Clap Back by Lani Lynn Vale
Series: The Carter Brothers #4
Genres: Romantic Suspense
Being a twin is great.
What isn’t great is having the hots for the same woman your twin does.
Been there, done that, have the t-shirt.
Since Auden Carter made that mistake in his teens, he’d promised himself never to do that to his brother again.
Hence why he’s tried so hard to stay away from Maven, the sexy bakery owner that seems to have been put on this planet to tempt him.
After months of watching his brother never make a move, Auden’s had enough. He tells his twin to either shit or get off the pot. Only, come to find out, his twin was never on the pot. He’d never had the hots for Maven at all, but her cute little assistant.
Unfortunately, at this point, he’d done his level best to appear undesirable to Maven, and had gone out of his way to make it very clear that he wasn’t interested.
He has a lot of work to do to convince her that he’s not the guy he’d been acting like for the last few months.
Luck is on his side, though, and soon Maven needs his help, giving him the perfect opportunity to worm his way into her life…and her heart.
But that help she needs turns into a desperate plea for protection, and all he has to do is quit his beloved job to give it.
It’s not every day that you are in love with your boss’s daughter, who just so happens to be the chief of police of Dallas, Texas—your beloved police department that you’ve worked at for your entire career.
It’s also not every day when that boss pulls out every stop, and ruins your life to the point where you’re not sure you can find your way out of the downward spiral he’s forced upon you.
There is one thing Auden knows for certain, though. Maven is worth it. He’ll fight the chief of police, or the entire world, putting his life on the line to do it, as long as it keeps her safe.
Review
I have been wanting to know more about Maven since the beginning of the series. She owns a bakery in town, is the police chief’s daughter and he hates her for some reason. That is all we knew before now. That the chief is constantly trying to get her business shut down. I’m going to go ahead and say that when we find out the reason I almost fell out of my chair. Of all the things I never saw that coming!
I’m getting ahead of myself though. Auden Carter likes Maven but he’s not doing anything about it because he thinks his twin, Atlas, likes her as well and he has been there before. So when he finds out that it is fact not Maven that Atlas likes he jumps at his chance.
The romance is pretty fast in this book but that’s because Maven and Atlas have spent the three previous books dancing around one another. Once they are together it is like they have always been together. When things begin to get tough for Maven and Auden is left having to make a choice he doesn’t want to make we see just how strong the Carter family is.
The fact that the entire Carter clan comes together to protect Maven and make a stand as a family left me feeling some kind of way. I mean typically it is one thing for the hero of the story to make his stand but when the entire family, parents and siblings, make the same stand just makes for a better story.
This one was certainly a little more fast paced than the previous three but like I said I think that was because these two have had the previous books to sort of get to know one another. It makes things more a little quicker and flow a little more smoothly.
As I said earlier the biggest surprise is the hot mess with Maven’s father, step-brother, and step-mother. Then add in a new family in town with a grandmother that left me wanting more room her. Possibly the next group in a new series? You know how we sometimes meet future characters in current series. Either way I hope we get more of them. I know we will be getting more Carters!
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