Playing with Trouble: Desire Bay, Book 1 (Unabridged)
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
Recently divorced, Laura Baughman is taking her life back. After a decade away, she's returning to Yachats, Oregon - the small town she couldn't wait to leave after graduation - to take over her late mother's beloved flower shop. Yet once she arrives, Laura discovers the store has been neglected and her father has partnered in construction with Jake Lock. The once-scrawny high school band geek is now successful - and irresistibly sexy - and set to inherit her family's business. That is, unless Laura can prove in the next 30 days that she has what it takes to run the company.
Despite the heat between Jake and Laura, romance is out of the question. After her last disastrous relationship, Laura has sworn off men - especially one bent on crushing her dreams. That's just fine with Jake, who thinks the gorgeous blonde is a pain in the neck...though admittedly one he'd like to put his lips all over.
Jake has a proposal to mix business with pleasure. But when a deal goes south, Laura is ready to pack up and skip town all over again. Does he have what it takes to convince her to stay?
Customer Reviews
Romantically appealing!
Can you really go back home again? After 10 years and a divorce Laura returns home to Yachats, Oregon to reconnect with her father and to help him run her mother's small flower shop. Imagine her shock when she discovers that she has to work alongside Jacob, her former geeky high school friend, who now sports a rock-hard body and a combative attitude. This is a classic enemies to lovers storyline that includes hot tempers, hot bodies and really hot and crazy sexual escapades while Laura and Jacob vie for control of her family business. Their contemptuous relationship is highly entertaining and watching them stumble over each other's surging hormones kept me grinning throughout their rocky romance as this pair discovers that opposites really do attract. Great storytelling with plenty of interesting characters and small town charm makes this book by Joya Ryan romantically appealing. I read a complimentary copy of this book and all opinions expressed in my voluntary review are completely my own.