I love these books so much!
JLA just has a way of sucking you in and making you care so much about the characters.

Roxy works in Mona's bar (owned by Jax from book #3) she has a best friend called Charlie, he is now in a care hospital after a horrific accident (caused by a homophobic douchecanoe ) he doesn't even know when she is in the same room with him anymore, he hasn't spoken for 6 years, and yet every week Roxy visits him and takes one of her painting for him.

Painting is Roxys life and she is brilliant at it, there is one thing, one person that she paints more than anything else......Reese Anders!

She has been in love with him since she was 15 and it has never faded, they even got together once, but he was very drunk and passed out before they did the deed.
After waking up in the morning and telling her that he regretted having sex with her, she doesn't mention the fact that they didn't actually get that far and hasn't spoken to him since!

This book had it all, angst in spades, hawt sex and a bit of a thriller to boot, I highly recommend this series.