Genre: Romance, Smutty
Rating: 5 Stars
Started it for the spice, stuck around for the heart melting love story that unfolded.
Millie thinks she’s cursed like “Good Luck Chuck” cursed since three of her ex boyfriends immediately found their “one” right after dating her, so she feels like her dream of wanting to find a husband and have kids is so far out of reach. It doesn’t help that she spends all her time surrounded by weddings, giving her brides their dream day that she’ll never have. While stuck in New York because of snow and feeling sorry for herself her sister coerces her into heading to the hotel bar to try and find a hot guy to spend the night with.
Enter Zach, her older deliciously built knight in shining armor, who helps Millie thwart off a married creep but also fulfill her sister’s plea for her to experience a steamy night of passion she’ll never forget. She thought they’d only that night and to her shock and slight horror but who walks in at her ex-boyfriend’s rehearsal dinner but the father he finally found.
Zach knows they can’t be together. Mostly because of Zach being Mason’s father and Millie’s history with Mason, but also because Zach doesn’t live in Michigan. He’s based in San Diego and his marriage ended because his job in private security had him always traveling. So their relationship would only be that one night in New York.
Their attraction is too tempting to ignore and nothing is hotter than illicit love affair since they can’t keep their hands off each other. But Millie still wants the dream wedding to her soulmate and kids and Zach is struggling to be a father figured to a son he never knew existed, so this tempting affair is destined to crash and burn, right?
This is one of those books that I read in one sitting, like I just couldn’t put my kindle down until I finished reading at almost 2 am. Every ounce of exhaustion I felt the next day was 100% worth because this book not only had the spice but also a beautiful love story that gripped me from the beginning.
While I loved the spice and the romance between these two characters, what I really loved the most was the friendship between the two of them. I loved how even though Zach knew they couldn’t be together, he still wanted to be in Millie’s life and was her biggest cheerleader in her finally pursuing her dream and doing something she was passionate about. The scenes of them catching up with each other after their days were some of my favorite and the ones that I found myself thinking about long after I read the last page.
This was also one of the few books that I didn’t skip to the end to read the last sentence, but having read Tease last year I knew that I was in a for a good ride with Melanie Harlow at the helm and as expected she blew my expectations out of the water. I finished this book last week and I’m still thinking about it all this time later because it’s so good.
So you should definitely give this a read if you love: a good age gap romance with a burly older man and plus size female lead with a beautiful friendship and a hot love affair with toe curling spice.
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