From New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake, discover The Park Avenue Promise Series…
Three young women make a pact in high school—
to always be friends and to one day make it big in Manhattan
Built to Last
Harper Ross has always dreamed of working on one of the magnificent brownstones of Park Avenue. Now one of her closest friends has bought the house of her dreams and hired Harper to do the construction work. She wants to showcase the renovation on a television show for her brand-new production company. It’s the same grand home she and her friends promised themselves they would be able to afford one day. Working on it isn’t the same as living in it, but it’s all a part of Harper’s grand plan to grow her father’s construction business into one of the biggest in the city. The only obstacle—the designer on the project.
Reid Dorsey believes in the balance between beauty and functionality. As one of Manhattan’s new voices in design, he’s excited to get to work on a true Gilded Age property. If only the owner had selected a contractor he enjoyed working with. Oh, Harper was brilliant and her work was excellent, but she has an opinion on everything—and it’s usually the opposite of his.
Over the course of the job, these enemies start to see different sides of each other, and suddenly their fights don’t seem so bad. But when the project is threatened, they might have to choose between their jobs and the beautifully designed future they could share.
Review:
A fitting ending to a fun series!
Harper and Reid’s story is an antagonists-to-lovers story with another “reality” TV twist–this one’s a home reno series rather than a dating show. It’s about friendship and found family and of course, finding your HEA with the one person who is meant for you.
Restoring a Guilded Age brownstone has long been a dream of Harper’s–but she didn’t quite anticipate all the challenges it would bring, primarily from her day job (working for her family’s construction company) and the annoyingly hot designer she’s been forced to work with to do it. And all that’s before they open up the mansion walls and see the disaster that is the building’s electricity…
But there’s more to Reid than meets the eye, and the secret he’s hiding could bring everything crashing down around them (though hopefully not the house? That, at least appears to be in good repair at last) Harper needs to find the courage to fight for herself and her relationship with Reid to find the HEA she deserves–the HEA that the 3 BFFs have been working toward their whole lives.
Spoiler alert: she does!
The third book in the series, Built to Last builds upon the stories that came before and they all should really be read in order to get the greatest impact.
Rating: 4 stars / A-
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.