Book Review: Until We Touch by Susan Mallery

Until We Touch
Author: Susan Mallery
Series: Fool's Gold (Book 16)
Publication: HQN; Original edition (June 24, 2014)

Description: After a family tragedy, former football hero Jack McGarry keeps the world at arm's length—a challenge now that his PR firm has moved to neighborly Fool's Gold, California.

Larissa Owens knows where she stands—Jack sees her as just another one of the guys. No matter what her heart wishes, Jack's her boss, not her boyfriend. But then Larissa's big secret is revealed…by her mother!

When Jack discovers the truth about Larissa's feelings, her touch suddenly becomes tantalizing, and he's not sure he wants to resist. But if he gives in to desire, heartache is sure to follow. Friendship or true love—will Jack go for the ultimate play?

My Thoughts: Jack McGarry and Larissa Owens are friends. She works as his assistant and is constantly involving him in her rescue operations. From chiweenies to kids needing transplants, no cause is too much for Larissa to get Jack involved with. Larissa does the work and Jack writes the checks. This works just great for Jack since he prefers keeping the world at arm's length. After losing his twin to heart disease at seventeen and being abandoned by his parents who head off to Africa to care for the sick, he's used to being alone and used to those he loves abandoning him.

Things are going just great until Larissa's mother comes to town and tells Jack to fire Larissa because she's in love with him and won't try to find a love that includes a husband and babies if Jack doesn't convince her to go. When Jack tells Larissa what her mother said, it changes things for both of them.

Larissa is big into denial until she realizes her mother was right. Now she has to come up with a plan to get over Jack with Jack's reluctant agreement. Only having an affair with Jack doesn't work out quite the way she planned. She's falling deeper and deeper in love and he's feeling too much pressure. 

Jack has to get what he's been asking for before he realizes that it isn't what he really wants before he and Larissa can find their own happy ending. 

This was an entertaining episode in the Fool's Gold series. I liked the main characters and I liked catching up on characters who have starred in earlier books in the series. 

Favorite Quote:

Larissa smiled. "Don't be impressed. What I mean is I'm going to figure out how to fall out of love with Jack and that involves sex."

Bailey put down her latte. "I always thought I was one of the brighter bulbs in the chandelier. I guess that not true. Where does the sex fit in?"

I bought this one. You can buy your copy here.