Every red-blooded male in St. Helena wants Harper Owens…as a friend. Despite her efforts at seduction, Harper seems to be destined to end up alone. The only guy with a knack for unleashing her inner vixen is firefighter and resident rule-breaker Adam Baudouin. Agreeing to a faux-mance could help him secure a promotion—and save her family’s lingerie shop, the Boulder Holder. But playing with fire … fire has consequences. Especially when the flame comes courtesy of St. Helena’s own Five-Alarm Casanova…
None of Adam’s quick-and-easy hookups have prepared him for a connection this extraordinary. There’s more to the milk-and-cookies art teacher that he’d love to explore. But first he has to convince her to trust the town’s most notorious playboy. Even tougher—he’ll have to trust himself to be the real-life hero this warm and sexy woman deserves.
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Audio Review from 2018
This book was so fun!! The town playboy and the town sweetheart enter a “fake relationship” to help both of them. Hahahaha and the rest of course is history!
The fun then comes when he falls so hard and puts his foot in his mouth. The has to figure out how to get his girl “for keeps”!
Sooo cute! So sweet!! So fun!!
This one was favorite of the three brothers!!
Harper Owens feels like she is destined to be alone in her life. Every man she feels attracted to looks to her as a friend and not as a woman who they want to date. Adam Baudouin is able to get all of her buttons pushed from the first moment he walks in on her in her shop. That is the moment that everything changes for him, for he sees her as a beautiful sexy woman who is now driving him crazy and he wants to be with her. The problem is getting her to want to be with him and not the doctor. The more Adam puts himself in her way the more for their confrontations, but it really is not like that it is more like to cubs in the wild getting to know one another and when it’s starting to feel real it begins to scare her because she was not planning on Adam as being the guy she would fall for. Once it all starts to come together through it turns into a very good story, with good characters all the way around. A very good book. I got this book from Netgalley.com I gave it 4 stars. Follow us at http://www.1rad-readerreviews.com
Now all the Baudouin brothers have fallen and Adam Baudouin, the resident bad boy and five alarm firefighter has caught Harper, St. Helena’s woman who is friends with everyone. She is trying to save her grandmother’s shop along with find love for herself and not succeeding with any of it when she finds Adam coming out of the dressing room after hours with one of the workers. He forgets who he is with and kisses Harper and that starts off their faux relationship. Oh, the joy of small town. This was one fun story. Adam has been running from his reputation and now that he is trying to clean it up he can’t seem to get it right, or can he. I LOVED it from beginning to end!
Harper Owens has worked hard on her plan to get her crush to see her as more. She didn’t need the attention from town playboy Adam Baudoin The only man who seems to see her as a female in the not friend way. Harper though doesn’t want to go down the road of fun frolic frivolity with Adam. However, when her grandmother’s lingerie store is threatened and she accidentally pretends he is her boyfriend.
Adam doesn’t do relationships and after finding out he is in a ship, Hardam, with Harper he decides to use it at his advantage. He needs help from her to get promoted as lieutenant, the problem is he can’t stay away from Harper. She oozes sex and he can’t believe no one else has noticed. Can the town playboy become a one woman man and will Harper take a chance on him?
Loved this. It was hilarious and I liked how the chemistry built up as they grew closer. Had a ton of characters I need to go back and read about. Definitely picking up more from this author. A delightful treat.
Harper Owens is quite certain that the universe is working against her, and trying to force her into becoming a eternal bachelorette, with a large collection of male friends. Every time she takes an interest in a man, and thinks she might have found her prince, he quickly shifts her over to the friend zone without giving them a chance. While she appreciates their friendship, she’s starting to get fed up with no one wanting to see past her sunny disposition and see that she has more to offer, like a inner sex vixen, just waiting to be released. You would think with one working in a lingerie store that they would be able to lure the men in rather easily, especially with the added sex appeal, but for some frustrating reason Harper just can’t find a man that views her as anything but a nice wholesome art teacher… except for the one man Harper has no interest in at all! When Adam Baudouin waltzes into her life, and tries to convince her to let him help her unleash her inner sex kitten, she turns him down flat, she is not interested in being just another woman in a long line of one night stands… but the sexy firefighter isn’t one to give up so easily!!
Firefighter and resident bad boy Adam Baudouin is quite use being showered with women’s affections, and has never had to worry about a shortage of women willing to take him home for the night. He’s has a “no strings attached” policy, and is quite proud of his track record thus far…that is until a sexy art teacher catches his eye, but isn’t so willing to give him a chance, for fear of being just another notch on his famous record. When they are thrust together into a faux relationship though, they have no choice then to spend time together, and Adam is quick to notice that there is more to the innocent teacher than what meets the eye. He is bound and determined to convince her to give him a shot, but she isn’t so receptive, and just tries to just keep things in their “relationship” strictly for show. But little by little Adam begins to work his way into her life, and convinces her to take things up a notch, even though he knows that he’s not capable of giving her wants she wants, but he just can’t help himself. He knows she deserves to have someone who can give her more than two weeks of fun, but there’s just something about this extraordinary beauty that keeps drawing him in and has him wanting to change his wild ways. Now he just has to find a way to prove to her that he can really be the man she’s longing for…
The minute I started this read I was instantly wrapped up into the lives of these quirky and lovable characters, they captured my attention from the get go, and transported me to a place of true literary bliss!! The relationship that transpired between Adam and Harper may have started out as something of a farce, but it quickly grew into something beautiful, inspiring, and oh so sexy!! The chemistry between these two was undeniable from the start, and with each page I turned it continued to grow with heat and intensity, and spawned quite a few smexy toe curling encounters that left me blushing… and a little envious! Once again I find myself in awe of Ms. Adair’s writing talents, she always manages to create stories that leave me with a happy heart and a genuine feeling of complete literary satisfaction!! I absolutely loved everything about this book, and I am quite certain if you give it a try you will too, Adam is destined to steal your heart and linger with you love after the last page is turned!!