Book Recommendation ➱ Hell or High Water (Mississippi Smoke Series Book 5) Southern Mafia Romance by Abbi Glines
Hell or High Water by Abbi GlinesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
📖Book Info
Momma hadn’t been gone from the world for twenty-four hours before the first letter showed up. Blue paper, folded into an origami heart, left where the writer knew I’d find it. Dealing with my grief, I was able to put it out of my mind until the next one came, then the next. Each one more disturbing than the last. Until I woke up to find one beside me.
He’d watched me sleep.
Only desperation could drive me to ask the man who had fertilized my momma’s egg for help. I preferred to forget him and his existence, just like he had us… me. But with Momma gone, I had no one, and I needed a safe place to escape—out of this town and away from the stranger who was stalking me.
To say I was shocked that my father turned me down would be a lie. I’d expected as much. He’d left me with no choice but to threaten to expose his sins to the God-fearing people of Mississippi who placed him in office. The nineteen-year-old daughter of a stripper he’d knocked up and deserted would know a lot about his transgressions.
However, the two men he sent to get me weren’t what I’d been expecting, but I didn’t really have much of a choice. It was trust the devil I knew or stay and live in fear of the one I didn’t.
Than
Waking up hung over and naked on the sofa of a friend’s house wasn’t out of character for me. Being woken up and told I was being ordered to babysit the Governor’s accidental offspring was another. It wasn’t fair that I’d been handed this task. Why me? I didn’t want to watch some stripper’s daughter who had decided to blackmail the governor. Why didn’t we have the philandering bastard hand over hush money, and then we could put enough fear in her that she kept her mouth shut?
When I didn’t believe it could get any worse, the stripper’s daughter opened the cheap ass motel room door she had been staying in and knocked the wind out of my chest.
💭Our Thoughts
Fricking love this series - High Heat - Plenty of Action - Suspense - Twists
"The closer I got, the less the beast inside me shook the cage"
This is Than's tale of how a little spitfire of a woman brought him to his knees
Than was assigned babysitting duties to ensure Montana kept her mouth shut and any evidence sealed until they could figure out what to do with her.
What he didnt count on was the strange feeling in his chest every time she was near
"I realized Satan was already here; he had blue eyes and brown hair."
Montana wasn't looking for anything from her sperm donor
She had plans, and they relied solely on her shoulders
She just needed to be safe until she could set her future into motion
So, making that call and adding that little threat was a necessity.
Falling for the devil himself? That was out of her control
Some of my favorite moments:
"Might get killed over this. But I'd be damned if I was walking away and handing her off to someone else"
Jealousy is such a fiery sidekick
"I stared at the girl in the mirror, wondering what had happened to her"
The chemistry between these two. The back-and-forth banter.
So many times, I wanted to knock some sense into Than. He knew something was not right about the whole setup
"He would never be a regret. He'd be my favorite memory"
I knew Than wasn't letting her go, even if it cost him his family
"Now if you try and leave me, I'll make that fucker from Louisiana look sane"
FINALLY!! took you long enough
"You were scammed by a six"
Love her sass. She gave as good as she got and then some
"It was one last gift to you."
Holy shiitake!! I knew it!!!!
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