Tag: author Saxon James

Review:  Just Bromantically Invested (Accidental Love, #4) by Saxon James 

Rating: 3.5🌈

Saxon James Accidental Love series is drawing to an end, with the penultimate book, Just Bromantically Invested.  As one by one the “lost boys” of Big Bertha are finding their partners and HEA, it’s time for Madden and Penn to get their own story.

Madden, with his free wheeling approach to life, aversion to clothes, and large heart, has been a challenging character for me to connect with.  For some reason I just haven’t found him as interesting as the others. This book does help give Madden the depth of character and background into why the nudity is so important to him that’s been lacking. 

James’ narrative has a number of other elements to bring to the table. It’s got a best friends to lovers relationship with one of them discovering that he’s not exactly straight but bisexual. I’m not sure the author makes the full  argument for this quick turnaround on Penn’s behalf. They may have been friends but based on the behavior seen Penn’s clueless mostly so it feels more importantly based on the needs of the plot line.  They work together fluidly as friends, lovers not so much. 

But probably because the romance needs more exploration as the other aspects of their lives and struggles that need so much clarification. That house dynamics is a mess, Madden’s inability to separate himself from the others to see a separate role for others is an issue that continues past that ending.  And has an impact on the rest of the characters, especially Penn.

I do love the support and communication that finally comes when Madden is able to convey what he needs going forward, including explaining why being naked is so important as a major part of that.  

Penn , anxiety prone and introvert that he is, however, is the one that is repeatedly given the reduced role here.  In Madden’s head, Penn comes in after his relationships with his found brothers/family members of Big Bertha.  Even at the end, that feeling that Penn is not as much of an embedded player in Madden’s life as he is in Penn’s seems clear.

So it left me tentatively connected to both and actually feeling irritated by the continuing drama with Xander, who’s still refusing help.   Xander has the last book and that’s the wrap.  Should be interesting.  

I enjoyed the earlier stories better than I have the recent ones . I look forward to seeing how James closes out the series.

Accidental Love:

  • The Husband Hoax #1
  • Not Dating Material #2
  • The Revenge Agenda #3
  • Just Bromantically Invested #4
  • Not Catching Love #5 – Jan 30,2025

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        Just Bromantically Invested (Accidental Love Book 4)

    

Blurb

Madden

My best friend is uptight, gorgeous, the greatest person I know … and I might be a smidge in love with him. Just a small amount. Barely worth the mention. 

Which is a stupid choice on my part when the guy is straight. 

Starting a landscaping company with him was the perfect mix of doing what I love and an excuse to spend time with him, only it hasn’t completely taken off yet and now he’s telling me he’s lonely. 

Lonely. 

Apparently having one friend in your life isn’t enough.

So I’m determined to help him find love. With someone other than me. Maybe if I can pull that off, it’ll mean my heart will finally get the message and move on. 

Or finish breaking into a hundred pieces. 

Same thing, right?

Penn

Being besties with an overenthusiastic, gold-hearted, nudist of a man is a challenge sometimes. Madden makes everything sunshine when he’s around. 

The problem is that he hasn’t been around as much lately. We work together, sure, but he’s got his roommates and I have … no one. Just him. So I feel the distance acutely. 

My one reassurance is that we have work tying us together, but when an old client calls with a proposition for us, it feels like our once solid friendship is unraveling fast. 

He wants Madden to help him open a nudist resort, and if Madden’s doing that, he won’t be working with me. 

I’m trying not to panic over the thought of losing him, which is a typical, common best friend reaction. Nothing out of the ordinary. 

And neither is the way my body has been reacting to him lately. 

Everything is totally, completely normal between us. 

While there’s still an us at all.

  • Publisher: May Books (October 17, 2024)
  • Publication date: October 17, 2024
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 268 pages

Review: A Stealthy Situation (Franklin U 2) by Saxon James

Rating: 3🌈

Please note I’ve got spoilers for the story below.

Franklin U is getting a second set of couples and the twins from a famous hockey family , seen previously in James and Eden Finley’s hockey series (Puckboys and CU Hockey). Think the brothers Westley Dalton / Asher Dalton combination from CU Hockey which along with their partners, bled over into the other series.

Now the twins Emmett and Benny are grown and in college. This is primarily Benny’s book with a good deal of Emmett thrown in. Emmett’s story is the romance that ends this year’s crop of couples.

Honestly, while I liked the character of Harrison/Bowser and his story which carried plenty of interesting elements. For me, the rest of the narrative was filled with storylines that had issues.

