Clover is here in Ireland chasing rainbows, trying to turn her luck around.It doesn’t take long to see that this sexy woman isn’t the end of me—she’s the beginning.But while I have the luck of the Irish, Clover doesn’t, and getting her to open up to me is no easy task.When she finds out the real reason I brought her to my place in the woods I know she’s going to run.I need to find the rainbow … find the rainbow she’s chasing before my luck runs out.
Dear Reader,
It’s your lucky day! This Irish mountain man is the complete package. Emphasis on package. This is a filthy-sweet romp in the woods that will have you looking for your good luck charm.
xo, frankie
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RATING 4.5 STARS
Rugged is book two in the series, A True Mountain Man, by Frankie Love. This book was previously known as His Lucky Charm. This could be a perfect read for St. Patricks Day or if you’re like me and you enjoy Frankie’s books as much as I do, it’s great for any time of the year!
Conor McGregor lives in Ireland and seems to always have the luck of the Irish on his side. He works for himself running his business, The Lucky Irishman Tour Company. He lives in a barn that has been transformed into a quaint cabin up on the mountain. He’s just thirty minutes from Dublin where his brother and also his best friend works in the financial district. The property Conor lives on, though, belongs to his brother. When their parents passed, they left Conor his mother’s Claddagh ring and left his brother the property.
Conor has never kept a woman around for more than one night. He just hasn’t wanted to. So after a night of drinking at a pub in Dublin, his brother and friend make a bet with him. They will choose a woman and in one week, ending on St. Patrick’s Day, she has to have fallen in love with him. If he wins, he will get the property. If he loses, he will lose the ring. The woman they choose is Clover.
Clover O’Malley is anything but lucky. Nothing ever goes her way. Her luck is full of ladders and black cats and broken mirrors. She’s come to Ireland from America to find and photograph a rainbow. This rainbow will be the start of something new for her, it will turn her luck. Because things couldn’t get much worse. In the pub, when the good looking guy sat next to her, she couldn’t help but to like him, even though he was using every cheesy line there was. Maybe her luck was turning because it turns out that the reservation she has for the next day with a tour guide is none other than him!
“I’m chasing rainbows, but I’m scared I’m just going to end up lost.”
These two together were hotter than hot. Their initial attraction might have been physical but it quickly changed into something else.
“Clover is unrestrained, untethered, I truly feel as if I’ve met my match.”
Clover broke my heart. Perhaps some of it was her own doing but her luck really was bad. After she met Conor, you could just feel her waiting for something bad to happen.
“Clover, what just happened here, that wasn’t just luck.”
“No?”
“It wasn’t luck, lassie. That was perfection.”
Conor falls for Clover hard. This is all uncharted territory for him. And he’s so afraid that when she finds out about the initial bet, she will run. How can he convince her that it only started out with a bet? That his feelings are real and true? How can he keep her from leaving?
This story is hot as heck and so darn cute. Conor may have been a bit of a man whore to start with but you can’t help but love him anyway. Especially the way he falls for Clover. And I loved Clover. The ending was perfect. Once again Frankie Love has made me sigh and smile and filled me with warm and fuzzies. This is a perfect book for the holiday and I’m so glad I picked it up.
“I don’t want to run anymore. It’s like, the moment I walked toward the unknown, the scary, the Conor, I found something life changing.
I found him.”
I am so sad. I was really looking forward to reading this book because I absolutely adored the first one. Unfortunately this one just didn’t do it for me. I did not like either of the lead characters from the beginning. He was just gross sleeping with a different tourist every night and she just felt so gruff. No matter how much I pushed on reading I just never connected with them. I really hope this was a fluke and the next one is as great as the first.
I read it under the title of His Lucky Charm.