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At work, I’m King of Wall Street. The heaviest hitters in Manhattan come to me to make money. They do whatever I say because I’m always right. I’m shrewd. Exacting. Some say ruthless.
At home, I’m a single dad trying to keep his fourteen year old daughter a kid for as long as possible. If my daughter does what I say, somewhere there’s a snowball surviving in hell. And nothing I say is ever right.
When Harper Jayne starts as a junior researcher at my firm, the barriers between my worlds begin to dissolve. She’s the most infuriating woman I’ve ever worked with.
I don’t like the way she bends over the photocopier—it makes my mouth water.
I hate the way she’s so eager to do a good job—it makes my body twitch.
And I can’t stand the way she wears her hair up exposing her long neck. It makes me want to strip her naked, bend her over my desk and trail my tongue all over her body.
If my two worlds are going to collide, Harper Jayne will have to learn that I don't just rule the boardroom. I’m in charge of the bedroom, too.
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: August 2016
Mature content: yes
Review: I'm really on the fence about this book. I did like the story, but I had serious trouble with the characters - more with Harper, but a bit with Max too.
In the end, I decided to go against the flow of reviews on Amazon and Goodreads and rate it with just three stars.
I could maybe have related more with Harper if she'd followed through with her objectives of developing her career and proving Max she could do her job. Instead, she falls in bed with him the first opportunity she gets (all all others than ensue) and then assumes she has special privileges which should extend to (and affect) the way Max runs his business.
As to Max, he doesn't seem to work all that much, and even when he's in the office half the time he seems to be thinking about sex.
So...while I did like the general idea of the plot, the way Max and Harper fall in love and their relationship with Max's daughter, the abundance of (in some cases misplaced) sex scenes and the the issues I had with both characters sort of destroyed part of the happy feelings I had about the story.
Happy readings otherwise!
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