Trust

I swear Jana Aston is one of my favorite authors, for so many reasons, but the most important one she writes my favorite type of books. All her books are super sexy, super funny, and super swoon worthy. All of her stories have pulled me and made me fall in love and Chloe’s story is no exception.This is the fourth book Jana has written and while they are all standalone they characters all crossover. So if you haven’t read them all you can read this one, but if you have you will recognize Chloe. Chloe is Everly’s best friend from childhood and where Everly is crazy, outgoing and super confident, Chloe is more reserved.Where Everly takes what she wants, Chloe takes a more practical approach. She is also a dating fail, but not because she isn’t beautiful, sweet and fun, but because of her anxiety. Chloe makes things awkward on accident saying whatever comes to mind. She is also a teacher so she tells some pretty horrible knock-knock jokes, but they just made me love her even more.Boyd is Sophie’s brother and an FBI agent. Everyone has mentioned fixing these two up since Chloe has a mild obsession with agents, but when Sophie delivers her baby they finally <I>officially</i> meet. From the moment Boyd entered the picture I was hooked and in love with this book. I love how Boyd zoned in on Chloe’s issues and helped her overcome them. I love how he saw the real her and just absolutely fell in love.I love a story where a guy meets a girl and just knows. It makes me believe in epic love, which I love, so the way Boyd just immediately fell for Chloe’s awkward jokes and crazy leggings just had me smiling from ear to ear.I have loved all of Jana’s books and if you know me, you know I recommend you read them all ASAP! Every one one of her books will have you laughing out loud for real, falling in love and will leave with a huge smile on your face!

In Trust, we are given Chloe’s story (Everly’s bestie and college roommate) and Boyd (Sophie’s half-brother); now for those that have read all the books, you know these two. You know Everly had her sights on Gabe for Chloe from the start, but for you newbies – have no fear. You can read this as a standalone without missing anything about these two main characters that was shown to us in prior books.Chloe is awkward. There is no other way to say it. She’s been trying to navigate her way through dating but not having much luck. But getting interrogated by the FBI in the middle of a date, well that takes the cake. Little does Chloe know that the hot agent poking fun at her dating life is soon going to be popping into her life more often than not.Boyd was perfect. Absolutely perfect. He has such patience for Chloe and her anxiety. He knew exactly what to do, when to do it. I loved him instantly. He was so darn sweet. Did I mention he was perfect?I loved this book. I laughed so much while reading it. I fell in love with Everly all over again. I know for new readers, the bits of Everly you get with this story will make you go right to her book, how can anyone resist this crazy girl? She certainly stole the show in every scene she was in. Which was just so... Everly.I typically have a hard time with heroines that are a bit too closed off or withdrawn, I do love my chicks strong, but I have to say that Chloe’s issues made her endearing. Her social awkwardness was cute and I loved her instantly.I am not a huge rom-com fan, but Trust (and all the others in this series) won me over. I am sad that we ran out of couples in this series, and I haven't up the fight for a dirty spinoff that features Dr. New (from Wrong) and his step daughter, Michelle who ails his broken heart after his wife leaves him to “find herself.” So I implore you to join me in my fight. Together we can make this happen! Just let the author know how hot that little bit of erotica would be ;) Heck, I even came up with a title #DoctorsOrders <--- Feel free to use that hashtag in our campaign.

“Flying by the seat of your pants and thinking with your heart works for girls like Everly, but not for girls like me. Men gravitate towards Everly. I send off warning signals that say, Too much work.”Chloe is really bad at dating. Telling knock knock joke when she gets nervous kind of bad. And she gets nervous a lot. She suffers from social anxiety. Unless she’s with her trusted group of friends or in front of the grade school class she teaches or at a parent/teacher conference.Boyd, a hot FBI agent, gets Chloe. He gets her awkwardness and her Criminal Minds fetish. What he wants is to get her to be his girlfriend, but the second she thinks what they have is serious, she has a serious meltdown. So, his goal is to win her trust by asking her to play fake-date.The fake relationship is one of my favorite romance tropes. This series hits the big tropes and makes them fun. Chloe and Boyd make a great couple. I am a huge fan of the series and am sad to see it end with this book. I wish TRUST ended with more of a series happy ever after, showing all the characters at either Sandra or Chloe’s wedding, but there’s plenty of scenes with the leads of the other books in this installment. The humor almost always makes me laugh out loud and the relationships between friends and lovers are genuine. I look forward to digging into the author’s other books.