Bluegrass Undercover

Bluegrass Brothers #1

by Kathleen Brooks

In her first follow-up to the Best Selling Bluegrass Series, Kathleen Brooks brings Keeneston back to life through the Davies Brothers. Cade Davies had too much on his plate to pay attention to newest resident of Keeneston. He was too busy avoiding the Davies Brothers marriage trap set by half the town. But when a curvy redhead lands in Keeneston, the retired Army Ranger finds himself drawn to her. These feelings are only fueled by her apparent indifference and lack of faith in his ability to defend himself.

DEA Agent Annie Blake was undercover to bust a drug ring hiding in the adorable Southern town that preyed on high school athletes. She had thought to keep her head down and listen to the local gossip to find the maker of this deadly drug. What Annie didn’t count on was becoming the local gossip. With marriage bets being placed, and an entire town aiming to win the pot, Annie looks to Cade for help in bringing down the drug ring before another kid is killed. But can she deal with the feelings that follow?

Genres: Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Suspense, Mystery, Fiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2012

About the author

Kathleen Brooks is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author. Kathleen's stories are romantic suspense featuring strong female heroines, humor, and happily-ever-afters. Her Bluegrass, Bluegrass Brothers®, Forever Bluegrass®, and Shadows Landing Series feature small-town charm with quirky characters while her Women of Power Series shows that behind every sexy billionaire is a man strong enough to love her! Then hang onto your seat for the wild and mysterious ride in the thrilling Web of Lies Series and a little magic in the Moonshine Hollow Series.

Kathleen is from Kentucky, where she graduated from Centre College and then later received her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law. Kathleen still resides in Kentucky with her family and houseful of animals.


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Book Order:
(Bluegrass Series-complete series)
Bluegrass State of Mind
Risky Shot
Dead Heat

(Bluegrass Brothers Series®-complete series)
Bluegrass Undercover
Rising Storm
Secret Santa, A Bluegrass Series Novella
Acquiring Trouble
Relentless Pursuit
Secrets Collide
Final Vow
All Hung Up, Novella
Bluegrass Dawn, Novella
The Perfect Gift, Novella
The Keeneston Roses

(Forever Bluegrass Series®-complete series)
Forever Entangled
Forever Hidden
Forever Betrayed
Forever Driven
Forever Secret
Forever Surprised, Novella
Forever Concealed
Forever Devoted
Forever Hunted
Forever Guarded
Forever Notorious
Forever Ventured
Forever Freed
Forever Saved
Forever Bold
Forever Thrown
Forever Lies
Forever Protected
Forever Paired
Forever Connected
Forever Covert
Forever Burning
Forever Lasting
Forever Country
Forever Remembered

(Bluegrass Fire Series-ongoing)
Spark

(Shadows Landing-complete series)
Saving Shadows
Sunken Shadows
Lasting Shadows
Fierce Shadows
Broken Shadows
Framed Shadows
Endless Shadows
Fading Shadows
Damaged Shadows
Escaping Shadows

(Shadows Landing: The Townsends- ongoing series)
Face-Off
Targeted
Rescued
Heated
Escaped
Fractured
Claimed

(Paige Turner Bookworm Series- complete)
Adventures of a Bookworm
Misadventures of a Bookworm
The Adventurous Bookworm

(Moonshine Hollow- complete series)
Moonshine and Murder
Moonshine and Malice
Moonshine and Mayhem
Moonshine and Mischief
Moonshine and Menace
Moonshine and Masquarades

(Web of Lies- complete)
Whispered Lies
Rogue Lies
Shattered Lies

(Women of Powe-complete)
Chosen for Power
Built for Power
Fashioned for Power
Destined for Power

Reviews

[Syndi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am starting to loving this series. Bluegrass Undercover is full fun with sexy, witty banter. The characters are kicking ass especially Annie. Not once she shy away from her feeling toward Cade.

And Cade is an unique hero who is not afraid to love strong woman. I love that. Miss Brooks certainly knows how to write her characters. The story is mix with suspense. It blends perfectly well with the romance part.

