***Received an ARC for an honest review by Bookalicious Babes Blog***
Holy hot Aussie Adonis! Grant Devlin, CEO and billionaire babe extraordinaire, continues to makes me swoon and my lady parts hum. I loved this suave yet sensitive man more in this story, book 3, than in the first two books. Lila Monroe's Billionaire Bargain series continues to suck me in like a voodoo vortex by being raw, funny, witty, entertaining, and steamy.
Book 3 has more hurdles than a race at the Summer Olympics. Lacey Newman and Grant's professional and personal relationship is in jeopardy...if you can call it a relationship, as book 2 ended with doubts on whether this farce of an engagement and feelings were even real. Devlin Media is at the brink of peril too.
Book 2 ended with Lacey being unsure if Grant loves her like she loves him. Their wedding was just a show to save the company...right?!? So she pulled a freaking Houdini and disappeared on their wedding day, a move she thought was best for Grant.
"Fresh pain still stabbed into my heart as if I had been shot back into time to that moment in the hotel when I had seen what I had to do, when I had my fatal decision. Oh, damn. Why did giving him up have to be so hard? Shouldn't it be easier, when I knew it was for the best?"
Lacey did not think Grant's feelings toward her were real. He couldn't have really cared for her...right?!? She couldn't have been more wrong. Grant was acting like a jilted man.
"I know exactly what you're capable of. I've learned that you're capable of more coldness and deceit than I thought a mortal woman could be. I learned that, much to my regret, on what supposed to be our wedding day."
It's up to Lacey now to convince Grant to give her a second chance. She made a mistake. His feelings are as real as his mesmerizing sapphire eyes, beautiful face, perfect body, and a smile that makes every woman's panties melt. It's time to get her Aussie Adonis back.
"I surged upward, grabbing at his collar as I kissed him. I devoured his mouth as if he were going to war, as if he were water in the desert, as if he were the antidote to poison and fear and despair. And he kissed me back as if he were starving for the taste of me, biting my lips possessively, thrusting his tongue into my mouth, claiming me."
Like a real-life fairytale, the wicked stepmother (Portia) is trying to steal Prince Charming (Grant) and Cinderella's (Lacey) happily ever after. It's time for Lacey and her knight in shining armor to team up and fight evil if their relationship and Devlin Media are to survive.
A good debut series by Lila Monroe! Again, I wish the books were written in alternate points of view so we could have jumped in Grant's sexy head a bit too. Please, Lila, write a story told by Grant so we can see how this sexy Aussie Adonis ticks!
4.5 Aussie Adonis stars!