A FEMALE BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE – She has all the money she could ever need, but it hasn’t bought her happiness. Elliot Williams hates Julia Hawkins, sight unseen. He doesn’t need to see her to know she’s a house-stealing, rich snob.That’s why he’s spent weeks avoiding her calls. She wanted to buy his grandmother’s old house right out from under his nose? Then she could find someone else to fix all … find someone else to fix all the issues with it.
When his little brother goes over his head and takes the job, Elliot is furious.
Until he lays eyes on her.
Elliot is unlike any man Julia’s ever wanted, his growling masculinity and clipped words sending shocking shivers down her spine. His molten silver eyes watch her every move and he seems to know what she needs before she does. It’s as unnerving as it is eye-opening and Julia begins to realize that love might not be such a foreign concept after all.
What follows isn’t enemies to lovers. It isn’t insta-love. It’s two complicated people with complicated problems finding their forever in the most unlikely place – right at home.
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This series is a spin-off from The Freehope Series. We initially met The Williams Brothers in Book 3 of the Freehope Series, Confessing History. As Logan’s cousins, they’ll be attending Beth and Logan’s beach wedding, and if you read this book, you will too!*
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Absolutely loved this story. Totally different story line from normal.
The two main characters were just perfect. The interaction with the other Williams brothers made it so much better.
This is a stand-alone story. Although I can’t wait to read each brothers story.
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I absolutely fell in love with Julia and Elliot. Two people that didn’t have the best childhood growing up, and learning too love and be loved. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone. My first book by this author but certainly will not be my last. I would give it a 4.5 stars
On the surface, neither Elliot nor Julia is an easy person to like, much less to love. He’s broody, stoic, hard and closed off. She’s brilliant, business savvy and wealthy with no interpersonal skills or social acuity and a wall a mile high hiding deep seated insecurities. Elliot had a rough beginning that has influenced all of his relationships. Fortunately, he landed in a loving home and grew into a responsible adult who started a construction company with his brothers. Julia has always known she’s a freak. She’s beyond genius-level smart but so peculiar her grandparents tucked her away in the guest cottage with a nanny so they didn’t have to deal with her. She graduated college at sixteen but had no interpersonal skills or social aptitude, and certainly no idea of how to be an adult. In spite of all her challenges, she’s managed to build a multi-billion dollar company but now she’s had enough of enduring life in the big city. She purchases a home in a small town and after weeks of unreturned phone calls has a chance meeting with Cole Williams in the grocery store, resulting in her hiring Williams construction to handle her very specific home remodel.
Returning calls is Elliot’s responsibility, but he’s adamant about not working for a snooty rich woman, especially since she wants to take his late grandmother’s home full of his best childhood memories and make it unrecognizable. The contractor/customer relationship between Elliot and Julia is so far beyond starting off on the wrong foot, and sparks between the two fly immediately. But it’s not long before Elliot realizes how wrong his first impression is and that he’s actually found a kindred spirit in Julia. Instead of being put off by her unique quirks, he sees deeper to the wounded little girl who was never wanted and never fit in. He quickly comes to admire her brilliance, her work ethic, and her strength as he learns about all she has accomplished and overcome. For the first time in her life, someone sees beyond the protective wall Julia has used to survive and appreciates all of her complex, fascinating layers.
This one had me teary eyed so many times. For the little boy whose parents abandoned him yet, through a benevolent fate, landed in a family who showed him unconditional love and acceptance. For the little girl raised by cold, selfish, affluent, socialite grandparents who never saw beyond her unique differences to give her a moment of love and acceptance. For the two adults who struggled to find themselves and somehow managed to find that one person, the other half of their heart, who would accept and love them with every part of their being.
It’s a rare occurrence that an author creates a main character with as many peculiarities and deficiencies as Julia, but it’s hugely fulfilling to fall in love with those shortcomings and see the character develop and grow and receive the love and acceptance she’s so long been denied but so richly deserves. This author does an extraordinary job with Julia’s character, handling her so preciously and carefully that this book easily goes in my list of top five books for the year. Along with the thrill and joy of watching Julia blossom and come into her own is the beautiful message that will breathe new life into even the most jaded heart. Everyone deserves to be loved, human frailties and all, and there is that one special person for each of us, ready to offer that kind of love.
Rose is a new author for me, and my heart is doing a happy dance to have found her! This book is really terrific, and now I’m hooked. I’ve seen book reviews that say, “This book is everything,” a I’ve wondered about the reviewer’s inability to articulate the feelings the book evokes. With this book, I definitely understand, because this book is everything. This romance is exquisitely beautiful with such depth of emotion that the reader can’t help experience every thought and feeling the characters experience but also feel so much for these magnificently flawed, eternally endearing characters. Lest you think this is all a rip-your-heart-out-and-leave-you-hemorrhaging type of book, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Rose had me laughing out loud from the first pages of the book and included plenty of sweet and tender and hot and steamy, and tossed in a little frustrating and awkward for good measure. She struck the perfect balance between highs and lows, heartbreak and happiness, emptiness and contentment and loneliness and belonging. Don’t miss this beautifully heartwarming, emotionally evocative, supremely satisfying, extraordinary read. Your romantic heart will thank you.
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Both Elliot and Jules have had scarred childhoods. Elliot got adopted into a loving family, but Jules has had to live under the bitter recriminations of her grandparents. Jules is a genius with very little social niceties and likes to keep to herself.
Elliot realises once he has met her that he judged her harshly.
The renovation of the house was almost like the building of their trust and future relationship.
Read: 9/29/19
Elliott: The Williams Brothers was the first in the series by Jenni Rose. It was also my first by the author.
Overall it was well written, well developed and I thoroughly enjoyed both the characters and the storyline. The plot has depth and dimension. And sexy, wow, Rose knows how to write sex scenes! The only drawback was the editing errors.
I don’t want to say too much because the way the story developed was important and I don’t want to reveal anything before it’s time. But with that said, Julia Hawkins was gorgeous and quirky. Elliot Williams was tall, dark and broody. And although polar opposites, they meshed well together. They each had some baggage that was slowly but effectively unraveled at just the right time. And I loved how Elliott treated Julia. Although I couldn’t relate on a personal level with Julia, I did relate and I enjoyed her progression.
I also enjoyed the secondary characters – of course the brothers Cole and Tucker, but also Kelsey and Bram. Hopefully they’ll all get there own stories. I’m not sure where Rose will take us next, regardless, I’m all in and can’t wait. In the meantime, I’ll have to explore some of Rose’s other works.
Finding Home
Julia was selling her company, she needed a new start. She bought a house and was in the process of remodeling it and had already fired three different companies. She really wanted Williams Brother’s construction to do it, they were known as the best, but they haven’t called back. Elliott is mad that someone bought his grandmothers house out from under him and then wanted them to do the remodel. His be Cole ran into Julia at the grocery store and brought them together. Little did he know he was going to bring both of them love and happiness, but especially family for Julia.