Release Review: DRILLED: K. M. Neuhold
Drilled
K.M. Neuhold
A month in a remote cabin with the last man I ever expected to see again? I can’t decide if I should punch him or drill him. It might end up being both.
After more than a decade, the last person I expected to see walk into the Four Bears Construction offices as a new hire was Ridge.
He was my first crush, and my first heartbreak when he started dating my sister. When he left her at the altar without so much as a note, I wrote him off for good.
No amount of excuses and explanations can erase what he did. At least that’s what I keep telling myself. But when we end up being sent to a remote campground alone to spend a month rebuilding the cabins, it’s too easy to remember why I fell for him in the first place.
I know the guys are all taking bets on how long it takes us to start playing with each other’s tools.
It’s going to be a long month.
*** Drilled is a forced proximity, best friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, hilarious and steamy, final book in the Four Bears Construction series. It can be read as a stand alone but you won't want to miss this whole hilarious and hot series. No bear shifters, only the other kind of burly, hairy bear.
“Oh, you know, former best friend, responsible for my sexual awakening even though he doesn’t know it, unrequited love, hates my guts… tale as old as time.”
Two burly former best friends who have not spoken civilly in fifteen years and are now thrown together in seclusion for a month. What could possibly go wrong or maybe even right? Friends to enemies to coworkers to friends to more?
Apollo has been working at Four Bears Construction for a while. He is a stoic, quiet, surly, grunting bear who keeps his secrets locked down and is not exactly social.
His worst nightmare and biggest regret waltzes right in as a new construction worker in his firm. Ridge was his former best friend and young crush that committed an unforgivable betrayal in his eyes. No explanation would have been good enough so Apollo never let him even try.
Sunshine versus grumpy. Regret versus resentment. Secrets and miscommunication versus the unexpected truth. It's all about to get messy now as they work in a secluded location on a project. They will be forced to face the past, deal with each other in the present, and figure out if they can mean something to each other in the future.
I loved how Ridge just kept trying to figure out how to push Apollo back into a space where he could see how they still get along together. He is fun, adventurous, and sometimes silly. He owns his mistakes but he has to actually make Apollo be willing to listen. He could read Apollo like a book and speak Apollo-speak and interpret his grunts and groans. And he accepted him despite his broody ways. And there is more to Apollo under the surface that only Ridge has ever been able to tap into. Their bond never really was broken despite the hurt, time, and distance, and their chemistry is smoking hot.
But life in a bubble is one thing and the real world has some challenges. Their past still has the potential to cause issues.
This is a steamy, funny, heartfelt, former-friends, enemies-lovers, second chance, forced proximity story with two stubborn guys coming together but not sure if they can keep it together. It brings back all of the friends that I have come to love and they are just as nosy and pushy as ever. The additional epilogue just made me smile so big. I am so ready for the spin-off series as well. There are already a few guys I am hoping to see stories for.
K.M. Neuhold is a complete romance junkie, a total sap in every way. She started her journey as an author in new adult, straight romance, but after a chance reading of an MM book she was completely hooked on everything about lovely- and sometimes damaged- men finding their Happily Ever After together.
She has a strong passion for writing characters with a lot of heart and soul, and a bit of humor as well. And she fully admits that her OCD tendencies of making sure every side character has a full backstory will likely always lead to every book having a spin-off or series.
When she’s not writing, she’s a lion tamer, an astronaut, and a superhero…just kidding, she’s likely watching Netflix and snuggling with her husky, Lola, while her amazing husband brings her coffee.
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