Love Without Numbers: Bouvier Family Saga, Book One (Unabridged)
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $21.99
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Publisher Description
GIANNAI hate my dad’s boss. I’d never actually met Auburn Bouvier, but I despised him on principle. He was a cold, demanding dictator who made his employees miserable. When I moved to New York City, it was inevitable that I would run into the head of the Bouvier fashion empire while visiting my dad at his office, and when I did, the man was nothing like I expected.
He was worse.
Yet I somehow ended up on a date with the enigmatic Mister Bouvier. Sure, he was incredibly handsome with jet black hair, a perfect jawline, and a mouth that looked like it was spun from sugar and sin, but he was also arrogant, overbearing, and a complete jerk. Not to mention he was fifteen years older than me.
Worst date ever.
AUBURNI needed a date. I recently broke up with my long-time girlfriend—again—so I was not looking for anything serious. I simply needed a pretty lady on my arm for one evening.
Then I met my assistant’s daughter, Gianna, and couldn’t peel my eyes away from her.
Since I was accustomed to getting exactly what I wanted, I demanded that she accompany me to the gala. No one dared to say no to me, so here we were.Our age difference seemed to fade away the more I talked to Gianna. She was witty, intelligent, and the most gorgeous woman I’d ever seen.
Best date ever.
Customer Reviews
One of my tops for 2024
This book! This Audio! It has everything I’d ever want in a steamy romance. And Emma Wilder and JF Harding put this audio in my top 5 of this year. This was so dang amazing!
It’s got a billionaire, a smart witty female, age gap, somewhat forbidden (dating your assistants’ daughter), other woman drama and TONS of spice with a great plot. Experiencing Auburn fall, and fall hard was glorious. Closed off and reserved at the beginning, his heart melts as dating Gianna opens him up. Gianna is one of my all-time favorite female main characters. She is sassy and meets him attitude for attitude and I was so there for it all. I really loved her and loved the two of them together. This is one of those couples that is truly at the ideal relationship goal level.
This narrator pairing of Emma wilder and JF Harding is so very good. JF Harding is really sexy in this. His dirty talk for Auburn is at epic levels. And Harding saying “Oh that’s it, baby girl” Oh Lordy, I melted. Emma Wilder really brought the attitude to Gianna. Her male voice is spot on and her kids voice made me smile it was so cute.
I did feel it was a bit long with some unnecessary filler. But I enjoyed it so much and the narrations did an amazing job that the book length is a minor issue.
This is a fun and flirt, sassy and sexy. It’s definitely in my top listens/reads of 2024.
Sweet, scorching, don’t miss it
Okay, first things first: I absolutely love the way narrator J. F. Harding says, “Baby.” It’s growly, choked, anxious, urgent, a little desperate and uncertain. When I see he’s narrating a book I know there’s a very good chance he’ll say baby at least once, and that’s enough for me – give me that book! And what a book it is. Auburn and Gianna’s story is sweet, stormy and scorching, and a great start to the Bouvier Family Saga.
Gianna didn’t see much of her father when she was young but he never failed to let her know she was important to him. Her mother is already gone and her Nana has just died. Texas has become a place of pain and betrayal and heartbreak. So Gianna has decided to take her brand-new accounting degree, move to New York to the apartment her grandmother left her, and get to know her father better. We don’t yet know what happened in Texas, but we know Gia is shaken and wary, and longing for a close relationship with Tony, her dad.
Auburn Bouvier, the billionaire CEO of a fashion company, isn’t close with anyone and doesn’t want to be. His family is not a happy family. Look in the dictionary under “piece of work” and his mother Chloe’s picture will be there; look under “cut from the same cloth” and you’ll find his ex-girlfriend Magdalena. Cross reference greedy, grasping and vindictive and she’ll be there, too. Look under . . . no, wait, you won’t find Auburn’s father’s picture in that dictionary because he spends most of his time avoiding Chloe, especially since he retired and left Auburn in charge. Nothing but tragedy and bad memories surround thoughts of Auburn’s siblings Evie and Monty.
And by the way, Tony is Auburn’s executive assistant.
When he sees Gia in Tony’s office, Auburn carelessly and thoughtlessly says, “She’ll do,” because he needs a data for a gala. He’s privately referred to by his staff as “B…..d Boss” or Sexy Shrek because he’s a total ogre but nice to look at (very, very nice to look at). Seems appropriate. Most people think he doesn’t even have a heart and he would be inclined to agree with them. But Cupid might have other ideas, because as soon as he gets to know Gia, something jumps around in his chest when she’s near, and something hurts when she’s not. It’s as if he’s been sprinkled with fairy dust or drank a love potion. Gianna and Auburn immediately connect and that connection just keeps getting stronger. The story quickly turns so romantic and sexy (think incredibly heated sexy, ok?). You know there have to be bumps ahead but you really want Happy-Ever-After to be Happy-Ever-After-Starting-Right-Now. No longer cold, bossy, arrogant, rude, Auburn is just about perfect. He’s charming, attentive, keeps calling her sweetheart, pet – and BABY. Gianna is strong, stubborn, opinionated, ambitious and sweet, and just as smitten with him as he is with her and holds her own every step of the way with him. Adores him, wants him to be happy – and never backs down. Her 23 years of experience meld perfectly with his 38: she’s a bit of an old soul who brings out his boyish and playful side. As if he needs to be even more charming.
Love without Numbers has lots of bumps and ups and downs, ugly people and their ugly behavior, health issues, career aspirations, blackmail, accepting family and conniving family. And the most enchanting 5-year-old twins you’d ever want to meet.
Author Jade Dollston masterfully takes Auburn and Gia through it all: adjusting to this wonderful yet surprising relationship, making grand and small gestures, navigating serious issues and trials and realizing that love might be a real thing after all.
Love Without Numbers is full of heat, warmth, and humor. Auburn wants to tell Tony they are together; Gianna can’t find the perfect time. And you know how keeping secrets works out. The big reveal is heartwarming and hilarious at the same time. And what a cliffhanger as well.
Thanks to Home Cooked Books for providing an advance audiobook copy of Love Without Numbers. Narrators J. F. Harding and Emma Wilder perfectly capture Auburn and Gianna. Harding makes you feel the attraction and uncertainty and fear as usually confident Bossy Boss Bouvier worries he can’t make Gianna happy, that he will lose her. And Wilder’s Gia so skillfully picks up all facets of her personality: the confidence and outspokenness with the underlying worry, the attraction but I-can’t-quite-believe-it fear. Their pace is perfect, the emotions are all there. I love these narrators. And I loved this story. It was enthralling and engaging and just got better and better. I can’t recommend it enough and cannot wait to see if there will be an audiobook for book 2 in the Bouvier Family Saga. I voluntarily leave this review; all opinions are my own.