4 stars

[Pam Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 Bluegrass Undercover Stars

You know it’s funny, I didn’t think I had read this series but it turns out I did and once I started the book I realized it.

I can’t say I am disappointed because I love this small town and how everyone knows everyone.

I love, love the blue haired ladies. Nothing gets pasted them they are what totally makes this story great. Ok well not totally but you know what I mean.

I read the Bluegrass series first and I have to say I am glad I did even though that was a re read as well it is just nice to be in this world again.

So we meet Paige in the other series and this is the series about her brothers finding love.

Cade is one of her bro’s and I love that when he meets Annie it’s because she is saving him from a punch.
And throughout the book it’s as if she is saving him at every turn, its quiet funny.

I loved the banter these two have. I love it <3
Again Eric G. Dove nails it with this one. His narration is fantastic!

*You don't have to like my review but its 100% my opinion, and I am allowed to have it.*

[Carrie]

I honestly don't understand the high rating on this book. While the writing and editing are fine from a technical standpoint, which is something I appreciate, the quality of the writing isn't great. Instead it sounds amateurish. I didn't read enough to comment on the overall suspense plot. I know I didn't care for the heroine much. She was a out-of-control DEA agent with a HUGE chip on her shoulder.

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Annie is a small curvy DEA agent who is a little too handy with her fists. After she punches a drug dealer (deservedly since he had fondled her and hit her first) she is transferred to a small town where apparently the latest steroid-replacement is being manufactured and sold to impressionable boys to improve their athletic performance.

Annie comes across well, she is a fighter from start to finish and has great self-confidence. Of course she has a sob-story to explain why she has no friends or family - don't they always.

Cade, the coach of the football team, is a bona fide national hero, a former ranger with a drawer full of medals, he is also the local science teacher. Annie mistakenly rescues him twice when she first arrives in the town - believing him to be incapable.

The story was reasonable enough - I guessed the identity of the Boss in the first few chapters, although I did waver and think there might be two villains with different motivations about part way through.

However, there is one aspect of the book that I can't decide whether I liked or whether it made the whole thing descend into the realms of the absurd. In this small town everyone knows everyone. Cade is one of six, his sister is engaged to an FBI agent, one of his brothers owns a security business, one is incredibly wealthy and one is simply mysterious. All of them were rangers (I think). There is also a prince who lives in town, together with his bodyguard and wife. Oh and there is some mysterious lawyer who knows everything. The entire town (except the baddies, natch) knows that Annie is an undercover DEA agent but keep it quiet, even though keeping it quiet only means finding out from your cousin's wife's second cousin's nephew! Hell even the local police in this tiny place are sharp as tacks.

It gave a feeling of unreality to the story. Added to this the story didn't really have any depth. It was as if it was a very long summary of a story - not a whole lot of emotion, not a whole lot of action, not a whole lot of cute rural life, not a whole lot of football - just summaries of all of them.

Re-read in 2016 - had absolutely NO idea I had read it before! I enjoyed it this time although I think all of my comments stand.

[Agnieszka · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book's main focus is the story of Annie and Cade. Annie is an undercover DEA agent; Cade is the teacher/trainer of the Davies brothers.
Some wrong assumptions, Annie's tamper and love for guns and kicking asses, some (more or less qualified) criminals and the world best intelligence community are a great mix for much fun and suspense.

In this book there are many of the characters from the previous books (Bluegrass Series) but there is some new information about Paige's Brothers which were introduced very superficial in the previous book.

Just in cast, after reading almost all of Kathleen Brooks books I think I love Annie's character most of all (even more than the fairy Godmothers) - she's so spunky, funny and down-to-earth - I'd love her to live in my neighborhood ;-).

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book started with a bang, but I ended up being disappointed. I'm always turned off by books that have one or more bad guys --- not tortured souls who do wrong, but just simple bad people. It's much worse if the bad guys are turned into a laughing stock. It's just plain unbelievable (even in chick lit) that the employees of a drug ring would be incompetent.

