Big Shot: A Second Chance Standalone Romance Paperback – July 22, 2017

It's no secret that I am a huge Kim Karr fan. I love her writing. She has the unique ability to think outside of the box and take predictable plots to another level. She also gives her characters complex personalities that come as a surprise as their character develops in a book. I can honestly say that Big Shot is one of my favorite books by her so far.Readers were introduced to Jace in Sexy Jerk. Besides being a successful businessman, he is a single father and widower. Readers were able to get a glimpse of him while he was bogged down with his grief and maneuvering parenthood. We also got to see a bit of his kinky side as well, when he becomes the third in his best friend's bedroom. The impressions readers were left with were intriguing. We knew there had to be more to this man than what was initially presented. It all goes back to ten years ago when he was a college student and fell hopelessly in love with his best friend's girl. The twisted love triangle ended badly and none of them got their happily ever after. They all moved on in life and found their special someone to build a future with. Unfortunately for Jace, his happily ever after was ended abruptly and he was left alone with his darling daughter. His main focus in life is raising her. When a bully from school upsets his daughter he does what any good parent does, he takes control of the situation. When he confronts the bully's parent he's in for a complete surprise. It was the girl he fell hopelessly in love with and lost ten years ago. He doesn't want to want her and he can't stay away. This time around he has life experience, maturity, and better coping mechanisms in his arsenal. He's not going to let Hannah get away this time but first he has to let go of his grief.Hannah never thought she would see Jace again after college. When he turns up on her doorstep angry and defensive, she's shocked. Dealing with him on a daily basis through their children's school functions is manageable. What makes it worse is she was hired to work for his company. Now she has to deal with him at work. She's not the same girl she once was. Her future took a very different path and now her priorities are making a good life for her and her son.Hannah and Jace can't stay away from one another. This time there isn't a third person in the bedroom to hold back their insatiable passion for one another. The only thing standing in their way is themselves. They will have to choose how they want to mold their futures. The choice may be what fate intended for them all along.The only thing I can say is I LOVED THIS BOOK! Kim Karr explored all the emotions that most authors don't touch upon in menage type romances. She showed the other side of the passion and the realities of the emotional repercussions.I would highly recommend this book!

Back in college, Jace Bennett, with all of the arrogance and impulsiveness that comes with being a young man with the world at his feet, decided to go after the girl, even though she was dating his best friend at the time. After all, he saw her first, and Ethan had always been keen on the idea of a threesome, what could possibly go wrong.So after they both lost her, Jace losing everything he'd never before realized he wanted in the process, life moved on.Ten years later, now a widower and single father, attempting to set to rights an incident at his daughter's new kindy, Jace comes face to face with the mother of the other child involved, Hannah Crestfall, formerly Hannah Michaels. The girl from college, the one that got away.In Big Shot, Author Kim Karr​ tells the story of two star crossed lovers, now both single parents whose past is a convoluted, sordid, sexy, and sad as you could ever wish for.In the telling, she alternates, not just between Jace and Hannah as narrators, but between Present and Past, with the present unfolding from Jace's point of view while Hannah, ever so slowly, brings the reader up to date on how things became almost perfectly right before it all went terribly wrong all those years ago.Dragging out the mystery, the tension builds withing both narratives leaving the reader wondering if history is set to repeat itself or whether now, as adults, parents, and hopefully a little less hot-headed, these two can make their second chance work in a way that they couldn't manage back then.To be honest, while erotic and titillating, the focus within the story on the subject of threesomes kind of left me feeling a little dirty, which I imagine was part of the point, as that reflected how Hannah in particular came to feel about the whole thing, The kind of things people get up to while they're young and carefree that they look back on in later years and simply wonder "What was I thinking?"Beyond that though, I found the story, and the characters to be compelling. Each struggling with the myriad of emotions that are dredged up by the sudden reappearance of the other in their lives. All of which is complicated by their roles as parents where, romantic entanglements need to be managed in a way that doesn't negatively influence the kids.Kids who, by the way, are absolutely adorable.For all of the things that it made me feel though, even the uncomfortable feelings it dredged up, I found that I had absolutely no interest in putting it down or tearing myself away, and by the time I got to the end, I was more than glad for it.Utterly captivating.