When faced with a challenge, it’s best to pool your resources.
Liam Mattson used to play his wife’s body like a fine violin. Until a logging accident dampened his fine motor skills and rendered his legs—and the most important part of his below-the-waist playground—useless.
If only Liam would throw himself into therapy with the same vigor he used to throw her into bed, Ivy is sure he’d fully recover. But lately she’s felt adrift, while he’s stuck in self-pity and pre-occupation with a serious threat to his logging business.
When Ward Bose returns from the backwoods, Liam isn’t blind to the heated, guilty glances between his best friend and his wife. And he takes a step he never could have taken if his legs were working—ask Ward to service Ivy in bed.
The moment the three come together, Ward’s heartstrings are tied in knots, and Liam holds them in his fist. But secrets they’re each keeping could tear them all apart…unless they can find a way to share their burdens as easily as they share their love.
Warning: Men who wield big saws know how to care of business—in bed and out.
Liam Mattson used to play his wife’s body like a fine violin. Until a logging accident dampened his fine motor skills and rendered his legs—and the most important part of his below-the-waist playground—useless.
If only Liam would throw himself into therapy with the same vigor he used to throw her into bed, Ivy is sure he’d fully recover. But lately she’s felt adrift, while he’s stuck in self-pity and pre-occupation with a serious threat to his logging business.
When Ward Bose returns from the backwoods, Liam isn’t blind to the heated, guilty glances between his best friend and his wife. And he takes a step he never could have taken if his legs were working—ask Ward to service Ivy in bed.
The moment the three come together, Ward’s heartstrings are tied in knots, and Liam holds them in his fist. But secrets they’re each keeping could tear them all apart…unless they can find a way to share their burdens as easily as they share their love.
Warning: Men who wield big saws know how to care of business—in bed and out.
Wow!
Fevered Hearts was really freaking
good. I already knew that Ms. Petrova could write unbelievably hot ménage
romances as I have read several of them. What I did not know was how good she
was at writing romantic suspense. And she is GOOOOOOD!
I
loved that the book opened with Ward seeing Ivy for the first time and
experiencing an immediate attraction for her before knowing who she was. Their
natural sexual attraction actually went a long way in cementing the realism of
the arrangement Liam proposes and the eventual relationship they all enter into
because it showed that Ward wanted Ivy for Ivy and not just because of Liam and
the history the two men shared. But it’s that history that makes it possible
for Liam to ask Ward to help him show his wife that she is beautiful and sexy
and important. Liam not only trusted Ward with Ivy, but he also trusted Ward
with his pride and his heart. After the initial shock, it was their mutual
trust that made the relationship possible – Ivy trusted Liam to have her best
interest in heart when inviting Ward into their relationship, Ward trusted Liam
not to let his presence interfere with Liam and Ivy’s marriage, and Liam
trusted Ivy to fall in love with Ward and still love him – oh yeah, our boy
Liam had a long-term plan whether he realized it or not. There were so many
places for jealousy to emerge and ruin the budding relationship, yet it did
not. Liam could have easily become resentful of Ward’s physical abilities and
that Ward could please Ivy in ways he no longer could, but he didn’t; instead
he used the visions of Ivy and Ward as motivation to commit to his physical
rehab so that he could join the two people he loved the most and make theirs a
true ménage relationship. No matter when the couplings occurred, each and every
sex scene in the book was HAWT!!! It didn’t matter what the combination was
either – MF, MFM, or MMF – they were all scorchingly hot.
As
if the relationship development and super-hot sex scenes were not enough, Ms.
Petrova weaves it all within a rather gripping romantic suspense plot. Initially,
the trouble that Liam’s family is having with environmentalists seems to be par
for the course in the life of an owner of a logging company, especially with
the recent bad press they suffered when the company contracted to replant after
an area was harvested failed to fulfill their contract and disappeared with
their money. But as the story progresses, things begin to heat up as property
is vandalized and death threats are made. What I enjoyed about the suspense
element is that I learned the facts at the same time the characters did, so
while I knew something was going on, I was no more aware of who the culprit was
than they were. This ratcheted up the suspense and made the reveal that much
more shocking. I loved Fevered Hearts
and am excited to add yet another Em Petrova novel to my re-read shelf.
