Albert Walsh the Third has spent over a decade running away from his past. With no job and nothing to lose, he goes on a spontaneous drive to visit his sister in the mountains of Colorado. The simple trip proves to be more than he bargained for.
Samantha Belmont is floating through life. She’s cast her dreams aside and now works on her papa’s ranch. One night, Sam is driving home in a snow storm … storm after a hookup when she spots a car in a ditch and saves a man’s life. She doesn’t expect to develop feelings for the hot as hell stranger. Everything about him is wrong from his pointy shoes and fancy car to his age. Pushing him away would be the smart move.
Only Al can’t be pushed around anymore. Maybe it’s because she saved his life or maybe it’s because this cowgirl is completely different from every other woman he’s been with.
Problem is Sam has secrets of her own. Secrets she doesn’t want Al to find out because if he did he’d run in the other direction. She pushes him away even though he melts her panties right off—literally. There is more than just her heart that needs protection. Al won’t give up fighting for the feisty cowgirl’s attention.
Tempers will flare and hearts will be broken.
And Sam’s plans to never settle down will be torched like the inferno of passion raging between them.
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Second in the series, we followed Albert, Colton’s friend from the first book and his chief of staff. After the end of the first book, where Colton abandons politics, Al is jobless and aimless. Not wanting to admit to his friend that he is in a bad situation, because he doesn’t have any savings, Al decides to visit his sister and leave the city. A luxury car, a big city boy, a blizzard, a rural town, a few sleeping pills (it was not his best idea) and a girl coming for the rescue. The confusion is armed.
Al has a surname of respect. A real pedigree. But it’s no use being a member of an influential family, if the concept of family is something alien to these people. Infidelity, envy, convenience and the money always being more important. Cutting ties, the only person he has contact with is his younger sister. When the political career of his friend that he worked so hard to make happen goes down the drain, feelings of inadequacy come to the surface. Al does not accept failure. And he does not know how to handle it.
Sam had dreams. But she ended up stuck in the same little town helping her father take care of the farm. A life that was not what she dreamed of, but which serves as self-punishment. Until a stranger caught in a blizzard will shake her still life.
Al is a good character. The time he spends on the farm makes him have a sense of how a real family behaves, even if Sam’s family is far from that ideal. As he is stuck in the city, he decides to make himself useful, and starts working on the estate, which has given hilarious scenes.
Slowly he ends up interested in Sam, but she is not willing to let him get close. She has no relationships. And despite stating that she does not fall in love, Al messes with her, no matter how much she denies.
Sam has a secret. And I confess that you do not expect and do not find the story pertinent. When the character is with Al she looks like one person, the scenes are funny, the plot flows. but suddenly she changes and becomes someone else. I did not like the character. The long-awaited secret of secrecy had nothing, the whole city knew. What is the reason for hiding something that everyone knew about?
I thought Sam’s development was lost along the way. Al was a saint in this story. It took a lot of patience to deal with this woman. The couple works despite it all, the plot is interesting, but lacked more consistency in the story of Sam. Nothing that compromises the final product, but could be better.
A woman with a secret the whole town knows, and a stranger who has his own pile of secrets and problems: throw in a blizzard and the guy, who has the wrong kind of vehicle to deal with such road conditions, in unfamiliar surroundings and you have an interesting twist to boy meets girl! Interesting and steamy read!
Great storyline, deep down small town Kentucky families !
Mr. So Wrong by R.C. Stephens is the second book on the Mister series, with a new couple, the Governor of Illinois’s ex-chief of staff Albert Walsh III and rancher Samantha Belmont. This is a completely standalone novel too, although it does have a few references to the first book, Mr All Wrong, which featured Evie Harper and Al’s best friend, Colton Mathis, the Governor of Illinois. Al was working for Colt until he decided to step down from being Governor. Now Al’s a man without a job and with now wish to stay in Chicago, he leaves for Colorado to visit his sister.
In the middle of winter.
In a Porsche.
When he hits a ditch and can’t get himself out, he thought that was the last of his problems.
He was wrong.
Samantha was supposed to dream big. She was supposed to leave her papa’s ranch and make a life for herself away from her tiny home town. It’s a promise she made to her mother, but she’s been unable to fulfil it and is stuck working for her father. She doesn’t have relationships and she doesn’t believe in love, just like Al.
When Sam finds Al freezing in the ditch she picks him up and takes him home.
“Just another stray!” Her dad comments.
Stray or not, these two have a raging chemistry that they try to fight, until they can’t anymore. But they are both hiding secret hurts and have a past that haunts them. Each have trust issues and neither want to be the one to lower their guard first.
I really liked this book. Sam was a bit hard around the edges but you could see where she wanted to be different. Life had made her this way. Al, well, he had his own set of problems, but his heart was in the right place. And when he loved. He gave his all.
Will the city slicker become a rancher, or will the cowgirl make it to the big city and finally have her chance in the limelight?
We’re introduced to Al in Mr All Wrong – Colton’s story. You don’t have to read that story to understand this one but you should so that you can understand the events that unfolded to start the falling of Al. And to TRULY understand how much of a change Al makes from the grade A douchebag he was in Colt’s story to his own with Sam.
