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2015

She’s spent her whole life acting. But is she good enough to make him believe she doesn’t love him?
Three years ago, a terrified girl named Emma fled a world of crime and abuse in Chicago and bought a one-way ticket to New York. She reinvented herself as an actress, enrolled at the prestigious Fenbrook Academy and buried her pain beneath a vivacious new persona. Her new name was Jasmine.

Now she has to pull off the performance of her career.
Landing her dream part in a police show, she finds herself falling for her co-star, Ryan, a real-life cop. If she lets him get too close, he’ll awaken memories she doesn’t want to face and uncover secrets that could endanger them both. But how can she keep a guy at arm’s length when she has to kiss him on camera?

The last place Ryan imagined himself was on a TV show. Blaming himself for the death of his partner, he’s on a downward spiral of rage and guilt. The show is his last chance…but how can he keep it professional when his co-star is a woman he’s crazy about?

As their on-screen and off-screen relationships merge, things go from hot to blistering. But when Jasmine’s old life catches up with her, will a cop be the one person she can’t be around…or the only person who can save her?

I truly enjoyed reading this excellent work of fiction written by Helena Newbury. The protagonist ultimately comes from a dysfunctional family and she desperately wants to improve upon her life. Newbury writes her main character as a young, desperate, yet ambitious woman that is a little on the wild side. She must ultimately escape her negative past, and for actual good reasons. 

    This book took off amazingly well for me and I could actually visualize the main character's actions due to the author's style of writing. The protagonist has a bit of low self esteem and doesn't feel that she deserves a good man in her life. The author deals with this issue and I believe this may help other women that have been abused for years find a way out and feel positive about their life conditions and future. Through Newbury's  very personal style of writing the characters are essentially brought to life in the reader's mind, and this also helped me to understand the pain of one who must restart their life again. 

  

     Another positive point about Newbury's writing in this book is that I absolutely love that she wrote the protagonist as one that crushes super hard on a police officer too. Hey, I'm partial to good police officers, my father was one. It also made reading the book in fact a bit more personal for me. No doubt Newbury has made a hit book here! I would also recommend this to others that are interested in the new adult and romance genres. I rate this book a FULL 5 STARS and will definitely be on the lookout for Newbury's new NA/Romance books! 

   

* I received Acting Brave in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are mine and I greatly value the fact that I can give an honest review in order to help others choose reading materials.

 

I’m a New Adult Romance author who loves writing about what happens when love and dreams collide with the real world. I wrote my first novel, Dance for Me, in daily chunks in a very busy, very noisy coffee shop, which meant I had to order a black Americano every hour, on the hour, to keep my seat and wound up wired on caffeine most days. I hit the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists in summer 2013. Unlike my characters, I can’t dance.

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