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Kaleb is a notorious lady's man. He's walking sex and not afraid to brag about the fact. Hell, he'd put it on a t-shirt if he bothered keeping one on long enough for anyone to read it. He's used to getting who and what he wants. When he finds himself face-to-face with a spitfire of a challenge--his first love who is back in town, waiting tables at his favorite watering hole--everything changes. Hotter than a platter full of sin at a church picnic, Erica has him tied in knots, and if he plays his cards right, he'll have her tied to his bed soon enough.

Rating: This short story contains steamy sex scenes, a hero who is all about getting the heroine into bed and teaching her a lesson in pleasure she'll never forget, and a couple who has to realize they work perfect together but horribly apart. This novella isn't for everyone, and if you don't like your sex dirty, your men alpha, then this isn't the book for you. Novel contains adult content and is for mature audiences only. Must be 18 years or older to read this novel.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 13, 2013

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Kennedy Kovit

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Small Town Romances with Big Time Spice!

Kennedy Kovit loves real men. Men who are raw, sexy, say what they want and know how to please a woman. She loves crafting stories surrounding them and enjoys sharing her views on living in a small town. When not writing, Kennedy can be found enjoying the outdoors.

AKA Mandy M. Roth
AKA Rory Michaels

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Profile Image for Jamoz23.
5,418 reviews46 followers
March 9, 2020
Kaleb the douche canoe, Erica the easy.
Read years ago in the box set.
After reading this again, I remembered why I had put them in the junk pile. Thought book two was bad, this is utter rubbish.
No story. Childhood sweethearts.
Erica came back to town 5 months previously to reunite with Kaleb. The first time she sees him he is having sex with a woman outside.
Erica gets a job at a local bar and is told Kaleb is the local womanising manwhore.
For the bar being his favourite place, he obviously has not been there for the whole five months Erica has been working.
Seriously, Kaleb wants Erica back but thinks it’s okay to make out with other women in front of her at her workplace and take one back to a hotel.
Kaleb is right, he is a manwhore, and a disgusting pig for using the word snatch in relation to a woman. They may not be ladies but they are women.
He thinks about sex with other women whilst watching Erica work, within 24 hours has sex with Erica, then proposes the next morning. Erica says yes. The end.
Read in the box set.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Sydney M Neblett.
2,665 reviews26 followers
January 7, 2019
Two lost souls find their way back home

I loved this book! In the other books in the series we could tell that something was going on with Kaleb, but we didn’t know exactly what. I love that as soon as Erica is back in his life he is done with the revolving door that makes up his bedroom. I even loved that he asked her to marry him knowing it will take more time for her to get on board with it. We would all be so lucky to be that person for the person we love.
573 reviews6 followers
January 13, 2015
The third book in the Blazing Heart series that features Kaleb and Erica. This was a very short hot read that keeps you entertained from beginning to end. Kaleb is the town manwhore who never really forgot his first love Erica who moved away when they were still young. Erica finally comes back after years and knows that she is still attracted to Kaleb even though she knows about his reputation. Kaleb is ready to give it all up just that be with Erica, she is the only person who knows what really happened to him when he was young. They are an explosive couple who know what they want. I just wished the story was longer but you get the whole shebang in this story.

I received a copy of this book for a honest review...
244 reviews9 followers
October 1, 2015
We have heard of Kaleb's reputation in the previous two books and briefly met him in The Cowboy. Now we get to know him more. Little did we know that he was left as well, just not as abruptly as Jake was. The love of his youth, Erica, is back and working at his favorite bar. She came back after all these years to find out that the boy she knew is no longer there and he is now Kaleb, the womanizer. This story was very hot. They both know what they want and go for it. However, Erica does make Kaleb work for it. She thinks he is going to use her like everyone else but little does she know that he has marriage on his mind. It was a very well written story. I just want to see where everyone ends up now that they are back together.
Profile Image for Tracie R.
2,143 reviews
September 28, 2013

I really enjoyed reading The Lover by Kennedy Kovit.

