What’s a few orgasms between friends?
After a disastrous breakup, paramedic Madison Petrov isn’t looking for love—she just wants to put the pieces of her life back together. Easier said than done, given the hit her confidence has taken. And now with her sister’s wedding looming, all of the scars Madison thought had healed feel fresh and new.
Levi Prescott’s been through a lot in his life, including losing his father at a young age. But enduring that loss has taught him to go after what he wants, and what he wants is his partner, Madison. Smart, feisty, beautiful Madison who he’s wanted for a year now. Who he’ll do anything to have in his bed and in his life. Including agree to a potentially risky friends with benefits arrangement.
The more time she spends with Levi, the more Madison feels the cracks in her broken heart start to heal. After all, he’s gorgeous, confident, and amazing in bed. But no matter how much chemistry they have, she doesn’t know if she’s willing to risk her heart again.
Review:
Bring on the Prescott cousins!
Levi and Madison’s story is one of my favorite tropes–friends to lovers! So. Much. Fun. Of course, in their case it’s complicated by the fact that they’re also partners at work, and unfortunately for them their place of work frowns on relationships between people who work closely together. But since they’re just friends-with-benefitting things on the down low, that makes it OK, right? 😉
Especially since they’re *never* going to catch real feelings, because of reasons. So they’re cool not telling their boss…nothing bad could possibly happen here!
I mean, this is a romance; we all know what’s going to happen. Feelings will be caught, they’ll be outed to their place of work, and all will seem (fairly) bleak just before we get to an HEA. If you’re a romance reader, you know this is how it’s going to work–and there’s no major surprises here, or in most well-written romances, really. The reason we read romance (besides needing that HEA and all the secondary feels we get from watching people fall in love) is for the journey–and OMG, does Tara Wyatt do the journey well!
Since Levi and Madison started their “new” relationship off as friends with benefits (as you do when you’ve been in a bit of a dry spell ;)) and they started out with some degree of attraction to each other, it’s not a huge surprise that this book gets pretty hot, pretty fast. Zero complaints here, because who doesn’t need a little extra heat in the dead of winter, amirite? Maybe not the best book to be reading in public, though, because people *might* want to know why you’re fanning yourself…but you can always tell them to MYOB. Or send them a link to the book so they can see for themselves. Either works!
I liked that their story wasn’t too heavy on the drama–both Levi and Madison had reasons for resisting a relationship that made sense for their characters, but they also both knew when to give up on those reasons without needing to be hit over the head first, which was refreshing. Their HEA was both satisfying and earned, and yes, we get a glimpse of his two brothers (Noah and Hudson) that has me more than ready to read their books as soon as they’re available. Nope, I don’t even need to read their blurbs first. Is anyone really surprised? 😉
Since this is the first Prescott cousin story, even though it’s the 5th book in the series it’s an OK place to start if you haven’t yet read any of the others. The other Prescotts will be mentioned, and Lucian especially plays a small role here, but you don’t have to have read their books to enjoy this one. Ms Wyatt does tend to give you just enough of a glimpse of the lives of past characters to tempt you to read their books, though–so spoiler alert, your TBR will most likely grow by a few (four) books if you start reading here. Totally worth it, though 😉
Rating: 4 stars / A-
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.