OAKLAND HILLS ROMANCE, BOOK #1
When a couch potato inherits a fitnesswear company in San Francisco, sparks fly with her arrogant, Olympic medalist vice president.
The world of fitness apparel isn’t ready for Beverly Lewis. She hates the gym, is nice to everybody, and shops at Ross Dress for Less. When she’s not teaching preschool, she’s wearing yoga pants… to nap in. So when she inherits her … So when she inherits her estranged grandfather’s fitnesswear company in San Francisco, nobody expects her to keep it. Fite Fitness needs a heartless suit to save it from bankruptcy, not a thirty-year-old woman who cries when her students leave for kindergarten.
Someone like Liam Johnson. A former Olympic swimmer, Liam is Fite’s executive vice president. Unlike Bev, he’s devoted his life to Fite’s success. Managing one little preschool teacher — and his attraction to her — shouldn’t be an issue. Right?
But Bev’s tired of being underpaid and underrated, and refuses to step aside as an obedient figurehead. To everyone’s shock and horror, she moves up to San Francisco, sets up an office, and dives into the business. Nothing — not mockery, not exercise, not sabotage, not a disastrously hot night with her aggravating VP — is going to scare her away.
As Liam realizes she’s tougher than she looks, he discovers that losing Fite might not be nearly as bad as losing her…
A story about the pursuit of love, happiness, and the perfect yoga pants, Love Handles will speak to anyone who’s ever had to face what scares her most.
Warning: contains at least two loves scenes and a happy ending.
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Awful characters. Deplorable behavior.
I enjoyed this book enough to thread the next in the series.
Fun read
Pretty forgettable. Thanks
I found this book through bargain booksy and it was delightful. Very well written and flowed beautifully. A little funny, a little suspenseful and a great hate to love romance.
I really wanted to like this book but it wasn’t a romantic comedy as stated, the characters are really lacking and i feel I wasted time on this book that I could have been doing a mundane task. The only saving grace? It was free.
A bit long and crazy family back story, that sometimes over shadows the main (interesting) characters. A few steamy scenes, the characters are interesting but the story wraps up a little to fast…without real explanation on new odd-ball character.
Overall good summer read, easy and entertains. Story moves, I found myself a little bored, not …
No surprises but a nice romance.
I really wanted to like this book. It has good bones with a strong story and great characters. However, it contained entirely way to much “play-by-play” in the bedroom. In hindsight, I wouldn’t have read this book. I wanted substance-not sex. Without that component it had the potential to be a fantastically, inspiring story. But ultimately, it …
I like Galway’s Oakland Hills series, and found this one another good read. These books are good as they stand alone, but there’s a good connections between the various books. Here, Bev and Liam must overcome their initial antipathy (and opposing attraction) to save Fite Sports and find their HEA. I recommend it.
I enjoy this author’s writing style. She does romantic comedy in quirky, fun read.