Guys, I started this book super late Saturday night and was done on Sunday. It's going on Wednesday and I still have no words. None. I've read every single novel J. Daniels has published and all I can do is chomp at the bit for more. When she released What I Need after a few delays, she told her readers CJ Tully was her favorite, and she had written a good man. This is precisely what I adore. I have never once been attracted to the asshole. I know I've read a few in the past I've loved, but that's always because deep down, they're good men (without the heroine having to change them). Yes, CJ is a good man.. hell.. he's beyond good. He's everything a girl could ever want (I mean that), but if J. Daniels ever wonders, she should know, she always writes good men, and I adore her for it.

CJ is a member of the Alabama Boys circle.. have you met them yet? Ben, Luke, Reed.. and now, CJ. All I have to say to this gaggle of men is... hot damn. Seriously. Excuse me while I faint.

Anywho.. CJ is present for Reed's wedding, and that's where he runs smack into Reed's baby sister, Riley. This poor girl doesn't know what it is to be appreciated, respected, adored, and just treated in a civil manner. Almost the moment she arrives, she cozies up to the bar to nurse her wounds after a bad fight with her boyfriend Richard. Luckily, CJ is there to keep a protective eye out (and so much more). It's after an explosive weekend that the two return home, to reality.

Riley's relationship that she thought was over, might be coming back to rear its ugly head, and CJ takes what he can get. Friends. Friends who have the ability to become so much more.

These two certainly know how to build up the tension, and how to keep the chemistry alive and off the charts. For such a chunk of this book, I had such anxiety over the outcome, and all I can say is I was left all but screaming into a pillow, and in a Tully depression/funk.

My obsession with these Bama boys is just... unreal.