Blurb:
When Ruby Miller’s boss announces he’s sending her on an extended business trip to New York City, she’s shocked. As one of the best and brightest young engineers in London, she knows she’s professionally up to the task. The part that’s throwing her is where she’ll be spending a month up close and personal working alongside—and staying in a hotel with—Niall Stella, her firm’s top urban planning executive and The Hottest Man Alive. Despite her ongoing crush, Ruby is certain Niall barely knows she’s alive…until their flirty overnight flight makes him sit up and take notice.
Not one for letting loose and breaking rules, recently divorced Niall would describe himself as hopeless when it comes to women. But even he knows outgoing California-girl Ruby is a breath of fresh air. Once she makes it her mission to help the sexy Brit loosen his tie, there’s no turning back. Thousands of miles from London, it’s easy for the lovers to play pretend. But when the trip is over, will the relationship they’ve built up fall down?
Rating: 5/5 stars
Side Notes:
- Genres: Romance novel, Fiction, Contemporary romance, Erotic literature
- Highly recommend for 16 years and above
- Book #8 in the Beautiful Bastard series (novel #4)
- TW: Explicit language, Sexually graphic scenes
- Romance Tropes: Workplace Romance
Book Quotes:
- “But if you did, how would you touch me?” she asked, folding the garment neatly before placing it in an open drawer in front of her. I barely had to consider the question before my answer burst forward: “Desperately.”
- “I just had an out-of-body experience. Niall Stella just took off my shirt and admired my chest.” “Do you need to text someone?”
- “For some reason I was unable to call him by his only given name. Niall Stella was a two man honor. Like Prince Harry or Jesus Christ.”
- “That I was in love with Niall Stella was only a secret in theory. He knew it, I knew it.”
- “Being trapped in a tiny space, I decided it was a good time to dance.”
- “I always felt like the only person in my life who didn’t know his own mind from the moment he was born … But I do with you.”
- “The problem was I became genuinely stupid when he was around.”
- “I nodded but couldn’t form even a single word in response. I wanted him so much it hurt, and now he was touching me, finally…”
- “I don’t get that. Mr. Darcy is short with Elizabeth to the point of rudeness. Why would you want someone who’s so much work?” “How is that more work?” I asked. “Darcy doesn’t lavish her with false praise or compliments that mean nothing. When he says he loves her it’s because he does.”
- “Careful,” I teased. “You don’t want to veer into the L-word territory.”