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Blurb

Rosie Belmont has been driving me wild for years. The good kind of wild. The bad kind of wild. But mostly the kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend’s little sister and knowing you can’t have her.

After living in the city, she comes blasting back into Rose Hill like a storm. Beautiful, messy, and chaotic.

And one wide-eyed desperate plea for a job is all it takes for me to hire her.

Forbes may have labeled me the World’s Hottest Billionaire but all I care about is opening my new recording studio. Something that comes to a screeching halt when I end up face-to-face with a young girl who claims I’m her biological father.

Now I spend my days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old all while trying desperately to keep my hands the hell off my best friend’s little sister.

I vow to keep Rosie at arm’s length. I try to stick to scowls and grumpy one-liners. But with her verbal sparring is merely foreplay—friction that turns to blistering heat.

I know damn well I shouldn’t cross that line.

But shouldn’t and can’t are two very different things.

And the only thing I truly can’t do is resist her.

 

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Review

5 stars!

OMG, this is such a gorgeous read! Elsie Silver stole my heart with the Chestnut Springs series, and she’s off to a fantastic start with her the Rose Hill series. A slow burning, brother’s best friend, frenemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine story, that is full of chemistry, feels and epic banter. It’s funny, it’s sweet, it’s sexy and romantic, and I freaking loved every moment of it!

Ford Grant has just been named Forbes’ World’s Hottest Billionaire. The son of a rockstar (and brother of Willa from Heartless, Chestnut Springs, #2) he’s made his own fortune, and after growing tired of the corporate world he has moved his life to the small town of Rose Hill, where he used to spend his summers, and where his best friend, Weston, still lives. He’s a good guy, with a great sense of humour, smart, sensitive, quiet and reclusive, and he’s embracing his new life, where he plans to set up his own music production company. Everything is finally on track for him… until it’s thrown wildly off course. Firstly, an emo 12 year old rocks up on his doorstep claiming to be his daughter, and then Rosie Belmont returns to town.

Rosie is Weston’s younger sister. Smart, confident and popular, she grew up spending her summers with her brother and Ford, and the two of them always had an antagonistic relationship. Always bickering, teasing and pranking each other, they never seemed to get along, but secretly Ford harboured a massive crush on Rosie, and having her back in town is the last thing he expected. But she’s been through a rough time, and has returned home to try and figure her life out. Needing help with his daughter and his company, and wanting to be there for Rosie like he always was in the past, he hires her as his assistant, putting them up close and personal with each other, and setting the scene for the fantastic story to come.

“We’re not enemies, Rosalie.”
“Things might be a lot simpler if we were.”

I love these two together!! They’re straight back into the old dynamic, bickering and flirting – though now with an adult edge – and their arguing and banter is so much fun! Underneath all of the snark, they are good friends, and we know that Ford is already in love with Rosie, which puts a different spin on all of their interactions and makes it all the more intense. And those little tender moments where he’s being the supportive friend he’s always been made me swoon so hard.

“I’m so tired, Ford. I’m so fucking tired.”
His stubble prickles at my scalp as he presses a kiss to my hair and nuzzles his cheek on the top of my head. “Just rest for a minute then, Rosie. I got you.”

Rosie is a fantastic character. She’s brave and bold, and she’s confident with who she is. She’s just having a wobble in life, and she’s strong enough to lean on Ford, allowing him to help her and be there for her.

As much as I don’t need a knight in shining armor to defend my honor, I’m relieved I have one who feels compelled to do so.

And Ford stole my heart! He may be quiet and a little bit shy, but he has a great sense of humour and a huge heart, and I loved watching him just take everything in stride. He’s such a good guy, thoughtful and kind to the people he allows into his life, and I loved watching him care for his newly-discovered daughter, Cora, while taking on all that is Rosie. He is fiercely protective, and wears his heart on his sleeve, and I loved everything about him!

“Hear this, Rosie. You are worth every penny. Every fortune. Every investment. Every risk. You are priceless to me.”

And my God, the man has a dirty streak. And with all of that chemistry and flirty arguing, and after years of built-up sexual tension, the passion that literally explodes between these two is wild!

“I told myself I was going to stay the hell away from you. But here I am, making you spread your legs for me on my desk and dreaming about fucking you senseless.”

It’s been a long time coming, but watching these two come together and figure out who they are to each other is a beautiful journey. There is so much love between them, even before they admit it, and I loved every moment of them together while they work through it all and find their HEA.

“I want a wild love….I want this feeling I have with you where it hurts to breathe when you get too far away, where my skin itches uncontrollably when you look at me. Where thinking feels overrated because we both know nothing and no one will ever feel like this. Like us.”

It’s a funny, sexy and swoony ride, and I cherished every moment. I listened to this as an audiobook, narrated by Zachary Webber and Vanessa Edwin, and they do a fantastic job bringing this story to life. This is definitely a great one to listen to.

I loved this book so much, and after meeting the rest of the boys in the ‘Single Dads Bowling Club’, I’m so excited for more from this series.

5 huge stars.

 

Rose Hill