his life – with a baggage the size of a mack truck, and the ever present ghosts of his past, cause for his extreme fear of loss, this man put us and Danika trough the ringer, and I truly hurt for him.
His inner thoughts constant battle, and tormented feelings were a bit part of this story, of their story, causing him to reflect in his actions that struggle between what he wanted and what he thought he should do. His mind and his heart’s war was a huge emotional component of Disturbing His Peace, if not for the enormous extent caused by it, resulting in a bit of push and pull – hot and cold – game, that took too big of a part, and until too late in the storyline, I would have loved their tale even more.
Poor Danika, even after finding out that Lieutenant @ss-Hat, that she felt equal parts attraction and hate for how he treated Jack in the past, craved her just as much as she did him, she had to face a tone of obstacles, but the biggest one was Greer himself. Fortunately, their bodies gave in much faster then their mind did, giving us plenty of Tessa Bailey’s SCORCHING HOT – I’ll never look at a patrol car the same way, that’s for sure, lol – trademark moments, where the hint of forbidden coupled with his filthy talk, just took them to a whole height of heat. Volcanic proportions!
“What if we get caught?”
Without a formal command from my brain, my teeth snap together, and I deliver a rough slap to her bottom. “Then you’ll hide your pretty face in my neck while I show them my badge. And when they leave, you’ll keep fucking moving. You want to break the rules, baby? Let’s break them.” Christ, there’s lightning singing in my veins, her shallow breaths making me even hotter. Hungrier. “Once I’m inside you, that’s where I’m staying. God himself couldn’t drag me off. Are we clear?”
Oh my… This man… WOW. No wonder Danika was so captivated by him, even after all his pushing away and his @sshole attitudes. There were plenty of pluses there too, lol!
Danika was such an extraordinary and strong female character! So totally kickass and independent, she she is not only fully devoted to her career, but her her loved ones. She does literally everything for them, even demands it in all her controlling glory, not asking or allowing anyone to help. But Greer seems to be her counterpart in every way, and sees right trough her, all the way she doesn’t deal with it and carries the world on her shoulders, and he’s the one that offers a way for her to let go, and finally realize, she doesn’t need to control and do everything on her own. Her insistent spirit, and never giving up, applied also to her relationship with Greer, but specially in trying to help him, to reach him, and break his self imposed loneliness.
They truly were the perfect match in every way, the way she incessantly fought for him, for them, and his palpable love and devotion, and their mutual attraction was amazing to see!
I barely recognize the sensation because nothing that came before her compares. Made for me. I’m made just for her. All of the above.
“I’m fucking yours, you know that?” He drops hot, panting kisses beneath my ear. “I just want to be yours, Danika.”
“You are.” I clench my teeth and sail over the edge again. “Greer.”
“You hoped I had a good day, right? I didn’t. Honestly, baby, I haven’t had a good one since the last time I saw you.” She still doesn’t say anything, so I go for broke and let it all hang out. “Danika, you’re . . .”
“What?”
“You’re the best part of my days.”
Greer and Danika had such beautiful, emotional and steamy moments between the them, that I really wish his pushing and pull, and inner battle, haven’t taken so long to be resolved, because I wanted even more couple time, even more moments with them truly together, without conflict. Once Greer gave in it was amazing to see, so the greedy romantic that I am, I wanted much more of that. He was so swoon-worthy, once he shed the jerk and rule-abiding persona, I wanted the chance to take a deeper look into more of that perfect TB hero!
If I want to be with her again, I have to get used to my heart living in my stomach. That’s how it’s going to be, if I want to have a heart at all. Because she owns it. Every beat.
Tessa Bailey really has the gift of writing a simultaneously emotional, rich and steamy hot story, like no other. Disturbing His Peace is the proof of that, from beginning to end, Ms. Bayley transports us and make us live the struggle, pain, joy and victory right along with Greer and Danika. The complexity of the characters, the incredible setting are flawlessly good. And the little glimpses we had into the secondary characters (MY Jack was brilliant!), couples from the previous books, just sweetened the deal. And like the greedy reader I am, I wanted even more, just like I wished the Epilogue – given it was the closure of this fantastic series – had been further on and more extent. So it is bittersweet saying goodbye to such splendid characters and excellent series, that gave me so much joy. I can’t wait to see what Ms. Bailey has reserved for us next! <3 <3 <3 <3
I don’t mind saying Greer had something to do with it, because I know I restored his confidence, too. In the universe. In fate. How to live with knowledge that no one controls either of those things. We have to grab onto happiness when we’re lucky enough to have it offered. We did. And we’ll keep doing it.
I love this girl. I loved her the day I saw her, but that love is so deep now, no one will ever find the bottom of it.
ARC kindly provided by the author via Avon / Harper Collins for an honest review
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Tessa Bailey is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving 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 of eight years and four-year-old 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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Jodi Ellen Malpas wrote her debut series, The This Man Trilogy, in secret, worried about what people might think if they knew what her imagination was capable of. She was shocked herself. But she finally found the courage to unleash her creative streak and self-published THIS MAN – the first book of the This Man Trilogy – in October 2012. She took a chance on the story with a hero who soon became one of modern day fictions most prolific alpha male characters. Jesse Ward – also affectionately known as The Lord of The Manor, sparked incredible reactions from women across the globe and catapulted Jodi into the world of women’s fiction.
