Stumbling Into Love
Brooke DeBoise knows what disappointment looks like—feels like. The beautiful curvy, recent college grad, having returned home to Atlanta from Ireland, where she finally finished her college degree, only has to look in the mirror to see what disappointment looks like, feels like—it bears her image.
In her career-oriented family—except for mom, Karen, who has made being a doctor’s wife, a social butterfly and party hostess, a career. Everyone else in Brooke’s family—her dad, Peyton, the chief of staff at his hospital, and her younger brother, Rhys, whose law degree, sets him on a favored career pathway, have achieved professional success.
But her parents’ firstborn, daughter Brooke, can’t seem to achieve or please anyone. Her mom doesn’t mind that her firstborn hasn’t found her own academic based professional career path—an acceptable professional pathway could be marriage to the right man who has chosen an approved, professional pathway. But Brooke fails in that line of achievement—she isn’t a petite, fragile socialite like mom. Brooke, a beauty with brown eyes and with thick, rich, waist-length deep chocolate brown hair, is a curvy girl with big boobs and padded hips, not mom’s vision of an acceptable body type. Rather, mom always suggests that all of Brooke’s life problems could be solved by losing 10 pounds.
So, when the DeBoise family—mom, dad, and recently returned home Brooke—attend one of dad’s professional gatherings, Brooke uses the opportunity to network—socially—if having hot, melt your panties off sex in a broom closet with a stranger, fits into the range of how one can successfully network—especially when that stranger is later introduced as an OB/GYN who works with dad at the hospital.
Ava Gray creates a tale of secrets and withheld information that totter to near disaster, but which ultimately lead to love. I received this romance through BookSprout, but also bought a copy for my Kindle collection.