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Broken Like Me
FBI agents have a knack for finding danger. I'm no exception.
In a cruel twist of fate, the woman I've never gotten over is back in my life. Even worse, she’s a crucial part of my investigation.
If only I knew whether Lila Kent was in danger or is the danger.
Her candy-coated facade might fool others, but I've seen her darker side.
Too bad her betrayal didn’t break the hold she has over me.
So I watch her and wait. To expose her deceit? To protect her?
Or for another chance to feel her lush body melt for me?
She's my sister's best friend. I've known her since we were kids.
I've craved her since I got home from college and saw how she'd changed. Thick thighs, full lips, curvy softness for days.
And for the last five years, I've been torn between regretting the night I spent wrapped up in her body and desperate to relive it.
I tried to move on from this obsession with her. But life has other plans.
To solve this case, I must earn her trust and uncover her secrets.
When it comes to Lila and me--trust is in short supply. Unlike passion and fire--we've got those in spades.
Even if I have to put together the broken pieces of our buried past, I'll expose the truth.
Hopefully, I spare my heart in the process.
The only certain thing is that I’ll get Lila in my handcuffs. One way or another.
Broken Like Me is a Redleg Security Spinoff Novel and can be read as a stand-alone.
In a cruel twist of fate, the woman I've never gotten over is back in my life. Even worse, she’s a crucial part of my investigation.
If only I knew whether Lila Kent was in danger or is the danger.
Her candy-coated facade might fool others, but I've seen her darker side.
Too bad her betrayal didn’t break the hold she has over me.
So I watch her and wait. To expose her deceit? To protect her?
Or for another chance to feel her lush body melt for me?
She's my sister's best friend. I've known her since we were kids.
I've craved her since I got home from college and saw how she'd changed. Thick thighs, full lips, curvy softness for days.
And for the last five years, I've been torn between regretting the night I spent wrapped up in her body and desperate to relive it.
I tried to move on from this obsession with her. But life has other plans.
To solve this case, I must earn her trust and uncover her secrets.
When it comes to Lila and me--trust is in short supply. Unlike passion and fire--we've got those in spades.
Even if I have to put together the broken pieces of our buried past, I'll expose the truth.
Hopefully, I spare my heart in the process.
The only certain thing is that I’ll get Lila in my handcuffs. One way or another.
Broken Like Me is a Redleg Security Spinoff Novel and can be read as a stand-alone.
708 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 12, 2026
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Jackie Walker
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Jackie brings you stories featuring her signature blend of comedy, spice, suspense, multi-faceted characters, and romantic, heartwarming moments. A voracious romance reader herself, Jackie writes stories featuring the four
Ss: Suspense, Swoons, Steam, and Sarcasm.
Her heroines are badass, and her heroes are easy on the eyes and heavy on the charm. She loves writing characters with real emotions, flaws, and mental health issues and is known to send them to therapy where they belong. Let’s normalize that shit.
When she is not writing stories about swoony heroes and the women who get to play with them, she is avoiding life with an audiobook in her ears or taking care of her army of cats and peacocks or hanging with her teenage son (who also speaks fluent sarcasm).
You can also sign-up for my newsletter or follow me on my socials by viewing my link tree: https://linktr.ee/authorjackiewalker
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Jackie brings you stories featuring her signature blend of comedy, spice, suspense, multi-faceted characters, and romantic, heartwarming moments. A voracious romance reader herself, Jackie writes stories featuring the four
Ss: Suspense, Swoons, Steam, and Sarcasm.
Her heroines are badass, and her heroes are easy on the eyes and heavy on the charm. She loves writing characters with real emotions, flaws, and mental health issues and is known to send them to therapy where they belong. Let’s normalize that shit.
When she is not writing stories about swoony heroes and the women who get to play with them, she is avoiding life with an audiobook in her ears or taking care of her army of cats and peacocks or hanging with her teenage son (who also speaks fluent sarcasm).
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May 13, 2026
I tore through this one, as it's been a bit since I was in the Redleg Security universe, and I missed it more than I thought. Be prepared to be late to everything - because "just one more chapter " turns into 7, or more!
