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This is Reckless: A Best Friend's Brother, Friends to Lovers Romance (Drew & Courtney, #1) (Checkmate Duet Series Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Kennedy Fox (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Drew Fisher is the type of guy every girl wants.
Noble police officer by day, charming prince by night.


He has no idea the effect he has on women, especially me—his little sister’s best friend. I’m the blonde Southern belle who lives up to the cliché, except I have my own quirks. I’m smart as a whip, can change my own oil, and recite The Pledge of Allegiance backward, but he doesn’t see that girl. It’d be easier to forget him if he wasn’t my roommate and if the first thing I saw in the morning wasn't his shirtless body covered in tattoos. I’ve crushed on him since the day we met, but he’s made it perfectly clear where we stand—just friends.

I know I need to move on and accept that his feelings will never be mutual, but every day he smiles at me, I’m left dreaming of what if. He has girl issues, and I’ve got a crush I can’t deny. We’re friends, but I want more. One drunken hookup leaves us with much more than a platonic friendship. Pretending it never happened proves to be more difficult than anticipated.

A crazy ex-girlfriend, a dangerous war of stolen glances, and passionate kisses leads to the most reckless battle yet. I won’t be a pawn in his game, but I’ll play by his rules if it will show him I’m the one worth breaking them for.

Checkmate, Prince Charming.


This is Reckless is book 1 in the Drew & Courtney duet and must be read first. Suggested for mature readers only.
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"Kennedy Fox, if your goal was to shock and surprise me, congratulations! If your goal was to top your last book, well, congratulations again! If your goal was to drive me absolutely BONKERS with that ending of yours, well, you little devils, you freaking succeeded! Even though I kinda hate you right now, I'm still so damn proud of you! THIS IS RECKLESS was phenomenal! Of course my last comment has to be, TRAVIS who?! YEP! I did it! Drew Fisher is the new KING!" -Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads
"Kennedy Fox, once again steal the heart and overtake all senses in the start of their next epic duet. The feels are real. My love is real. It's a MUST READ." Sophie, Bookalicious Book Babes
 "Seriously! I mean seriously they did it again! Kennedy Fox has once again given me the heart pounding OMFG, ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW feels." Melissa, Book Smacked
Checkmate: This Is Reckless is a fall-in-love-with-it-the-moment-you-start-it romance and I give it a BREATHTAKING FIVE SHOOTING STARS! You will LOVE LOVE LOVE Drew and Courtney as much as I did....NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! - Marie's tempting reads

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"Four AMAZING characters. Two INCREDIBLE love stories. Two FANTASTIC duets complete. If you haven't started the Checkmate Duet Series, YOU. ARE. MISSING. OUT." --Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads on the Checkmate Duet Series

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N0O9R62
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (February 28, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 28, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They co-wrote together from 2016-2022. Together, they wrote over 40 titles, 7 complete series, numerous boxed sets, collections, and special editions. Although they no longer write together, their books are still available on all retailers. You can follow their solo careers under Brooke Montgomery and Lyra Parish.