It begins with the twins. The idea of interchangeable identical twins who swap out parts of their lives , think Parent Trap, is really cute and fun. When the characters are kids or preteens. And the reason they do so is one the reader or viewer finds relatable.

But then age those kids into adults, college students. And they are still pulling the same trick. Only this time , it’s college classes. One takes an English course for one, the other takes math. Because it’s easier and they’ve always done it for each other.

Cool right? Except it’s cheating. They are doing it for a degree. No one knows about it. That it’s wrong is something that isn’t brought up until it the book is almost done and they’ve been caught by Benny’s boyfriend.

Now this the peculiar thing about the story. Almost at the end , it’s discovered that Benny has a serious learning disability. The author gives it a name and has the brother see a therapist to get tested. But it’s at the end of the story and so much goodwill and exploration into his troubles with math are completely ignored over the need for cute texts, twin stories, and Greek life. Had the reader known about this issue earlier, it would have changed everything. But no. The author wanted a shocking revelation late in the narrative.

This story and the twin’s life is full of explanations that need further detail and exploration as to why they were left to their own development, one that has served them so poorly. But any references to their parent’s death and its impact are quickly glossed over and forgotten.

Over and over again, when any element or aspect of their lives comes up that could have been used to give depth to the story, it’s discarded or used as a brief sentence or two in discussion.

Perhaps it’s the added pressure to get both of the brothers involved in the story, along with Harrison. Harrison, imo, has the best developed thread and well defined character of the three of them. Then that weird Epilogue that jumps ten years into the future.

It’s just one strange choice by this author after another.

Emmett ,who disappears from the scene , has his own story from Eden Finley, that is released last. I read the description and it’s very much along the lines of the one set out here.

I think this is one story readers will either like or not really be invested in. Count me among the latter.

MEET ALL THE COUPLES OF FRANKLIN U2!

🔷The Hookup Mix-up by Riley Hart (Perry and Theo)

🔷A Stealthy Situation by Saxon James (Harrison and Benny)

🔷Batting Style by Louisa Masters (Blaise and Jordan)

🔷Level Up by Max Walker (Jay and Ryan)

🔷Full Service by Cora Rose (Silas and Everly)

🔷Tongue-Tied by Christina Lee (Dex and Austin)

🔷Method Acting by N R Walker (Chase and Amos)

🔷Twincerely Yours by Eden Finely (Emmett and Jonah)

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A Stealthy Situation (Franklin U 2)

Blurb:

Harrison

My life’s goal? Make plants fun!

I’m gonna be fighting for flora when I’m older and it all starts with auditing stats so I can level up for my masters, and lucky for me, the intriguing guy in my class is a math whizz.

He’s standoffish at first, but after a class where I bet my sitcoms can make him laugh, one bet leads to another and we’re hanging out all the time. Even though I know he’s interested in me, we’re easy friends, until I start to think I might be a little interested in him, too.

The only problem? He seems like a totally different guy in class to when we hang out. I brush it off as him trying to concentrate, but then I spot something I can’t explain away.

A scar. On his palm.

One I’m positive Benny has never had before.

Benny

Since we were little, my twin brother and I have always switched things up–literally. It started as funsies, and now we’re college juniors and still taking each other’s classes. I suck at Math, he sucks at English, and we both have a rule not to make friends in class as the other person. Our system is perfect.

Only Emmett has the audacity to get sick right before stats and I have to actually show up for my own class–where I meet my future husband.

Harrison is smart, weirdly into plants, and we instantly hit it off like old friends.

Only of course the gorgeous mountain of a nerd is straight.

Just when I’m telling myself to let my dreams of matching rings go, our text messages become constant, flirtier, deeper than I’ve had with any other guy before. My butterflies have butterflies every time we catch up.

And then I get a text from Emmett: I’m so sorry. I think I messed up.

• Publisher: May Books (June 14, 2024)

• Publication date: June 14, 2024

• Language: English

• Print length: 294 pages

Review: The Revenge Agenda (Accidental Love Book 3) by Saxon James

Rating: 4.75🌈

I’m such a fan of Saxon James’ Accidental Love series. It’s centered around an old Victorian, Big Boned Bertha, and the found family of young men from disparate, often painful backgrounds that call her home.

Each roommate has slowly been finding their partner, either within the house or outside of it, experiencing and finding love with the support of their “adopted family”. It’s been great and certainly different paths for each one.