Both Sam and Al have their own demons and reasons to only do hook ups and not relationships. So it’s interesting that they’re both of that mindset. Different reasons but they both have decided that they aren’t meant for relationships. How quickly that changes!!
I read this all at work, for the most part, thank goodness for bosses being gone! This was a great story but I’m wondering if Izzy will get a tale now too. I hope she does.
As someone new to this author and this being the first book I’ve read from R.C., I’ll definitely be reading more. This book was ridiculously emotional, loving, engaging and more. Although it took a little bit for me to get into it once I started, the more I read, the more I enjoyed it. The only downfall was the ending. I felt that it was missing something. All in all, it was a great book.
How do you overcome the trials of your past that have led to a present that you never thought would happen? This is the question that is asked in Mr. So Wrong by RC Stephens.
Samantha Belmont was just a little girl when she lost her mother to cancer. The last time she saw her mother, she made a promise to her, to leave Colorado, and go to school, and become her best person. Not to get stuck in a life and with a love that did not bring her peace, love and joy. She promised her mother this, and never saw her again. As we see after this, she did not keep her promise. She is currently working side by side with her father on the family ranch. She is not happy, and the fact that she didn’t keep her promise to her mother, ways on her.
Albert Walsh III comes from a family with money. The family business is on the Forbes list annually. Ten years ago, he walked away from his family and the business and decided to be his own man. However, his present is not looking as bright and shiny as he thought it would be. He left his best friend, the governor of Illinois, as his chief of staff, during his resigning from his position. He is feeling so many emotions because of the direction of his life, and just needs to get away and spend time with his sister until he can figure out what life looks like from here.
On his way to his sister, Albert is run off the road into a ditch, and Samantha comes to his rescue. This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
Love the book. Love the sort past/present and switching of the point of view from the characters. This allows you to get to know them on a deeper level and allows for the reader to understand them just that much more.
Five stars
**Review by Nikki, Late Night Reviewer for Up All Night W/ Books**
4.5 Stars
Mr. So Wrong is the second standalone in the Misters series by RC Stephens, focusing on Albert Walsh III (who we met in Mr. All Wrong) and Samantha Belmont. The journey to their HEA is a twisty, emotional, sexy and sometimes heart-breaking one, but is one that will stay with you for a long time to come!
I loved the banter and the back and forth between Al and Sam! I found myself laughing out loud many times and a few times I felt a little like knocking BOTH their heads together in frustration (along with a certain “beau” of Sam’s that I wanted to throat punch!) Having said that, I really enjoyed this heart-warming, funny, angsty love story…..the only thing missing was I felt that the end came too abruptly. I wanted MORE of how things worked out between the HAWT, SEXY “City” and the feisty, kick-butt cowgirl!
All in all, I loved this book and can’t WAIT for the next one to arrive!
Albert Walsh the Third is feeling like a failure with no prospects for his future after his best friend decides to leave the political realm and no longer needs him as his Chief of Staff. While his family may come from big money, Al walked away from them ten years ago when he learned the truth about why he never quite felt like he fit in with any of them but his youngest sister Izzy. Needing to get away from the city and reevaluate his life, Al decides to visit his sister in Colorado. He finds his life on a major detour, however, when his porsche ends up in a ditch during a blizzard and help is nowhere to be found.
Samantha Belmont was never meant to stay in the tiny town of Holston. Raised by her older sister after her mother died when Sam was only nine, she couldn’t quite find her way out even after her sister did. Instead she found herself helping her emotionally distant father keep the family cattle ranch from going under. She’s not happy, but she’s okay. And, she never could pass up a stray . . . especially when it comes in the form of a gorgeous man passed out in his car and stranded on the side of the road during a snowstorm.
From the moment they lay eyes on each other, Sam and Al’s chemistry is off the charts hot. But between their age difference, social backgrounds and the fact that Al doesn’t plan on sticking around after his car is fixed it’s a real bad idea to act on all that heat between them . . . .
Both Sam and Al have secrets, but for the first time in his life, Al sees something more important than achieving political success and he’s finally ready to take a chance on it if he can only convince Samantha to do the same and take a chance on him. Trusts are tested and hearts are broken, but Al isn’t ready to give up the the beautiful and spirited cowgirl that’s roped his heart no matter how hard she tries to push him away.
After ready Mr. All Wrong, I couldn’t wait to read Al’s story and R.C. Stephens did not disappoint. Both Al and Samantha have tragedy in their young pasts that shaped them in to who they are today. Neither is truly open to love or relationships and are content enjoying flings until fate brings them together during a Colorado blizzard. These two characters really are about as opposite as you can be on so many levels that a relationship should never work. But, the author creates such a slow burn as the characters begin to flirt and drift towards each other like magnets that we get to enjoy this opposites attract love story.
The author did a fabulous job developing these characters and giving them amazing depth and personality. I especially enjoyed watching Al learn to embrace all the ranch had to offer, including manual labor. We also see that there is much more to Samantha that she lets on as the story develops. The side cast of characters is also very strong and help us learn a lot about Sam and Al and why they are the way they are.
While this book can easily be read as a stand alone, I recommend reading Mr. All Wrong first to get a bit of Al’s backstory on just why he’s heading to the middle of nowhere in a porsche during the middle of winter. Grab your class of wine and settle in for this slow burn opposites attract romance! 5 stars!