No Worries Reviews

Rebel McCassey is the perfect bad boy with a family to match. Gypsy Lance is on the run from her past when she settles into the small town in Maryland. With little money and a big burden on her shoulders, she never imagined that the town bad boy would become her salvation. In this amazingly compelling love story we get swept along for this intense ride of emotions.

The entire McCassey clan captures your heart and brings you into their family. Every page made me want to keep reading and I am looking forward to the next book about this wild family of brothers and cousins.

Lauren Sharman has a homerun with this novel. Everything works and there is no slack in the writing. This is one of those books that had me reading from start to finish in one sitting.

Gypsy Lance is new in Hagerstown. It is as far as she could run in trying to hide from her Baltimore City past. With very little money but a whole lot of heart, she is just trying to carve out a new life for herself. An unexpected encounter with Reb, one of the town bad boys, leads to friendship and more. But a menace from her childhood is about to be set free and he has vengeance in mind.

The McCasseys are considered the scourge of the town with a family history of kicking up trouble that spans generations. Rebel Raider McCassey wears the mantle of his heritage with pride and discomfort. He loves his rabble rousing relatives but is weary of the problems that they cause and of the biases that come with the name.

One thing about the McCasseys though is that they all watch out for each other. If you have won their respect, and they claim you as one of their own, well…no worries.

Rebel is like a redneck knight in very tarnished armor riding a black tow truck and keeping the company of some rather dodgy brethren. Their code of conduct can touch on chivalry but is more solidly based on a rough sense of justice.

Gypsy is endearingly openhearted and vulnerable. She is the personification of the good woman who is tough enough to both love and stand up to her man and anyone else she sees fit.

No Worries is a gripping story from beginning to end. Readers will thoroughly enjoy the wonderful characterizations of regular folks who may be poor in terms of wealth, but who are rich in family and loyalty. Several of the cast are highly tobacco dependant and have an affinity to firearms. None of them are averse to using the latter. Even readers who are uncomfortable with both are likely to find themselves sucked into the story so thoroughly that not much else will get their attention. So stock up your kitchen with food ahead of time, open a cold one and settle in for a heck of a read.

Gypsy Lance has been running for her life for as long as she can remember. Running from her father because she testified that she’d seen him kill her mother. Now as an adult, she has moved to the small city of Hagerstown to start over. Her past haunts her, but she prays that she can begin again.

Rebel McCassey finds Gypsy lost on his property and immediately knows she is new in town. No one who was local would dare trespass on McCassey property. He expects her to be frightened of him, but her openness and charm wins him over, and by the time he walks her back to town, they are friends

He knows that if she stays friends with him, the locals won’t like it so he tries to ignore her from that point on. But Gypsy isn’t a girl easily ignored and as they draw closer together, they both find that being outcasts isn’t so bad when they are together. But Gypsy’s past catches up with her, and she has to decide whether her love for Rebel is strong enough to push past the fear.

This full length sweetly romantic novel is a beautiful example of how judging others can make us take a hard look at ourselves. The friendship between Rebel and Gypsy grows slowly into a deep lasting love so real, the reader can feel the emotion. The secondary characters are almost as interesting and we can only hope that Ms. Sharman tells us more about the McCassey clan. Well done on a great book!

Gypsy Lance is a free spirit, a young woman who is just searching for someone to love her for who she is on the inside as well as the outside. Her mother loved her, yet father hated her with a vengeance even to the point of threatening to one day kill her for good. Gypsy doesn’t know why he wants her dead but one thing is true, her life has been shadowed in fear, always wondering if today would be the day she dies. Because of her father’s threat, Gypsy has stayed clear of any man trying to befriend her. Yet for some reason, she becomes friends with Rebel Raider McCassey. Here is a man who tempts her to do things she’s never done before like learn to live again and have friends and a surrogate family. Once she meets Rebel, she knows that one day he would mean something to her. Can she learn to live without fear and learn to be loved by Rebel?

