Synoposis:
A man avoiding his destiny.
Anthony Santini is happy with life. The former Marine is now working a dream job for NCIS in a
dream location: Hawaii. He's watched his cousins and now his siblings fall into the Santini Curse and
that is not for him. Not yet. He's happy to play the field and enjoy life. It still doesn't stop his cousin's
wife from trying to fix him up.
A woman avoiding love.
Lalani Hawkins has had enough heartache to last a lifetime. The professional dancer isn't looking for
love and she definitely doesn't need a man like Santini in her life. After the worst blind date in
history, she thinks she'll never see him again.
For two people who want to avoid each other, Lalani and Anthony can't seem to achieve that. Each
time they meet, Lalani falls a little more under the Santini spell, and for Anthony, he is drawn to the
vivacious dancer. But when Anthony senses her hesitation to commit, he starts to formulate a plan.
Because when a Santini man decides he's found his mate, there is no stopping him.
For more information on all the Santini’s, including novellas and excerpts, please visit the Santini’s page on Melissa’s website!
Some fun behind the scenes look at Melissa’s inspirations:
Melissa was inspired to write a ballerina after watching Misty Copeland perform.
Tim McGraw’s Shotgun Rider was the love song for Lalani and Anthony. She even used it in a scene where Lalani is singing.
Anthony Santini is the oldest of six siblings and second oldest in the extended Santini family. Vicente (book 4) is the oldest.
His parents are Marcella and Tony Santini. Tony is the second oldest in the brothers.
Lalani Hawkins is an only child and a Marine brat. She is African American/Hawaiian.
Lalani dances to Take Me to Church in a performance in the book.
Main Soundtrack for the Book
Shotgun Rider - Tim McGraw
She’s My Kind of Rain – Tim McGraw
One of Those Nights -Tim McGraw
Take Me to Church – Hozier
There’s No Place Like Home - Michael Giacchino
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
Beating Heart – Ellie Goulding
The Woman I Love – Jason Mraz
I’d Come for You – Nickelback
Until I See You Again – Wiz Khalifa
She’s Music to Me - Ekolu
Perfect – Darious Rucker
I received this book for an honest review.
What do you get when a former marine and now an NCIS special agent meets an ex ballerina now teaching ballet? One heck of a story. In A Santini Takes The Fall, Anthony Santini is determined to nip his cousin’s wife's matchmaking plans in the bud, before they get out of hand. So much so that he storms up to Lalani Hawkins and tells her that he isn’t interested before they have been introduced. However he meets and gets to know Lalani, despite himself he feels the pull of attraction.
Anthony is enjoying his life and new job in Hawaii, the last thing he wants is a serious relationship or to settle down. Lalani is a woman who avoids any relationships, particularly with Military men and is doing her best to avoid love. Still reeling from the death of her mother 12 months ago, she is slowly coming back to life and now teaches ballet classes and is the best friend of Alana who is married to Anthony’s cousin Marco Santini.
Both Anthony and Lalani feel the pull of attraction but are determined to ignore it. They know they will have to see each other but they both bury their heads in the sand trying to avoid what everyone else can see is inevitable.
When circumstances keep putting them together, Anthony realises that he may have become a victim of the Santini curse. Once a Santini male meets “the one” they will stop at nothing to make them theirs. Although both of them think it would be easier to fight the sizzling attraction that draws them together it is obvious they they will fail.
I haven’t met a Santini I didn’t love. Anthony is no exception. I love the feistiness of Lalani, together they are an explosive couple and I felt as though the pages would combust with the heat from their lovemaking.
I love catching up with the Santinis and seeing another Santini fall under the Santini curse.
This is a family I want to be a member of and Melissa Schroeder writes in such a way that you can’t possible help but wish you belonged to them. This story, as with the others in this series, was well written, hot, romantic and humorous,
If this series is not on your TBR list then I suggest that you get it immediately, you won’t be disappointed.
About Melissa Schroeder
From an early age, Melissa loved to read. First, it was the books her mother read to her including her two favorites, Winnie the Pooh and the Beatrix Potter books. She cut her preteen teeth on Trixie Belden and read and reviewed To Kill a Mockingbird in middle school. It wasn’t until she was in college that she tried to write her first stories, which were full of angst and pain, and really not that fun to read or write. After trying several different genres, she found romance in a Linda Howard book.
Since the publication of her first book in 2004, Melissa has had over fifty romances published. She writes in genres from historical suspense to modern day erotic romance to futuristics and paranormals. Included in those releases is the bestselling Harmless series and her USA Today Bestselling series The Santinis..
Along the way she has garnered an epic nomination, a multitude of reviewer’s recommended reads, over five Capa nods from TRS, eleven nominations for AAD Bookies and regularly tops the best seller lists on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Since she spent her childhood as a military brat, Melissa swore never to marry military. But, as we all know, Fate has her way with mortals. She is married to an AF major and is raising her own brats, both human and canine. She spends her days giving in to her addiction to Twitter, counting down the days until her hubby retires, and cursing the military for always sticking them in a location that is filled with bugs big enough to eat her children.
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