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Any Time, Any Place by Jennifer Probst

B

Any Time, Any Place

by Jennifer Probst

The second book in the Billionaire Builders series is definitely going to appeal to HGTV fans and lovers of hot contemporary romances alike. When Raven Stratton moves home to open a bar/ restaurant she’s got a dual purpose in mind: run a successful business and also avenge her father. He dad died in a car accident running off with an “other woman,” and Raven has never forgiven that woman’s family for making her father out to be a con man and manipulator. So when her antique bar needs repair in time for a magazine shoot and Dalton Pierce shows up to do the work, it seems like karma. Dalton’s mom was the woman with Raven’s dad–although Dalton doesn’t know that.

Sound complicated? It is. And I was never sure how Raven was going to avenge her father anyway (although a portion of the book is coming to terms with a parent’s imperfections).

The best parts of this book are the wonderful details about Raven getting her business up and running. I felt like I could get up and walk into Raven’s bar and recognize it on site. There are similar details about Dalton’s woodworking business but my understanding of home improvement is so limited that I once thought a newel post cap holding cash in my local Starbucks tip jar was a butt plug.

A silver object (possibly butt plug, possibly newel post cap) sits on top of a pile of cash in a clear box outside a Starbucks drive through.
Newel post cap or butt plug? You decide.

Raven is also amazing despite the Inigo Montoya bit. She’s tattooed, she does martial arts training, and she’s a mixologist. She’s the type of ultra-cool, nuanced heroine you want to be friends with. Dalton is more of a playboy stereotype but there is some excellent slow burn chemistry happening.

So while the revenge part and the woodworking (hur) wasn’t a huge draw for me, the sexiness, the heroine and the restaurant environment made this contemporary stand out.

Elyse

HGTV’s Property Brothers meets The Marriage Bargain in this second volume in the Billionaire Builders series, an all-new heart-wrenching and sexy contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.

When she was a teenger, Raven Bella Stratton’s father was killed in a horrible car crash. The bigger shock was the discovery of a woman with him—Diana Pierce—and their two fully packed suitcases with airline tickets to Paris. Devastated by her father’s betrayal, Raven went to live with her aunt, never truly overcoming the traumatic event. When she discovers that the mysterious woman had a family with a husband and three boys, Raven vows to leave the memory of her father behind.

Until Dalton Pierce visits one night and suddenly her past challenges her future…

Leaving his life in California behind to run Pierce Construction with his two older brothers, Dalton Pierce has enjoyed returning home and studying his passion of woodworking. But when he visits the local bar with his brothers one evening, he’s immediately drawn to the smart-mouthed, badass, sexy bartender who sets his body on fire. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem as intrigued by him, and his multiple advances are met with rejection. When he offers to restore the bar back to its original glory, he begins to work with her on a daily basis, and falls harder. His plan of seduction slowly weaves a web around them both, until they are caught up in the spell. But Dalton doesn’t know the secret that can either destroy them both…or finally mend two broken hearts.

Contemporary Romance, Romance
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  1. batgirl says:

    Misleading cover, that. The hands do not suggest a martial artist or a woodworker, even if you swap them around in your mind. I thought it was an f/f story at first.

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