Breaking All The Rules
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4.3 • 8 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Sometimes you gotta toss your whole life into a burning dumpster to find what’s most important...
Beatrice Archer has always done everything she’s supposed to —worked her ass off, ignored her non-existent personal life, and kept her mouth shut. Now she’s over it. The rat race, respectability…the underwire bras. She’s taking her life back. Starting with moving to Nowhere, Colorado to live life on her own terms.
Now Bea gives exactly zero forks. Beer for breakfast. Sugar for everything else. Baggy sweats and soft cotton undies FTW. Then a much younger and delightfully attractive cop is called to deal with her flagrant disregard for appropriate clothing outside the local diner (some folks just don’t appreciate bunny slippers) and Bea realizes there’s something missing from her little decathlon of decadence…and he might be the guy to help her out.
When it comes to breaking rules, Officer Austin Cooper is surprisingly eager to assist. He’s charming, a little bit cowboy, and a whole lot sexy. But Bea’s about to discover that breaking the rules has consequences. And all of the cherry pies in Colorado can’t save her from what’s coming…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Andrews (Playing It Safe) proves herself a master of romantic banter in this snappy small-town tale. When Beatrice "Bea" Archer is once again passed over for a promotion, despite over a decade of loyalty and hard work, she quits her job, throws a dart at a map, and moves where it lands—quiet Credence, Colo.—trading pencil skirts, trendy health food, and the 9 to 5, for sweatpants, copious amounts of sugar, and binging all 15 seasons of Supernatural. When she finally leaves her apartment, a concerned resident alerts local police about the disheveled stranger double-fisting ice cream cones on the sidewalk. The cop who arrives is the very attractive Austin Cooper, who finds the situation amusing more than anything else. After proclaiming herself a rule breaker, Bea demands that Austin arrest her for her petty crimes. Instead, Austin offers to help her accomplish some of the more legal items on her bucket list. While Bea's happy to have a friendly face in town, she's determined to keep things platonic, as Austin is a decade younger than she is—but their chemistry proves hard to resist. The abrupt third-act conflict seems to come out of nowhere for both characters, but there's no denying their flirtatious connection. This is a treat.
Customer Reviews
A great small town, feel good, enjoyable read!
Breaking all the Rules is my first book from the author. This is a rather entertaining story where Beatrice or Bea leaves Corporate LA behind to start over in a small town in Colorado.
Her motto now is to live life differently and doing what she wants when she wants, regardless of the consequences…
I rather enjoyed this book. It was lighthearted and Bea is quirky and fun. She catches the eye of local boy and policeman Austin. Struggling to cope with the age gap, should she? Could she? Why on earth not? I loved that she threw caution to the wind and despite nerves went with the flow. The talk of pies made me hungry and the banter was entertaining too.
All in all a great small town, feel good, enjoyable read!