Author: Darcy Burke
Publication: 18 April 2022
Format: Kindle eBook
Ada Treadway has been in love before, and it brought nothing but heartache. Still, she retains her cheerful optimism and is fiercely protective of the independence and respect she’s earned as bookkeeper of the Phoenix Club. When the owner enlists her help to organize his friend’s estate ledgers, she’s eager to prove her expertise and her worth. But his friend turns out to be a disagreeable, unpleasant beast, and Ada works to find the warm-hearted gentleman she’s sure lurks beneath.
Maximillian Hunt, the Viscount Warfield doesn’t care if he lives to see tomorrow, and he certainly doesn’t want to recall yesterday. The arrival of the meddlesome and effusively positive woman who will put his accounts in order not only reminds him of the past he’s desperate to forget, she sparks something within him he thought dead. Tempted by a future he never imagined, he must do the impossible: convince her that he’s worth risking her heart a second time.
Ramble-y Teaserish Stuff
While not my favorite Phoenix Club installment so far, I still absolutely loved
Impossible and already have the next on my wishlist (finally more Dougal!!!).
I fell for poor Max instantly in spite of the little we had seen of him previously (if you've read the other books in the series, that is). I have a thing for moody soldiers, after all.
It's very much a slow burn romance which I appreciate to no end given the tragedies both Max and Ada were dealing with overcoming. Damaged people don't tend to fall easily and, in spite of her perkiness, Ada is in her own ways almost as damaged as Max. In fact, it's the perkiness ... and not nearly enough Evie and Lucien ... that would be to blame for knocking this down to 4 stars.
Well, 4.5 ....
which will probably be upped to 4.75 after a re-read ....
so I might as well just give it 5 from the get-go.
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