I received a copy of this book from the author/publisher to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.

This is the first book in the Bear Bottom Guardian MC from Lani Lynn Vale.

When Rome Pierce moved to Bear Bottom, Texas, it was his intention to lay low. To not be seen. To find a way to heal his body and soul-as well as his son’s. Nobody would know by looking at him that he used to play professional football. Not with the Bear Bottom MC cut covering his back, and definitely not with his friendly smile completely obliterated. No long is there charm in each smooth word that comes out of his mouth. What’s left is an angry, bitter, scared man that’s terrified one day he’s going to wake up and his entire world is going to be gone. Nobody know what drove him to leave the game he loved-nobody but her. She’s the one person that has helped him make it through the dark days and even darker nights. She’s the bright and shining star in his pitch-black sky. And he doesn’t even know her name. He should be afraid that she knows things that not anyone-not even his best friend-knows. Yet, with each encounter, he give what little bit of his soul remains and before he know it only two people on earth-one dying and one too afraid to live-make his life worth living. Until one day he has to choose-the love of his life,or the life he brought into this world. Two impossible situations One decision that would change him forever.

You might as well go ahead and buy a box of kleenex as your going to be bawling your eyes out at several different points in this book. Your too quickly going to fall in love with Rome and Izzy and I would say that they are one of my most favorite couple that Lani Lynn Vale has written. I fell so hard for Rome. Heck I knew he was going to be amazing in the book he appeared in for a few minutes. Now we have his whole story an man oh man what a story it is. I went into this book pretty much blind. I knew that it was going to be Rome’s story and that I had to read it. I was not disappointed, though I might have been an emotional mess but that makes Mess Me Up one of the most beautiful stories that I have read in a long time. You just have to remember that you have to go through the dark valley to get to the the top of the mountain.