Now it’s Rush’s turn. Rush who was the first to move into Bertha, Rush who was the first of Aggie’s boys, the woman who stood in for family for Rush, and then the others. Rush who’s ADHD and how he approaches it is so much a part of both his personality and the storyline.

James’ has written a lengthy Authors note about writing sensitively about a neurodivergent character with diagnosed ADHD and Rush’s approach to medication and ADHD. I think James has done a wonderful job with Rush, especially as an individual making his own choices. Rush always comes across as a believable person, coping, messy, sexy, brave, confident, confused,all the feelings and fears. We connect with him and invest in him. Rush is amazing.

Hunter, the ex-fiancé whose world,along with Rush’s, is crushed in one night. He is a man of layers. James exceeds my expectations with Hunter. He could have been so easily a formula character. But instead, Hunter is one of a man whose personality opens up, revealing depths of vulnerability, acceptance , and generosity. As their relationship develops, the true nature of Hunter’s character that James has created starts to evolve, weaving powerfully into his and their storyline. I love him and them.

My only quibbles go back to the beginning. Whereas James has a long explanatory note about writing neurodivergent characters, there’s exactly a four word note on triggers connected to a SA and violence. That’s about a on-page event concerning a main character.

I think enough readers will see it coming so they can, if they choose, skip over this part of the story. It’s short but emotionally, realistically played out. Should an author say more about a plot point in a story when it involves a trigger? This is a question that’s very relevant and in discussion.

The Revenge Agenda (Accidental Love Book 3) by Saxon James is a fantastic read. It’s got compelling characters, an engaging story, and a satisfying ending. Big Bones Bertha has given us another great romance.

We still have another novel to come.

I’m highly recommending this and the series. Please do read the notes. It’s something I recommend no matter what the author’s subject, but in this case it’s about one of the characters and TWs.

Accidental Love series:

✓ The Husband Hoax #1

✓ Not Dating Material #2

✓ The Revenge Agenda #3

Buy Link:

The Revenge Agenda (Accidental Love Book 3)

Blurb

Rush

When I show up to surprise my boyfriend in a barely-there festive outfit, I’m expecting him to be alone.

Not hosting family.

His fiancé’s family.

Down one boyfriend and up a lot of embarrassment, I flee with my tail between my legs. The broken heart will fade. My humiliation, not so much, but my saving grace is the fact that I never have to see either of them ever, ever again.

Until I walk into work and come face to face with my new boss.

Hunter

I never, in a million years, would have guessed the man hiding under his desk at work would be the one person I hoped to never see again.

My ex-fiancé’s side piece.

Apparently I can’t fire the guy because of personal issues, so I try to play nice, which is a whole lot harder to do when I find out my ex is still texting Rush. The same ex I haven’t heard from since I walked out on his begging.

Rush tells me he didn’t know about me. He tells me there were others. He also tells me our ex still wants him and so, we come up with a plan. To show him what it feels like when you want someone who doesn’t want you back.

All we need is a camera. His number. And one shared kiss.

Revenge has never been sweeter.

• Publisher: May Books (February 28, 2024)

• Publication date: February 28, 2024

• Print length: 284 pages

Review: Not Dating Material (Accidental Love, #2) by Saxon James

Rating: 4🌈

I struggled with the rating for many reasons. I had been looking forward to a story that was about the strange dynamic between Seven and Xander, two of my favorite characters. And I wondered how James would create a perfect person to fold into the existing tight relationship. And what that personality would be like.

Honestly, Molly wouldn’t be my choice of person or character to fit into the tight family. But that’s just me. I found Molly swung between irritating or grating while still appreciative of some of the aspects of his personality that James’ wrote into his character.

I thought her portrait of Seven’s as someone afraid of being hurt, again was so well done. Of being open to the exact same emotions that ended up being the thing that damaged him was so beautifully written. It goes perfectly with the well established abuse suffered by Xander. The reader can understand how their dynamic developed and why they are so codependent upon each other still, deeply emotional as family/brothers.

It’s such a strong element here that Molly , is a lesser player just by being himself. I liked that James wrote in the way he was able to examine his own actions and past experiences. And then try to understand how to use people’s help to move on. But he equally at times just feels too superficial in comparison.

I don’t know. I just felt that his character, the“I’m so cute “ personality came across as too much so often of the time. Couldn’t invest in his character or his romantic life.

Which was a shame because I adore Seven and Xander. So two thirds of this story I was anticipating a different kind of partnership. Oh well.

Many will feel differently.

I’m enjoying the series and look forward to the next book.

