Review: A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE WITH A HISTORICAL FLAVOR
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
An arrogant & panties dropping lawyer verses a curvy sexy female doc! Who will win?Dr. Calla Roberts was highly skilled reconstruction surgeon in Chicago, but now works in Hollywood at the Seacliffe Cosmetic Surgery & Spa because she is in debt up to her children's eyeballs. With a brother who is a quadriplegic in 24/7 medical care & an ex-fiancé who cleaned out her bank account, she needed to go to where the money was. On the plus side, her boss, Helen Ridgeway, runs Helen's House which is a free clinic & Calla gets to use her extensive skill to help make a difference to the ones who need it the most, like Alicia Deleon, a hit & run victim.Alex Hardy is a high powered LA lawyer know for his ruthless honesty. His Grandma Maddy was a famous 50s star & he knows the ins & outs of Hollywood. Alex just tossed his money hungry, cheating with his ex-friend & fame starved ex-fiancée to the curb. He has a kooky family trying to baby him & boost his confidence, but really they love to jerk his chain. Will he ever find a truthful woman without stars in her eyes & her hands out?Calla's life sucks with all the patient's photos & info being leaked left & right to the media & also has an actor, Jeff MacKay, stalking her because he was the hit & run drive that almost destroyed Alicia leg & hip. So why is the most arrogant, tactless & panties dropping Alex Hardy, the spa's legal rep, sitting in her office? Alex asks her if she is selling drugs to kids, because he saw her handing pills to a kid in the parking lot. As far as misunderstandings go this one is a whopper, but she explains her poor hit & run patient's son came for antibiotics. Alex is so turned on by her righteous anger, so he decides that he needs explore this white-hot need of lust, for the little curvy doc.Since his family is driving him crazy, he decides to ask Calla to go to his Grandma Maddy's kooky, squabbling, insults flying & sometimes knock down drag out fights family dinner. He offers her a deal, free legal consul for one night of pretending to be his GF! Calla is so stressed that having dinner with a famous movie star says like a HOOT! What she doesn't expect is the driven need to crawl into the sexy lawyer's lap & let her hormones go into hyper drive! Soon all their passions are like a out of control tsunami, Calla's is accused of dealing drugs, paparazzi everywhere, a mysterious romantic admirer, more media leaks, creepy actor still stalking & a meddling famous Grandma & quadriplegic brother join Fairy Godperson powers to slap some sense into this hopeless couple. Is a few days enough time to fall in love? When will Calla learn to trust love again? Will Alex honesty bite him in the a$$? Can he save her medical career & heal her heart? Who will play who in the movie?Julie Rowe is a new author to me & I am a true historical romance geek, so I really enjoyed this contemporary romance because it had a historical flavor to it. Calla played a brilliant surgeon, but doubted herself as a desirable woman, a bluestocking. Now yummy Alex is a lawyer with a famous family & just wanted to be loved for himself, a Duke. Ms. Rowe wrote fantastic scenes up against the walls, a headboard & on the bed for Alex & Calla. These two would have problems, if they stayed in bed. Fairy Godfolks are a favorite of mine, whether they are furry, 4 or 2 legged, male or female, so long as they are determined to throw, slam, collide & mix up the lovers' world! Why? Because it makes the story unique, kookier, ROF"hyperventilating"L & UNEXPECTED! Ms. Rowe is a new author discovery for me & plan to SHOUT (insert pompoms here) IT OUT! This contemporary romance with a historical flair get my score of 4 fingers up & 8 toes.NetGalley ARC was given for my honest review.