Kade has a difficult past. His mother was a drug addict and died when he was young and he ended up bouncing around foster homes, until he met 8 other boys in a group home together they built a family, a home and an entire empire now worth billions. Because he looked after his mother in his formative years, he now has a bad history with women, he seems to be drawn to women who need help, and he gives them everything… then they leave him and the cycle repeats. By the time he meets Becca, he’s sworn off of getting into relationships and helping women in need.
Becca has just moved to the city following her father’s death, or at least tried to move. She’s just lost most of her money to a rental scam and has nowhere to go. She hops into her old car with her last 300-ish dollars and sets off in search of somewhere to spend the night. Then her car breaks down. She manages to get her car into the parking lot of a garage and decides to sleep there and wait for the garage to open in the morning.
She’s woken up by a huge man knocking on her car window and telling her she can’t sleep there. Kade is unsure about helping her, given his history of helping women and having them cheat, steal and generally break his heart. He takes a look but there isn’t much he can do at 2am so after a bit of arguing he allows her to go inside and sleep on the couch in the break room.
Kade is clearly overworked and exhausted, and Becca can’t afford the $3000 it would cost to fix her car up. They come to an agreement that she can work at the desk in the garage to take some of the workload from Kade, in exchange for a wage and being able to stay in the empty apartment above the garage.
Over the next 6 weeks Kade begins falling for Becca, but is very hot and cold with her due to his fear of her leaving him once her situation gets better. After a lot of arguments they decide to give it a try once Becca decides to leave the job at the garage and go into teaching martial arts and self defence at the local dojo. Becca meets Holly at one of her self defence classes and decides Holly would be perfect for the job at the garage, and spends time training Holly for the job. Holly is on the run from her abusive husband, and somehow he finds out she is working there and shows up one day with a knife. Becca kicks his ass, Kade is shook and realises she doesn’t need his help and never has (which she has been telling him literally the whole time) and he freaks out and says it isn’t going to work. After a stern talking to from his brother Colton, he realises he messed up and goes up to the apartment to ask for another chance, explaining that he was just shocked and didn’t know she was a ninja. Becca gives him the chance and things end up working out.
Kade is a great story, but the writing could’ve used some work. I’d still recommend the book but would advise about the writing beforehand. It’s not too bad, especially as this appears to be the first ever release the author, Jenna Myles, made - but it is a little cheesy at times and could’ve used some editing. Overall though, it did get me hooked and I did buy the rest of the series so far and plan to buy the last two books upon their releases too, and the writing does improve as the series goes on, it seems Jenna gained more confidence in her writing and more momentum in the story of the Brash Brothers finding love, which is what we love to see!