If you can overlook that, though, the story is fun. Interesting to see something set outside Lexington.

[Malinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars

This was a very good story. I liked Annie and Cade and their story was a good mix of action/suspense and romance that made for an interesting and engaging story. This is the first story I've read by this author and based off this I'm likely to read more of her work in the future.

Annie is a DEA agent that's good at her jobs but known to be a little hard to control. She worked an undercover sting in Florida and found a lead in to a drug hitting the high school athletes. Since her boss wasn't real thrilled with her, he transferred her to Kentucky to follow the trail of the drug ring. Annie's mother died when she was young and she didn't know her father so she grew up in Foster care. Her experiences there propelled her in to her work with the DEA.

Cade is ex-special forces and now works as a high school teacher and coaches high school football. He's just gotten promoted to head coach and is happy about it but nervous. Cade has dated a lot but never let any woman catch him enough to be in a relationship.

Annie is sent to Cade's high school undercover because they had information that the drug was being produced somewhere nearby. She goes undercover as a guidance counselor since the school has been needing one for a while. The first meeting between Cade and Annie happens when she comes out to the football field during practice. One of the players is amped up on the new drug and in a roid-rage getting ready to punch Cade. Cade was planning to deflect it but Annie steps in front of him and deflects it and then starts getting on his case for not being able to defend himself against a teenager (even if he's bigger than Cade). Cade's rather flummoxed by Annie's assumption that he can't defend himself and isn't sure what to think of Annie. He's attracted to her but he's never met a woman less impressed by him and that's not something he's used to, Cade's used to woman falling all over themselves for him. Annie's attracted to Cade but seriously doesn't get who he is at first. They have another, similar encounter which just makes things weirder between the two. Later, when some thugs attack them outside the diner, Cade takes them down and Annie realizes he's not just a high school teacher. Cade starts realizing that she's not a normal high school counselor and they both use their contacts to find out who the other person is.

Once Annie knows who Cade is, she has more respect for him and wonders if maybe he'll be able to help her in her work. She doesn't tell him who she if right away but when kids at their school start testing positive for drug use, the action plot starts heating up and Cade is brought in to the thick of things. It goes slowly at first but Annie is able to start getting some information but mainly they're trying to find who the person making the drug is (the chemist or doctor behind it all). Things take months to escalate and in the mean time, Annie starts to become part of the community and make friends. Because of her childhood and her work she's never really had a home and Annie finds that she wishes for one. She also start to feel more and more for Cade. It takes a while but they do move past friends/co-workers and become a couple. Annie discovers she likes being with Cade and wonders if it could grow in to something more. The story continues with the action plot escalating as they work undercover until they take down the drug ring. The romance plot is sweet and doesn't have a lot of internal drama and once the action plot gets settled, Cade and Annie are able to start their HEA together.

This was a pretty enjoyable story. I liked both Annie and Cade. They were good, well balanced characters that weren't over the top or annoying. The story had a good balance between the action and romance story lines and both were well done and believable. I'll probably read more of this series in the future. I'd recommend this story. Thumbs up. :)

* note _ I listened to the audio version of this and the narrator did a pretty good job.

[Simply Love Book Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slick's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews

4.5 Stars

I really enjoyed author Kathleen Brooks Bluegrass series, so it thrilled me to no end that she’s started a follow up series, Bluegrass Brothers featuring the Davies brothers. Bluegrass Undercover is the first book in the series and if the rest are as good as this one, we are in for a treat! A hot, ex-military hero who now teaches school and coaches football and a kick-ass heroine who’s a DEA agent with a reputation for knocking around the scumbags she takes down. How can you not want to read this book?

Annie Blake (aka Annie Hill) is transferred to Keeneston, Kentucky where shipments a new steroid based drug are originating from. She’s going in undercover as a high school guidance counselor. She has no doubts she’ll break this case wide open, what she doesn’t expect is to find out she wants more out of life than her job.

