Stay With Me by J. Lynn

     Stay With Me, by J. Lynn, was hard to put down, even with a serious migraine. It literally hurt to read and I still didn't want to stop. 

At 21, Calla hasn’t done a lot of things. She’s never been kissed, never seen the ocean, never gone to an amusement park. But growing up, she witnessed some things no child ever should. She still carries the physical and emotional scars of living with a strung-out mother, Mona-secrets she keeps from everyone, including her close circle of college friends.

But the safe cocoon Calla has carefully built is shattered when she discovers her mom has stolen her college money and run up a huge credit card debt in her name. Now, Calla has to go back to the small town she thought she’d left behind and clean up her mom’s mess again. Of course, when she arrives at her mother’s bar, Mona is nowhere to be found. Instead, six feet of hotness named Jackson James is pouring drinks and keeping the place humming.

Sexy and intense, Jax is in Calla’s business from the moment they meet, giving her a job and helping her search for Mona. And the way he looks at her makes it clear he wants to get horizontal…and maybe something more. Before Calla can let him get close, though, she’s got to deal with the pain of the past-and some very bad guys out to mess her up if she doesn’t give them her mom. 

     This book was beyond worthy of a five. It was intense throughout the entire book. I thought Teresa was an awesome character, turns out Calla is amazing. My favorite so far out of all of them. I was also pleasantly surprised with Jax. I kept waiting for him to do something really bad, or be someone other than who he said he was, and I was happy that wasn't the case (maybe that's a spoiler, but how am I supposed to know what you're going to be thinking when reading this book). This book had so much action, and so much going on for the characters, I wasn't sure how most of them didn't have heart attacks from the stress. I thought I was going to after a while. I'm not sure why this book felt so different from the other two, but it really did have a completely different feel to it. I think the way Jax acted was part of it. He was so upfront about his feelings, and wasn't trying to play any games, it was nice to see a man not shy away from his feelings, in a book. He was always just so reasonable and understanding; it was like a vision of your dream guy in this character. I also liked how Calla was really inexperienced, but not always super naive (except for every time she went back to that damn house...I wanted to kill her myself).This story, like the others, had a lot of bad stuff going down, but it was a lot different then the others too. I honestly wasn't sure how the hell Calla was going to get out of the mess she was in, and I was seriously worried about who was going to die. I'm just going to spoil it again and tell you Calla doesn't die. I would have died if she did. And because the next book is about Roxy (which I SUPER excited for), I think we'll get to see some more Calla and Jax.
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