
By: Toni Aleo
Series: The Assassins Series #5
My Copy: Amazon.com
BookWhisperer's Rating:
BREAKING
AWAY is a story of loss, healing, and love… where unexpected turns and
heartache lead to passion.
To
Nashville Assassins’ leading scoring center Phillip Anderson, playing hockey
has always been easy… as natural as breathing. His life is no different. That’s
until his world is turned upside down by the death of his sister. While
mourning his loss, Phillip has to find a way to make his very angry
sixteen-year-old niece, Claire, happy. Now, as her guardian, he discovers the
only thing that seems to heal her lonely heart is dance class. But what he
didn’t count on was the attraction he’d feel towards her drop-dead sexy dance
teacher.
For Reese
Allen, dancing has always been part of her soul. After having her heart broken
in New York, she comes home with the determination to make her dance studio one
of the best in Tennessee and succeeds. When she sees Claire dance for the first
time, she knows the girl is bound for greatness and takes the troubled teen
under her wing. Using dance as therapy, she suddenly finds herself bound to the
young woman… and her hot-as-sin uncle.
However,
Phillip and Reese are happy in their single lives. It’s simple. They do what
they want, who they want, and how they want, but from the moment they meet, the
attraction is undeniable. Soon, they are more than willing to spend just one
night tangled in the sheets. But, one night turns into two, and two turns into
three, until they find themselves in a repeated dance of “One Last Time” that has
the potential to be something more… if only Reese and Claire allow it.
Can Phillip
find a way to thaw the hearts of both the women in his life, or will he be
forever trying to break them away from their pasts?
I just can’t get enough of this series! It’s like a little slice of happiness every
time a new book comes out. Each story
from this series has been wonderful and Breaking Away was exactly that,
wonderful.
Phillip is such an amazing
character. In the first few chapters,
you find him searching for his niece, Claire, who has basically ran away and he
makes the decision that he will now take full responsibility for raising
her. But raising her isn’t as easy as he
hoped it would be and has to rely on one of Reese’s sisters to watch her while
he is away at his games. This gives
Reese a chance to meet Claire and realizes that she is a fantastic dancer and
since Reese owns a dance studio, there couldn’t be a better pairing in
friendship between Reese and Claire.
However, friendship is not what Phillip wants from Reese once he finally
gets to know her. He wants so much more
than Reese is willing to give.
This story isn’t all about
Phillip and Reese and how specular they are together, even when Reese won’t
admit it; this story has more behind it than lust and love. As a reader, you get to read about the
hell-like childhood that Phillip was raised in and what Claire suffered through
while growing up under her mother’s house.
You also get to see a glimpse of why Reese is so adamant to stay just
friends with benefits over starting a relationship with Phillip.
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