SERIES: Honeybridge #2 Lucy Lennox and May Archer Goodreads Website March 7, 2024 Amazon March 14, 2024
One New Year’s masquerade. One anonymous hookup. One billionaire-sized mistake.
Once upon a time, someone looked at my scrawny, impetuous eight-year-old self and nicknamed me Mr. Important… and I believed them.
That was my first mistake.
Two decades, a dozen failed careers, and a thousand meaningless hookups later, I’ve made more mistakes than I can count. My parents have decided I’m purely decorative, my brother thinks I need pep talks, and the gorgeous billionaire who hired me as a favor to my dad? He’s forgotten I exist.
So I’m done with mistakes.
Call it my New Year’s resolution. From now on, I’m going after what I want… starting with the mysterious silver fox in the Roman warrior mask who approached me at the charity gala and offered me a scorching, anonymous one-night stand.
Unfortunately, when our masks come off I realize mistakes are not done with me.
Because the bossy guy who blew my mind? He’d thought I was someone else. Worse than that, he’s my father’s friend. A supposedly-straight workaholic. The person I’m stuck on a road trip with for the next two weeks. And, oh yeah, my actual boss.
The farther we get from New York, the closer we become, and the harder it is to pretend I’m not falling for him. But I can’t see how someone as brilliant, controlled, and successful as Thatcher Pennington would risk everything to be with someone like me… even if he makes me feel like I’m finally Mr. Important.
It was only supposed to be an anonymous, one-night hookup.
But when the masks come off, reality slaps them in the face.
Reagan Wellbridge comes from an established, wealthy, political family. But he’s the second son, and the one that never can seem to prove himself. He has many failed career attempts, and he is seen as unreliable, untrustworthy and undisciplined. He’s found his niche in social media and management but still, no one really takes him seriously. He’s also charming, snarky, smart, and thinks well in a crisis
Thatcher Pennington is a successful, intimidating, billionaire CEO. He’s a workaholic, and that’s his safe place because he has some family dynamic issues of his own and avoids personal relationships. He’s big, intimidating, cool, and thrives on control and order.
Reagan works for Thatcher's company in a beginner PR position, but now these two are stuck in close quarters while trying to deal with the company's social media crisis. But the small space just intensifies their chemistry and makes everything harder to resist even though they both know there are plenty of reasons to.
This is an age-gap, boss-employee, son's old friend – father’s friend, forced-proximity, opposites-attract, failed one-night stand turned a bit messy romance;.
It's about unexpectedly finding that person who can see under their well-crafted veneers down to the real vulnerable person underneath and can see their full potential. Most people never took Reagan seriously and just thought of him as a pretty face who could charm anyone. Thatcher sees his potential, talent, intelligence, and his skills with people and online. Thatcher has always thought there was something wrong with him that makes him ruin relationships, but Reagan can appreciate how supportive, passionate, and protective he can be.
They forge a bond in that tour bus that’s more than just based on the physical. But there are so many external factors, manipulation by others, worries about perception, fears and insecurities that cloud their vision of any kind of shared future. There’s miscommunication, avoidance, and self-doubt, but ultimately it comes down to that point when it's make or break.
I loved these two together. I thought they really balanced each other well and they really needed what the other provided to them and they thrived with it. They just had to get out of their own way and they had opportunities for growth.
It brings back cameos from the first book, teases the next book, and even sets up a couple that has a little bonus short story. I loved McGee and was glad that was included. I liked this book better than the first of this series, and now I’m getting more invested in this town and group of characters
There are three kinds of people in Honeybridge, Maine: The Honeycutts, who know a lot about love and loyalty; The Wellbridges, who think they’re the epitome of wealth and refinement; and the rest of the Honeybridgers, who know better than to get in the way of the centuries-old rivalry between the two.
There wasn’t a time when I didn't know Flynn “Firecracker” Honeycutt.
He’s been my childhood friend. My high school rival. The guy I couldn’t stop dreaming about, long after I thought I’d left him and Honeybridge in my rear-view mirror.
Now he’s the key to the giant promotion that can make or break my career… if I can just convince the man to give me the distribution rights for his award-winning mead.
Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done.
Flynn’s not the guy he used to be. His gorgeous eyes used to spark with dreams and fire, but now he looks at me with cold fury. And just like Achilles had his heel and Samson had his hair, I had Flynn Honeycutt, the one man I’d never been able to charm, despite an entire life spent winning people over. I’m not giving up, though. Because I’m not the kid I used to be, either. And because, if the two of us can survive a long, hot summer filled with his family’s crazy antics and my mother’s single-handed determination to keep the Wellbridge-Honeycutt feud alive, there might just be a chance for both of us to get what we want:
A new dream. The fulfillment of an old town legend. And another chance to spark Firecracker to life.
After enjoying creative writing as a child, Lucy didn’t write her first novel until she was over 40 years old. Her debut novel, Borrowing Blue, was published in the autumn of 2016. Lucy has an English Literature degree from Vanderbilt University, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the years and years of staying up all night reading tantalizing novels on her own. She has three children, plays tennis, and hates folding laundry. While her husband is no shmoopy romance hero, he is very good at math, cooks a mean lasagne, has gorgeous eyes, looks hot in his business clothes, and makes her laugh every single day.
Lucy hopes you enjoy sexy heroes as much as she does. Happy reading!
May is an M/M author who lives in Boston. She spends her days raising three incredibly sarcastic children, finding inventive ways to drive her husband crazy, planning beach vacations, avoiding the gym, reading M/M romance, and occasionally writing it. She also writes MF romance as Maisy Archer.
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