Kaleb Smiths' childhood was hell until as a teenager he became one of the Garnes ranch workers. He only ever trusted one person with his secrets but she left and since Kaleb had become quite the ladies man. That is until now! arriving at 'The Drink' a local hangout Kaleb comes face to face with Erica the woman he thought he'd lost and now she is back he is not letting her go again.

The Lover is a short read with both the Kaleb and Erica knowing exactly what they want and not wasting time getting it. So if you like some hotness and not afraid of a little spice then grab yourself The lover by Kennedy Kovit and dive right in!!
Profile Image for Nikki Brooks.
3,618 reviews55 followers
June 8, 2015
Story of Kaleb and Erica. Kaleb has cultivated the reputation as the town manwhore. He had a hellish childhood and when he met Erica, she knew what he had been through and loved him anyway. When she left and no longer wrote to him, he slid into his playboy ways.

When Erica returns and takes a job at the local bar, Kaleb fells the same attraction to her. She has no desire to be his flavour of the day. But when passion ignites between them, hold on for a bumpy ride!!

Kaleb and Erica are a firecracker of a couple and when Kaleb sets his mind to something he gets what he wants!!

Scorching hot read and a grat couple of characters! Very short read but satisfying.
Profile Image for iliana G.
1,724 reviews26 followers
May 22, 2015
I was given an ARC by the author for an honest review.

Kaleb is the towns manwhore but in a night out for a drink he sees the one he never got over.
Erica is back and when she sees Kaleb knows she never got over him but the town talks and she has heard of what Kaleb has become.
Can they overcome their differences and the past?

Once again this story is too short...just as the things start to heat up its over.

It has a nice story but its not developed ....

it could have been a really nice book but ...its not that much.

Its a too short but quite hot short story.
Profile Image for Janette Lopez.
377 reviews3 followers
July 17, 2015
Great short story of reunited love.
Kaleb the towns man-whore (who seems to love that) walks into a bar and can't believe his eyes. His first love is tending bar.....
Erica had returned to her home town a few months back what did she find? The man she thought she may reunite with screwing another woman behind a bar. So she did what any woman would settle in and become a bar tender at another bar.....
I really enjoyed this short read Kennedy Kovit AKA Mandy Roth really knows how to make these stories pop.
550 reviews3 followers
April 20, 2015
Kaleb has no intention of settling down, he is having too much fun being a ladies man, and having any lady he wants. Erica moved away when her father got a job out of state. After her father passed she missed her old home and moved back. A chance meeting at the bar Erica works at puts them face to face after the many years. Kaleb is determined to get Erica back, and Erica is determined not to be one of his one night stands. This is book 3 in this series and a must read
3,444 reviews20 followers
May 4, 2015
Kaleb was the town manwhore—he knew it was proud of if...until the past returned in the form of hot, red haired Erica. It didn't take long for him to decide he wanted her back. But, did she want him? Would his reputation ruin his chances? They both had history to overcome—could they find what they had, only grown up now?

This is a short, hot, romp with sex on a stick characters. Come along and “...Ride a Cowboy.”

A recommend.
Profile Image for Donna Hokanson.
1,694 reviews35 followers
August 29, 2015
Are his Man-Whoring days over?
As teens Kaleb and Erica were in-separately until her family moved away. Since then Kaleb has become a man Whore and Erica knows it. Erica’s been back in town for several months before Kaleb find out. As much as he still wants sex, he wants it with Erica more, but Erica keeps shutting him down. Not knowing if she even likes him anymore. Well written and very entertaining to read.
Profile Image for Pam Louis.
1,722 reviews7 followers
August 29, 2015
Kaleb the notorious lady's man is getting bored with his sex life nothing is as it should be. Walking into his favorite bar things change big time!
Erica Kaleb's first love came home for him but seeking him be such ladies man she didn't let him know she was back but now that Kaleb has seen her all bets are off. He wants her.
The lady's man has fallen hard and fast but will she?
Short, hot, sweet and lots of fun story.
Book given for an honest review and I honestly loved it
Profile Image for Amanda Richardson.
1,000 reviews10 followers
November 3, 2013
Hot, hot, hot!!! Great short, hot, story about former lovers reunited. So hot, I think my kindle was smoking!
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