Hopefully you've already enjoyed the Redleg Security series, and are SUPER excited to meet Sawyer's twin. But Reed isn't Sawyer, and has his own demons to wrangle before he's ready to be anything but a grumpy guy. (But he's SOO yummy!!)
I loved the dynamics between Reed and Lila. He's on a "it's always been you" vibe with her, but trust isn't easy between them.
Her trauma is just as heartbreaking as it gets and I loved how the storyline weaves in both the second chance steamy chemistry between these two, and the dangers of the situation Lila finds herself in the center of - with no easy way out.
I couldn’t leave these pages!! It just pulled me deeper and deeper, and I loved every second.
To get the most from this storyline, you should begin with a binge of the Redleg Security series. If you want to jump in here - do it! But know you're getting spoilers and a need to know everything that came before.
This prolific author is masterful at allowing a reader to connect deeply with her characters, and enjoy the found family storylines. They are full of drama, dangerous situations, entertaing banter, solid loyalties, and I recommend reading them wholeheartedly.
I cannot WAIT for more from this new spin off series!!
Hopefully you've already enjoyed the Redleg Security series, and are SUPER excited to meet Sawyer's twin. But Reed isn't Sawyer, and has his own demons to wrangle before he's ready to be anything but a grumpy guy. (But he's SOO yummy!!)
I loved the dynamics between Reed and Lila. He's on a "it's always been you" vibe with her, but trust isn't easy between them.
Her trauma is just as heartbreaking as it gets and I loved how the storyline weaves in both the second chance steamy chemistry between these two, and the dangers of the situation Lila finds herself in the center of - with no easy way out.
I couldn’t leave these pages!! It just pulled me deeper and deeper, and I loved every second.
To get the most from this storyline, you should begin with a binge of the Redleg Security series. If you want to jump in here - do it! But know you're getting spoilers and a need to know everything that came before.
This prolific author is masterful at allowing a reader to connect deeply with her characters, and enjoy the found family storylines. They are full of drama, dangerous situations, entertaing banter, solid loyalties, and I recommend reading them wholeheartedly.
I cannot WAIT for more from this new spin off series!!
May 21, 2026
Spicy beast of a book
Another great read! I cant wait for the next book.
It had banter, and spice and suspense and a second chance to swoon over.
Another great read! I cant wait for the next book.
It had banter, and spice and suspense and a second chance to swoon over.
August 21, 2026
This book is awful! I took notes as I read and instead of taking time to write a review I’m just going to paste them here.
Stupid random comments:
“Shhh the avocados are sleeping.”
“Anything can be a piñata if you hit it hard enough.”
So much cold and hot in every interaction it’s giving me whiplash.
How do you blot your lip with your tongue?
By chapter 13 I think the sister/friend is the bad guy and used FMC but made her think it was her who brought the bad ex boyfriend in.
Author has used demure 3 times by chapter 17.
A couple of chapters after that I think sister/friend is the reason for whatever misunderstanding happened 5 years ago between the FMC and MMC.
Chapter 20 and I’m now doing a running tally of the word demure. 4
Also, I’m extremely annoyed by the MMC having a narration in his head voiced by Morgan Freeman
Chapter 25- 5 demures
Chapter 26 They finally talk to each other about the past instead of dancing around it and I was right.
Chapter 29 She decides to lie to him again. STUPID
If regular Lila was annoying, high Lila is downright grating. Their physical reunion scene dialogue ruined it for me.
Post coital breakfast painful with annoying random phrases.
It took until chapter 37 but she pops her “p” in yep.
Chapter 44 and 45. Skimming. So done. I’m skimming spicy scenes! Skimming chapter 46 spice I want to gag when I see the words yowza and one-eyed Willy.
Chapter 48 I absolutely cannot stand the FMC!
Took 6 days to finish. The sister/friend was involved but not exactly how I thought. Also, I hate the word pulse now.
Stupid random comments:
“Shhh the avocados are sleeping.”
“Anything can be a piñata if you hit it hard enough.”
