Matt is a retired pro baseball player forging a new career running a winery in a new place.  He is a man who has lived the rich playboy life, in the spotlight, but is now seeing his best friends find good women to settle down with. He did not think he would fall, but Bryn makes it hard not to. He is a fair boss, sexy, charming, smart, and driven. He is a good guy trying to do the right thing, but what could be perceived as wrong by others just feels so right to him. He is trying to have a good public persona (unlike his father) and is trying to to build connections for his winery. A relationship between boss and assistant could damage both of their reputations and ruin their working relationship. So he tries to resist.

She seems nice and normal, quiet and unobtrusive and I am anything but. My life has been a circus sideshow for years.

Bryn left her small town for a reason. She is just trying to escape her past and starting over in California. She has always been chastised or used for her pretty face and good looks. She does not have really positive history with men in general. She wants to be taken seriously and avoid issues, so she tries to be a plainer, more no-nonsense girl. But a vivid, funny, intelligent woman is who is hiding under her baggy, beige dull wardrobe. But she longs for Matt to really see her. 

I barely restrain myself. The man is like a drug, and I'm hopelessly addicted. Not only hopelessly, I'm happily addicted. It's ridiculous, how much I think about him. But he doesn't seem to think about me whatsoever. 

Ivy (Asher's fiance') and Marina(Gage's girlfriend) decide it is time to give Matt a push and help Bryn with a makeover. That just adds fuel to the fire as Bryn starts showing her true personality and potential. Their chemistry is hot. Their rapport is easy going and they are both really nice people, but their pasts and current potentially volatile situation keeps stopping them. They are affected by fears, insecurities, financial and lifestyle differences, social norms, and of course the bet Matt stands to lose. 

She's a contradiction. Innocent yet sexy, with the face of an angel and a body made for sin, One minute she's shy and acts inexperienced, the next she's a laughing, sultry mistress who looks like she wants to devour me in one swallow. 

But can two people drawn together and working in such close proximity really resist? And if they do throw caution to the wind and go for it, what kind of consequences will they have to deal with?

I liked that we got both Matt and Bryn's points of view especially since their attraction was a secret from each other in the beginning. It was fun to see how totally oblivious they could be about the other one. I also liked that it built over time as they worked together and was not insta-love. But I felt that the end was a bit rushed and I was not ready for their story to be over. The endings of this whole series have felt that way to me, but at least then I knew that we would be seeing the couples again in the next friend's story. I would have liked to have seen at least an epilogue with updates from them and the other couples since this was the end of the trilogy. But I did enjoy seeing more with Asher, Gage, Ivy, and Marina in this installment. Their friendships are supportive, humorous and fun, and the couples are committed and loving. This was still a sweet, light, romantic read with likable characters and just enough angst and drama to keep it interesting. 

Thanks to Monica Murphy and Avon Impulse for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.