Adora Garcia isn’t interested in being the breeding vessel for some arrogant billionaire. She has plans for her life and they don’t include being knocked up by a man over twice her age. Her single mother cleans Tobias Bennett’s penthouse suite, so when Adora refuses his indecent proposal, he threatens to find a new maid.Tobias needs an heir, but he’s not ready to settle down, and certainly not … certainly not interested in love. He doesn’t have a plan until he sees the curvy brunette standing in his condo. Everything he wants, he gets, and he wants Adora. What he doesn’t expect is the rush of possessiveness that takes him by storm.
Will Adora give up her virginity to the ruthless businessman? Can Tobias open his heart after keeping it closed off for decades?
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A Lovely Combination of Sexy and Substantial…
I will admit, when I first saw the title of this book I rolled my eyes a bit. Then when I read that it was part of a larger “breeding” series, I rolled my eyes a lot, and took a long pause to argue internally about whether I should read it. However my resolve to read across all tropes won out so read it I did. And, I was pleasantly surprised at what I found.
“Bred by the Billionaire” by Sam Crescent and Stacey Espino is the first book in their Breeding Season Series. It is the story of Tobias Bennett, a forty-five year old business mogul and seasoned bachelor. A relentlessly driven perfectionist raised to be devoid of emotion by his equally ruthless and money driven parents. A man conditioned to care only about his work, yet expected to pass on his family’s billion dollar corporation to an heir. An expectation that completely contradicts his father’s conditioning of “love and family are distractions that make you weak”. And Adora Garcia, a twenty year old architecture student and daughter of Tobias’s cleaning woman Maria. A woman that unexpectedly catches his eye and leads to a nefarious plan.
What follows is honestly something I didn’t expect, a book that, despite its title, is deeper than it appears. Under the overarching frame of, “I need an heir to get my relentless parents off my back”, was a surprisingly straightforward exploration of classism, privileged snobbery, and discrimination. It is a fairly affecting tale of what happens when someone enters your life only to confront everything you’ve ever been taught to believe, shattering your world view, and leaving you confused and struggling to comprehend fact from bourgeois fiction. All while being sexy and properly smutty.
It was a lovely combination of all the older man/younger woman, alpha driven, sexy chemistry driven romance fans of these authors have come to expect. All the while also including something more substantial, something a bit more complex to also make you ponder life, and see things from different perspectives.
Is it a tad simplistic in some places, a bit far fetched and over the top in others? Sure. However, it is emotionally intelligent overall and I have never been so happy to be surprised. It was a joy to delve into this story and find something attention grabbing, and stimulating to both mind and body. It’s definitely worth the read, and sparked my enjoyment to an unexpected level, one that will lead me on to the next book in the series for sure.
Wow this story is amazing. I absolutely loved everything. Tobias and Adora are fantastic characters. This story gives you all types of feelings. From how they meet until the end kept me interested and not wanting to out it down. Their journey is one to remember. The writing and flow of this book is done well. I highly recommend this book.
These two authors are a dream team everything they write is golden. This book was fab I lived everything about it at times Tobias annoyed me with his attitude but he soon see’s the light or as it is a good woman.