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This HaBO comes from Allison, who is looking for this contemporary romance:
I saw this one on Bookpage’s blog when that was still a thing, maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Now that they’ve changed the format, it’s gone.
The excerpt was from when the man and womdorty an meet at the beginning of the book. It’s from her perspective, I think she’s a real estate agent or possibly a lawyer. He walks in to the office and she gets pissed because he’s wearing these work boots and he’s tracking mud all over the place, but he’s super hot and she notices him looking her up and down. He might have a southern accent and I’m pretty sure he’s a millionaire/billionaire.
This feels very familiar to me, but my brain is sludge.
Dirty Money
by Jessica Clare
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Could it be Dirty Money by Jessica Clare? He’s an oil tycoon that still likes to work with his crew and she’s a real estate agent. Takes place in Texas.
This sounds like Victoria Dahl’s Lead Me On. She is the receptionist at a law firm and he comes in covered in dirt. She doesn’t want to date him because he is blue collar and her mom dated too many bad boys. She wants to date someone educated. She eventually goes out with him, has a wonderful time and decides she will date him for sex only. He realizes that and insists he will only see her if they have conversations and date. (Spoiler – once she gets to know him she finds out she completely misjudged him.)
I would be pretty pissed if someone tracked mud into my office. There’s a welcome mat for a reason and if it’s really muddy you scrape your boots off on the sidewalk.
Mud on the carpet or floor is so rude. Some workmen have those blue bootie things to cover their shoes.
My neighbor, the plumber, takes his shoes off. At least in my house, but we’ve been neighbor-friends for nearly 20 years.
We’ve recently had both air conditioning and plumbing work done in our house—and I’m pleased to say that all workers put blue booties over their shoes/boots (and wore face masks). Of course, we’re talking about a private residence, not an office as in the HABO, but I agree tracking in mud would at least make me think the person doing the muddying up was not very thoughtful.
/I love how one can never predict in which direction the SBTB comments section is going to go.
Pretty sure I read this within the last 5 years or so but I have no idea of the title or author.
However, just why is it so danged hard for men to wipe their feet? I have any number of maintenance men enter my apartments over the years and not one of them wiped their feet unless I asked.
It’s Dirty Money by Jessica Clare!!! It took me 4 years of fruitless searching and Cheryl gets me the answer in like, an hour and half. Thanks so much!
Yay! Way to go, Cheryl. And thank you, Allison, for checking in to let us know the HABO was solved! (It’s so frustrating to never have closure on some of these. LOL.) Glad you found your book.