Rescued by a Bad Boy: A Friends to Lovers, New Adult, Marriage of Convenience Romance

Wow!! What a Prequel!! This is one I won’t need to review before reading Mia & Brax’s 2nd chance romance, Mixed Up With A Marine. This prequel story is powerful - explosive powerful - and so intense it’s burned into a forever place in my mind. Their backstory begins six years after they’ve met and supported each other in the foster care system, and on the eve of Mia’s 18th birthday, when she can legally put the system behind her. There’s so much more of their history that we don’t know, especially Mia’s situation that she cannot share with Brax. What we do learn in Rescued By A Bad Boy, is that they have loved each other deeply for many years despite their tender age. There’s so much potential for an HEA there. And April 8th can’t get here quick enough!! Luckily, we can get glimpses of grown-up Mia in Bring It On Home, and grown-up Brax in Come A Little Closer. I had to go back and look at both novels, meaning only to only skip to the parts where they appear; but they’re both such great stories that I ended up reading them completely through again! Great reading!!. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

This was a heavier story than what I'm used to from Kait Nolan. That isn't a negative. This is a friends-to-lovers story. Brax and Mia have been friends for 6 years since they met in foster care. Mia has a dark secret that is hinted at but never fully explained. It is the reason she abandons Brax after 3 years of marriage. Since they were so in love, I can't imagine what happened that she left him. This is a prequel to a brand new series, Bad Boy Bakers, so I knew it would leave things unsettled. I can't wait for Book 1 to read the rest of their story.

This prequel does what all great prequels do, leave you wanting more. Getting this part of Mia and Braxton's story while waiting for their story now, is likely to go a long way in my enjoyment of their story when it comes. What Mia and Braxton have to deal with hits similar notes to what Autumn and Judd dealt with in the teen part of their story - so know that it's more along the Wishing for a Hero series from Kait, rather than the Wishful world. Don't hesitate to grab this freebie. *I'm a lucky fish & on the author's ARC team*