A review by angela_evans
Barefoot with a Stranger by Roxanne St. Claire
5.0
Roxanne St. Claire is a master at weaving unforgettable characters you will fall in love with over and over again, Barefoot with a Stranger is no exception!
Chessie Rossi isn’t like her siblings, she doesn’t live for the adrenaline rush of chasing down a bad guy. She is much more comfortable with problems that can be solved with the perfect string of binary code on her computer. She lives life by a plan, never going off script. Until everything goes off script one night stranded in an airport with a sexy stranger. When she throws caution out the window and decides that a one night stand is the perfect cure for nursing her broken heart she thinks she’ll never see Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome again. Until he’s standing in her brother, Gabe Rossi’s, kitchen the next morning as Gabe tells them he needs them to go to Cuba and find his son for him.
For Malcom Harris a call for help from none other than Gabe Rossi is not something to be ignored, even if you just got out of prison. He knows the CIA has eyes on him, they’re not about to let that half a million dollars he went to prison for embezzling disappear without a trace. Only, he doesn’t have it, and he’s not about to tell them who does. Four long years without a woman makes Chessie irresistible to him—okay so she would be irresistible no matter when they met. But the last thing he expects is to find out Gabe is her brother and for the two of them to be partners on the most dangerous mission of his life.
Chessie is determined to not let anything get in the way of helping her brother find his son, and since Gabe can’t go to Cuba himself she’s the next best thing. Computers won’t help her on this mission, and she has to trust the untrustworthy Mal to help her find her nephew.
Their chemistry is combustible, and not even the danger of being in Cuba under false pretenses, and being watched by a CIA agent on the wrong side of the law can keep them apart. In the end, it all comes down to whether or not Mal will believe he can have the family and happiness that he grew up without, or if he believes he’s destined to live his life alone.
Either way they will end up back in Barefoot Bay giving Gabe the news they know may be the final straw for the strongest man either of them know.
Roxanne is an amazing storyteller who has the talent of drawing you into a world she creates, filled with characters you wish you could continue getting to know long after the last page is turned. Chessie and Mal’s story is almost too good for words, and you will find yourself gasping on the edge of your seat as they play out their love story for you in this book. Like all of Roxanne’s books it will find its home on your “keeper” shelf, and you’ll read it again, and again telling all your friends they must read it for themselves to believe it! Be sure to warn them their house may fall down around them as they read, and they’ll never notice a thing.
If you, like me, are a longtime fan of Roxanne St. Claire you will be thrilled to see the character of Gabe Rossi back on the pages of her novels, but I should forewarn you that the conclusion of this book will leave you begging for more!
Chessie Rossi isn’t like her siblings, she doesn’t live for the adrenaline rush of chasing down a bad guy. She is much more comfortable with problems that can be solved with the perfect string of binary code on her computer. She lives life by a plan, never going off script. Until everything goes off script one night stranded in an airport with a sexy stranger. When she throws caution out the window and decides that a one night stand is the perfect cure for nursing her broken heart she thinks she’ll never see Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome again. Until he’s standing in her brother, Gabe Rossi’s, kitchen the next morning as Gabe tells them he needs them to go to Cuba and find his son for him.
For Malcom Harris a call for help from none other than Gabe Rossi is not something to be ignored, even if you just got out of prison. He knows the CIA has eyes on him, they’re not about to let that half a million dollars he went to prison for embezzling disappear without a trace. Only, he doesn’t have it, and he’s not about to tell them who does. Four long years without a woman makes Chessie irresistible to him—okay so she would be irresistible no matter when they met. But the last thing he expects is to find out Gabe is her brother and for the two of them to be partners on the most dangerous mission of his life.
Chessie is determined to not let anything get in the way of helping her brother find his son, and since Gabe can’t go to Cuba himself she’s the next best thing. Computers won’t help her on this mission, and she has to trust the untrustworthy Mal to help her find her nephew.
Their chemistry is combustible, and not even the danger of being in Cuba under false pretenses, and being watched by a CIA agent on the wrong side of the law can keep them apart. In the end, it all comes down to whether or not Mal will believe he can have the family and happiness that he grew up without, or if he believes he’s destined to live his life alone.
Either way they will end up back in Barefoot Bay giving Gabe the news they know may be the final straw for the strongest man either of them know.
Roxanne is an amazing storyteller who has the talent of drawing you into a world she creates, filled with characters you wish you could continue getting to know long after the last page is turned. Chessie and Mal’s story is almost too good for words, and you will find yourself gasping on the edge of your seat as they play out their love story for you in this book. Like all of Roxanne’s books it will find its home on your “keeper” shelf, and you’ll read it again, and again telling all your friends they must read it for themselves to believe it! Be sure to warn them their house may fall down around them as they read, and they’ll never notice a thing.
If you, like me, are a longtime fan of Roxanne St. Claire you will be thrilled to see the character of Gabe Rossi back on the pages of her novels, but I should forewarn you that the conclusion of this book will leave you begging for more!