Love a blue-collar hero? Grab your copy of Books One to Three in Ramona Gray’s Working Men Series today! If you’re looking for quick, one-handed (ahem) reads with insta-love, and over-the-top alpha blue-collar men, then the trope-alicious Working Men series is for you!The MechanicLily I grew up with everything I ever wanted. Wealth and privilege, and an attitude that practically screamed, “I’m … attitude that practically screamed, “I’m better than you”. Only, things went wrong and now I have nothing. The people in this town don’t give a damn that I live in a broken-down trailer and am one sandwich away from starving. They figure I got what I deserve. They’re not wrong.
Now, I’m standing in front of the town’s sexy-as-sin mechanic, Jack Williams, and offering to let him… do things to me with those big, dirty hands of his, in exchange for car repairs. Things that the old me would be horrified by. I should be ashamed. Instead, all I can think about is how good it would feel to have Jack touch me.
Jack
I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Raised by a man who liked to talk to me with his fists and didn’t give a damn if I lived or died. Taking care of myself is my number one priority, and I’m not interested in other people’s troubles. Especially trouble in the form of a stuck-up, former rich girl like Lily Carson.
It’s not my problem her money, family, and friends are gone. Only, she’s standing in my repair shop offering me something I’ve wanted for a very long time. One touch of her soft skin and I’m lost.
Lily belongs to me now, and I’ll make damn sure she and everyone else in this town knows it.
The Carpenter
Madison
He says it’s wrong. He says we can’t be together. But I’ve been in love with carpenter Jacob Marken, for years and I’m tired of waiting. I don’t care about the age difference. I’m doing everything in my power to make Jacob see that we belong together. I want to be with him.
And what I want, I get.
Jacob
She’s a temptation I need to resist. Before my best friend died, I promised to take care of Madison, not try to take her to my bed. When Madison asks me to build her some bookshelves, I can’t resist.
Being alone with her is a very bad idea. I can’t be with her. I shouldn’t be with her.
But what Madison wants, Madison gets. And now that she’s mine, I’m never letting her go.
The Bartender
Rachel
Being a twenty-three-year-old virgin isn’t the worse thing in the world. Being a twenty-three-year-old virgin in love with a man who doesn’t know I exist? Tragic, right?
Local bartender, Ren Parker, might not be into librarians with questionable fashion taste, but it doesn’t stop me from fantasizing about getting him alone in the library and breaking all the rules about quiet time. But, a girl’s gotta be realistic, and I can’t stay a virgin forever. Picking up a nice guy at the bar to take my v-card is surprisingly easy. That is, until Ren discovers what I’m doing.
Suddenly, the man I thought wouldn’t give me the time of day, has his hands all over me until my insides are shaken and stirred. He says my virginity belongs to him and I’m more than happy to prove him right.
Ren
I’ve wanted Rachel Banks from the moment I saw her. Sweet and gorgeous with a body I can’t wait to have under me, she’s got my world turned upside down. But, a man like me isn’t meant to have a woman like her. Until the night I see her about to give away what’s mine.
Now, I’m insisting she belongs to me and I won’t rest until she gives me her innocence and her heart. I’m playing a dangerous game. I have a past, one that a woman like Rachel would never understand, and the right thing to do is let a better man have her.
Too bad I’ve never been good at giving up what’s mine.
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Like how relatable the core of the characters, with more kink. Great endings to each story.
They are lovely, fun stories, they skirt with straight out funny, and I hope the author will lean into that more in the future! It’s nice to have fun with the tropes with the genre, something the author does well. I liked then overlapping stories too, as that helped with each story feeling a bit too short, with overly abrupt endings. Rather than the (trite and overdone) epilogues so many writers are using to smooth our way past the end, these stories overlap just enough to add a brush of context from one to the next, it’s and effective way to turn the novellas into a little bit more than they are on their own.
This series is amazing, each book has its own couple so you can read individually if you want but the whole series is amazing so why stop at one book and how great that is now a box set!! The bartender was my favorite out of this group!!
The Mechanic
A great beginning to a cool clutch of sexy stories! This is a tightly written, fast read that will leave your head spinning with all of the sexiness and fast-moving action. The characters were easy to understand and root for. Lily was an outsider in her own hometown, she used to be a mean girl, and then, Karma hit her hard. Her story made me wonder what a person would do out of desperation just to survive, and then imagine that even that was not enough to save themselves from the crap that they have fallen into. I thought that Lily and Jack were people that needed to fill in the empty spots in the other one’s lives. I didn’t like Jack at first, his agenda was pretty cold. The heat level was pretty high, I loved the intensity of this novella, and the way the author made you feel the feels and yet still told a satisfyingly concise story is also important to note.
The Carpenter
Just as exciting as the first novella in the series! This story is short and spicy, with enough depth to hold the scenes together and enough foreshadowing to have me looking forward to the next one in the series. Maddie and Jacob were interesting characters and were easy to understand. Maddie was self-confident and irresistible, like a force of nature. Jacob was a stubborn and over-protective alpha-type dude who spends most of the story second-guessing his own actions. There is a definite connection between them, and it was fun to read how it plays out!
The Bartender
Growly dude meets shy librarian with a secret. I mean the story could grab you just with that, but when you throw in the chemistry, the connections to the other characters from previous books and the quaint town life, and that secretly steaming hot attraction that they share, well, the story almost reads itself. Ren and Rachel both have secret inner lives, they’re both scared to commit to what they want, and the novella revolves around the dance they do to find happiness. Seriously, this book reads fast and hot, and you’ll finish it before you even realize it.
This is a book of romance between every day blue collar people (beautiful, sexy people) and I loved every part of the stories. I could read these stories a again.