Accidental Love:

✓ The Husband Hoax #1

✓ Not Dating Material #2

◦ The Revenge Agenda #3 -Feb 28, 2024

Buy Link:

Not Dating Material (Accidental Love Book 2)

Blurb:

MOLLY

Moving to Seattle is supposed to be all about getting a fresh start and leaving the bitter man I was becoming behind.

I have new roommates–quirky, sometimes strange, roommates–a nosy, next door neighbor and a grumpy kitty for company, but even surrounded by people, I still don’t feel like I belong. Plus, it turns out the men in Seattle are exactly the same as the ones I left behind, and my string of romantic disconnections continues.

It’s not until one of my roommates, Seven, hits me with some hard truths that I realize where I was going wrong.

Maybe the men aren’t the problem.

I am.

And there’s only one way to fix that.

SEVEN

Being found tied up naked to my bed by my cute new roommate isn’t an ideal way for us to start a friendship.

But apparently a quid-pro-quo is.

He keeps his pretty lips zipped about the compromising position, and I step in as his dating coach. We go out, I note where he’s going wrong, and he magically becomes dating material.

The problem is, between my codependent brother Xander and a new best friend I can’t get rid of, Molly and I are the target of a matchmaking scheme. My life is way too busy to add another person to it, and Molly is the kinda guy who needs to be made a priority, which I just can’t do. Xander’s medical anxiety takes up too much of my time, and I’ve never found a partner who doesn’t resent it.

I’m determined to help Molly find his ever after.

But that guy will never be me.

Review: Just Friends (Never Just Friends Book 1) by Saxon James

Rating: 3.75🌈

This book has so many interesting elements to offer plus an author I’m a fan of. Just Friends (Never Just Friends Book 1) by Saxon James has a best friends to lovers trope, a bi-sexual awakening low angst romance with characters that have several different aspects to their lives that makes this a tad different from the usual contemporary fiction.

One of the main characters, Roo, is an epileptic who has families in both the US and Australia, where he’s from originally, hence the nickname. His disability progresses to the point, that , he decides to have surgery to reduce the amount and extent of the episodes he’s having. And that necessitates a return to Australia after high school graduation in the US.

His best friend all through school and adolescence is Tanner. A great friend, both as a boy and man, and someone who’s dealing with his lifelong learning disability, dyslexia. It’s keeping him from a permanent position as a firefighter as he can’t pass the written exams. Tanner was Roo’s support through school when the bullying got to him, when the epileptic seizures had Roo crashing to the ground in hallways and classrooms, with the expected ramifications from classmates who didn’t care or understand.

James has written two well defined men, a realistic small town near Portland with all the flaws , challenges, and pluses that come with living in that environment. Then James gives the reader a window into the minds and hearts of Tanner and Roo as they explore the adults they’ve become in the time they were apart. And what they might have now they are together again.

Based on the reviews I read, I expected to connect with them and their story more than I did. I appreciate the work James put in here creating the location, their backgrounds, and the attention to detail where Roo’s epilepsy is concerned.

The rating is for the overall quality and storytelling.

Personally, I found myself just too detached from the men themselves to be engaged in their relationship, let alone their life choices. James never pulled me into either of these men’s situations emotionally. It could have been the way they handled their issues, a drawn out , now we do , now we don’t, ok we do meandering mess. Or side elements within the narrative that bothered me. Those get to me a lot, picking away at any connectivity I might have.

With Tanner it’s his trait of just being so dense or oblivious, even after the entire town it seems has pointed out how his actions and emotions have been pointed towards a deep bond between him and Roo. I just can’t do dense as a brick anymore. Pls stop.

Then there’s the way his sexual awakening is explained and is drawn out here. It feels repetitive, not in a way that makes the reader think Tanner’s always getting the context, see dense above.

Then there’s the fact that he’s refusing help for his dyslexia, a reading disorder, that’s keeping him from his dream job and stability. None of the objections as stated make sense, but appear to be that author’s tool needed for a scenario where something else happens down the storylines.

Roo’s epilepsy is part of him, defining his school years by his seizures and bullying. I feel he’s the more layered character here. However, there’s hints of a bitter family divide between the parents, and a mother whose behavior seems very controlling and actually mean spirited here. Was it James’ intention to write a mother whose words indicate how very opposed she is to Tanner in every way, clearly thinking that Tanner isn’t good enough for her son. Then, years ago when she “whisks” Roo back home to Australia and now as she tries to get Roo to leave again. And basically, the author and Roo give the woman a pass, writing it as just part of her “character “.

