Love on Aisle 3
It didn’t take Johnathan Thatcher long to size up his co-worker and boss’s daughter, Cassie Dawson. Very simply she was “goddess style gorgeous…and harassment lawsuit style off-limits”. He was stupefied by her klutziness when she accidentally drenched him in a cup of hot coffee, but he was more than impressed when a short time after the drenching encounter, he found her amazingly, mop in hand, cleaning up her own mess, and all that was within his first few hours of working with Cassie. What was clear was that while she might be the owner’s daughter and crazy rich, she was no princess.
As far as Cassie was concerned, Johnathan Thatcher’s days were numbered. Hired to replace Lucas Dawson, Cassie’s stepbrother who had recently followed his dream to South America with one of Cassie’s best friends, Aria, to establish a company to promote fair trade products, returning monies and assistance back to the communities of the products, Lucas was coming back. So, even John was built like a god come to earth to be her greatest desire and ultimate distraction, his days were numbered. Cassie could resist his body—she wanted to hate him. But, simply looking at his sculpture-in-an-art-museum-perfect body with its rock-hard butt made her reproductive parts hum. How could she possibly stay focused on her job of managing the accounting office of her family’s successful grocery chain which had linked together a collection of small mom and pop stores, encouraging each to continue to bring its unique qualities to the organization if she knew, day after day, that he—Johnathan—the god come to earth to torment her—was somewhere in the same building, could she stay focused without having a hormonal meltdown? Her only way to move forward until he left was to whisper her internal mantra,“I must resist, I must resist!”
Lindsey Hart’s “My Boss’s Forbidden Daughter” is the third in the Heartbreakers trilogy and is as delightful as the first two volumes. Each romance follows one of the three unique, clever women—friends since age 12 when they were each shipped off to boarding school by parents who really did not have time to parent—as each finds love. The three sisters of different mothers find strength in each other as each begins her journey in search of love and fulfillment. The anchoring love of the of the sisterhood supports each woman as she steps out into the world and into the discovering of the man to whom each can give her heart.
What makes the series especially enjoyable is Hart’s examination and crushing destruction of some of society’s misconceptions of how a woman should act, look and love. Hart lets the readers fully appreciate the criticisms she hurls at a society that forces false values and images on women. She offers the perfect comeback to the false patterns which society, and sometime family, impose on the individual.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review ARCS, but I enjoyed the reading experience so much that I bought a copy for my "read-again" titles.