Cade Davies loves his home town, enjoys his teaching job, and is a nervous about taking over as head football coach at Keeneston High School. The last thing he needs is the new guidance counselor stepping in to “protect” him from an out of control player.

From the start I loved how Annie thought Cade was inept at protecting himself and he was enthralled with her from the start. After an encounter with some thugs, they both do some digging. Annie finds out Cade’s military history and Cade discovers Annie is DEA. He decides to keep it to himself. With Cade’s players being target by the drug pushers and Annie trying to shut it down, they find themselves thrown into working together. The soon find themselves the target of a drug ring, Cade because his influence over the players and Annie because she is Cade’s “girlfriend.”

Once again the people from the town are front and center in this story. These books would not be the same without this nutty but loveable group of characters. We also see the couples from the first three books and spend a bit more time with the rest of the Davies’ brothers.

Both Cade and Annie are great characters and I really enjoyed watching Cade peel away the many barriers Annie had in place. I think it not only shocked him but her at how close she allows him to get. Annie also finds herself with “girlfriends” something she’s never experienced before.

Then when Cade’s mother realizes she doesn’t have any family except for a long lost cousin she’s immediately brought into the fold. I liked that once Annie realized she was making friends and in a relationship that she really didn’t try to fight it, she pretty much embraced it and moved forward. Cade is very patient with Annie and gives her space when she gets scared but he’s always there to catch her when she needs him.

Bluegrass Undercover is a great start to this new series and I’m glad that Kathleen continues her tradition of writing intelligent, strong female characters. It doesn’t hurt that her male leads are hot, alpha males who know how when to support their women and when to back off. In addition this book brought to light the fight against the new “designer” drugs targeting today’s youth and the DEA agents who are trying to bring these rings down. A great story and message all the way around!

[Anna's Herding Cats · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reviewed for herding cats & burning soup.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bluegrass-Unde...

Bluegrass Undercover was pretty good. I snagged it because hello *pets the pretty cover* and supposedly it was book one (it's not, start here) so...why not.

The gist: A new drug's targeting high school athletes and Annie's been sent in undercover as a school guidance counselor to try and figure out who is behind the new drug. And she kinda finds herself landing the much sought after coach, too.

The Good

The town is amazing! They're nosy meddlers and so funny. But they're people who would have your back and do anything for you no matter the risk. I adored them.

And the hero's family was awesome. Big and full of sexy single alpha males. Yum! A welcoming mother figure and just good people. I wanted to know more about each of them and everyone in town.

Cade's a good guy. Solid and dependable. Doesn't rile easy and is caring. And Annie was decent, too. She's a hard worker and will do whatever it takes to get her job done. She's also a little damaged from never having a family or stable life (foster kid).

There were some pretty funny scenes, too. I love when a book can make me laugh and these two and their community did have me laughing numerous times.

The Issues

Editing was rough. Using incorrect words, words mistakenly added or left out of sentences. Ex--she cooked for her husband but instead it read as she cooked her husband.

Annie had a chip on her shoulder and could be hypocritical. She was pissed when Cade would try to protect her but she was constantly going on about protecting him. She also hit him once and yall know I do not approve of that at all.

The villain was pretty easy to figure out unfortunately.

And the sex scenes were all fade to black. Boo!

So I had a handful of issues with Bluegrass Undercover. But still...I want to read more from the series. The town won me over and I want to see what happens with them all next and how his brothers will find their HEAs.

[Vikki Vaught · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not the first book I have read by Ms. Brooks and it will not be the last! I just love Kathleen Brooks writing style. She has me laughing at loud to the point tears are rolling down my cheeks. I always know I'm in for a treat when reading one of her books, and I love this series!

Annie Blake goes undercover to find the leader of a drug ring targeting young football players. When she shows up at Keeneston High School as the guidance counselor, she meets the football coach, Cade Davies, and thinks she needs her help him when one of his players gets out of hand.

Cade is a former Special Forces soldier and more than able to handle this aggressive teen, but he finds this feisty woman entrancing and cannot get her out of his mind. When they join forces to find the ringleader, sparks fly all over the place.