So much cold and hot in every interaction it’s giving me whiplash.
How do you blot your lip with your tongue?
By chapter 13 I think the sister/friend is the bad guy and used FMC but made her think it was her who brought the bad ex boyfriend in.
Author has used demure 3 times by chapter 17.
A couple of chapters after that I think sister/friend is the reason for whatever misunderstanding happened 5 years ago between the FMC and MMC.
Chapter 20 and I’m now doing a running tally of the word demure. 4
Also, I’m extremely annoyed by the MMC having a narration in his head voiced by Morgan Freeman
Chapter 25- 5 demures
Chapter 26 They finally talk to each other about the past instead of dancing around it and I was right.
Chapter 29 She decides to lie to him again. STUPID
If regular Lila was annoying, high Lila is downright grating. Their physical reunion scene dialogue ruined it for me.
Post coital breakfast painful with annoying random phrases.
It took until chapter 37 but she pops her “p” in yep.
Chapter 44 and 45. Skimming. So done. I’m skimming spicy scenes! Skimming chapter 46 spice I want to gag when I see the words yowza and one-eyed Willy.
Chapter 48 I absolutely cannot stand the FMC!
Took 6 days to finish. The sister/friend was involved but not exactly how I thought. Also, I hate the word pulse now.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 23, 2026
If you love the Redleg books, you will definitely enjoy this one. It’s very much the same writing style with her unique irreverent sense of humor, excellent spice, and solid romantic suspense plot. Jackie very clearly understands what it’s like as a fat girl in our heads and how much we internalize other people’s opinions on our bodies. I felt seen. Extra bonus: you get to see so many Redleg characters in this book! I’m so excited for whatever future books we get from Jackie, whether it’s Reed’s coworkers at the FBI, more Redleg folks, or the surprise person she introduced us to at the end. I need all of the stories!
I’ve docked a star only because this book was so long. It could have been edited down quite a bit in several places. Or maybe it should have been made into a duology since there was so much to go through. Kind of like Tomer and Lettie ended up a trilogy. Anyway, don’t get me wrong, I had a good time and I was laughing at Lila’s verbal shenanigans the whole way through, but every time I picked up this book and saw how much I still had to read, I was intimidated and a bit avoidant. I like my romances close to 350 pages, this one is a beast at almost 850. Still worth the read, just gird your loins when you open it the first time and see how long it is.
I’ve docked a star only because this book was so long. It could have been edited down quite a bit in several places. Or maybe it should have been made into a duology since there was so much to go through. Kind of like Tomer and Lettie ended up a trilogy. Anyway, don’t get me wrong, I had a good time and I was laughing at Lila’s verbal shenanigans the whole way through, but every time I picked up this book and saw how much I still had to read, I was intimidated and a bit avoidant. I like my romances close to 350 pages, this one is a beast at almost 850. Still worth the read, just gird your loins when you open it the first time and see how long it is.
May 17, 2026
Yallllll. The way I just inhaled almost 850 pages of a THICK a$$ book. I loved EVERY SINGLE minute of it. Lila and reed are both going to stick to me for a bit. I love me a broken MC. But having both of them broken by extenuating life circumstances. Man this one had me going through WAVES of emotion. After finishing bossy hero last April and meeting reed I KNEW I had to have his story. I needed to know what was going to happen, who he was, what he was like. I didn’t expect to fall for him almost the same way I did for Tomer (IYKYK). Then Lila came in. And BOY did she make me feel things. Knowing she wasn’t a size two perfect model FMC that you see constantly. And not perfect. Who has her own issues? Maaaan. I love her so much. And THEN, and THEN seeing my redleg family come into play? I loved the cameos. (We knew this was gonna happen because reed and sawyer but still) I love them so much. (I have said that already huh?) anyway. Please read this book. But before you do that read at least the redleg series. But if you want the whole lore read her entire backlog starting with the LOL series. You won’t be disappointed I promise.
