Title: One Shot
Series: Chances #1
Author: BJ Harvey
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy nails girl—boy’s gone by morning.
I think for sure it must've been a dream because there’s no way a guy could look like that, touch me like that and be so in tune with me on every known level, and disappear, leaving me with nothing but a good story to tell my friends.
When he walks into my bar three months later, everything I thought I knew and what we’d had disappears in the blink of an eye and the blinding light of the three-carat diamond on his fiancée's hand.
It seems what I thought was a dream is now my most complicated reality, and I've got absolutely no idea how to fix it - or if I even want to.
Present Day
I have tingles, and not the kind that feel great in all the right places. The ones I’m feeling right now are the hair-standing-up-on-the-back-of-your-neck, someone-walking-over-your-grave kind of feelings that you get when something bad is about to happen.
Unable to ignore them any longer, I turn around from my stock take sheet and come face to face with my worst nightmare.
Lana fucking Mason, childhood best friend turned high school nemesis and arch enemy, and…
A man stands beside her, his eyes as wide as mine and—if I’m not mistaken—he looks kind of pissed off. At me.
And just like that, this moment has just gone from bad to worse.
Hold on! I’m the one who should be annoyed, with him. It wasn’t me who did a disappearing act three months ago, and now he’s here, standing with her. Of all the fish in the sea, he had to go for the smelliest, rottenest one.
“Kenzie,” she says, all saccharine sweet, like she wouldn’t choke on the first dick that came close to her perfectly-made-up lips. “Long time no see.”
Forever wouldn’t have been long enough, Lana.
“We were in town running errands and thought we’d stop by. I wanted to let you know what I’ve been up to.” Without preamble, she holds out her hand as if she’s the Queen of Sheba and I’m a lowly minion at her bidding. But that’s the last thing I care about, given that I’m being blinded by a huge, shiny rock on her ring finger.
What in the ever-loving fuck?
I don’t get a chance to hide my surprise, or the fact that my eyes dart to Millen, his jaw twitching like crazy, his grey eyes that I remember turning molten with lust now blazing with some unreadable emotion.
Why is he angry at me when he must’ve known that I’d be here?
Lana turns her head and beams at him all doe-eyed and vomit-inducing, reaching out her arm to Millen before returning her attention to me, positioning herself to deliver the final death blow.
Then she says them. The words I don’t want to hear—let alone believe.
“I have amazing news. First, my daddy just bought this place. And second, meet Millen, my fiancé…”
Yep. Dead. Done. The see-ya-later, don’t-let-the-door-hit-your-ass-on-the-way-out kind of done.
Then Drew walks through the front door. Drew who warms my bed most nights. Finally, a friendly face.
However, one look at Lana’s expression and I know this moment has just gone from bad to plain awkward. It’s like the universe is making a joke at my expense.
Drew’s already big smile grows impossibly larger when he spots the two people standing in front of me.
“Mills!” he says, pulling Millen into a man-hug the likes of which I’ve never seen Drew hand out before. He turns to the she-bitch and wraps his arms around her too. “Lans.”
Lans?
“What are you guys doing here?” Drew asks.
“You know them?” I blurt out, my brain unable to engage quick enough to care about putting a filter in place.
Millen’s eyes snap to Drew then back to me. “You know Drew?” he asks at the same time as Lana juts a hip to the side and asks Drew, “You know Kenzie?”
“Millen is my best friend from college,” Drew happily informs me, and his smile falls at the same time that all of the blood rushes from my face.
Awkward, meet Mortifying. Also here are Shame, Embarrassment, Anger, Disgust, and over in the corner there is Complete and Utter Confusion and her friend I’m Going to Have to Move to the States and Join a Women-Only Commune with Cats and Unlimited Batteries.
With nothing else to say—at least, nothing that wouldn’t take a bottle of Jack and a whole lot of time—I decide to just go with the flow and revert to my old trusty auto-pilot because seriously, what else is there for me to do?
“Soooo, would anyone like a drink?”
Sweet baby Jesus! One Shot by B. J. Harvey is a delicious and addictive book. Every written page was a great bookish pleasure. I couldn't put it down. I devoured it as a starved bookworm. This book has a smooth combination of angsty and hilarious moments. It is perfection wrapped in a sensual cover. Everything that is in and out of it is perfect. If you want to spend a good time, you should one-clicked now.
This book contains wonderful characters, a great word building and a brilliant plot. B. J. Harvey delivers a compelling story where LOVE gets a new meaning because when you find it, you mustn't let it go. You fight against everyone and everything that could separate you from your soul mate.
There is nothing wrong when it comes to fight for real love. That is something Kenz and Millen will learn together (especially Kenz).
I love the intense attraction between the main characters. It was explosive, like they couldn't keep their hands off each other. When they are together, the atmosphere charges with sparkling electricity.
“You’ve won this round, Beautiful, but I’m a persistent man. I will be back to try again.”
Kenz is a woman who knows what she wants and when she met Millen she set the rules which Millen must follow if he wants to get the girl (if you know what I mean) Kenz doesn't want a one night stand, she deserves better and picking boys are the bar she where she works is not her style. Only Millen will be the sexy exception.
“You’re gonna be the death of me, Kenz. Just when I think I have you figured out, you surprise me.”
Gosh! Millen is just Millen. He is cocky and so lethal, impossibly handsome and loyal. He already has his life “planned” but Kenz will turn his world upside down. She is the only woman who have captured his attention in many ways. His soul recognizes her. His heart beats for her. She is his but things won't be easy.
“You’re trouble.”
“And you’re such a good boy.”
Kenz and Millen are like magnets.The interaction between them is refreshing. They challenge each other. And fate will challenge them.
“Hope is a bitch. It gives you a sliver of a chance, makes you see things that aren’t there. Hope lets you hallucinate, turns you into a starving fool in the desert falling for that oasis on the horizon.”
This is a stunning book, a beautifully addictive and unique masterpiece that will captivate you from the first pages. I can't wait to read the following books in the series. I need more Millen and Kenz. (Well to be honest I just need more Millen). Talented authors like B. J. Harvey made me have BIG expectations on men. I highly recommended you this book. Let B. J. Harvey ruin you.
Take a One-Shot. You won't be disappointed.
“Too much talking, not enough moaning.”
(ARC courtesy of author in exchange for an honest review)
BJ Harvey is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Bliss Series. She regards herself as a smut peddler, suspense conjurer, and a funny romance thinker upper. An avid music fan, you will always find her singing some hit song badly and loving every minute of it. She’s a wife, a mom to two beautiful girls, and hails from what she considers as the best country in the world—New Zealand.
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