Can Cade win this incredible woman’s heart as the work together, or will Annie fortify her walls, keeping them both from a forever kind of love?

Wow, just wow. I just loved this fast-paced, action-packed read from the first page to the last. This one is slap-stick funny. The three old ladies that run the small town café had me belly laughing. It’s unusual to find a story with so much intrigue and humor rolled into one book.

Annie is a great character. She did not have an easy time growing up, but she’s a spunky kid archetype and does not let anything or anyone stand in her way. She’s out to save these young athletes, and she does it in a big way.

I fell in love with Cade’s character from the start. He’s an all-around good guy with sexiness galore. He is determined to help find the culprit behind this new drug harming his team. I loved his openness with Annie and his patience as she begins to open up and let him in.

Eric G. Dove is one of my favorite narrators. He reads with a good amount of emotion, truly bringing the characters to life. He is perfect for Ms. Brooks' books. I always enjoy his performances and love to listen to him.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys plenty of action and humor in their stories with a delightfully sweet romance thrown in. The small town atmosphere adds greatly to the story. You will find all this in this great series. Can’t wait to read the next one. Happy reading!

[Donna Hatridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this in the Nook eBook format. The novel has 778 pages. This is a good easy romance with touches of humor. I think the first Bluegrass series( Bluegrass State of Mind) had a little more intrigue, but I can't wait to find out about the other brothers.

[Dar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unbelievably bored after three chapters. Nothing caught or sparked my interest and life is too short to dredge through a book that doesn't thrill you!

[Meghan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spinning off of the bluegrass series we get book one of what I assume will be a series focused on the Davies brothers. Case was up first and he and Annie had a time of it. Both with surprises and skill sets that made solving the drug problem single. The Boss was predictable, but discovered in an entertaining manner. The family scenes were humorous and so were the conversations where Annie talked with townspeople like Mo, the priest, or Ahmed. I loved the ending, especially the wedding day bet winner. Dog lovers will adore Justin and I hope he and his hair bows are present in more books!

[Varya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Annie is my hero🖤🖤

[Brenda Klaassen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had been sitting in my Kindle library for a while. I enjoyed the story and didn't mind that it followed the traditional outline for a romantic story. The characters were unique and varied.

[Shelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a very meh book for me. The characters didn't do much for me and I didn't find their pairing believable. The plot was okay, but I don't think the author did a good job of trying to hide who the "big bad" was. I figured it out right away, so that made the book less enjoyable. Oh well, moving on.

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[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bluegrass Undercover: Blueglass Brothers Book 1 is by Kathleen Brooks. This is a thriller about drugs and sports.
Cade Davies was a science teacher at Keeneston High School in Keeeston. He became the football coach when Will Ashton quit to help his wife on the farm and in getting ready for their baby. Although Cade feels he is unqualified, Will has other ideas. He thinks Cade can and has already discussed it with the principal so is now offering the job to Cade. Cade accepts.
What Cade accepts is a team who should be at the top; but isn’t. He has to kick off two of his best players for using drugs. They are using S2, a new synthetic drug that produces gains for muscle building but also destroys the mind. Where are the boys getting the drugs? Who else is involved?
Annie Hall is an DEA special agent who is great at her job. She does have a problem letting things get a little rough with the suspects. She is transferred to use her skills in finding the leader of the new drug ring. Will she be able to keep her cover? Will she break the case?

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sadly, this was the first Did Not Finish book for me for 2018. I wanted to like it because the idea behind it was interesting and the plot sounded great, but when I found myself actively avoiding my Kindle so that I didn't have to keep reading, I gave up. It's also the first ever assigned book club book I didn't finish which is a huge disappointment to me.