Rebel Raider McCassey is not a well liked person or even friendly for that matter. So when he meets Gypsy, he wonders why she would befriend him. All his life he and his family have been shunned from town because of his ancestors and the trouble they always got into. Rebel knows it’s not a good idea to become friends with Gypsy yet it becomes more than just friendship for him. Something in her speaks out to him making him want to be a better man and for his family to love her. His family has always had one motto in life: No Worries, and that is exactly what he sets out to prove to Gypsy. No matter how tough life is or even if someone’s out to get you, if you have no worries about it, life always has a silver lining to it.

I loved No Worries by Lauren N. Sharman for this author gets better with each book, never taking my attention away from the book. I instantly fell in love with the McCassey clan. Here is a family, who even though gets into trouble more often than not, sticks together no matter how tough life is or who hates them. In a way I felt sorry for Gypsy, a young woman who didn’t do anything yet her father wants her dead and he is one despicable father to hurt Gypsy. All in all, Lauren N. Sharman did a great job with this book from the beginning until the end, only making me wonder if there will be more of the McCassey clan in the future. This reviewer would sure like to know more about Blackie and Judd, Rebels brothers and if they’ll find their soul mates.

Reviewed by: Lena C., Fallen Angel Reviews

Rebel MacCassey is a bad boy you can’t help but love once you delve into his mysterious persona beneath the surface. Gypsy Lance is on the run from a man who she put behind bars after she witnessed him kill her mother several years before and whose parole is set to commence. Practically destitute when she settled in a small town in Maryland, she never imagined that the town’s bad boy would become her only life-line and protector from evil. Although she’s afraid for her life, she’s also warm-hearted and fiercely devoted to those she comes to love. She’ll defend them without a care to what others think or ever thought of them.

In this story, you’ll meet all the McCasseys with whom will pull on your heartstrings as well as urge you to want to know even more about them.

Solid protection smothered with a love that is secure and a family willing to give their lives for you. Who wouldn't want to have a life like that? I know I certainly would enjoy that kind of security. So, having never watched my mother murdered, nor had my father, the murderer, promise to end my life as soon as the first chance arises, I probably cannot fully understand what Rebel McCassey truly means to Gypsy Lance. I'd sure love to feel that kind of security anyway, if only for a few moments.

Gypsy was only ten when she witnessed her mother's tragic, senseless death at the hands of her father. And now, years later, when he is about to be released from prison, Gypsy is determined to get as far from Baltimore as she can. She packs her life into two knapsacks, spends most of her money on a bus ticket going anywhere, and sets out. It doesn't take her long to find herself in Hagerstown, Maryland, lost in a wooded area, and found by a six-foot-four man with shoulder-length black hair and royal blue eyes named Rebel McCassey.

Rebel McCassey is totally intrigued by the young woman he finds traipsing around on McCassey property. No one in town would dare to do that. Now this shapely, seemingly helpless redhead is lost in his woods and cautiously accepts his help to get back to her apartment. Rebel can’t believe that she'd even talk to him, much less not be worried about being seen with him. The McCasseys aren't exactly the most respected family in these parts. Feared is more like it. It doesn't take long for Rebel to fall for this little lady. He offers her the highest compliment a McCassey can offer to anyone, family or otherwise. He promises Gypsy, "No worries." Gypsy soon comes to understand that this promise is solid and true, backed by Rebel, his brothers Blackie and Judd, and several aunts, uncles and cousins, and even the dog, named Outlaw; for the first time in most of her life, Gypsy can truly take comfort in her life with the protection of the McCassey family and the love of Rebel.

No Worries is probably the best love story I have read in years. Ms. Sharman describes Rebel so clearly that he stirs my blood faster than a three second funny car on a quarter mile track. Gypsy turns out to have a spunk all her own, once she gets in with the McCassey family. Together, they guarantee the safety and security of each family member in a down-home country way that screams "no worries."

Readers’ Choice #1 Bestseller
Preditors And Editors 2006 Readers Poll,
Best Romance Novel of the Year
Ecataromance Reviewers’ Choice Award Winner

Reviewed by MargeAnna Conrad