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Smart Ass: Close Quarters

by Amber Green

Publisher: MLR Press

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Summoned to his parents’ estate, brash young Kendall Turner steels himself for yet another confrontation. He doesn’t expect this level of betrayal, though. His parents play an explicit and humiliating video surreptitiously recorded by KT’s ex, who has taken up blackmail. KT is ordered to report to a psychiatric facility while his family scrambles to brush the dust back under the carpet.

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He flees instead, accompanied by Turner Scott, heavily muscled star of his most personal fantasies. Only the flight turns into more of a kidnapping when Turn needs to buy time for his own mysterious activities.

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When his ex turns up dead, then missing, then most definitely dead, Kendall feels a trap closing in–and all clues that don’t point to him point to his protector, Turner Scott.

- Synopsis – From http://www.shapeshiftersinlust.com/

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Smart Ass: Close Quarters by Amber Green

Review by Jasmine

4.45/5 Whips

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Long awaited romance.  The thought that it could never be, and then it was.  But when it was it went a little too fast.   Turner Scott and Kendall Turner.  So many Turners.  So we have KT’s long time crush forced back into proximity by family, and situation.  Close Quarters is aptly titled and Amber Green does a great job of creating a layered family dynamic.  You can feel the pressure on KT and his frustration against his controlling and powerful family.

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When your family is too powerful and too wealthy to escape on your own what do you need?  Your personal teenage fantasy older and just maybe available.  That might work and it made a good read.  The tension was there and Amber Green certainly has a tongue in cheek sense of word play as our two hero’s names demonstrate.  So the emotions run high, the tension, both sexual and situational both drive the story along, but I know you can sense the “but” coming.

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Here it is.  The story winds itself tighter and tighter.  All the elements are there, but it was kind of a chocolate chip cookie with not enough chocolate chips.  The story does not round out fully.  The two Turners did not provide an emotional resolution after all of the build up.

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This is a story I would read again and I think Amber Green did a great job of creating a world that was quirky and yet believable world.  I have her on my to watch, or I guess that would be to read list for future releases.  Close Quarters is a solid read that I have picked up more then once and enjoyed more with each read.

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Find out more about this Title and others by Amber Green at her website – http://www.shapeshiftersinlust.com/