BURBON & LIES - VICTORIA WILDER

 PLOT 🍹

In Fiasco, Kentucky, there is one rule: never fall in love with a Foxx brother. Any woman who did so ended up dead, or so the rumor goes. The citizens call it a curse. But I lived through it and I won't live through it again.

I'm no longer a cop, but I've seen enough danger to know that Laney Young, the beautiful stranger new to my little town, is on the run. He's lying about his origins and what he's doing here.

I don't want her near my family or the quiet life I've built for myself. But my brothers have other plans. Now he's everywhere: he works in my distillery, lives in our guest house, calls me "cowboy" and dives naked into the horse trough.

But it's the way she expresses her attitude with that pretty mouth of hers that makes me want things I swore to myself I'd never want again. I should push her away, forget the taste of her lips, and ignore the way she makes me want more out of life again.

When his past surfaces and becomes too confusing with mine, his lies begin to unravel. Rules no longer matter. I make a mistake, I dig too much and I get too close. Only two things have the power to keep her safe now: bourbon and lies.

BOOK DETAILS ✨

📕 Author: Victoria Wilder

📗 Genere:  Contemporary Romance 

📙 Tropes: Small town / Found Family / WITSEC / Hidden identity / ex - cop 

📘 Narration: Dual pov 

• Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
• Spice 🌶🌶 🌶
• Heroine (Laney) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐⭐
• Hero (Grant ) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐⭐

OVERALL VIEW 🧚

WHAT I LIKED 💘

GRANT and LANEY set the whole scene on fire, with their back-and-forth and each one pushing the other's buttons. 

I loved that Julep was still with Grant after he left Fiasco PD. 

Hadley is another one of those characters who, while being secondary, managed to steal the show without being too much or out of place.

This was my first book written by Victoria, but I am looking forward to reading Lincoln's story which will be out in December 2024.

WHAT I DIDN'T LIKED SO MUCH  💔

I would have liked it if the reason why Laney was included in WITSEC had been better explored. 

Don't get me wrong, it is explained, but the story of the subject behind it could have been explored a little bit. A couple of pages I think would have been enough.