Cassidy Clarke once climbed the world’s highest mountains, but after an unexpected illness ends her career she’s back in her hometown, broke and hoping for a little luck. But the townsfolk aren’t exactly putting out a welcome mat for the woman who once snubbed them in the media, despite her apologies now.
Mitch Anders knows someone has set up camp on the grounds of his plant nursery, and he’s surprised to find his sexy high school crush ducking questions about where she’s staying. Though he’s sworn to stop cleaning up other people’s messes, Mitch offers Cassidy a job and a place to stay—his place. Bedsharing optional, but definitely welcome.
Out of options and too attracted to Mitch to keep things platonic, Cassidy says yes to his offer. She wants to get back on her feet financially and start a new career. She never expects to suffer a different kind of fall, one that has her believing Mitch just might bring her something bigger and better than luck.
Cassidy is about down to her last penny. She’s had her money stolen from someone she trusted and now her step-father won’t even let her into the house she grew up in. He loves her to pieces so she’s not sure what’s going on. She just knows that she has nowhere to stay. She ends up pupping her tent in Holloway’s nursery but that doesn’t last long before she’s discovered. To make it all worse she’s being pursued by Mitch Anders who works at the nursery and she’s not sure how she feels about that.
Mitch always liked Cassidy and even thought they’d start to go out in high school when she blew him off for their psuedo-date. He’s now hot on her trail and can’t seem to stop himself. He’s not happy at all when he finds out that Cassidy is sleeping in the nursery. He eventually ends up offering his home but that just means they’re in close quarters and that means he’s not going to be able to keep his hands off her.
This was another great story in the Holloway series. So far I’ve really liked what I read with the characters from Holloway and can’t wait to read more.
Mitch was pretty forward with Cassidy and I really liked that about him. He wasn’t afraid to go after what he wanted (until his feelings started getting mixed up in it) and was charming enough to pull it off. I liked how he handled most of the situations in the story – although at one point I wanted to slap him silly for being a stupid man. Lol I forgave him though. 🙂
Cassidy was just down and out. The poor girl had gone through all kinds of hell both physically, in her profession and emotionally. I wish she would have confided in Mitch sooner than she did but I understood that pride stood in her way. That damned pride tends to do a number on people, doesn’t it?
Anyway, a very cute story that I enjoyed. It had humor and of course I love when an author puts a smile on my face. Definitely worth reading.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
wonderful reveiw! will have to get the book after reading this blog post
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