Risky Business by Amy Andrews: Samantha was the quintessential modern working girl, after living a nomadic life growing up all she wanted to do was race for that corner office, the security and the stability. Yes she dated but all with the wrong kinds of men, after all she just really wanted some companionship, she didn’t NEED anyone.
Nick was a rover and had been since the moment he was able to be. He was the seventh son of a seventh son after all. He loved his family dearly though and while he didn’t want to be tied down, having a new girl on his arm all the time was great, he did love family. When his grandmother passed away he rescheduled everything to come back and say one last goodbye, what he didn’t count on was finding his way home, and finding a new career in a book store.
The problem with romance novels is that people, especially females, can live in them. Sometimes believing what they read so much that they fail to see what is right in front of their own faces. That was the problem that Samantha had she didn’t trust herself or that anything like the books she fancied could really happen, at least not to her. Sam was so real though, a bit naïve but in the kind of way that both made you feel for her and made her so relatable. From the first friendship she has with a guy, Nick, to blind dates, to not seeing what is right in front of her face, a lesbian and Nick, she goes through everything.
Huge bonus points for Nick as well for being able to read her and to help her find herself. He’s totally the kind of guy you wish existed in the real world, but is impossible to find. He teases her like a big brother, teaches her about the birds and the bees, and gives her the most amazing pleasure. Their courtship though speedy is that of acquaintances, crushes, friends and lovers, you are able to see the stages and wish that Sam was able to see them as well.
Ms. Andrews created this perfect small town feel in the big city where the people are real and similar to the TV show “Cheers” everyone knows your name and your business. This story is so relatable and so fresh it was unlike other books and completely impossible to put down.
Book Info:
Published July 1st 2014 by Escape Publishing
From bestselling author Amy Andrews comes a new single-title romance about putting pleasure before business, and the risks we all need to take when we find someone worth risking everything for.
Samantha Evans’s life is going to hell. Not only has she rage-quit her beloved, high-powered job, but she is suddenly afflicted by hormones, free time, and an unavoidable, unignorable, undeniably gorgeous irritant in the form of Nick Hawke, her extreme sports star neighbour, who has come home to take over the reins of his grandmother’s second-hand bookshop. Sam needs something to keep her from begging for her old job back until she’s good and sure her boss understands how wrong he was, and taking a low-risk, low-stress job helping Nick at the bookstore might be just the thing.
After all, it’s not like Nick is the right guy to help her with her hormones. He’ll just be fun to look at while she searches for the one.
Nick has six months to get over an injury before Everest and a big, fat contract beckon. That means no sports, no danger and, above all else, no risks. It means playing it safe. And Nick Hawke doesn’t do safe. So he’s going to need something to stave off the boredom while selling books he doesn’t read to people who wouldn’t know a carabineer from a crochet hook. What could be safer than hiring a cranky, unemployed accountant to help run the bookstore? Sam is efficient and methodical and messing up her neat, post-it note world could be a fun way to pass the time….
Risky Business mixes the classic romance of Philadelphia Story, the humour and wit of When Harry Met Sally, and a strong, contemporary Australian setting to create a delightful, irresistible, utterly satisfying treat of a novel.
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Nice setting