Cover Reveal ~ Overruled (The Legal Briefs 1) by Emma Chase

Emma Chase, New York Times bestselling author of the Tangled series, returns with the first installment of the Legal Briefs series!

A Washington, DC, defense attorney, Stanton Shaw keeps his head cool, his questions sharp, and his arguments irrefutable. They don’t call him the Jury Charmer for nothing—with his southern drawl, disarming smile, and captivating green eyes, he’s a hard man to say no to. Men want to be him, and women want to be thoroughly cross examined by him.

Stanton’s a man with a plan. And for a while, life was going according to that plan.

Until the day he receives an invitation to the wedding of his high school sweetheart, the mother of his beloved ten-year-old daughter. Jenny is getting married—to someone who isn’t him.

That's definitely not part of the plan.

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Sofia Santos is a city-raised, no-nonsense litigator who plans to become the most revered criminal defense attorney in the country. She doesn’t have time for relationships or distractions.

But when Stanton, her "friend with mind-blowing benefits," begs her for help, she finds herself out of her element, out of her depth, and obviously out of her mind. Because she agrees to go with him to The-Middle-Of-Nowhere, Mississippi, to do all she can to help Stanton win back the woman he loves. Her head tells her she's crazy...and her heart says something else entirely.

What happens when you mix a one-stop-light town, two professional arguers, a homecoming queen, four big brothers, some Jimmy Dean sausage, and a gun-toting Nana?

The Bourbon flows, passions rise, and even the best-laid plans get overruled by the desires of the heart.

Release Date

April 28, 2015

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About the author

By day, Emma Chase is a devoted wife and mother who resides in a small town in New Jersey. By night she is a keyboard crusader, toiling away the hours to bring her colorful characters and their endless antics to life. She has a long standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.

Emma is an avid reader. Before her children were born she was known to consume whole books in a single day. Writing has also always been a passion and with the 2013 release of her debut romantic comedy, Tangled, the ability to now call herself an author is nothing less than a dream come true.

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#Review ~ Twisted (Tangled #2) by Emma Chase

Title: Twisted

Author: Emma Chase

Series: Tangled #2

Release Date: March 25, 2014

Synopsis:

There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who look first, and the ones who leap. I’ve always been more of a looker. Cautious. A planner. That changed after I met Drew Evans. He was so persistent. So sure of himself – and of me.

But not all love stories end happily ever after. Did you think Drew and I were going to ride off into the sunset? Join the club. Now I have to make a choice, the most important of my life. Drew already made his –in fact, he tried to decide for the both of us. But you know that’s just not my style. So I came back to Greenville. Alone. Well, sort of alone....

What I've come to realize is that old habits die hard and sometimes you have to go back to where you began, before you can move ahead.

TWISTED picks up two years after Tangled’s end, and is told from Kate’s POV.

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Four Stars

I am going to start right off by telling you that I enjoyed Twisted as much as I did Tangled! So much so, that I read it literally in one sitting! 

Twisted picks up two years after the supposed HEA of Tangled, only....not so much! This story is told mostly from Kate's POV (although Drew chimes in there at the end) and although there are some laugh out loud moments, for the most part this story is not a feel good story, well most of it isn't anyway. Ok, let me explain.

Most of this story based on a REALLY HUGE MISUNDERSTANDING!!! You, as the reader will pick up on it right away, you should anyway, if you're any good at this I mean :) and you will want to completely strangle Kate and Drew (a lot Drew) for not communicating better and letting all of this sadness and heartache happen!

However, this is why I love Kate and Drew, they have the ability to make me laugh, then ugly cry and then laugh again so hard I snort! Yeah, I love these kinds of stories. I am not going to really give anything away, especially since I was lucky enough to get this baby as an ARC! I will say when all is said and done everyone is in love and harmony again, it is a rough go there for awhile but you will love every minute, I swear!!

I will leave you with a little example of why we love Drew....

"I thought your cunt was magnificent before, but now that I see what it's really capable of? It's reached superhero status in my book. In fact, I think that's what we should name it." I lift my hands envisioning a giant billboard. "Incred-a-Pussy." 

See what I mean....how can a girl resist that?? 

***This book was provided to me as an ARC by Netgalley!

Tangled (Tangled #1) by Emma Chase

Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York’s most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and an indulgent family. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed?

