Burn For You is book one in the Slow Burn series by J.T. Geissinger. J.T. is a new to me author. I won this book in a give-a-way. This is one of those times when I am smacking myself in the forehead and asking myself why in the world I haven’t read anything by this author before! This book gets all the stars! I was attracted by the blurb and the cover but was barely a couple of chapters in when I was completely in love with both Jackson Boudreaux and Bianca Hardwick.I think Jackson is my favorite kind of hero. He’s all rough and tough on the outside but inside, he’s all mush with a heart as big as Texas. And that describes Jax to a “T.” Jackson is heir to the Boudreaux Bourbon empire. Except he left his parents behind four years ago and fled his family home in Kentucky for New Orleans. Jackson has secrets, a pain filled past he keeps buried deep inside. He has made a life for himself in New Orleans with his long time butler as his only real friend. Jackson is also father to an adorable adopted son, Cody. It’s with Cody that we see glimpses of the man Jackson really is. We see all the love he has to give.Bianca Hardwick always knew she loved to cook. Her mother ran a restaurant but is now retired. Bianca has opened her very first restaurant, a lifelong dream. She has focused her entire menu around Boudreaux Bourbon. Her restaurant is flourishing but she is still barely making ends meet. Then, one night, the rudest man but probably the most beautiful man she has ever known pushes his way into her restaurant and her life insisting on tasting the food bearing his family’s name.“Don’t tell me you don’t think he’s handsome.”“Handsome? How could I tell? It’s impossible to see past the forked tongue and the horns!”These two get off to a rough start. Jax has so much trouble expressing himself except when it comes to anger. He’s great expressing that! From the start he’s mesmerized with Bianca. Her body, her sass, the way he doesn’t intimidate her. At times, though, he also broke my heart. He was so insecure and was constantly second guessing his own words or her words or actions. But then life kind of intervened and gave Jax a reason to tie himself to her. By his upcoming birthday, if he wasn’t either married or working for his father’s business, he would lose his entire inheritance. He would be penniless. Moving back to the family home was out of the question. But the idea of marriage to one particular woman wasn’t bad at all.Bianca also has her life turned upside down when she finds out her beloved mother is sick. Neither of them have money or health insurance. So Jackson’s proposal of sorts isn’t a bad idea. He wants to save his inheritance and she wants to save her mother. They both get what they want.“When her lips curved up at the corners, I felt like I’d been living my life up to then at the bottom of a dark well filled with trash and slimy water, and someone had just lifted the lid and lowered me a ladder.”These two together were magic. Bianca stood toe to toe with Jackson and held her own. The more she got to know him, the more she liked him. She made him feel things he hadn’t felt in a very long time.“I stared at his profile and wondered how many more layers I’d have to peel back before I uncovered the true heart of the walking contradiction that was Jackson Walker Boudreaux.”I am just in love with this book. It was so much fun, the banter between them, they were both so slow to realize their feelings. If I had one little complaint, it is I wished for an epilogue. I would have loved a little glimpse into their future. Maybe it was just that I didn’t want it to be over. I hope I have been able to say something to help to convince you to give this book a try. I most definitely will be waiting for book two in this series, Melt For You. I don’t know who it is about yet but I can’t wait to see.“With my slow exhalation, my final, futile shreds of resistance slipped away. My lips said, I’m an idiot. Please forgive me.” But my heart said, I’m yours.”