Title: Most Eligible Bastard
Author: Annika Martin
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Most Eligible Bastard, an all-new standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author Annika Martin is LIVE!
He’s a powerful billionaire CEO who built the family business into an empire. The money doesn’t matter to him, but the company is his life. And then his eccentric mother wills it all to her tiny dog.
I’m Vicky, the dog whisperer. (Not really, but that’s what my elderly neighbor always says.) When she dies, she surprises everybody by leaving a corporation worth billions to her dog, Smuckers. With me as his spokesperson.
Suddenly I go from running my Etsy store to sitting in an elegant Wall Street boardroom with Smuckers in my lap. And my neighbor’s son, Henry Locke, aka New York’s most eligible bachelor, glaring across the table at me.
Rumor has it Henry’s a business genius who’s as talented in the bedroom as he is in the boardroom. Sure, he’s gorgeous. Sex-in-a-seven-thousand dollar suit. But…
He’s arrogant and infuriating.
He refuses to listen to me when I insist I didn’t con his mother.
He thinks he can bully me, buy me off, control me, even seduce me.
Henry may have the women of Manhattan eating out of the palm of his hand, but I'm so over entitled rich guys who think they own the world.
No way will his wicked smile be charming ME out of my panties.
His wicked...devastating...impossible-to-resist smile.
Oh well, who needs panties anyway?
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There are times when you don't have the right words to describe your feelings after reading an amazing book. Most Eligible Bastard is one of the best Rom-Com I have read during the month. It was a smooth and hilarious reading. I enjoy it from the beginning to the end.
I shall confess that this is the first time I read something from Annika Martin. This book popped my cherry (I mean Henry popped my cherry). It is refreshing to read new authors. Annika's writing is wittily addictive. She gave me a renewed outlook of what Rom-Com genre is.
The plot is unique and the characters are well developed. This book has a lot of potential which Annika harnessed in a brilliant way. I always have a thing for CEOs and she gifted us one of the most arrogant CEO that I had the delight to read.
I almost sure that if you search the word COCKY in the dictionary, you will find Henry's picture. He is a beautiful bastard, a rich powerful man, a golden architect. He is in charge of his family business. His company is his entire life. He protects it from anything or anyone. However a young woman will twist his life.
“A man like Henry doesn't need to expend energy on things like a threatening glare. He just flicks his fingers and you’re destroyed.”
Vicky is the definition of a strong and defiant woman, a fighter. Life has treated her hard. She knows what arrogant, rich men are capable of doing. Her life will change. She will have to prove herself and be strong in order to deal with Henry Fucking Locke.
“Here is the last guy you should ever trust or want. He’s fooling you. Fake seducing you. And you want him anyway!”
Fate, a last will (Mrs. Locke’s will to be precise) and a cute dog are going to put them in a bittersweet situation where the Locke's emporium will be threatened.
“You look so prim and proper, it makes me want to corrupt you. It makes me want to unravel you. There are so many layers to you, and I'm going to fuck them all.”
The attraction between Vicky and Henry will be epically intense. The pull and push game will leave you breathless. They will surrender to their desires. Lust will conquer their bodies. They will burn together.
“It’s like he’s learning me. Exposing my secrets. Stripping me bare for the first time in years.”
I spend a funny and an enjoyable time while reading this book. It made me laugh a lot. It has been a long time since I laugh. She put a big smile on my face. Every scene was a pleasant surprise. Annika delivers a mind-blowing book that mixes the best of the Romance and Comedy. Books like this should be written more often.
I absolutely recommend you this book. If you are in a mood for a sexy Rom-Com, this book is perfect for you. I assure you that you won't be disappointed. It will leave you a big smile on your face and it will make you blush like a baby. This is a page-turner read you won't want to miss.
(ARC courtesy of author in exchange for an honest review)
5 HILARIOUS stars! Annika delivers a mind-blowing book that mixes the best of the Romance and Comedy. There is a sinful CEO waiting for you!
Excerpt:
She glares at me now. “I can’t believe you tried to strip poor Smuckers of his vote. Do you have no decency?”
“When it comes to protecting this company?” I say. “No.”
Her gaze intensifies. “Just no?”
“None at all,” I say. “No decency whatsoever. Nada, if you will.”
Her pretty lips part. It’s shock. Maybe a little bit awe.
I give her an amused smile, adjusting my jacket sleeve over my cuff just so. The suit was tailored by a man who charges three hundred bucks an hour and is worth every penny.
“Uh,” she says. “You think you’re all that? You’re not.”
“Oh, I am all that,” I say. “I very much am. And for the record, I will crush you in the end.”
“Smuckers had this medication once,” she says. “We tried to hide it in his food, and he spit it out. No matter what we did, he’d spit it out.” She puts one finger on the paper with the new amendment and slides it back across the desk. “Smuckers doesn’t like when people try to fool him. That’s his message for you.”
“I have a message for Smuckers.” I put my finger on it and slide it back across to her. “Smuckers needs to know that we have a private investigator on this case. Smuckers might not have very nice food to eat if you ended up in prison.”
Finally she looks scared.
Brett swoops in. “I say we settle this. One-time offer from me personally.” He writes the number—$4,500,000.00. “This offer expires in two minutes.”
My heart pounds. She needs to take offer. We’ve shown how close she can come to losing everything.
She looks at the paper.
She’s all alone caring for that sister of hers. She’s poor—we have her banking information; we know it for a fact. She has every reason in the world to take it. Yet she hesitates.
“This is our last offer,” Brett says. “After this, we’ll take the company from you, and you’ll get nothing.”
She raises her brown eyes to me. It’s me she’s really dealing with. I like that she knows that.
“You know what Smuckers hates even more than being fooled?” she says.
My heart pounds. She almost lost everything to me, and now she’s going to tell me a dog story?
“He hates being threatened,” she says. “And bullied. He really, really hates it.”
“Well he’s going to have to get used to it,” I hear myself saying. “He’s used to bubbles and bows and sunny parks but he’s in the jungle now. There are animals who are faster and stronger and smarter than he is. Animals who will dominate him easily—savagely, even.”
“Then you don’t know Smuckers very well.”
“Oh, I know all about Smuckers, and I’d suggest he practice rolling over. Baring his belly for the superior predator.” I lower my voice. “Begging sweetly for mercy.”
The color heightens in her face. This shouldn’t be fun.
But oh, it is.
I keep going. “Smuckers may think he can request packets and bylaws and get up to speed, but he can’t compete here. He doesn’t have the skills.”
“Smuckers thinks owning fifty-one percent is the best skill to have,” she says.
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Annika Martin loves fun, dirty stories, hot heroes, and wild, dramatic everything. She enjoys hanging out in Minneapolis coffee shops with her writer husband, and also likes birdwatching at her bird feeder alongside her two stunningly photogenic cats, especially when she should be writing. She’s heavy into running, music, saving the planet, taking long baths, and consuming chocolate suckers. She’s worked a surprisingly large number of waitressing jobs, and has also worked in a plastics factory and the advertising trenches; her garden is total bee-friendly madness and her most unfavorite word is nosh or possibly fob. A NYT bestselling author, she has also written as RITA award-winning author Carolyn Crane.
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