Hold Me Down Hard is a sexy, short read guaranteed to heat up your day.  Eden Carver wants her sexy neighbor, and best friend, Jay Bennett, but he’s got her firmly placed in the friend category.  As a NYC cop, Jay sees a lot of bad things on the job and wants nothing more than to protect Eden.  Which definitely means that he can’t seduce the sweet Iowa farm girl, no matter how badly he wants to.  But when Eden’s friends talk her into seducing the sexy cop, all bets are off.

I really enjoyed this short story.  It’s only about 50 pages, but it packs a lot of spice into those pages.  Being so short we don’t get a lot of background, but Fox does a great job of packing as much as she can into the pages she has.  We learn that Eden isn’t as innocent as everyone thinks she is but the one time she let her kinky side out it ended badly.  Afraid that it will ruin everything if she lets Jay know how she really feels, she’s held back.  Jay also has rougher needs that he’s afraid will scare Eden.  Plus he is very dedicated to his job with the Gang Unit and thinks the danger may be more than Eden can handle.  But once they start communicating everything comes together.

The book doesn’t really explore their more kinky wants, they are mentioned but not actually acted upon.  At its heart, the story is more about getting past assumptions than it is about their darker side, which made the book that much more enjoyable to me.  Those assumptions could be about anything and makes the two so much more relatable.

If you are looking for a steamy read that you can fit into a hectic schedule, this bite-size treat is for you.  The characters are interesting and their issues are real, all of it contained in a tiny package.