Well, I’d call it toxic but I’m not writing the script, obviously.

No, I couldn’t get emotionally invested here. Enjoyed the location, the side characters and small town citizenry, and aspects of the storytelling. Read it because I liked Saxon James.

If you like contemporary romance, this author, and any of the elements I mentioned above, then give this a try. It’s the first of a four novels series to date.

Never Just Friends series:

✓ Just Friends #1

◦ Fake Friends #2

◦ Getting Friendly #3

◦ Friendly Fire #4

Buy Link:

Just Friends (Never Just Friends Book 1)

Blurb:

Roo

Five years ago, I walked away from Sunbury, Oregon, and left my best friend behind.

The move was supposed to get my life on track. I even had a list.

Life changing epilepsy surgery. Check.

See the world. Check.

Get over my straight best friend … Not exactly.

No matter where I go or who I meet, I can’t let Tanner go.

I’m back to tell him how I feel. To get the closure I need once and for all.

Only now I’m here and falling for him all over again, it’s getting harder to say the words.

Because once I have my closure, I’ll be gone.

And this time it will be for good.

Tanner

When my best friend, Roo, left for Australia, it was the worst day of my life.

I thought we’d have each other always.

But Roo needed the surgery so I let him go, thinking he’d come straight back.

Five years is a long time.

Now he’s here, all I want is to hold on tight.

I need to show him what he means to me.

The problem is, I’m not exactly sure what that is.

My draw to him has always been confusing and different—everyone in town says so. But I struggle to understand it.

All I know is I won’t survive him leaving again.

And I’ll do anything to make him stay.

Just Friends is a best friends-to-lovers romance with an oblivious MC, only one bed, and terrible kangaroo jokes.

Review: The Husband Hoax (Accidental Love Book 1) by Saxon James

Rating: 5🌈

I’m absolutely besotted with the characters of Saxon James’ new series, Accidental Love. A group of LGBTGIA men who’ve formed a found family based on a shared history of familial rejection due to their sexuality and adolescent trauma.

They live together in a gorgeous restored Victorian called Big Boned Bertha. An elderly fabulous next door neighbor adopts “Bertha’s Boys”, becomes their Aunt Agatha, and the family, along with a grumpy cat, is complete.

Each person in the family will be getting their own romantic relationship here I’m sure as they are a fascinating group of individuals. From Rush the clothes designer and Madden, tiny blue haired artist Xander and tattooed Seven who met in foster care, gorgeous Gabe who’s loves to help people , and finally Christian Kilpatrick.

This is Christian Kilpatrick’s story. His and that of Emile Cromwell, one of the heirs to the C.W. Cromwell Shipping Company. Christian’s been invited to his cousin’s Jesse’s wedding after recently reconnecting with her. He’s been abandoned by his family since they kicked him out over his sexuality. Now he’s desperate enough to rent a plus one as a “successful boyfriend’ for the event.

Christian is such a endearing character. From his insecurities and fears over facing his rich, homophobic family who threw him away to the fumbling mannerisms that his fears bring out, Christian is that relatable person we understand and connect to.

Emile is the same. In an extremely sad situation, grieving the loss of the one person, his grandfather Pa, who essentially raised and loved him, he’s got to contend with a controlling family he’s rarely seen and a iron bound will that stipulates he must be married in order to receive a huge share of his inheritance.

They meet over disastrous conditions and the story and our love for them takes flight.

James creates such an emotional layered journey for these men, together with the rest of Bertha’s Boys, towards a HEA, that I found myself smiling throughout the entire story. I was so invested in their happiness that read right through until I was done. From Emile’s sister Elle to Auntie Agatha, from blue-haired Xander to the protective Seven, each person’s personality resonates with the reader to the point we want to spend more time with each of them.

I loved the ending. While I was so sad to see it all end , I’m excited for the next one in the series.

With it’s wonderful characters, engaging storyline, and emotional journey, The Husband Hoax elevates a well known trope into a delightful romance, one I’m highly recommending.

Accidental Love series:

🔷The Husband Hoax #1

🔷Not Dating Material #2

Buy Link:

The Husband Hoax

Description:

Christian

Being invited to my cousin’s wedding really shouldn’t be a big deal except, oh yeah, I haven’t seen my family for a decade.

My parents turned their backs on me and I’ve done everything since to become successful and show them what they lost. Only, it’s kinda hard to be a success when you’re a walking trainwreck.

