The first time I met Alexander Harding, I yelled at him for taking my parking spot. Rich and powerful, I saw him as nothing more than my new coldhearted boss. I hated him once but now…now things aren’t that simple. There’s a man beneath the beast, and the more I get to know him, the more I fall in love with him.Though just as I’m able to envision a future together, the past comes back to haunt us … to haunt us both.
Six years ago, my life changed forever when I found out I was pregnant. The last thing I expected was to see Michael Cooper again, but now he’s here and is ready to make up for lost time. He wants to be involved in his daughters’ life. My life. And it’s making me question everything.
I never thought it was possible to be in love with two men at the same time. One from my past, and one I want in my future. My heart is completely torn in two, with each half going in a different direction. I’d give them each half if I could.
But then I would be left with nothing.
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AH-MAZING conclusion to Harper and Alex. My nerves and emotions were running so high with this one. With Harper going back and forth about her feelings for Alex and the girl’s dad I was going crazy trying to guess which way the story was headed. I had to fight to keep from skipping to the end. Lol Though Emily makes it hard to choose who you’re rooting for because both men are wonderful. Both are sweet and kind and caring. How do you choose between two amazing men? Harper struggles with the choice but in the end I think it played out just the way it should have. Though I hope we get to see the other get his HEA as well.
I have been waiting not so patiently to finish the duet. These were my first Emily Goodwin books and I will be reading more for sure. When I first saw these books, I thought it was just an enemies to lovers office romance, which I LOVE, but what I got was so much more. Alex was so much more than an angry boss and Harper was so much more than his good looking assistant. Alex was the broken boy who thought no one could love him because of what was done to him in his childhood and Harper was the girl that thought she had too much baggage to ever find someone to spend her life with.
I binge read both books as soon as I received them because I had to know what happened. This book started out with a chapter from Michael, the twins father, who came back into Harper’s life at the end of the last book. It was great to see things from his side, how he met Harper and why he left. When I first started reading this book, I didn’t see how Harper could have a tough decision on who to choose, but as I kept going, it became clear why she struggled. She thought for the last 5 years that no one could love her because of all of the baggage she had and she thought that if Michael just came back into their lives they could be a family. So when he actually did come back and wanted to be a family, she had that dream in her head that she didn’t know how to let go of. Alex was just as wounded from childhood scars and Harper’s indecision broke him down more than once.
I was so happy with the way this duet turned out. I loved Alex and Harper and their broken love story.
Everything I didn’t even know I wanted in a conclusion and more. Alex and Harper finally both on the same page get more thrown at them. Michael comes back on the picture to make, Alex take a better look at himself and his worthiness and Harper really look at what she wants in her future.
Harper and Alex’s connection and banter are so entertaining that they stole my breath away. Couple goals is what they are for me. Two people so in tune with one another that their weirdness is that bonds them to one another.
I couldn’t have asked for a better ending!
This is book two of the Hard To Love duet. This is not a standalone. You must read book one…
Harper was being annoyingly indecisive and so was Alex… it went on for quite some time—the push and pull… and for a while there I was rooting for the under-dog…
I’m just going to stop here before I give anything away. I know I’m being very vague but folks who has read book one would understand why… I have mixed feelings with this one because book one ended with a bang, and this didn’t quite make the same impression on me. I’m sorry…
Overall I enjoyed reading the duet. It has great word building, it’s entertaining and it’s fairly easy to read… not too angsty or heavy.
This series will give you ALL the feels!
I absolutely adore Emily Goodwin and her books. I have yet to meet one that I just did not love.
Harper & Alex’s relationship has began to really look up and they are so in deep with each other. After finally giving herself to him, Harper is on an Alex high and doesn’t believe anything can bring her down from it. But when she gets home from picking up her twin girls, her Alex high is surely brought down because the father of her twin daughters has found her letter, and therefore has found them and wants to be involved.
It wouldn’t be an issue, but seeing Michael in the flesh brings back the feelings she had for him then, but yet, she still loves Alex.
Having to figure out what she is going to do will both break her heart and mend it.
I loved this book. It picked up right where book one left off, which is always perfect. I love Alex and from the very beginning have been Team Alex. Though in this book, Michael can be total swoon worthy, but certain things he chooses to ignore just made me want to slap him.
I was very happy with how this book ended. I also loved how the author through in little bits from her series The Dawson Family into this book; they weren’t anything big, but subtle little insights that I thought were clever. Made me want to reread that series again lol.