Oscar Davenport always wins. Always. He doesn’t come second, and he sure as hell doesn’t lose. He’s founded and sold three tech companies, netting him almost a billion dollars. He ran a hedge fund worth hundreds of billions—until he got bored. His latest project, Six, a nightclub in LA is another winner. It’s both a successful business and a playground full of playmates. He’s never met an … met an obstacle he couldn’t overcome or a woman he couldn’t have. Until now.
Grace Evans is the kind of girl you’d find curled up with a good book on a Saturday night—at least, usually. This Saturday night is different. This Saturday night she’s gotten all done up, in a dress she can barely breathe in and heels she can barely walk in. She had to. She had to venture into the lair of the enemy.
The enemy is Oscar Davenport, and his lair is his swanky nightclub. When she lays eyes on him, she’s ready to believe he’s the devil incarnate. His wicked smile, his beautiful eyes—everything about him is an invitation to sin. He moves with the grace and arrogance of a big cat about to pounce. Unfortunately, he’s moving straight toward her. He’s singled her out as his prey. He’s moving in for the kill.
Little does he know that she isn’t about to surrender; in fact, he’s in for the fight of his life.
This book is intended for adult readers 18+
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The Davenports Series
Meet the sexy brothers, of the Billionaire Davenport family.
Oscar
TJ
Reid
Summer Lake Romance Series
The Summer Lake series follows a group of friends from a small lakeside town in the California hills. They have kept in touch over the years and now, in their early thirties, their lives are drawing them back to Summer Lake and to each other.
Each Summer Lake Romance can be read as a stand alone book – no cliff hangers here! Each book contains one couple’s story. However, they are best read in order to get full enjoyment of the underlying story and friendships.
Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt – Emma and Jack
Work Like You Don’t Need the Money – Pete and Holly
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching – Missy and Dan
Fly Like You’ve Never Been Grounded – Smoke and Laura
Laugh Like You’ve Never Cried – Michael and Megan
Sing Like Nobody’s Listening – Kenzie and Chase
Smile Like You Mean It – Gabe and Renée
The Wedding Dance – Missy and Dan’s Wedding
Chasing Tomorrow – Ben’s backstory with Charlotte
Dream Like Nothing’s Impossible – April and Eddie
Ride Like You’ve Never Fallen – Nate and Lily
Live Like There’s No Tomorrow – Ben’s story
The Wedding Flight – Smoke and Laura’s Wedding
Remington Ranch series
Meet the sexy brothers of Remington Ranch! Just like in SJ’s Summer Lake Romance series you can expect a story that is both sweet and steamy!
Mason
Shane
Carter
Beau
Four Weddings and a Vendetta
A Chance and a Hope series.
These are NOT meant to be read as standalone stories and need to be read in order.
Book 1: Chance Encounter
Book 2: Finding Hope
Book 3: Give Hope a Chance
The Hamiltons Series
This series follows the Hamilton family in California wine country. If you recognize the name Hamilton it’s because this is Smoke’s family who own one of the largest wine growing and distribution businesses in the country. In this set of connected stand-alone books you will meet Smoke’s brother and sister as well as a couple of cousins.
Red Wine and Roses
Champagne and daisies
Marsala and Magnolias
Prosecco and Peonies
Summer Lake Seasons
A return to the wonderful small town so many readers have grown to love. We’ll see our old friends around town and they’ll feature to a greater or lesser extent in the new stories. I want you to be able to catch up on their lives if you know them – and to not feel like you’re missing anything if you didn’t read the original series.
Angel and Luke in Take These Broken Wings
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Oscar was a book I couldn’t put down and didn’t want to end. I will read the series. It was more than a romance, it was a picture of life and love with those moments of human mistakes that eat at your conscious.
Oscar is a fabulous contemporary romance by SJ McCoy. Ms. McCoy has given readers a book that is well-written and a smooth read. She has assembled a cast of characters that is stellar and my favorite part of the book. Grace works for an accountant and is a sometimes waitress. The rest of her hours she spends running the community center that helps latchkey kids, single moms, homeless and vets. Oscar is rich and bored, his newest venture, a bar, is no longer a challenge so he buys a building to open a new one. The problem is, the building he buys is the community center’s home. Oscar and Grace’s story is full of drama, humor and sizzle. I enjoyed reading Oscar and look forward to reading more from SJ McCoy in the future. Oscar is book 1 of The Davenport’s Series but can be read as a standalone. This is a complete book, not a cliff-hanger.
Great read
Loved it
Great story, not what I expected!!
Great writing. I love books where people who are less fortunate receive the help they need. Good read.
I LIKED THE ZING BETWEEN THE TWO MAIN PEOPLE, BUT THERE ARE OTHERS AROUND EACH OF THEM TO HELP MAKE FUTURE BOOKS LOOK ENTERTAINING.
I love romance/mystery books so this book was perfect for the kind
books I buy. Enjoyed very much.