So I’m going to fake it. Hire a guy with an online presence so impressive they’ll be desperate to welcome me back into the elitist fold, and roll into the wedding with the kind of confidence I’ve never felt a day in my life.

The plan’s a knockout.

Until my fake date cancels minutes before the ceremony.

Émile

One letter from my dearly departed grandfather, and suddenly I’m on a husband hunt.

He’s reworked his entire will so I’m set to inherit far more than I’m entitled to, and all because he’s asked me to use that money for “good.”

In order to get that inheritance, though, there’s one stipulation: marriage.

Even with his request, I’m tempted to stick to my original plan of getting as far from my wretched family as possible, and letting them fight it out.

But then I run into a tall drink of scattered mess outside of a wedding who’s in desperate need of a date, and the pieces click into place.

I help him, he helps me.

Marriage, money, then go our separate ways.

Easy.

Now all I have to do is stop myself from actually falling for the guy.

Review: Roommate Arrangement (Divorced Men’s Club #1) by Saxon James

Rating: 4.25🌈

Roommate Arrangement (Divorced Mens Club #1) by Saxon James was a lovely contemporary romance. The first in a new series revolving around a group of newly divorced men, James manages to set the foundation by introducing the group, grounding them in a interesting small hometown who’s abandoned penitentiary now serves as a tourist attraction, and a useful location for scenes to the characters themselves.

The first couple we meet begins with a man who’s returning to his hometown after a devastating discovery that his husband has been cheating on him for years. Now in the process of getting a divorce, he’s fleeing home to his friends and a place to recover.

That’s Payne Walker. Feeling lost, without a job, home, and until the apartment is sold, little savings. While his brother and family are acting as his support and cushion, we , through James’ lovely writing , empathize with Payne as he returns to Kilborough.

Waiting there, at the Kilborough Brewery , a town draw, are Griffin, Art de Almeida, owner of the brewery and startup of the DMC (Divorced Mens Club) and Orson. Plus Marty, Payne’s brother. The kil bro group of their adolescence years.

On the outskirts is Beau, Marty’s best friend and a successful fantasy writer. Beau has always harbored a deep crush on Payne when they were growing up. But his own social awkwardness and younger age always made him feel him unable to say anything.

Beau’s a terrific character. A socially awkward person, who’s passion for writing and own innate nature makes for a messy and lonely home life. When writing, he’s buried in his characters and plots, unaware of time passing. When blocked and unable to move forward, everything grinds to a halt, again forgotten.

When Marty suggests Payne as a roommate to help Payne get some needed breathing room from Marty’s overcrowded house, it looks to be a great way for both men to temporarily solve some problems.

James’s plot of a slow forming friendship that also turns into a romance is so charming. From a blanket fortress to a walk through the famous penitentiary, the men start to move towards something real and substantial.

There’s not a lot of deep angst after the beginning. But more a thoughtful removal of obstacles and a heartwarming romance that’s sure to engage you.

As this is just the beginning of the DMC series, it’s such an enjoyable start that I’m looking forward to the rest of the stories.

Need a new contemporary romance to read? Here’s one I’m recommending!

Divorced Men’s Club :

🔹Making Him Mine #0.5

🔹Roommate Arrangement #1

🔹Platonic Rulebook #2

🔹Budding Attraction #3 – Nov 23, 2022

https://www.goodreads.com › showRoommate Arrangement (Divorced Men’s Club, #1) by Saxon James – Goodreads

Synopsis:

Payne:

In search of: room to rent.

Must ignore the patheticness of a forty-year-old roommate.

Preferably dirt cheap as funds are tight (nonexistent).

There’s nothing sadder than moving back to my hometown newly divorced, homeless, and lost for what my next move is.

When my little brother’s best friend offers me a place to stay in exchange for menial duties, I swallow my pride and jump at the offer.

I need this.

I also need Beau to wear a shirt. And ditch the gray sweatpants. And not leave his door ajar when he’s in compromising positions …

Beau:

In search of: roommate.

Must be non smoker and non douchebag.

Room payment to be made in meal planning, repairs, and dumb jokes.

Since my career took off, I barely have time to breathe, let alone keep my life in order. I’m naturally chaotic, make terrible decisions, and scare off potential dates with my “weirdness”.

So when Payne gets back into town and needs somewhere to stay, I offer him my spare room with one condition: while he’s staying with me, I need him to help me become date-able.

And while he does that, I can focus on my other plan: ignoring that Payne is the only man I’ve ever wanted to date.

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Unless it’s noted, all books reviewed have been purchased by the reviewer.