by Gretchen Galway
About this book
Serial temp worker April Johnson is nothing like her wildly successful brothers. She doesn’t have an Olympic gold medal. She doesn’t have millions in the bank from a tech company she founded as a teenager. She doesn’t even have a place to live, not since her boyfriend sneaked off in the middle of the night—skipping out on the rent, his three-legged dog, and her. Now forced to move back home with her mother and grovel for a job from one of her brothers, April decides it’s past time she got serious about her life.
Zack Fain, on the other hand, has been too serious for years. After losing his wife to cancer at the age of twenty-six, he’s done nothing but work on his consulting business. But when he meets April at a new job, he forgets he’s a humorless suit who never gets emotionally involved. She makes him laugh, she turns him on, and he begins to wonder if it’s time he broke a few rules.
Although April refuses to get stuck in yet another dead-end relationship, Zack isn’t like any of the guys she’s dated before. This could be the real deal. This could be serious. But is either one of them ready for the kind of serious that lasts a lifetime?
Book Review
I enjoyed the characters in this book. April is sunny on the outside but has insecurities about not being as good as her overachieving brothers. Zack is serious and feels guilty about not loving his deceased wife enough after she died of cancer.
The chemistry between April and Zack is off the charts with two opposing personalities. It was also very satisfying to see April standing up for herself towards the end and really defending her work against those who set out to diminish her contributions.
This is Book 3 (out of 6) of the Oakland Hills series. While this was a fairly light and fun read, I did not feel compelled to dive into other books in the series. Books 1 and 2 are April’s brothers’ stories. Although they and their partners are featured in this book as well, their characters didn’t seem interesting enough for me to want to find out about how their own stories developed.
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