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Troublemaker

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Sheriff Shane Forester thought the biggest pain in his life was his dog, until Vanessa Thompson stumbles into his life. One chance meeting is all it takes for Shane to know that he wants her, sassy attitude and all. He wants to possess every part of her, and he always gets what he wants. Always. 

Vanessa Thompson is a waitress working two jobs in hopes of one day being able to put herself through college. She’s from the wrong side of town, and never imagined she’d be in a relationship with the town’s sheriff. But now that she’s got him, she doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to let him go. No matter how wrong she is for him.  

Find out what happens when a sassy troublemaker and a sexy over-protective sheriff collide in this interracial, insta-love story with a happily ever after.

441 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 22, 2017

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362 reviews7 followers
December 11, 2017
No Thank You

I'm sorry this one didn't quite sit so well with me. A younger woman and an older, much more controlling man. Not only did he stalk her for about a week (which is in no way sexy or cute), he basically kidnapped her after one of his deputies handcuffed her for jaywalking. He, forcefully I might add, takes her to his home after intimidating her sexually in his office. All this happens and she doesn't even know his name until drags her to his bed again!! He's a stranger to her. And I did not enjoy the implications of this.
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378 reviews16 followers
December 12, 2017
This is a new author and I really enjoyed the author's writing style. Her characters were engaging and it was a good story. The author just needs a little more story and character development. There was a sex scene in almost every other page which took away from the story. Overall I look forward to reading more from this author.
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166 reviews17 followers
January 2, 2018
This book had a great topic but it didn’t cut it for me. The book felt rushed. The beginning started off good but by the time she got arrested I was like WTF. He was already dry humping her. And the time line for everything was like a couple of months between them meeting and her getting pregnant.

The character Shane was intense but also freaking rude and controlling. I tried to see she tried to make Vanessa stand up to him but it did not cut it for me. He was just an ass sometimes. The sex scenes were to many also. Every time I turned a page they were doing it.

And the epic scene where she left. It was so blown out of proportion and overly dramatic for no reason.

This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Rosie.
1,649 reviews32 followers
December 10, 2017
These two can't keep their hands off one another. Highly erotic content and a few too many sex scenes. New to me author, good storyteller. I'll definitely read her other books.
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69 reviews6 followers
January 25, 2018
Lots and lots of sex. Literally every other scene had sex. I don’t mind usually but given it was a long read, I would have liked to see a better developed story.
Profile Image for Betty Holloway.
36 reviews4 followers
December 14, 2017
READER BLOCK RELEASE!

That is exactly what a reader will experience once you adhere to the captivation this new author’s writing generates. An avid reader in my circle of friends highly recommended this book to me, and I am very glad that she did. I usually look for books with a great plot of and equal character development and though this book did not have those preferences in abundance, it far and above exceeds those books that are inundated with such! That’s how great this read was for me. It changed my whole outlook on this genre.

My favorite type of read is urban romance. Though this book does not fit into that category, it definitely precipitates the type of hot, feel good feelings that genre creates. D. Scott is an author to look out for. Before I reached 10% of this fantastic read, I knew I was in the presence of the master of romantic erotica. I have catapulted Ms. Scott of the top 5 of my favorite authors’ list; and for good reason. She has certainly earned that status by virtue of this heated soul burning rendering of the NUMEROUS love and intimate encounters engaged between Shane and Vanessa.

This is the type of read that will keep you from performing your daily tasks and have you just kicking back to participate in readers’ heaven; pure nirvana! I am so happy that I can experience this euphoric feeling all over again because I immediately downloaded her next read, His Personal Assistant. I will be 1-clicking every future book she deems to create and will definitely anticipate reading each of them more than once.

Don’t be left out in the cold; get heated from inside out by downloading this very, very fire creating book. Ms. Scott will incinerate your romantic emotions and keep the fires burning well beyond the last page signifying - THE END!

Please do not miss out on this phenomenal writer. Welcome to the writing scene, Ms. Scott, it is a supreme pleasure to have you on board.
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615 reviews117 followers
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November 9, 2022
WOW. And it's not a good WOW. I think this was written by a man. I HOPE this was written by a man. For the most part, I don't like to be this rude about any writers work, but I don't think that most of the reviewers of this book had the same copy I did, I just can't believe they did. Or that this utter nonsense is labeled as romance and has people swooning. Fifty Shades and Christian Grey has NOTHING on this utter bull****.