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Holy Drewtney!
Meet Courtney, southern sweetheart, blueberry muffin making girl. She’s totally crushing on her roommate Drew, hot wash board abs, cop. Drew just can’t see how much Courtney is into him. That’s because he’s under Mia effin Montgomery’s evil spell.While Courtney and Drew are best friends now, friendship first started with Courtney and Viola. Viola is her best friend and brother to Drew. There friendship is one that you can only wish to have. In that they have each other’s back.As the story continues, we see lots of changes with Drew’s relationship and see just how crazy Mia really is. I love how even though Mia drives Courtney crazy, she can stand her ground and hold her cool. Courtney’s able to do this because she stress bakes blueberry muffins.There is a bit of erotic scenes and boy is it hot! Kennedy Fox writes to make you blush and I’ll leave you to find that out on your own.Can Courtney continue to live with Drew and not have the man she wants? Will Courtney and Drew forever be just friends, or can they be more? This is one you are going to have to read. By now, you know I don’t spoil any book. I loved this book so much, it gave me all the feels! This needs to be on everyone’s TBR!!** I received my Kennedy Fox Box as part of their INSTAFAM, which I’m honored to be apart of.
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Lexee Toste
5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal read! Truly loved it! Need the next one!
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2021
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I absolutely loved this story!! It was fantastic! I loved getting to see Drew and Courtney as best friends and roommates before seeing them get together. I love that they had that relationship prior to. It makes them falling in love and the easiness of their relationship make sense and fit perfectly. I love their banter back and forth. They are great at the quips. They had me laughing out loud and wanting to fan myself lol. I loved the dirty talk between them. It really fit their personalities and made the story that much better. There is great banter between the other characters as well. Courtney and Viola together are hilarious. There was plenty to hold my attention the entire time. Drew and Courtney have to deal with him getting over a bad relationship that has been on and off again for 3 years. He is finally seeing how toxic it has been and is done with it when they have a night together after they have been drinking and celebrating at Drew's sister and Courtney's best friend's wedding. Courtney has always had a thing for him but never thought it was a real possibility for something to happen. When it finally does they have some things that they have to work through, Drew's ex being the biggest one early on. I love that Drew wants to take things a little slower, as he knows it is a big step for them and he wants to make sure to do things the right way. There are definitely some twists in the story and plenty going on that keeps the story moving forward and your attention engaged. I connected to the story and characters from beginning to end. There is a twist and cliffhanger at the end so I can't wait to start the next book and figure out how everything is going to work out.
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Sydney Hancock
4.0 out of 5 stars A great addition to the series
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2017
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4 ½ Stars!
Kennedy’s Fox’s newest in the Checkmate Series, This is Reckless, has finally given us Drew and Courtney’s story. I have been waiting to read about them since Viola and Travis’s story. This book does not disappoint- but WARNING: There is an epic cliffhanger that leaves us in suspense until April for the continuation of Drew and Courtney.

Drew, a police officer for the Sacramento PD, and Courtney, best friend to his sister Viola and computer guru for Travis’s company are roommates. Courtney has had is bad for him ever since she met him but figures that being friends and roommates while firmly in the friend zone is better than nothing. It doesn’t help that Drew has an on again, off again crazy girlfriend Mia that is constantly in and out of the picture. One day Drew will see Mia for who she truly is, Courtney just hopes that it is sooner than later.

On the night of Viola and Travis’s wedding, Drew (who is again single) and Courtney get horribly drunk and wake up naked in bed. Courtney doesn’t think that Drew remembers the night before and tries to go on as if nothing happened. When is becomes evident that Drew does in fact remember every detail, the two of them embark on a new and cautious relationship. It doesn’t help that crazy Mia keeps popping her head back in thinking that she and Drew will be together again.

Courtney loves Drew, but dealing with psycho Mia is a little much to deal with sometimes. It doesn’t matter how many times Drew tells her she’s it and Mia means nothing, the history that is there unnerves her still. Drew is all in with Courtney and loves everything about her.
I really liked how Drew and Courtney got together somewhat early in the story and we didn’t have to get to the very end before they became a couple. It was great to watch Drew finally realize what was standing right in front of him. Courtney waited a long time for Drew to finally notice her, and once he does he’s a goner. They really are perfect for each other.

This was a five star read for me up until the very end. I have a love hate relationship with cliffhangers. I love them because it means that there is going to be more of the story, but I hate them for having to wait to read it. Luckily, the wait is pretty short and we can read their continuation soon. What I disliked was what the cliffhanger was. I loved 99.9% of the story, and it’s probably just me, but I didn’t love what happened right at the end. I know in my gut that everything will work out, but personally it just didn’t do it for me. That being said, everything else in this story was gold and I can’t wait to read what happens!
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Nina
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this best friends to lovers romance!!
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017
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Are you a listener of audiobooks? If so, has it ever happened to you that you picked up a book because you loved the narrator and not because you knew / loved the author and / or were intrigued by the book? Because that’s exactly what happened to me with THIS IS RECKLESS by Kennedy Fox. Lia Langola is one of my absolute favorite narrators and I’m excited every time she has a new release. …which might have also to do with the fact that I’m drooling over her male voices every. Single. Time. The way she speaks Drew in this book? OMG, delicious! No, I’m not ashamed to admit my crush. Try one of her narrations and you will understand what I’m talking about!

So, back to the book itself. I haven’t read the first two books in this series, so I was completely new to the characters.

