A review by stacey42
Dawg by Jeanne St. James
4.0
Dawg's story at last. I was looking forward to seeing what sort of woman ends up catching the strip club owner. Emma is a kindergarten teacher who has lost her job, her home, her savings, everything, in her quest to find her daughter Lily. Desperate she applies as a stripper, but she is terrible at it. She auditions twice for Dawg & sparks fly between them. He can see she is desperate & at first pushes her away but when she comes back he is pulled in. Once she explains her situation he is all in for helping her, hiring her as a hostess (which she excels at) and letting her stay with him above the club (and while he doesn't expect sex for help, his bedroom door is open if she wants to join him, and she does)
He involves Diesel's guys in the search for Lily, who has been stolen by her father & taken out of the country and gets Kiki to start the legal side for custody, a restraining order and a divorce.
Emma is attracted to Dawg and sleeps with him very quickly, switching from shy & hesitant teacher to wild sex kitten during the act. Emma is strong but rather passive in the face of everything Dawg is doing to for her, though she keeps saying she can't afford it. She goes along with what he tells her, even when she is totally out of her depth and doesn't understand what is going on (the party at church). But her daughter has been missing for a year & a half so she is willing to go along things if it will get her Lily.
Watching Dawg & Emma come together was great. The club women embraced her immediately. Dawg worried that Emma would walk away once she had Lily back but he wanted her too much not to get involved with her. Emma, facing what she knows will be a hostile custody battle, knows dating a MC member, who owns a strip club, while living above that club with him, will not help her case at all & her daughter has to come first. Seeing what Emma will do for her daughter makes Dawg to decide to pursue visitation rights with his own daughter, whom he just recently learned about. This means he has to change his life because the strip club thing will count against him too.
Dawg has such heart & such caring, which we never saw much of in the previous books and Emma was so perfect for him.
It was slightly too insta-love for me, which is why 4 stars. And Diesel was an ass as usual.
He involves Diesel's guys in the search for Lily, who has been stolen by her father & taken out of the country and gets Kiki to start the legal side for custody, a restraining order and a divorce.
Emma is attracted to Dawg and sleeps with him very quickly, switching from shy & hesitant teacher to wild sex kitten during the act. Emma is strong but rather passive in the face of everything Dawg is doing to for her, though she keeps saying she can't afford it. She goes along with what he tells her, even when she is totally out of her depth and doesn't understand what is going on (the party at church). But her daughter has been missing for a year & a half so she is willing to go along things if it will get her Lily.
Watching Dawg & Emma come together was great. The club women embraced her immediately. Dawg worried that Emma would walk away once she had Lily back but he wanted her too much not to get involved with her. Emma, facing what she knows will be a hostile custody battle, knows dating a MC member, who owns a strip club, while living above that club with him, will not help her case at all & her daughter has to come first. Seeing what Emma will do for her daughter makes Dawg to decide to pursue visitation rights with his own daughter, whom he just recently learned about. This means he has to change his life because the strip club thing will count against him too.
Dawg has such heart & such caring, which we never saw much of in the previous books and Emma was so perfect for him.
It was slightly too insta-love for me, which is why 4 stars. And Diesel was an ass as usual.