SAMANTHA
WESTLAKE
Synopsis
from Goodreads: “I
felt the man’s hand resting on my hip, his skin radiating heat into
me. “A divine piece of art,” he murmured into my ear…”
Becca
Grace is ready for her life to turn around.
Her
disastrous one-year marriage is finally behind her, and all she needs
to get her ex-husband Barry out of her life is make one last payment.
Unfortunately, that payment (ten grand!) is a little beyond Becca’s
already-strained bank account. With the deadline looming, she’s
gotten a job working at her Uncle Preston’s art gallery, selling
overpriced art to tourists on vacation - but at least she gets paid
on commission. She just needs one big sale.
The
art gallery, however, comes with its own distractions - Carter James,
a gorgeously warm real estate agent, keeps on dropping in and
catching Becca at embarrassing moments. In addition, one of the
gallery’s featured artists, a tall taste of dark chocolate named
Onyx, keeps on inviting Becca back to his private studio for some
one-on-one modeling…
Despite
the interests of both sexy men, Becca’s determined to pay off Barry
and put her past behind her before moving on to a new romance. But
can she manage to get her hands on the money - and resist falling
into bed with either of these muscled, sculpture-ready men?
The
first in an exciting new series, SELLING GRACE is more than 50,000
words, filled with twists, turns, and with a happy ending that’s
guaranteed to satisfy every urge - yet still leave you clamoring for
the next book in the series! There’s even a bonus novel, TOMCAT,
included! Does love have nine lives? Find out for yourself!
Content
warning: This novel contains explicit scenes, and is intended only
for adult romance lovers.
Stats
for my copy: Kindle edition, 2016.
How
acquired: Received from eBook Itch ARC Group for review.
My
thoughts: It's
billed as a “Light Romance Novel”, and it was light. So light
that for almost the entire book I kept waiting for the build up to
end and for the story to actually begin, for something to happen.
Becca
is recently divorced, and somehow, by signing papers without
bothering to read them when she got married, she's now on the hook
for the mortgage on the marital home. As part of the divorce
settlement, she has to pay her ex $10,000.00, and the deadline for
payment is looming. Her uncle gives her a job managing his art
gallery, despite the fact she has no knowledge of art, no sales or
management experience, no qualifications for the job. But since the
gallery doesn't seem to get a lot of customers, I guess she can
handle it.
At
the gallery she meets two men. Carter James is a very successful real
estate agent who often purchases pieces from the gallery to put in
the various buildings he owns/manages/sells. Onyx, no last name, is
one of the artists whose work is exhibited in the gallery. He's dark
and brooding, and spends his time carving penises out of stone or
black marble. I don't think he carves anything else, and I'm not sure
what that says about him.
Becca
is nice enough and a little interesting. Her friend Portia is more
interesting, and the scenes with the two women were some of my
favorites. I liked Carter. He's fun and has a lot of charisma, and he
and Becca seemed to have some real chemistry. Onyx, no last name, is
dark and brooding, maybe a little bit dangerous, a bit stereotypical.
Altogether,
the story was pleasant enough, if a little mundane (when Becca
answered her phone I didn't really need her to explain that she did
so by flipping it over and swiping across it). There is some amusing
bantering back and forth between Becca and Portia and Becca and
Carter. I find it a little hard to believe that a judge would agree
to making her pay her ex $10,000 on a short deadline when she
obviously didn't even have a job at the time the order came down. And
when she approached the ex to ask him for more time or to accept
monthly payments, he threatened to sue her, and then to sue her
parents, which freaked Becca out, though I can't even imagine what
grounds he could have to sue her parents. For not providing a large
dowry?
Light,
a little breezy, and a quick read, with an HFN leading into the next
installment of the series.
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