In one little town in Texas, even toeing the straight and narrow might lead you to a joyride . . . April Roby believes in avoiding entanglements—and her beloved sisters have given her a master class in what heartbreak looks like. So, no matter who tries to fix her up, April is sticking to her thick manila folders and her frumpy beige skirts, and putting her time and energy toward helping the kids … toward helping the kids of Cuervo, Texas as a social worker. Her latest client, foul-mouthed fourteen-year-old Matthew McBride, would be enough on his own to keep two of her busy. And his big brother Brandon is a whole different type of problem.
Brandon is the kind of muscle-bound, motorcycle-riding bad boy that no well-meaning relative would ever try to shove in April’s path. He’s prickly, he’s rude, and he’s downright obstructive. But there’s something about him that makes her want to take the smirk off his face the fun way. Neither one of them is looking for a fairy-tale ending. But in Cuervo, Texas, they just might get one anyway . . .
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Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team
Mary Jo –
I enjoyed this book. April is a girl who doesn’t ever want to be the center of attention. She just wants to do her job and go home, do her thing. She can’t often do that because her family and friends think that she’s hiding from life by not going out and dating. When she meets Brandon, the brother of one of her social services clients, her heart beats a little faster and for once knows what desire feels like.
Brandon doesn’t mind the attention. He’s had to do a lot of different things to survive. Now as the guardian for his teenage brother, he’s trying to be on the straight and narrow, but he feels trapped. When the do-gooder social worker comes by to check on Matthew he’s not impressed – or is he?
The romance between April and Brandon is nice and sweet. I enjoyed watching April’s confidence grow as well as Brandon’s maturity level increase.
Ruthie –
This is the third in the series, and gives the very mouse-like third sister, April, her shot at love. After her two sisters have found the ‘one’ and both of them being happily settled with their millionaire plus men, April is being pushed to find love too. After the high roller lifestyle of Jake and the NFL angle with Mason, Brandon is a completely different type of man, and we get a very different story, but it is just as hot and thankfully, April recognises his good qualities.
Now that her sisters have gone, so has a lot of colour from April’s world, so when she meets ‘bad boy’ Brandon on a child truancy visit about his brother… well, she discovers that she does have inappropriate thoughts. Much more strangely though, is her impact on Brandon. All we have to do is turn the pages and find out just how this can possibly work out!
I enjoyed how everything fitted together without being too predictable, and I loved how much care Brandon took with ensuring that he gave April the best experience he could.
Reviewers on the Wicked Reads Review Team were provided a free copy of Dream Lover (Dreams Come True #3) by Stacey Keith to read and review.
Dream Lover by Stacey Keith
Dreams Come True #3
In the final book of this trilogy that finds true love for three sisters April Roby, social worker, meets bad boy Brandon McBride when she goes to pay a home visit to his truant fourteen year old brother, Matthew. Little did she know that Brandon was the man who would provide a type of freedom she had never expected…a freedom she actually craved…a liberation she embraced wholeheartedly…once she took the leap.
This is a story of “the good girl” meeting “the bad boy” but it also deals with family, community and what is truly important in life. It also tells of a woman who thought she knew what she wanted only to find it doing something else completely and with a man that was totally off of her radar. And, it is about a man who had no idea how good he could be until he met the woman that changed his life just as much as he changed hers.
Did I like this book? Yes
Will I read more books by this author? Yes
Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing – Lyrical Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.
4 Stars