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Reed Eastwood isn’t a fan of playing games, and his first encounters with Ms. Darling have him believing she is capable of nothing but games. He is cold, hard in his outlook on relationship, frivolity, and anything not focused on his family business.

I loved watching these two build a degree of animosity as their initial encounters went humorously awry. It might have been fate that pointed Charlotte to the gown, but it certainly appears as if fate has a sense of humor when it comes to these two.

They are each dealing with hurts from their recent pasts, though in their own unique way. But as they work to take down the walls between them, new insecurities and barriers will try to send them back to square one. There were a few small moments that made me wish one or the other would let go of some of the things that were keeping them apart, but none of their actions or reactions were out of character for them, it was simply my own feelings getting in the way.

This book came up at the perfect time in my reading order. It has a little bit of everything: drama, humor, pain, healing, past and future. I found myself at times laughing through incidents and shorty later aching with the pain of the characters, loving every minute.