In chapter 2, 22 year old Vanessa is "arrested" by one of the deputies for jaywalking across a road with only two cars driving down it. She is brought into the station, handcuffed!, by said deputy and is proceeded to be told to
"Watch your language, Vanessa!"
by 31 year old Sheriff Shane, the "H" (whom she had met just once before when his dog knocked her down).

This is what happens next
Heading to my office, as I gear up to deal with my little troublemaker.
"Look here asshole, I don't know who you all think you are but I'm not going to stay here cuffed and charged with some stupid bullshit, you and your little deputy can kiss my—" I pin her to the door and press my body against her, effectively ending her rant of off-colored shit that she was about to toss my way.
I lean in close to her and nuzzle her ear with my lips before speaking, "Calm the fuck down and listen real good because I'm not gonna repeat this shit.”
I wait for her breathing to calm before continuing on.
“That shit that went down was foul, but you fucked up too.” She opens her mouth to defend herself but I shut it down.
“Uh uh, don't interrupt. You got busted for some petty shit but you're language is way out of fucking line." She glares at me but keeps her lips pressed together.
"You don't sling insults at an officer of the law is that understood?" She remains stoic, not acknowledging my question.
"I already told you I'm not gonna fucking repeat myself baby, now answer the question." She nods her head.
It’s the only sign of acknowledgement she gives me even though she's staring into my eyes in very close quarters. Stubborn little troublemaker.
"I'll handle Deputy Brooks, and in the meantime you're gonna keep you're little ass outta trouble. We crystal fucking clear?"
She tries to pull that stoic silent shit again, until I reach down and grab her ass with both hands and squeeze at the same time pressing my hardness into her belly. She gasps and bites her lip but nods her head in compliance all the same. She feels so fucking good against me that I can't resist rubbing against her a few more times and leaning down to plant kisses on her neck.
"Fuck, baby." I groan into her neck and the shiver that racks through her body has me ready to bend her fine ass over my desk and fuck the shit out of her dripping cunt.
It takes me a minute, but I finally find the strength to pull myself away from her. I escort her to one of the chairs in front of my desk and sit her down in it before returning to my desk. Maybe now that I have her little troublemaking ass in front of me I can get some fucking paperwork done since I won't have to wonder what she's up to.

She, of course, has no problem with this behavior from an officer of the law and doesn't ask how he knows her name as she had not given it to him on their prior meeting, or why he was calling her baby.

I DNF'd at this point. I then went back and skimmed through as I was curious at how bad it was, and found that it just got worse and worse and was astounded to find that almost every other page was sex. Take all the sex out of this "book" and there would probably be less than 20 pages.

This is not a tale of love or romance in any which way or form, but possession, abuse, and power pure and simple. There are so many things wrong with it, not even considering the quality of the writing, but I won't bore anyone with more details as I've already wasted enough of my time on it already.

I'm so disappointed too as I'm a complete sucker for animals playing a huge role in romance tales and Rowdy was a sweetheart.
4 reviews
December 13, 2017
Shaking my head - please give me back my hard earned money

For the first time, I read only 6% of a book and went straight to the end to post this review. I will say that I did not finish this book at all, because I couldn't move beyond the scene where the "heroine" is groped by a law enforcement officer - the hero and not given due process. What was described was sexual harassment and an abuse of power. And based on the reviews I read before purchasing, these two persons end up together. One would think that a lawsuit would have been the end of this book. I usually use reviews as a guide, but clearly the ones who read and gave it high praise should not have been given the benefit. D.Scott was either lazy in developing the plot or.....let me just stay with that. Either way, I am turned off and hopefully I can get my money back. I suggest that you ex-wife that chapter Scott.
2 reviews
January 13, 2018
At first I was ok, but this shit took a left turn half way through. This dude makes a 22 year old girl who never had a family, and grew up in the hood apologize to his 31 year old ass for be g scared and running. Fucks her, but can't kiss her bc that's TOO intimate at that stage in the relationship. Oh and she has to apologize and let him fucks her in the ass

At first I was ok, but this shit took a left turn half way through. This dude takes a 22 year old girl who never had a family, no real stability, and grew up in the hood apologize to his 31 year old ass for being scared and running. Fucks her, but can't kiss her bc that's TOO intimate at that stage in the relationship. Oh and she has to apologize and let him fuck her in the ass. WHAT?! She has no real voice, no sincere fight, or anything. Just his cum bucket and bed wench. I wish I could have my money and my damn eyeball back from reading this bullshit. Sorry, not sorry. Your other book was good.
Profile Image for LaTanya Galloway.
326 reviews6 followers
December 17, 2017
Lots and lots and lots of sex with a little story on the side

There was a potential for a really solid story if I was for the over emphasized sex. Hey, don't get me wrong, I love sex scenes and when done well, totally enhance the story. Almost from the first couple of chapters it was one sex scene after another like, in every chapter to the point it got in the way of the story developing. It got to the point of describing Shane's 12" of junk, it was like we get it! I think if maybe half of the sex scenes were not included and more focus was dedicated to character development (Shane was more of a douche than an alpha even if his intentions were well) this could have been a really great story because I love a instalove story. Hopefully, the next story with Gina and Gavin will be better.
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1,427 reviews8 followers
January 9, 2018
Love it!

