Romance
Description
Ada Treadway has been in love before, and it brought nothing but heartache. Still, she retains her cheerful optimism and is fiercely protective of the independence and respect she’s earned as bookkeeper of the Phoenix Club. When the owner enlists her help to organize his friend’s estate ledgers, she’s eager to prove her expertise and her worth. But his friend turns out to be a disagreeable, unpleasant beast, and Ada works to find the warm-hearted gentleman she’s sure lurks beneath.
Maximillian Hunt, Marquess of Warfield doesn’t care if he lives to see tomorrow, and he certainly doesn’t want to recall yesterday. The arrival of the meddlesome and effusively positive woman who will put his accounts in order not only reminds him of the past he’s desperate to forget, she sparks something within him he thought dead. Tempted by a future he never imagined, he must do the impossible: convince her that he’s worth risking her heart a second time.
3.STARS
Ada was quite the character, who appeared to be all sunshine and roses. Someone who had never had anything ever blot out her happiness. But she had such depth and suffered her share of pain. She also had fought her way through them and fought to stay positive and overcome. She was also kind and clever. I liked her and her unrelenting curiosity. She has her work cut out with the Beast of Stonehill (Max).
Max has suffered too and not just the physical pain but the emotional pain as well. The memories from war but also the loss of family.
Max was so off-putting that I wondered how this story would end. Also how Ada was going to "get" to him. Because you knew she would wear him down and as she did you saw that he was worth it.
There were other people who played good parts in the story, especially Max's friends. Lucien in particular had been fighting an uphill battle to bring back his friend.
The story has depth and a good ending with an Epilogue. I just wish I had liked it more.
" I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy of this book through Netgalley. And these are my honest opinions about it.”
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