Review: Winning the Boss's Heart

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Mason Christian has twelve weeks to flip something old into something new, and then he's getting the hell out of Footsteps Bay - a tiny New Zealand coastal town. Not even his temporary secretary and personal assistant--the feisty, luscious Billie McLeod--will deter him, but there's no denying she makes him feel alive. More alive than he's felt in three years...

Billie has one dream: save enough money to finish her degree. That's why she's agreed to work for hard ass, all-business-no-pleasure Mason Christian--a man who has every intention of destroying through modernization the town's most cherished historical home. Before she can say 'see ya' she's signed on the dotted line and is contractually bound to be Mason's forty-second assistant. But working with male perfection every day is awesome with a capital A--as long as they can stick to a hands-off policy that gets harder every day...

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: September 2013

Mature content: yes

Review: As romances go, this one is fairly sweet. No matter what, you can't stop rooting for Mason and Billie to have their happy ending. But other than that, the plot isn't all that good. There's a lot of introspect, a lot of plans going back and forth, but very little work done - for all that Mason keeps saying he's all work and no play. 

Best part of the book is the names they give each other - Mason calls Billie "number forty-two", just because he seems to have had forty one other personal assistants before her (although if he expected them all to cook and do the house chores and still be available for all the technical work involved in the renovation of an historical house, it's no wonder...), and Billie calls him anything under the sun.  

Still, if you want a quick read with a steamy romance and not a lot of character depth, you may want to give Winning the Boss's Heart a try. 

Happy readings!

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