Oh my word, the sexy,handsome , hot sheriff is something else... That man is so frickin bossy,... But he loves his woman unapologetically , he knows what he wants and go after it and no one could stop him not even Vanessa (his troublemaker as he calls her) herself... I love the way he loves his woman/wife with so much love and passion.
I wish D.Scott that you give us a glance of the relationship between Vanessa and her mother in law, did her coldness melted with all the babies??
Here is a short except;
He was probably planning to tell me when we were in the car on the way to the appointment. I roll my eyes but I can't help smiling. He might be an overprotective control freak, but he's my overprotective control freak and I'm never letting him go.
Great read!!
729 reviews16 followers
December 13, 2017
Hummmm....

First time reading this author and besides feeling rushed thru the story, and some grammatical errors, it was a great book....
I do think that the way they have met was perfect but how quickly they became intimate was too rushed, no developing.... Shane is the quintessential alpha male and I love how Vanessa keeps at him, but it would have been nice to see this interracial, specially in a small town in Dallas( notorious to be a white area) more researched and developed. The story is a good one but could have been more profound
That said, pick it up and get ready to not only read it in one seating, but be ready to call your own Shane or wish you had a Shane....
416 reviews2 followers
December 30, 2017
I both liked and disliked this book

I liked:
- Strong, alpha male lead
- Seemingly independent female lead
- Good basic love story
- Male lead defended his relationship and woman to friends and his family
- has a HEA
- has epilogue(s)
- sexy story but ...

I disliked:
- too sexy; seemed like a sex scene occurred every 3 pages
- not sure how they got to instant love when they hardly communicated outside of the physical intimacy
- male lead was way too possessive. Loved that he wanted to take care of his woman but he says at one point he wanted to own (paraphrase) her mind, body and soul.

Although I liked the Sheriff, I don't want one of my own.
Profile Image for V. Rena.
1,661 reviews16 followers
January 18, 2018
More sexual than love

I would give this story a 3.5. It was okay but could have used more story. I love to read about sex in my books but not every page. This relationship between Shane and Vanessa was more sexual with love on the side. I didn't like how she gave in the Shane, like she became too weak, didn't have a mind of her own, didn't have a voice in her own life, and her identity wrapped up in him. He was too controlling and forced a lot of things on her, instead of asking her about it or talking to her about it. For me, the story needed to be executed more and the characters developed more. Twelve inches deep became so repetitive and monotone.
21 reviews
December 12, 2017
More please

I love it I love it I love it. More please oh my stars this is the type of many I need. Read this book several times before I could put it done. Honestly when I first xa me across this book I wasn't goung to even try it but I am honestly glad I did. Sometimes a women need a a man to put his foot down and take the reins ( in more ways the one lol). Shane was all that an more as for Vanessa she needs to communicate more but then again she wouldn't be his ......troublemaker
250 reviews3 followers
December 21, 2017
Wanted to like it more

But I simply couldnt. I managed to make to the end; but I skimmed through a lot of the material. I grew tired rather quickly of the "twelve inches deep" and the sex between the two MCs; just sounded rather painful and not erotic at all. Occasionally I would get a hint of a story that made me stick with the story and the main couple would have sex yet again and I would start skimming again. I will give this author another chance; but if the story lines remains the same, I won't be continuing.
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1,597 reviews66 followers
December 23, 2017
This is my first book by this author and I read it with Kindle Unlimited. After reading this book I went on to read the other story the author had written. This book is still my favourite.

From beginning to end sex is a constant throughout the book. I was okay with it because Shane was all alpha male and Vanessa had lots of sass for his ass. There was a definite story-line I could follow it and I enjoyed that the author's attention was on the couple and the majority of the story was about them.