May 18, 2026
totally worth the length
I found Jackie through her redleg series. I finished and was happy to have completed the series only to be left with a Sawyer/Reed cliffhanger. Then I not so patiently waited for Reeds book and it did not disappoint. Yes it’s longer than most but it doesn’t feel like it was dragged out. It allowed the characters to be themselves and to grow while also getting to the heart of their issue and moving forward. It is not heavy on the brothers which I thought I’d be annoyed with but was not. I like the redleg cameos and felt the story gave us the brother time needed and a lovely HEA. Now let’s home Flints lady love introduces herself so we can learn more.
I found Jackie through her redleg series. I finished and was happy to have completed the series only to be left with a Sawyer/Reed cliffhanger. Then I not so patiently waited for Reeds book and it did not disappoint. Yes it’s longer than most but it doesn’t feel like it was dragged out. It allowed the characters to be themselves and to grow while also getting to the heart of their issue and moving forward. It is not heavy on the brothers which I thought I’d be annoyed with but was not. I like the redleg cameos and felt the story gave us the brother time needed and a lovely HEA. Now let’s home Flints lady love introduces herself so we can learn more.
May 18, 2026
Happiness is a book by Jackie Walker. Who would have guessed that Sawyer from Forbidden Hero would have an identical twin brother? Reed Hayes is a successful FBI agent who has to tackle not only a very serious and deadly case, but is reunited with the love of his life, Lila Kent. Both of them have suffered unimaginable things in their lives. How they reconnect, solve the case, and repair their broken hearts is perfectly Jackie Walker writing. Snarky, spicy, and heartbreaking. I loved the fact that I got to see many of the characters from the Redleg Security series including Sawyer.
June 17, 2026
Well worth the wait
This is the start of the third series for this author. I tried to be patient, but didn’t really succeed…I have to say it was so worth waiting for. This is a long book but I loved every bit of it Lila and Reed both had traumatic childhoods and truly help each other heal as they fall in love. Major suspense, spice and snarky banter had me anxiously turning every page. I loved these characters (and the visits from some of the Red Leg crew) and can’t wait to see who’s next!
This is the start of the third series for this author. I tried to be patient, but didn’t really succeed…I have to say it was so worth waiting for. This is a long book but I loved every bit of it Lila and Reed both had traumatic childhoods and truly help each other heal as they fall in love. Major suspense, spice and snarky banter had me anxiously turning every page. I loved these characters (and the visits from some of the Red Leg crew) and can’t wait to see who’s next!
October 18, 2026
Another incredible book with so much humor and suspense! I was on the edge of my seat, with zero clue where she was taking this. Reed and Lila are a second chance romance with so much tension. But once the heat turned up, boy oh boy did it get spicy. If you have never read a Jackie Walker book before, you are in for a treat! This stands alone really well even if you don't know the broader universe it ties into. If you are a fan, this delivers everything you love about her books! 10/10 highly recommend.
May 16, 2026
Tears, lots of laughter & smexh
I love all of Jackie's books. This one is my favorite (right now.) A plus size heroine, thank you for seeing us Jackie. I want to recap the entire book, but I won't. Read it, fall in love with Lila & Reed. Say hello to the Redleg gang. Be prepared to lose all track of time.
I love all of Jackie's books. This one is my favorite (right now.) A plus size heroine, thank you for seeing us Jackie. I want to recap the entire book, but I won't. Read it, fall in love with Lila & Reed. Say hello to the Redleg gang. Be prepared to lose all track of time.
June 12, 2026
Holy crow!
This book is phenomenal. I can’t say enough. The entire Red Leg series had me HOOKED! I blew through it so fast. This book was even more captivating. I cannot wait to see what comes next. ❤️❤️❤️
This book is phenomenal. I can’t say enough. The entire Red Leg series had me HOOKED! I blew through it so fast. This book was even more captivating. I cannot wait to see what comes next. ❤️❤️❤️
May 28, 2026
Jackie did it again! I couldn't put it down!
June 5, 2026
800+ pages?!! way too long.
July 23, 2026
Whew! This book was a girthy one but every part of it was needed. Reed and Lila's story was perfect and their HEA was spot-on.
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