Good but
I enjoyed the transformation of each of the primary characters. And the hard truth of the veteran population, the foster programs and the need for open community centers.
I very much enjoyed this story. It had heart, a plot and smexy times. The characters were real and well rounded.
Loved this book. Got me started with the rest of your books.
Another Great
Grace was working and keeping her community center together, when she finds out the land has been sold. She knows why Harry is doing it, he wants to retire. Oscar buys the land but he is restless. Spider is Grace’s friend and allie. He helps her to talk to Oscar about keeping the center. TJ is Oscar’s brother and a bet and he understands what this place means.
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Can’t wait for Davenports #2
I loved this book.
It was easy to read and touched me in a personal level.
~WRITING – PLOT – PACE~
Sigh…this was yet another book that had the potential to be much better but was brought down by the continuous unnecessary repetition about how much of a player the hero was. If I have said this once I have said this a million times I DO NOT need to be reminded ad nauseam that a hero is a player. You can tell me ONCE and I can retain that information. The constant mentions of, and the comparisons to OW really took SO much away from what was a pretty damn good story. Aside from that issue, I found the writing to be quite good. It was a fairly quick book. This author has a nice flow to her writing style. The pace was very good. The plot was engaging as well. Last, it was all wrapped up in a decent ending.
~HERO~
OSCAR…I really didn’t like Oscar for the first half of this book. I’m chalking that up to the author’s incessant need to remind us over and over and over again about his player ways. Then he had an AH-HA moment and became much more likable. Well, that is until the phone conversation with his Mother at 70% and the dismissive way he thought about Grace. Then I went back to not liking him much. I think he had the potential to be a really good hero. He seemed like a decent guy. He was sweet. He had a good heart. Loved his family. Unfortunately, the author placed WAY too much focus on his whoring ways and that ultimately took away from his character A LOT.
~HEROINE~
GRACE… Honestly, I liked Grace a lot for most of the book but then near the end, she started to get wiggy and even at 94% when the couple should be on solid ground she was thinking the following when Oscar mentions marriage “Would he still feel the same way in six months—a year? Given his track record, she doubted it. Honestly, at that point, I was done with her. She started out being a strong and feisty heroine but as the book went on, she got more judgy and insecure. Ugh…it drove me NUTS.
~SECONDARY CHARACTERS~
This book has some good secondary characters. I really liked Spider (I hope he gets a book of his own). I also like Oscar’s brother TJ (who IS getting a book of his own). Terry and Louise were also nice additions and all of them added extra layers to the overall story.
~HEAT LEVEL~
LOW. This was a bit of a slow burn in my opinion. We don’t get any sex until 70% in, but the scenes we do get were suitably hot. I’ll be honest, I am not sure I felt this couple had great on page chemistry. It was OK but could have been better.
~ANGST LEVEL~
LOW. I didn’t find this one particularly angsty. As I mentioned earlier, it had A LOT of unnecessary OW stuff. Twice we have to read about our hero making plans to have sex with some random after meeting the heroine (he doesn’t ever go through with it, but it was still a turnoff for me.) On top of that, we get oodles of mentions of his past manho ways. At one point he admits one of the goals he set for himself was to “get laid every day.” Charming…isn’t that?? There was no OM drama.
~IN THE END~
I liked a lot about this book. The writing. The plot. The secondary characters. The heroine (mostly). But it unfortunately, suffered from one of my biggest pet peeves (I don’t think I need to repeat AGAIN what that was *lol*) and because of that I just couldn’t connect with the hero. I didn’t fall in love with him. I wanted to. I really did, but too much focus was spent on his past when it would have been better spent building the connection between him and the heroine. That said, I may still give the next book a read as I am really curious about TJ. Therefore yours truly is going to give this one a solid thumbs up and say I think a lot of people will really like this one.
This is the first book I have read by this author and if this book is anything to go by I’ve missed some great reads.
Oscar Davenport always wins, and he does whatever is needed to win and on the face of it the property he has just bought to turn into his second nightclub will be another winner but for it to succeed he needs to get past Grace Evans…..
Grace Evans is the totally opposite of women Oscar normally attracted too, she is the sort of girl who loves to curl up with a book on a Saturday night not be out drinking and dancing. A chance meeting in a lift stirs up all sorts of emotions in her, what she doesn’t expect is to have to meet the tall dark handsome stranger again when she is trying to stop the demolition of the centre she helps run for homeless Vets, single mums and young children. Will Grace be able get Oscar to change his mind about his nightclub and will Oscar get Grace to go out on a date with him ……….
Once I started reading this book there was no putting it down, I didn’t like Oscar very much at the start but by the end that man had won me over and had me all hot and bothered, there was no doubting the instant attraction ths couple have and I loved joining them on their journey of getting to know each other. The characters in this book all have depth and I can’t wait to read book 2 in this new series as well as checking out other books by S.J. McCoy.