Delicate
Ink
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Series: Montgomery Ink Book
1
Heat Level: 5 Flames
Description
On the wrong side of thirty, Austin Montgomery is ready to
settle down. Unfortunately, his inked sleeves and scruffy beard isn’t the suave
business appearance some women crave. Only finding a woman who can deal with
his job, as a tattoo artist and owner of Montgomery Ink, his seven meddling
siblings, and his own gruff attitude won’t be easy.
Finding a man is the last thing on Sierra Elder’s mind. A
recent transplant to Denver, her focus is on opening her own boutique. Wanting
to cover up scars that run deeper than her flesh, she finds in Austin a man
that truly gets to her—in more ways than one.
Although wary, they embark on a slow, tempestuous burn of a
relationship. When blasts from both their pasts intrude on their present,
however, it will take more than a promise of what could be to keep them
together.
About The Author
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Carrie Ann
Ryan never thought she’d be a writer. Not really. No, she loved math and
science and even went on to graduate school in chemistry. Yes, she read as a
kid and devoured teen fiction and Harry Potter, but it wasn’t until someone
handed her a romance book in her late teens that she realized that there was
something out there just for her. When another author suggested she use the
voices in her head for good and not evil, The Redwood Pack and all her other
stories were born.
Carrie Ann is a bestselling author of over twenty novels and
novellas and has so much more on her mind (and on her spreadsheets *grins*)
that she isn’t planning on giving up her dream anytime soon.
Awards
USA Today
Bestselling Author
Best New Author of
2012 at the Sizzling Awards
Nominated for Best
Self Published Author of 2012 at the Sizzling
Awards
Nominated Best
Author of 2013 by the Indie Romance Convention’s Reader’s Choice Awards
Nominated Best
Friend to Readers by the Indie Romance Convention’s Reader’s Choice Awards
Third Place in Best
Indie Author 2012 at Blogging
Favorite Quotes:
“Fine. I see how it is. Whatever. You were only an okay lay
anyway.” She shook her ass as
she left, bumping into a woman in a linen skirt and blouse.
The woman, whose long honey-brown hair hung in waves down to
her breasts, raised a
brow. “I see your business has an…interesting clientele.”
Austin clenched his jaw. Seriously the wrong thing to say
after Shannon.
“If you’ve got a problem, you can head on right back to
where you came from, Legs,” he bit
out, his voice harsher than he’d intended.
“I went into Montgomery Ink for a tattoo and met that oaf of
a man, Austin.” She hurried
through her sentence and looked over Hailey’s shoulder to
ensure the door between Taboo and
the tattoo shop was indeed closed. The last thing she wanted
was for that bearded crazy man to
walk through and listen to her speaking of him.
Thankfully, the door hadn’t opened, and she was in the
clear.
“A tattoo! Really?” Hailey squeezed her arm, once again
bringing Sierra’s thoughts out of
delicious scruff and into the present. Maybe she needed more
caffeine. “What are you going to
get?”
Sierra blinked. “So we’re just glossing over the
oaf-of-a-man part of my statement?”
Hailey narrowed her eyes as she pursed her lips. “If you
want to only talk about Austin, we
can do that. I don’t quite think of him as an oaf, so you’ll
have to elaborate.”
“He’s a rude, inconsiderate oaf.” And she wanted to crawl up
his body. Damn it. She would
not allow herself to think like that. Not again.
Hailey frowned. “What did he do? Do I need to go kick his
ass? I might work right next to
him and have known him longer, but that doesn’t give him the
right to be rude. What did he do?”
she repeated.
Sierra closed her eyes, annoyed at herself for even bringing
it up. Hailey was a good judge
of character, and if she hadn’t had a problem with Austin
before, it was probably just Sierra. Oh
goody, she just brought out the best in people, didn’t she?
“I went in for a tattoo, something I’ll talk about with you
later—when I’m ready.” Hailey
gripped her hand, and Sierra opened her eyes to see the
other woman’s knowing gaze. “I
promise. It took enough for me to even walk over there and
try. I’ll explain it all eventually.
That’s if I go through with it. As soon as I walked in,
Austin was there, glowering at a woman
talking about their sex life. I mean, really.”
This story was given to me in exchange an honest review. Carrie
had done it again!!!!
Austin is a tattoo artist who wants to settle down but has
to find the right person. In walks Sierra and BAM!!! He is sarcastic and
rude. For a hot sexy man he is
dumb. But Sierra can give as well as she
takes. All she wanted was to find out more about a tattoo and all she gets is
an artist with an attitude.
Sierra wants to get a tattoo to cover up the scares of her
past. She wants to forget and move on but feels the only way to do that is by
getting a tattoo. What she and Austin don’t expect is to fall in love with each
other. Both are scared and are not sure this is what they really want. Just when they are starting to figure things
out their past comes back to haunt them.
Will Austin’s past destroy what they have built together? Or will Austin
lose Sierra to her past?
This story was a well-developed story with some twists and
turns. There were moments of laughter, sarcasm, sadness, tears, and violence. The
moment you start to read it you want to know what is going to happen next.
FOUR ARTIST ANGELS
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