Egomaniac by Vi Keeland
A new standalone novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland
The night I met Drew Jagger, he’d just broken into my new Park Avenue office.
I dialed 9-1-1 before proceeding to attack him with my fancy new Krav Maga skills.
He quickly restrained me, then chuckled, finding my attempted assault amusing.
Of course, my intruder had to be arrogant.
Only, turned out, he wasn’t an intruder at all.
Drew was the rightful occupant of my new office. He’d been on vacation while his posh space was renovated.
Which was how a scammer got away with leasing me office space that wasn’t really available for rent.
I was swindled out of ten grand.
The next day, after hours at the police station, Drew took pity on me and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. In exchange for answering his phones while his secretary was out, he’d let me stay until I found a new place.
I probably should have acted grateful and kept my mouth shut when I overheard the advice he was spewing to his clients. But I couldn’t help giving him a piece of my mind.
I never expected my body to react every time we argued. Especially when that was all we seemed to be able to do.
The two of us were complete opposites. Drew was a bitter, angry, gorgeous-as-all-hell, destroyer of relationships. And my job was to help people save their marriages.
The only thing the two of us had in common was the space we were sharing.
And an attraction that was getting harder to deny by the day.
Caroline's Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This author is an automatic one-click author for me, and for good reason!
I adored this story SO MUCH! It was laugh-out-loud funny with witty dialogue, and hot as hell!
“I’m handsome and rich. Women tend to find that attractive. You’d be surprised how much I can get away with.”
Drew Jagger is a divorce lawyer and lives his life in black and white. He carries around a baggage of personal bitterness and trust issues, eschewing serious relationships and love for transient hook-ups with beautiful women.
"You're the red in my black and white world."
Emerie Rose is a couples counsellor who believes in love, marriage and making relationships work. She moved to New York to be closer to her good friend, Baldwin, who she’s loved for three years, but he keeps her firmly in the friend zone, whilst sending out a few mixed signals now and then.
“She called you a dick, and you’re letting her share office space with you? She must have some ass.”
When Drew comes back from vacation, the last thing he expects to find is a beautiful, red-haired stranger occupying his office space. When they both realise that Emerie has been conned into believing she was leasing the space, Drew ends up uncharacteristically letting her stay until she finds another space in exchange for helping him with secretarial duties, when she’s not counselling. It’s got nothing to do with the fact that he finds her sexy, or that she has a great ass, or that there’s something about her he finds refreshing. Nope. No way. LOL
“Is this what my life’s come to? I’m a couples counsellor, and I’m getting my own relationship advice from a divorce lawyer.”
This was a FAB story! Drew and Emerie are at opposite ends of the scale when it comes to their views on relationships. However, they bond really quickly as friends, even though they are constantly arguing, as underneath it all they have a real connection, sizzling chemistry and a similar sense of humour. Drew finds her sweet, sassy, and a breath of fresh air. The more time they spend together, the more Emerie starts to reevaluate her feelings for Baldwin, as she starts to see beneath the filthy-talking, crass, cheeky, egotistical exterior to the real, raw Drew beneath.
“I love you, Emerie. I’d go three hundred and sixty-four days thirsty if it meant I got to drink you in for just one.” SWOOOOOOOON!!!!
This novel was gorgeous, so funny, smartly-written, super sexy, and also managed to choke me up a little, too. LOVED IT HARD! My first Top Read 2017.
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