“I AM SPEECHLESS!” – Goodreads Reviewer You never truly know a man until he asks you to ghostwrite his life story… saying goodbye to a steady paycheck.
So when Emerson Whittaker, the famed, mysterious novelist convinces her to take on one final ghostwriting project in return for good money, she doesn’t even think twice. This could be her gateway into the daunting literary world.
Finley finds herself captivated by the enigmatic Emerson. And there’s something about Finley that Emerson can’t ignore, either. They soon find themselves digging deeper into each other’s lives, and Finley soon uncovers things — shocking, hidden things that she can’t just brush aside.
The only problem is, Finley is falling in love with Emerson. And she’s not sure she can overlook the provocative secret he’s been hiding for eight years.
The Love at Work Series consists of interconnected standalones, all having to do with falling in love at work. They can be read in any order!
Between the Pages
A Love Like That
Tracing the Stars
Say You Hate Me
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Finley dreams of being a writer. Of people falling in love with her words. But she’s not been able to write anything of her own. So she is a ghostwriter for other famous authors. Many of which end up on the best seller lists. But she decides to truly focus on her own work. Which means no money coming in. When author Emerson Whitaker offers her more money than she’s ever made to write his book, she jumps at the chance, even if it means living for six months in his house in the Hamptons. But as they begin working, an attraction begins to form. But secrets from Emerson’s past may tear them apart.
I absolutely adored this story. The characters are all wonderfully written. And it is such a beautifully heartbreaking and heartwarming story. It instantly drew me in, and I could not put it down. You feel their pain, and sadness, but you can see their love growing in the page. I definitely recommend this book.
Very Slow Build.
Finley is as successful ghost writer who wants to stop being a ghost writer and start writing books in her own name. Emerson is a successful author who uses ghost writers. He makes Finley an offer she can’t refuse if she’ll write a book for him. That’s how she finds herself writing and living with Emerson for 6 months. Also falling in love with him. However, as she writes “his” autobiography she will learn a secret that will tear them apart.
This book started out slower than molasses in January. You could call that good character development or you could just get bored & delete it from your Kindle. I kept going, but man I was tempted to quit several times.
This pair thinks they are falling in love but they don’t even kiss until 57% into the story. I do not understand why two people who are falling are hesitant to kiss. Don’t we all want to love & be loved? Why is kissing someone so forbidden and why do people think it will ruin everything? Makes no sense to me.
The story finally starts picking up at 82%, yes 82% before you start to get to the drama of the book.
Overall an ok book. I would not ever read it again and probably won’t read more from this author, but I don’t regret treading through 82% of boring to get to 18% of ok.
A touching and riveting love story!
Great book!!!!
Fabulous characters bring a poignant story to life. I could not put this book down!
*Spoilers*
Emerson is a bestselling author who just can’t seem to write his own material after his debut book, and Finley is a ghostwriter who has always dreamed of doing her own stuff. And Emerson just so happens to be Finley’s favorite writer. When Emerson hires Finley to help him write a novel based on his own life, he knows it will change the way she feels about him. He has secrets that connect to Finley’s life, so when he starts falling for her, he fights it all except he doesn’t expect Finley to fall for him too. But just when Emerson and Finley find their happiness in each other, life always has a way of fighting back, and all the secrets Emerson feared come out unexpectedly in full force.
I found Emerson, the hero of this book, very creepy. Their relationship was fine aside from all of the secrets he has related to Finley and her dead sister; that stuff was really weird. The points of view of Emerson and Finley also came out really similar, and while they bonded over crappy childhoods and similar tastes in things, they were too similar and that made it hard to tell them apart. Well, hard to tell apart aside from the moments when Emerson talked about his youth, which was even crazier than it was believable. I rolled my eyes every time I read about some other crazy, unrealistic thing that happened to Emerson when he was younger. I’m also a little mad that Finley forgave Emerson so easily for everything that went down; all of that would make it a lot harder to be around him even if he does confess his love to her by writing another book by himself. Side characters – I was glad the main characters had close friends who served as their confidants and pushers, and it gave the MCs more characterization, but other than that, the side characters were bland or hardly present in the story. Which reminds me, Emerson cheating on Sylvanna was horrible. I really didn’t like the romanticization of that whole thing.
Overall, you have a boss-employee romance of a guy who falls for his dead ex’s little sister. It was weird, but the writing itself was mostly okay. I think the characters just put me off of this book.
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Did not enjoy this story, was disgusted by time I got to the end.
Well written story of two damaged souls that slowly reveal themselves as love enters the picture. Very intriguing!
This was an excellent read, and came with a twist ending. I enjoyed every page. I found myself empathizing with both main characters and their issues during their writing. The plot was really original and not always predictable. The relationships between all the characters were genuine and their dynamics interesting.Keep the tissues handy, and enjoy feeling all the feels this book evokes. I loved it!
Interesting twist
This is a nice story to read, the characters Finley and Emerson are well developed but there are some character flaws they are not all perfect like it sometimes happens with the characters in love stories.
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Loved it!
I thoroughly enjoyed this emotional and touching story.
When Finley was hired to be Emerson’s ghost writer, she had a hard time convincing her heart that this was to remain strictly professional. The more time they spent together, the harder it became for both of them to deny their feelings, although it took them a while to work things out. I felt a real emotional connection to both characters and could also feel the tension and chemistry that was between them.
This book drew me in from the very beginning and I was eager to see how it would all unfold. There was just the right amount of drama, humour, romance and mystery. I look forward to hopefully reading more books in this series.
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Enjoyable read…3.5 stars
I enjoyed this book. I didn’t really like Emerson at the start though and found their pov’s were written very similarly which made it difficult to work out what was happening. I liked the idea of the story but felt it had a dark element to it that made it more creepy than romantic. It also felt a little rushed with a touch of insta love and it took me a while to warm up to them as a couple. This made sense when the twist came out…overall though I did enjoy the story and I would read something by this author in the future.
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