Secrets, desires, and exquisite pie. It’s all in a day’s work at The Company.Growing up, I was the rough guy from the wrong neighborhood who couldn’t catch a break. Posy was the pampered girl I tried to impress. But I managed to steal only a single kiss before I had to skip town.
Now I’m back, and the tables are turned. Posy runs a struggling pie shop. I’m the VP of a secretive billion dollar security company.
Not that I can tell her.
There’s a murderer on the loose in New York, and he seems to spend a lot of time at Posy’s shop. I can’t let on that I’m here to bring him down before he can harm a hair on her pretty head.
Going undercover as Posy’s new barista wasn’t my idea. I don’t even drink coffee. But now I have to call her “boss,” and do everything the curvy perfectionist asks of me. I’d forgotten how much we infuriate each other, and that she somehow fills me with both irritation and desire in the same breath.
There’s nobody more skilled at stealth ops than me. I can bring this killer down. Right after I take a cold shower. And just as soon as I figure out how to make a skinny peppermint latte with milk poured in the shape of a kitten...
CREDITS: Photo by Wander Aguiar, Design by Hang Le
What I thought about Loverboy
In this second book in The Company series, Gunnar is called in from the west coast to help with a very special case for the secretive security company. He needs to watch over a gourmet pie shop to catch a crafty killer and there happens to be an opening for a barista to use as a cover. Gunnar is ready for the assignment except there are two problems - Gunnar doesn't do coffee (at all) and the owner of the shop is a beautiful former acquaintance he'd worked with before.
What Gunnar doesn't know about coffee he makes up for in flirtatious banter that has shop owner Posy remembering their past and more. Seriously, this guy is good and knows how to put the flirt on, and his interactions with Posy were just golden and sweet and steamy and all the good things. I liked Posy. She took a chance when she needed to in spite of her creepy ex and his even creepier woman.
I thought Loverboy was a terrific second chance romance. The action sequences were good and I was craving them by the end, but I just wasn't all that interested in the case they were working on. There was more romance than suspense, not that I minded. I wanted a little more at the end too, since things felt a little rushed to me. Your mileage may vary as they say.
I'm giving this 4.5 stars because it hits a lot of good notes with the second chance romance and I'm looking forward to more stories in this world.
A complimentary ARC was provided. This is my honest review.
About Sarina
Sarina
Bowen is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance. She
lives in Vermont's Green Mountains with her family, six chickens and too
much ski gear and hockey equipment.
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