SYNOPSIS

Standing on the balcony, outside my boss’s apartment, wearing only my underwear?

Not how I expected to start my Saturday morning.

I guess I should’ve thought harder about going home with my sexy new gym instructor, especially since I had no idea the guy was married.

When he pushed me outside five seconds before his wife walked through the door, I jumped one balcony over. I thought it would be less embarrassing for a total stranger to find me than his wife.

That was a smart move.

So here I am, wearing next to nothing and freezing my ass off, staring through the living room window at my young, sexy, and very intimidating boss, Chase Winston.

I have two choices: I can sit here and try to think of another way out of this and risk dying of hypothermia. Or I can suck it up and knock on that window.

After a long, internal argument with myself, I choose option two.

Here goes nothing…

*****Patty’s Review*****

*****3.75 STARS*****
{ARC Generously Provided by Author}

I CAN EXPLAIN is another fun and steamy novella from the ”Awkward Love” series. Each couple so far has either started their romance under ”FORBIDDEN” or extremely
”EMBARRASSING” circumstances. There are several cringe-worthy moments that befall the Heroine while in the presence of our sexy and downright arrogant Hero. While romances between the executive assistant and the handsome but obnoxious CEO have been played out to death, I still enjoy this trope and I give the author credit for coming up with the most preposterous and embarrassing scenario for the couple’s romance to ignite. This is a book to be taken for its level of enjoyment and not for the substance of the story. The entire series is basically a ”guilty pleasure” read.

Lanna Morrison hates her job. She also despises her boss, but if she’s being honest he’s been the star of all her naughty fantasies as well. She has a master’s degree in business analytics and feels she is overqualified to be working as a junior personal assistant. Her days are spent running errands for Chase Winston all over town and even though she’s done an exceptional job for nearly two years, he manages to ream her for getting his coffee order wrong just one time. While on a tirade about Chase with her best friend and co-worker, she mentions what a complete ass he is but that she’d still love to get it on with him, anyway he’d have her. Unbeknownst to her and to her utter horror, Chase had been standing behind her the entire time and heard the whole embarrassing monologue.

Chase is amused by Lanna’s naughty fantasies and he has been harboring an attraction for her as well, but office romances are frowned upon and a past relationship has scared him off from getting serious with another woman. Lanna’s alluring and her feisty attitude is a huge turn on for Chase. Never in his wildest dreams did he expect to find her out on his balcony at 6 AM in the morning in a next to nothing bra and panty set.

Lanna thought she’d never get over the mortification of having Chase overhear her raunchy fantasies about him, but yet again, her misfortune has landed her practically naked on his balcony. Her one and only attempt at a one-night stand with her gorgeous gym instructor turned out disastrous when his wife unexpectedly came home early. Lanna had no idea that he was married and while she freezes out on their balcony she weighs her option of going back into their apartment to face the wrath of a jealous wife or to jump over to the neighbor’s balcony and deal with a brief embarrassing moment with a stranger that she’ll never have to see again. She’s horrified when she sees that the neighbor is her boss but having no other choice she swallows her embarrassment and tries to get through the situation with what little dignity she has left.

The dynamic between Chase and Lanna changes dramatically after the balcony fiasco. Soon a hot and heavy romance blossoms between them and while they both are on a high just being together, there are painful secrets from Chase’s past that could wind up tearing the couple apart.

Here are my overall ratings:
Hero: 4
Heroine: 4
Plot: 3
Angst: 2
Steam: 4
Chemistry Between Hero & Heroine: 4

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SYNOPSIS

They call him the Anaconda, and I’m pretty sure it isn’t because he likes snakes.

Nick Jenson is my neighbor. My hot, oh-so-sexy, very-well-equipped neighbor that I’d spend hours watching from the safety of my bedroom window.

I saw lots of things I probably shouldn’t have. Sometimes I’d touch myself, imagining it were his hands roaming over my body instead of my own. I had just one mission—to find out if the rumors were true.

Then one day, he caught me watching him.

I was mortified. I was prepared to quit college, move to another country, and live the rest of my life saying, “Nick who?” But, apparently, life had other ideas.

Because Nick? Well, he isn’t just my neighbor … He’s also my father’s best friend. If I thought things were difficult before, they were about to get a whole lot more complicated.

Oh, and those rumors? Holy fuck, were they true …

*****Patty’s Review*****

*****FOUR STARS*****
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IT’S COMPLICATED is a super fun and steamy tale of forbidden romance between a young woman and her father’s best friend. There’s very little angst and definitely a case of insta-love between the main characters but still, I enjoyed this guilty pleasure of a read.

From the beginning of the story, I knew that it was going to deliver on the steam but that the plot would be a little silly and predictable and even so, I honestly can’t lie—I thoroughly enjoyed the book and breezed through it pretty quickly. We learn that Anna’s next door neighbor Nick, who also happens to be her father’s best friend, has a penis the size of an anaconda according to the town gossip. Nick’s wife died a few years ago and he’s just recently been dating again. Anna overhears a conversation about Nick’s well-endowed penis while at her University’s library and that night she gets an eyeful of it when she turns into a peeping pervert, watching him undress from her bedroom window. Anna had always thought of Nick as an attractive man but until that night she had never had any dirty fantasies about him. She ends up getting caught peeping later that same week and Nick is a little shocked and horrified to find out that he’s turned on by his beautiful twenty-two-year-old neighbor who used to babysit his kids when she was seventeen.

Nick and Anna start to play sexy games with each other by performing stripteases in front of their bedroom windows knowing that they each are getting a good look at each other’s naughty bits. When Anna’s dad asks her to go and help Nick out with his kids so that he can get some alone time, he had no idea that he would be pushing the two in each other’s arms. Things heat up pretty quickly between Nick and Anna and there are many times where the hot sex has nearly fried their brains because they take some crazy risks to be together knowing that Anna’s father will burst a blood vessel in his brain if he were to find out what’s been going on between them.

It’s inevitable that their secret is going to get out because they can’t seem to keep their libidos in check and when Anna and Nick realize that what they feel for each other is more than just physical desire it will only be a matter of time before they have to face the repercussions of their actions. Will their loved ones wind up being accepting of their relationship?

Here are my overall ratings on the book:

Hero: 4
Heroine: 4
Plot: 3.5
Angst: 3
Steam: 5
Chemistry Between Hero & Heroine: 4.5

”IT’S COMPLICATED” is currently available. If you like forbidden romances with the father’s best friend and enjoy guilty pleasure reads, then you may want to give this one a try.

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