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Push & Pull
One night in Miami…Simone Evans is a hot mess. Fresh from a second stint in rehab and on sabbatical from the family business, Simone doesn’t believe that there’s a genuine soul in the world.Yet at a gathering in Miami, Simone meets the outgoing and charming Petra, a woman she doesn’t think will be worth anything more than a conversation.The next day, hungover Simone wakes up in Petra’s car. They’re heading north, far from Miami and farther from Simone’s past.One week on the Eastern Seaboard…On the run from one crime or another, the pickpocketing grifter known as Petra Kallis has no qualms giving Simone a lift. First it’s to the airport. Then it’s to an Atlantan hotel, where sparks inevitably fly and Petra quickly discovers just what kind of woman Simone is when the clothes come off.But as they travel northward together, Petra’s own circumstances threaten a good time. Between her crime-boss of an uncle and a debt that desperately must be paid, Petra quickly falls for the would-be mark that has been in her car for a week.One lifetime of opposites attract…Simone yearns to be loved and understood. Petra thirsts for stability. What they see in each other is unquestionable potential that feels like it shouldn’t be realized in only a week of knowing one another.Their short tryst is put to the test when old debts come calling. Will Simone rise to her true potential? Will Petra finally destroy the shackles that bind her to an inescapable life of petty thievery and false identities?First, they have to survive twelve hundred miles in a car together.
367 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 10, 2022
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March 16, 2022
Good book
Simone is trying to regain herself and with her step mother and the family business. Petra a grifter that is all she's knows but wants out of the family business. When they are put together while at a mutual friends party. Simone is completely out and put into Petra's Volvo. Petra is to take her home up the eastcoast. Love the story line. The characters are very believable in there rolls and how they come together even with the push and pull the trust that they learn when there together for a week in the car. After they make their separate ways because of distrust. Petra has to make things right. Wish a little more of Simone and Astrid to get along in the end. Very good read
Simone is trying to regain herself and with her step mother and the family business. Petra a grifter that is all she's knows but wants out of the family business. When they are put together while at a mutual friends party. Simone is completely out and put into Petra's Volvo. Petra is to take her home up the eastcoast. Love the story line. The characters are very believable in there rolls and how they come together even with the push and pull the trust that they learn when there together for a week in the car. After they make their separate ways because of distrust. Petra has to make things right. Wish a little more of Simone and Astrid to get along in the end. Very good read
September 30, 2022
Simone's story at last
“Everyone had anger inside of them. Anger, hope, and love. The holy trinity of base human emotions.”
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Finally, Simone, Astrid's angry, bitter, self-destructive, hostile & unpredictable stepdaughter, gets a voice to her story.
Still not sure I get it, but helll, as tantalizing & thrilling as this book was, not really minding too much.
“Everyone had anger inside of them. Anger, hope, and love. The holy trinity of base human emotions.”
+ • + • + • +
Finally, Simone, Astrid's angry, bitter, self-destructive, hostile & unpredictable stepdaughter, gets a voice to her story.
Still not sure I get it, but helll, as tantalizing & thrilling as this book was, not really minding too much.
September 9, 2023
Her writing has improved, her style evolved. It's still the same formula and familiar characters, but I came here looking for that. Narrator for the audio book was good. Honestly not my favorite book in this universe, but I definitely enjoyed it, and learning more about Simone's back story. Hoping this universe keeps expanding, but I can also understand all good things must end.
January 14, 2026
Not even Allie Shae’s normally enjoyed narration could save this one. The “spicy” scenes were majorly off putting… and I enjoy all levels and terms, so it wasn’t like my delicate sensibility had me clutching my pearls. I tried to get through it more than once but it will remain DNF.
March 26, 2022
Disappointment
I usually love this author's (and especially the line of Dane+Billings) books, but this is definitely not her best work.
I usually love this author's (and especially the line of Dane+Billings) books, but this is definitely not her best work.
March 29, 2022
Amazing story
I have enjoyed this amazing fun adventure of Petra and Simone how they spend a week in road trip up the east coast and found something amazing.
I have enjoyed this amazing fun adventure of Petra and Simone how they spend a week in road trip up the east coast and found something amazing.
June 12, 2023
I really enjoyed the audio book. The story in itself was great. It had a couple of twists that were not quite expecting.
April 16, 2022
Oh wow, another hit!
Ngl, with the prologue, I thought this would be more of a sombre story, hot but sombre, but even though it had its moments, it was far from it.
LMAO, the brunch scene made me cackle like a fool. I think this was quite fun, and of course steamy also to an extent, sweet. Ah, you should know, this one doesn't have the BDSM aspect other titles in this universe have.
Seeing Simone as something other than a spoiled brat was really nice. She has a lot going on and even though I didn't quite dislike her before, now I can say I feel for her and hope she can get in a place where self-love replace so much loathe, hopefully with Petra help. Speaking of her, she was such a fun character, one that can be insufferable (funny) sometimes and with her past I wonder how she didn't break. Maybe that's something the authors intended, to show the contrast, you can have it all, financially and still have your life go South and you can have nothing and be resilient even with a life as fucked up as hers.
I hope Hildred/Cynthia is planning to do a sort of wrap up in the future, because Astrid's and Simone's stories, although were concluded, felt like they have so much more to be told, they are all so interesting. So much so, it would be a shame not to have them having their HEA be canon, instead of the HFN.
p.s.: it may have been me not paying much attention, but by the end I think there was some lil timeline mix up, as in one of them saying 2 months have passed since they kissed, but a bit later there is a comment that only a month have passed, also a week. Again, could've been me too anxious reading and not doing proper interpretation.
Ngl, with the prologue, I thought this would be more of a sombre story, hot but sombre, but even though it had its moments, it was far from it.
LMAO, the brunch scene made me cackle like a fool. I think this was quite fun, and of course steamy also to an extent, sweet. Ah, you should know, this one doesn't have the BDSM aspect other titles in this universe have.
Seeing Simone as something other than a spoiled brat was really nice. She has a lot going on and even though I didn't quite dislike her before, now I can say I feel for her and hope she can get in a place where self-love replace so much loathe, hopefully with Petra help. Speaking of her, she was such a fun character, one that can be insufferable (funny) sometimes and with her past I wonder how she didn't break. Maybe that's something the authors intended, to show the contrast, you can have it all, financially and still have your life go South and you can have nothing and be resilient even with a life as fucked up as hers.
I hope Hildred/Cynthia is planning to do a sort of wrap up in the future, because Astrid's and Simone's stories, although were concluded, felt like they have so much more to be told, they are all so interesting. So much so, it would be a shame not to have them having their HEA be canon, instead of the HFN.
p.s.: it may have been me not paying much attention, but by the end I think there was some lil timeline mix up, as in one of them saying 2 months have passed since they kissed, but a bit later there is a comment that only a month have passed, also a week. Again, could've been me too anxious reading and not doing proper interpretation.
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