The first strike was Annie being an unnecessarily violent DEA agent - she should have been fired for being repeatedly abusive, not reassigned. Even if we pretend that her propensity to violence isn't totally beyond the pale, knowing her violent history with perps and the way that she kept asserting herself into Cade's issues with students, one would think that she'd be semi-useful in an actual situation that would call for self-defense, but no. She's totally useless. Annie was constantly being thrown aside so the "hero" could deal with major attacks alone, leaving her like a to stupid to live footnote while big bad Cade slayed dragons (or not, I don't know know because I gave up when she went from being useless to too inept to find her car keys and actually help him). Also, she is this amazing sleuth who can just intuitively peg all of these other men in town as military/LEO but blindly thinks that big bad military man Cade is some schlub push-over who needs protecting from teenagers? It doesn't even make sense.

I could have soldiered on if Annie being a total tool was the only flaw, but the head-jumping in this book was the final strike. Most of the book was told in alternating POV (ie: a chapter in Annie's POV then a chapter in Cade's) which was great. But whenever Annie and Cade were in a chapter together any structure to the chapter devolved quickly. Are we in Annie's head? Yes, this chapter starts out in Annie's POV so we're totally in her head...except for when we're in Cade's for a paragraph because he has something he just HAS to think on page, but when he's done thinking his stellar thought, we'll go back to Annie's head. But wait. Cade has another thought we just have to hear so we're bouncing back to him without warning. UGH. I love alternating POV books, but only when it's denoted by a segment or chapter break - not when it's five different POV changes on one page. And how did Annie know Cade's dog's name when she didn't even know he had a dog? 20 seconds after finding out he existed, she was mentally calling him by his name. This is just my opinion, but that kind of writing smacks of laziness and bad editing.

Although this story had potential and the basic drug-ring plot line was very interesting, this book just wasn't my personal cup of tea.

[May · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a plot this had promise but it just missed the mark for me. There were a lot of time jumps that felt unnecessary, and they also meant massive chunks of their relationship were skipped out on. There was some extreme info-dumping and things that just felt shoved into the story for no reason (Her cousin?) You were given very little backstory on Cade and he was extremely one-dimensional. You got a little more background on Annie but even then it felt superfluous to the story rather than actually adding anything to her character. Annie seemed so badass in the early chapters and as it went on that seemed to just leave her altogether, and by the end, it practically came across that she was incompetent at her job. It tried to fight the "I don't need a man to save me" cliche but ended up falling right into it.
This being the apparent first in the series I presumed that it would be the first, but it seems that most of the characters in this have already had their own story and that the reader should already be familiar with people and the town. I found it so hard to keep track of all these people because it was treated like we were expected to know them all already.
The writing style also wasn't great, there were some really cliched lines. This book also says that Glasgow is one of the most dangerous cities in the world!? I'd be hard-pressed to argue that the UK is on the list, let alone anywhere in Scotland. And why are so many bad guys Scottish? We're nice here I swear!
Also, the whole Boss reveal was so meh. There was no reasoning behind anything, it felt just like it was for shock value rather than for actual plausibility.
So yeah, this was a big no for me. I loved the premise and just wished it was executed a little better.

[Jo-Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Annie is a DEA agent who goes undercover as a guidance counselor in a small town high school. A new drug, S2, is being sold to young athletes to help them perform better. While it does do that it also changes their personality and can give them heart attacks so Annie has to find the distributor/manufacturer to stop it's production. She meets Cade, the football coach, when one of his players who is on the drug is giving him a hard time. She steps in to save him, telling him he should take self defense lessons, not knowing that he is ex-special forces and can look after himself just fine. Even with Annie making Cade look like a fool, he's attracted to her. When they eventually figure out who each other are they work together to find the person responsible for getting this drug in the schools.

I really liked this action packed story. It's fast paced but so well written that I never lost track of the plot or felt confused. I loved the small town of Keeneston and people who lived there. Gossip in this town was the main activity and news traveled faster than you can imagine. They even placed bets on when Annie and Cade would get married and tried to find out from them what date they liked for a wedding. It was hysterical. It was nice to see Cade's family be so close and supportive. That was the complete opposite for Annie who didn't have a family. I liked the way she became part of the community and made friends.

If you like romantic suspense that will keep you guessing to the end, I recommend Bluegrass Undercover.