Courtney and Drew have been living together as roommates for a few years; and what started as a simple living arrangement slowly but surely transformed into a strong and solid friendship – now they are best friends. What Drew does not know though is that Courtney’s feelings for him are far from platonic. How they can live and spend so much time together with Drew not picking up on those telltales is beyond me, but oh well… men!
Besides, Drew was far too occupied with his on again off again high maintenance girlfriend Mia. Mia was a jealous and manipulative – I’d even go as far as to say heartless – woman and anything but easy. What was easy was Drew’s relationship with Courtney. To see them interact even if only as friends was incredibly sweet.
It takes one night of drunken unbridled passion for Drew to finally albeit slowly wake up and see what was right in front of him the entire time.
Once the resulting misunderstanding was out of the way, I just couldn’t stop alternating between swooning and fanning myself. Those two were on fire!

Those two have the most perfect relationship – the one that everyone strives for: loving and supportive – passionate and adventurous. On the same wavelength in their love and every other aspect of their lives. That’s what it’s like when you are in love with your best friend.

So, Mia… what a seriously demented and god-awful person. If someone shoved her off a cliff I would probably applaud them for doing so. That woman was insane! What Drew could ever see in her I will never understand. He was utterly gullible when it came to her.
And that is not the only time I wanted to smack some sense into him. He was so oblivious to Courtney; to him she always has been one of the ‘guys’.
But that was exactly what made Courtney so special: Because she is not your cliché heroine. She is honest and real, true to her beliefs. Major girl crush over here. And her baking obsession was downright adorable! Can I have one of those blueberry muffins too, please??

That ending though… A moment before I was swooning over how adorable they were as a couple and the next I wanted to smash my Kindle. …I mean I know something like this was coming but still … talk about an intense cliffhanger!!

This was the first book I’ve read by the author duo Kennedy Fox and I’m seriously already salivating for more. And meeting Violet and Travis in this book definitely has me wanting to go back and read their story as well.

If you love friends to lovers romances this one should be a mandatory one-click for you. I urge you to read it even if it’s not your favorite genre!
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Christie Adam
5.0 out of 5 stars This story was SO GOOD! I loved this love story so much more ...
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2018
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This story was SO GOOD! I loved this love story so much more than Viola and Travis (sorry, but I just want to be honest!). Courtney and Drew are just so adorable together and the way they switch from best friends to lovers is so smooth and I swooned for sure! I just loved them.

UGHH MIA!!!! Seriously this chick needs to move on and go away. I can't believe she keeps popping up!
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Brina
4.0 out of 5 stars This was right up my alley!
Reviewed in Germany on May 31, 2019
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The first Checkmate duet, especially the epilogue of book 2, made me super excited about Courtney & Drew’s story. Since both Courtney and Drew were part of the first Checkmate duet (Viola is Courtney’s best friend and Travis’ younger sister, and Drew is Travis’ best friend) we got to know them a little already.

I was really looking forward to finally meet and get to know Drew. He seemed such a down to earth and overall friendly and good person. What a shame that he had such a shitty girlfriend. I still don’t know how he could not see what an evil person she is?
His oblivious behavior toward Courtney and females in general was adorable. I love it when guys don’t know how they affect the people around them, especially when they are really good looking. It makes them so lovable and even more amazing. Obviously, you need to prompt them and need to show them what is right in front of them but I rather have it this way than the other way round.

I wasn’t sure if I really liked Courtney since she was really “loud” in the first Checkmate duet. Even though I had my doubts about her in the beginning, I started to like her anyway. She was still loud in This is Reckless but now there was more to her. I finally got to know her really well.

This is Reckless was way more up my alley than This is War and This is Love ever was. This was a typical friends-to-lovers story and I absolutely adored it. Courtney and Drew were so adorable and sweet together; I cheered for them from minute one.
I also enjoyed the less amount of sexy times in here compare to the first duet.

“Sometimes people come into your life with no expectations, no agenda, and no idea of how they’re going to change your life by just being present.”

Of course, there is no Romance without a little drama and that drama was caused by no one else than Drew’s crazy ex-girlfriend. She was one of the most annoying characters I have ever read about. I can’t believe someone like that can cause so much damage and drama.