I would read more stories by this author.
529 reviews4 followers
December 24, 2017
A Good and Sensual Interracial Romantic Comedy

Troublemaker: Interracial Romance Novel is a good and sensual interracial romantic comedy that earned a rating of four stars. I enjoyed reading this book about the handsome young sheriff who falls in love with a very young African-American woman from the wrong side of the tracks. They have to overcome many obstacles to find their happy ever after. Even though the book need editing it was worth the read and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading good romantic comedies.
134 reviews4 followers
January 3, 2018
LUV! LUV ! LUV! This book!

Troublemaker & Sheriff go
at it like rabbits! Sizzling,
dominating, crazy hot sex on
almost Every. Single. Page! Damn!
Filled with humour & much love!
One minute you'll be panting,next crying,
then your laughing at the crazy shit that
flies out their mouths!
Looking forward to reading about Gavin
& Gina! Liked that little hint about Gavin
having a love interest. Glad the Sheriff set
him straight!
Truly enjoyed the humor woven through all
the hard, raunchy sex!!!
Definite READ AGAIN!
Author 8 books4 followers
January 7, 2018
Not for me at all

Ok this was so not for me. Only made it to about 35% and that was pushing it. Bad dialogue with unnecessary cursing...how many times do you have to type “ass”. There was sex but no romance. Just a bunch of “f-ing the mad out of” the male lead who was a jerk that kept handcuffing the female to the bed or wherever. Don’t think I have ever read a book with so much punishment sex. Maybe at some point there is some kind of affection that builds up in this story but far be it for me to see how that happens.
Profile Image for Cleo.
416 reviews
December 13, 2017
Funny, witty and sexy!

This was really a good read! I enjoyed Shane and is super ALPHA attitude! This the second book by Ms. Scott and I was hooked by the first few pages! I love a dominant man, one who sees and then sets about conquering! I can’t wait to ready Gavin and Gina’s story. The only issue I found with this book were some minor grammatical and misspelled words. Just a few and it won’t detract from your reading experience. Well done Ms. Scott.
169 reviews4 followers
December 6, 2017
Hot Hot Hot

Love it Shane is awesome alpha male he saw he conquer. Vanessa she sassy take no mess from anyone rather the are male or female. I like that its about Shane how knew what he want and didn't care about others family or friends. Love it the sexual tension between was hot hot. Great read
16 reviews
December 21, 2017
CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT'S NEXT!!!!

I really enjoyed this book. It was an insta love story which I love. All the characters in the book were well written. I loved Vanessa and Shane. They were fire from the moment they meet. I can't wait for Gavin and Gina's story. I'll be reading what ever this author puts out from now on.
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269 reviews5 followers
December 23, 2017
Good Read

I kept seeing this book pop up over social media social I took a chance and got it. I really liked it. The heat level stayed hot, just like I like. And the story was funny and happy. I loved it. There were some typos but I loved the story, regardless. It was easy to follow, with the typos and all. I am going to be on the lookout for more from D. Scott!
22 reviews
January 9, 2018
The term misogyny comes to mind

The male character in this book treated the female protagonist like a "sex slave", with little or no regard for her rights as a human being. I think the attempt to portray Shane as an an alpha male went way over the top He was a "pig."

I'm guessing that the author, D. Scott, is probably a male?
7 reviews
January 29, 2018
Hot!!!!

I have never read a story with such spicy content. The lead male is an alpha and the lead female is a saucy one! I enjoyed how long the story was and the story line was a good one. The only con I’d was the repetition of “12 inch” and the overuse of the F word. I look forward to reading other books from this author.
Profile Image for Bev Simon.
541 reviews6 followers
March 9, 2018
There's something about Vanessa.....

That I thought was missing, I liked the story but I just thought there could have been more development to it. There was a lot of erotica without the background, don't get me wrong, I love erotica but I need to connect to the characters and there was just not enough depth to them to be able to do so.
Profile Image for A.N. Boyden.
Author 23 books154 followers
May 20, 2019
Well damn

I love a good dirty smutty book as much as the next person but damn. This couple was having so much sex that I was just skipping over the passages with sex. Too much. Ain't nobody in this world having that much sex and not getting paid for it. It was a great book though! Can't wait to read Gina and Gavin story.
251 reviews
April 23, 2023
Troublemaker indeed!

I loved this book from the beginning to the end! Both Shane and Vanessa was hooked on each other from their first meeting, and add a little angst on Vanessa's part, made this book really interesting! The love scenes were awesome and filled with love! Please hurry with Gina's story!
51 reviews
December 6, 2017
Hot 🔥🔥

From the beginning I got hooked and the sex in this book just wow! I loved the romance between the Sheriff and Vanessa. At times I was like really girl but very happy with the ending and can't wait for Gina and Brook story.
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