Wanted: Personal Buffer Often snarly, workaholic executive seeks “buffer” from annoying outside distractions AKA people. Free spirits with personal boundary issues, excessive quirks, or general squeamishness need not apply. Salary negotiable. Confidentiality required. Workaholic billionaire Sawyer Carlyle may have joked he needed a buffer from their marriage-obsessed mom, but he didn’t need a … but he didn’t need a waiting room filled with candidates to further distract him. (Thanks, bro.) But when a sexy job applicant shooes his mom and the socialite in tow out of his office, Sawyer sees the genius of the plan. And the woman. In fact, Miss Clover Lee might just get the fastest promotion in history, from buffer to fake fiancé…
This free-spirit might look like hot sunshine and lickable rainbows, but she negotiates like a pitbull. Before Sawyer knows what hit him, he’s agreed to give up Friday nights for reality tv, his Saturdays for flea markets (why buy junk still baffles him), his Tuesdays and Thursdays for date nights (aka panty-losing opportunities if he plays his cards right). And now she wants lavender bath salts and tulips delivered every Monday?
Yup, she’s just screwing with him. Good thing she’s got this non-negotiatable six-weeks-and-she’s-gone rule or Sawyer may have just met his match.
Each book in the Harbor City series is STANDALONE
* The Negotiator
* The Charmer
* The Schemer
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Couldn’t put it down. Thank you for a great read.
Great story with unexpected occurrences, keeps you hooked and involved. Loved the characters and their interactions.
Good book. Will read it again.
Poor befuddled Sawyer can’t catch a break or a clue until it’s nearly too late. Good thing he finally wins one negotiation with Clover.
I enjoyed reading this book. The storyline was original and fun. I had several laugh out loud moment which one of the things I love in a book. Very enjoyable
It was witty and fun. I enjoyed it.
The book isn’t as naughty as the cover art would lead one to believe but still very sexy.
I just loved this book. I love the banter between these two. I love how they came together and how strong of a character Clover is. I just want to read more about their happily ever after!
Get this book soon! Funny, steamy, entertaining
All the above.
Such a fun read! Loved her sass! And the way he reacts.
I loved this book. It has a nice premise and the characters were quirky but believable. I loved Clover. She was whimsy and barreled her way through life, Sawyer was a bit starchy, but watching him unbend was fun. It was a thoroughly enjoyable book.
Needed a little more meat in the 6 week engagement – a getting to know you time if you will – it was kinda glossed over. An overall great read – and the glossing over was the only thing i missed. It’s well written and funny and the next book and the series is totally awesome.
What fun! Great dialogue, honest characters.
My first read by this author and I enjoyed this well written story and characters… BUT I didn’t find the “comedy” that others wrote about…I found some wit but nothing laugh out loud… I always get my hopes up but rarely find it. I will give Flynn another read in the future.
Page turner with great characters.
Loved this book! Well developed characters, great pace, excellent secondary characters. Can’t wait to get into Hudson’s book next. The premise of a “personal buffer” is a somewhat new take on the much used fake engagement, but it has a relatively new feel here and thoroughly entertains. Sawyer’s brother is the only one allowed to know. Truly fun watching these two fall in love. I do love a good contemporary romance, and this is a really fun read. There is plenty of sex with some detail, so if that’s not your thing then fair warning.
Sawyer and Clover could not be more different but that is the beauty of their story! A interfering brother has taken it upon himself to post a job listing for his sibling Sawyer….a buffer. Yes that is right he thinks that Sawyer needs an emotional , situational buffer when it comes to his private life .
Clover , I loved her and her quirky ways . She has had every and any job that you can imagine . It appears that she has no limits and she will be the best she can be at each of them. She has no idea what she has gotten herself into when she applies for this position .
Sawyer is accustomed to getting what he wants in business and personal ventures. It has become difficult lately with his meddling mother attempting to fix him up with every available socialite in town. He wants no part of it but soon it becomes more difficult to avoid. That now brings us to this odd couple match ..Clover is his new assistant or shall we say buffer once he sees her in action putting his mother in her place. Clover realizes that this is only a temporary gig but she will do her best to get the job done. What they didn’t plan on is the amazing chemistry they have or the funny refreshing banter they would share!
Loved their story!!
~~Michele McMullen ~~
A really cute take on the fake fiancé trope. Sawyer has been serious and devoted to his family and their company since he was a child. Clover is a free spirit that goes after new adventures so she won’t end up like her mother. She answers an ad, placed by Hudson (Sawyer’s brother) to be a personal buffer for Sawyer. Sawyer concludes that the only way to get his meddling mother off of his back is to feign an engagement. What I liked about this was that the characters and the love story were allowed to develop.
3.75 star– THE NEGOTIATOR is the first instalment in Avery Flynn’s contemporary, adult HARBOR CITY romance series. This is international construction billionaire Sawyer Carlyle, and ‘free spirit’ Jane ‘Clover’ Lee’s story line.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Clover and Sawyer) THE NEGOTIATOR is a fake fiancé trope that follows the building relationship between billionaire Sawyer Carlyle, and Clover Lee. Need a ‘buffer’ between his mother and the copious number of single, available women Sawyer Carlyle finds himself ‘interviewing’ the least likely buffer he could have ever imagined. Enter feisty, take charge, free spirit Clover Lee, and the woman with whom he would fall in love. What ensues is the fake fiancé relationship that grows into something more, and the potential fall-out as Sawyer makes Clover an offer she refuses to accept.
Clover Lee is a bit of a ‘free spirit’ who like to travel, never staying in one place too long, and a woman determined never to settle down in one place too long. Meeting Sawyer Carlyle sees Clover take a step back from her preconceived notions about falling in love, and settling down but Sawyer’s reasons for making their arrangement permanent are not fraught from love but from a more sterile sense of obligation.
The relationship between Carlyle and Clover is a fake-fiance contract written out on a diner napkin. Carlyle never had plans to fall in love but meeting Clover Lee finds our hero looking forward to everything-one outing at a time. The $ex scenes are intimate, seductive and intense, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
We are introduced to Sawyer’s brother Hudson Carlyle, and their mother Helene; and Sawyer’s one-time best friend and nemesis Tyler Jacobson; Clover’s roommate and best friend Daphne, as well as Clover’s parents Laura and Phillip Lee.
THE NEGOTIATOR has a little bit of everything: humor, fun, romance, love, heartbreak and a happily ever after. The premise is sexy and inviting; the characters are energetic and dynamic; the romance is passionate.
I knew from the moment I saw this cover I was going to love this book! It DID NOT disappoint!! This story sucked me in from the first page!! Sawyer is an uptight, executive who can only deal with the big picture and I could not keep track of how many times I wanted to smack him upside the head. Clover is a free spirit who is afraid she’ll fade away if she isn’t grabbing life by the balls. When these two meet it is like oil and water but oh, how sexy it was when they got together!! This story will touch your heart and send you on an emotional rollercoaster right up to the very end. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!