[Natward1 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't finish after skimming to page 40. This is your very generic sleeper romance type book. Just like every other story with a book cover like that and a title like that. It's exactly what you'd expect from these dime a dozen sleeper romance novels. The characters aren't really brought to life much. And A lot of it feels very author contrived and unnatural. Like for example, when Annie steps in between Cade and this one particular student not once but TWICE just before the student is winding up to fight cade, who is his coach in order to defend Cade and take down the kid herself. Why is that same thing happening twice in a row? It doesn't seem very believable And it's a weird scenario anyways. So the first time it happened I thought it was kinda weird but twice!? It felt weird because it felt like the author was trying really hard to make us think that Annie is some kind of girl who is a bad ass or something who feels like she has to protect a former ranger, who is obviously not wimpy looking, from a wild teenage kid. Really? I'd be more impressed with her actually if she stood back and waited to see how Cade would handle it. I don't know, I just am not connecting with the characters or the writing. It's very explainy and it's written in dual point of view so we know what each character is thinking about at all times. Oh and it's complete with insta lust.

[Merissa (Archaeolibrarian) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the Bluegrass series and was very happy to read that there was more to come in the shape of the Bluegrass Brothers. This is a set of books set in a small town where everybody knows everybody and some know things that no one else knows how they know! Still with me? This book carries on with the LOL moments and the suspense in this book is in the form of the drugs ring that the DEA is trying to break.

The ending was fairly obvious but I wasn't reading it for the suspense side of things so this wasn't a problem for me. If you are looking for a light read, filled with humour, feel-good moments and spice thrown in there too, then give the Bluegrass/Bluegrass Brothers series a go. Recommended.

[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

After the girls, now goes to boys. Cade is the middle brother, enjoy teaching n football, after retired from special force of Ranger, he becomes high school teacher n the coach.

Annie, a girl comes from nothing, work her ass off to be the DEA, now come to the place for her cakes, meet the wonderful people in town, having a taste of being love. The most interesting is, a strong man like Cade was saved by Annie three times, it's great line to enjoy.

Even I think about something weren't not logical, especially the time line, the incidents they had n how quickly the hurt were heal, now I think that I can accept them because the others were good so I can let the impossible lines go n neglect them. But if I can rate it today, not four, it's three.

Today is June 18, 2017

[Stacey Kennedy · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars.
I will take the blame for not loving this book. I didn't realize it was a chick-lit novel. I had hoped for a fun mystery with a bit of romance and instead it was the opposite. The characters weren't very deep but cutesy in a corny, small town way. Annie the main character was a tough chick who yearned for family and human connection but couldn't stop talking about how she has to keep 'saving' her boyfriend who was an ex army hero who needed no saving whatsoever. The plot moved along in a very predictable manner. Even the secret identity of the 'bad guy' was easy to figure out early on in the story.
So it was just okay- a quick, light read.

[Cynthia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Looking &Tough

That's what you get with this beautiful DEA agent. Going undercover to catch people selling steroids to young athletes. You get sent to a small town in Kentucky and meet your future love. You try to help the kids while doing your job and there are a lot of twist and turns.

[Ramona · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-read 2021
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I loved how Cade had no problem with Annie's job, even though he wished to protect her. He knew what she was cabable to do and was proud of her.

Annie thinking she had to save him because he couldn't protect himself, was so funny.

The whole town betting on the two of them was funny too.

[Jessie Rae ☾ · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the BEST contemporary romance novels I read in awhile.

if you like the whole contemporary romance thing with alot of overprotective southern guys in it plus a kick butt heroine who can take care of herself.

I would definitely pick this book up

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

i can not wait for marshal story i hope u decide to do one about ahmand i would love him to fall.. maybe u can annie cuz in love with him.. just a thought great series i love it

[Books By Ces · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and funny.... and quite PG-13 :)

[barbara pint · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review

Fun read, enjoyed reading this book. I recommend reading this book, once I. Started reading I could not put it down.