Brandy L Rivers is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She is kept busy writing the Others of Seattle, Others of Edenton, Combustible, and the Pine Barrens Pack series.

The Long Shot by Brandy L. Rivers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is book #2, in the Love Behind The Scenes series. This book can be read as a standalone novel. For reader understanding, and to avoid spoilers, I recommend reading this series in order.

Ryan is learning more on how to be ready for the new film he is making. So what if his instructor is the hot guy he passed up the other night? He didn't need to meet someone while working, anyway.

Shannon is chasing after what he wants. Can he catch the deep hidden actor? Together, these two must overcome predjudice, assumptions, and more. Good thing their chemistry is off the charts hot!

I loved these two characters together. They do seem to rush into things a bit, but it works for these two and feels meant to be. I liked the pace of the story, and felt it was a good installment with the series.


***This early copy was given in exchange for an honest review.

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This is book #2, in the Love Behind The Scenes series.  This book can be read as a standalone novel.  For reader understanding, and to avoid spoilers, I recommend reading this series in order.

Ryan is learning more on how to be ready for the new film he is making.  So what if his instructor is the hot guy he passed up the other night?  He didn't need to meet someone while working, anyway.

Shannon is chasing after what he wants.  Can he catch the deep hidden actor?  Together, these two must overcome predjudice, assumptions, and more.  Good thing their chemistry is off the charts hot!

I loved these two characters together.  They do seem to rush into things a bit, but it works for these two and feels meant to be.  I liked the pace of the story, and felt it was a good installment with the series.  I give this a 4/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

***This early copy was given in exchange for an honest review.

One look and he knew it was a long shot.

Ryan King is a movie star with a secret. Women fall at his feet for a chance, but that’s never been what he wanted. Broken hearted after helping his closest friend claim the love of his life, Ryan is searching for a distraction. One who can keep his secret.

Shannon O’Neil’s life has changed drastically in the last few years. He served as a Navy SEAL to escape his father’s scrutiny, but an injury forced him to reevaluate his choices. Now he runs a successful security firm. One that recently took a consulting job to train a group of actors for an upcoming movie.

The attraction is immediate but long distance relationships have never worked for either. Still, they want to try. Navigating through their own family drama, and Ryan’s shooting schedule may prove too much of a burden.

The second book in Brandy L. Rivers’s Love Behind the Scenes series is a wonderfully intense romance that warms the heart as Ryan and Shannon give in to their attraction and take The Long Shot.

Ryan King and Shannon O’Neil are both strong, charming and captivating characters that draw readers into their story and refuse to let go. The chemistry between them practically leaps off every page with sizzling electricity as the sparks fly between them but this relationship has a few obstacles in its path with has some intense emotional issues and turmoil flowing from the pages as well.

Secrets, careers and family keep things on a rocky slope and the readers full of nail biting suspense in regards to the happily ever after in this fast paced plot. The story may not be suitable for some readers because this is an extremely hot m/m romance that has some explicit sexual content that singes readers with red hot passion but for others, please enjoy this story from beginning to end as it warms the heart and tugs at emotional strings as this couple works to overcome all the hardships that face them.

Brandy L. Rivers has given readers another wonderful contemporary romance to enjoy and I was quite thrilled with Ryan and Shannon’s story and I can’t wait to find out whose story will be next in this series.

The Long Shot

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is the 2nd book in the Love Behind the Scenes series

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which includes

1 The Callback

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Falling Star the 2nd book of Combustible series stars one of the characters in this book.

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I've always loved books, especially about monsters and magic, so I started writing. I'm working on a prequel and the next few books in the Others of Edenton series, and I have a head full of stories to share.

I'm a stay at home mother with a wonderful husband who lets me write and write to my hearts content.

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A FORBIDDEN LOVE SET IN THE EXPLOSIVE WORLD OF THE NBA...

Think you know what it's like being a baller's girl?

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My fairy tale is upside down.

A happily never after.

I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud.

I was a fool, and his love - fool's gold.

Now there's a new player in the game, August West.

One of the NBA's brightest stars.

Fine. Forbidden.

He wants me. I want him.

But my past, my fraudulent prince, just won't let me go

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“Iris?” August’s frown, the concern on his face, in his voice, remind me where I am.

“Baby, you okay?”

I blink down at him dumbly, swallowing my tears, eating my memories whole and digesting a nightmare from long ago. I nod, my lips a cold, wobbly curve.

“Kiss me,” he whispers, his eyes so tender, so intent.

I remember a magical night under the stars, under a streetlight on the eve of greatness. A night filled with laughter and confidences, pregnant with promise. And I see him so clearly, my prince, asking for a kiss.

And I do.

I kiss him like the world might end tonight because I’ll never take this for granted. Not his kindness, when I’ve known cruelty all too well. Not his tenderness, when I’ve been handled roughly in the past. Not his love, when I’ve been possessed and owned and mistreated.

He thaws me with his kiss, my prince, and I melt into him. We’re chest to chest, with August’s number crushed between us. I take his cock in my hand, aligning our bodies, and two become one in a carnal slide of flesh. I anchor myself by my elbows hooked around his neck, and we kiss until I’m dizzy and our breaths tangle in a cloud of bliss. Under the jersey, his palm spans my back, digging into the naked flesh as our hips lock and roll and grind. My body clenches around him, and we pray, we curse, we moan, we mate like our bodies were made for this moment.

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