He’ll tell you he has the flu.

But we all know that’s not really true.

Katherine Brooks is brilliant, beautiful and ambitious. She refuses to let anything - or anyone - derail her path to success. When Kate is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating. 

Then, just when Drew is on the cusp of having everything he wants, his overblown confidence threatens to ruin it all. Will he be able untangle his feelings of lust and tenderness, frustration and fulfillment? Will he rise to the most important challenge of his life? 

Can Drew Evans win at love? 

Tangled is not your mother’s romance novel. It is an outrageous, passionate, witty narrative about a man who knows a lot about women…just not as much as he thinks he knows. As he tells his story, Drew learns the one thing he never wanted in life, is the only thing he can’t live without.

4.5 Stars

“I’m fine,” when they really mean, “I want to cut your balls off with a butcher knife.” 

OMG! Where has this book been all my life? This was such a fun read; I am thoroughly entertained. I laughed, a lot. I couldn’t keep the constant grin off my face, except those times where I would inwardly groan and say to myself, “Oh, no you did not just do that?!” – Which I said multiple times. I mean that’s what you get when you read a story from a strictly male perspective. 

But here’s a fact for you – once I’m done, I’m done.I’m not the kind of guy who rides the same rollercoaster twice. Once is enough, and then the thrill is gone and so is the interest. 

Oh Drew, Drew, Drew…what am I going to do with you? Having his POV on everything was so fucking entertaining. Who knew?! This is a story of Drew, a man who up until recently had control of his life. He has the job, the money, the looks and a constant parade of women waiting to get a taste of him. Alas, ladies, he’s is the epitome of the love ‘em and leave ‘em type, until he goes does the one thing he swore he would never do: Fall in love.

When we first meet Drew, he isn’t really personifying the suave man we know him to be. He’s holed up in his apartment, apparently for seven days, claiming to have the flu. He’s a mess, no doubt, but does he really have the flu or is it something else entirely? 

I control my dick. My dick does not control me. 

Drew’s life turns upside down when he meets Kate Brooks. The moment he sets his eyes on her, he knew he had to have her – of course, preferably on her knees or beneath him…oh, how the male minds work…so typical. lol. He’s all lust, but unfortunately their initial meeting didn’t go as planned. However, it’s their second meeting that throws him a curveball: She’s actually his new associate, which is a no-no for him. Oh! And tack on the fact that Kate is actually engaged, it’s game over, right? Yea. No. He tries to convince himself she’s off limits, but you know exactly where this is heading. 

What’s that? Yes. I went to Catholic school. You’re surprised? You shouldn’t be. My profanity has a certain religious flavor that can only be learned through a lifetime of Catholic education. “Jesus H. Christ…Goddamn it…Jesus, Mary, and Joseph…fucking Christ Almighty…holy fucking shit – and that’s just what we heard from the priests. Don’t get me started on the nuns. 

Drew is fucked: It’s that plain and simple. He’s all Alpha male and when someone is sniffing around his territory, he goes ballistic. This is what happens when Drew and Kate are competing for the same account. It’s all out war between the two. Consider their endless bickering as verbal foreplay because the tension between the two does nothing but escalate and when it detonates, it’s explosive. Nothing is left the same ever again. 

I don’t want to run. I don’t even what to look away. And I don’t ever want to let go. 

I commend Kate’s character because she doesn’t make it easy for Drew. She makes him work for it and to see him practically crawling back, after doing something insanely stupid mind you, had me smiling non-stop. For readers concerned about cheating, no worries. Aside from one heated kiss, Kate is noble and never took it that far with Drew. She’s played Drew’s Achilles heel perfectly. I LOVED this story. It’s fresh, fun and entertaining as hell. I will definitely be keeping an eye out for the next book in the series. Perhaps it’ll be Matthew and Delores’ story? I can only hope :)

“Real guys don’t think like Nolan or Niles or whatever the hell that douchebag’s name was.” 

“Noah.”

“And any man who would build a room in his house for some chick who blew him off? Any man would wait years for that same girl to show up at his door, knowing she was with someone else? He’s not a man at all.”

“What is he?”

“A big, hairy, unwaxed vagina.” 

See? Fucking hilarious. Must. Read.