This is Reckless ended with a cliffhanger which obviously made me turn to book 2 immediately. However, I think that This is Reckless didn’t need a book 2 if I’m perfectly honest with you guys. This novel here was sweet, had the perfect amount of drama, the main characters became a couple, and if the ending or rather the drama had been solved a little differently by the authors, it would have been the perfect conclusion to this friends-to-lovers book.
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Sophie Broughton
5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2017
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So. Okay. Um. Wow.....
Please excuse me while I drag together all my thoughts and hopefully make sense.. I am speechless, like, I read the last line of this book and my mouth DROPPED OPEN. Now as this is a DUET there is a cliffhanger. And holy crap what a cliffhanger it is… Like WHAT THE….
But that's not the only thing that made my mouth drop open and make me unable to form words, no. This book as a whole knocked me off my feet!
It has EVERYTHING I want and need from a friends to lovers romance.. What's everything I hear you ask? Well, let me break it down for you.
Loveable characters…. CHECK.
Gripping tension…. CHECK.
Sexual chemistry…. CHECK.
Breathtaking angst…. CHECK.
A hot, steamy connection….CHECK.
And there is so much more but if I break those things down I'll spoil it. Seriously I AM BUZZING. Checkmate: This is Reckless was just FANTASTIC!

Once I began Reckless I didn't stop for 5 hours!!! Reckless took over my day, consuming every part of me. From the prologue Kennedy Fox had my attention and they managed to hold it ALL THE WAY THROUGH. Kennedy Fox burst into my life last year and have solidly implanted themselves on my favourite author list, this dynamic duo can do no wrong. Never, ever stop writing. Hear me, NEVER STOP.

I honestly went into Reckless wondering how Kennedy Fox would play out Drew and Courtney. While Reckless can stand alone, I think it is best to have read Checkmate: This is War & Checkmate: This is love. One, because I love those books and two, to purely gain a FULL understanding of everything that's happening. But you don't have to!! Let me stress that, its just MY PERSONAL OPINION. From reading those two books previously I had idea of how these characters might be, how the story might go, but Fox took all my expectations and blasted them through the stratosphere. I had so many predictions, so many ideas and had dreamt up so many scenarios that could have happened in this book but none of them even came close.

I LOVED Courtney. I found it so easy to connect to Courtney, to understand her feelings and to get her wit. She's hilarious and so freaking sassy.
Drew. DUDE! DREW! My gosh. I want to say that Fox topped Travis and I personally think they did but these two are SO different. For me, Drew is the best. I honestly think I've been ruined by the man. He's a sublime mix of sweet, swoony alpha & dominating sex God. I have no doubt that this man will take over your heart and mind and just infiltrate your soul. He did mine. I adored him. My hot cop fantasy is ALIVE & KICKING!!!!!!
Together #TeamDrewtney are sensational. They mix together with such precision and perfection. The connection they share is undeniable and so damn strong it burns. Drew and Courtney are ridiculously hot, sexy, sweet and passionate. An amazing couple to lead an amazing book.

This raw, racy, ravishing read will leave you in a state of bookworm bliss even with the killer cliffhanger that stings in the best way possible. Checkmate: This is Reckless ticked all my boxes, covered all my bases and overtook every inch of me. I can only rate up to five stars but I'd happily give it ten!
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Karen Sedg
5.0 out of 5 stars This is Reckless!!!!!!!
Reviewed in Australia on April 10, 2017
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Gotta love a friends to lovers romance!! I loveeeeed Drew and Courtney together!! #Team Drewtney all the way!! Loved this story just a wee bit more, just a bit!!! Then you go and do that to me again Kennedy Fox!!! What the??? OMG!! No!!!! I guess, no l will most definitely be reading This is Effortless!!!
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a.rogue.librarian
4.0 out of 5 stars Must Read for Romance Fans
Reviewed in Canada on December 19, 2017
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I HIGHLY recommend any book by Kennedy Fox if you are a fan of New Adult contemporary romance. These books are entertaining and not only pull at your heart strings but they bring a sense of realism to the stage with some of their pop culture references and real life issues. I feel like I want to be friends with all the couples in the Checkmate duet series - and this proves that the authors have done a great job creating fun and enjoyable characters.
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