BLURB:
Do people say they hate someone’s guts so that they can still fall stupidly, head-over-heels in love with the other parts?
Asking for a friend.
Taming Hollywood’s Baddest Boy, an all-new hilarious enemies to lovers standalone from New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe, is available now!
Okay, fine. I’m not asking for a friend.
I’m asking for me—and I’m begging you to tell me that the practice of falling in love with your should-be-enemy is common.
Please tell me that I’m not the only person to track down a guy—who used to be Hollywood’s baddest bad boy before he left LA for good—at his off-the-grid cabin in
Alaska, show up unannounced, and find him gloriously naked.
This probably happens all the time…right?
Tell me I’m not alone in my stupidity—that I’m not the only woman who would fall for gorgeous blue eyes and a sexy devilish smirk, even if they belong to a broody, mysterious jerk.
Please. Please. Please. Tell me I’m not alone in this.
For the love of everything, I need all the supportive girl power I can get if I’m going to convince Luca Weaver to come back to Hollywood—otherwise known as the place he hates so much that he ghosted Oscar-level success and escaped to no-man’s-land for the last eight years just to avoid it.
Yeah, don’t worry—that smoke you’re smelling isn’t your house catching fire as you read this…it’s just my career and what was previously known as my heart going up in flames.
Gah. Is it just me, or am I totally, completely, and utterly screwed?
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My Review:
My Rating: 4 Stars
Billie works in Hollywood as a PA and is looking to be a more permanent fixture with the company she's working with. She's currently competing with errand boy Charles and the one thing they need is a great actor for a new movie they are about to start production on. Trying to stay on her bosses good side she suggests Luca Weaver. The same Luca Weaver who disappeared from Hollywood 8 year's ago and was the notorious bad boy of Hollywood. Now Billie has to track down Luca and convince the recluse to read the screenplay and do this movie. The only problem? Luca doesn't want to go back to Hollywood and he's turned seriously broody since he's been gone.
This was a hilarious enemies to lovers trope. Billie is tenacious in getting Luca to sign on to this movie, but she might have met her match with his stubbornness. The only thing Luca doesn't realize is that the reason Billie is so stubborn is because she has a fear of failure and she won't be giving up. This book has everything a good rom-com needs, a little bickering, some romance, sizzling heat, and a little angst. If you have never read a Max Monroe book you need to remedy that as soon as possible and this is just as good of a book to start as any of their other books.
EXCERPT
Billie
Naked lumberjacks are all the rage. Or is it that they’re full of rage?
I’m not entirely sure, but I think maybe, just maybe, it’s a little bit of both.
Standing beside a hot tub outside of a rustic Alaskan cabin is a bare-chested,
handsome-as-hell lumberjack of a man, and he is as naked as the day he was born.
“Who the fuck are you, and what the fuck are you doing here?” the big, burly man
with a scruffy beard and piercing blue eyes asks me brusquely.
And holy hell, what a question that is.
I started this journey in a meeting in LA, promising my boss the world, continued
it with a plane, a car, a hike and kayaking adventure in a cold, rainy Alaskan setting,
and in a highly unanticipated twist, I’m ending it in what must be an issue of Playgirl
magazine come to life.
And boy oh boy is the centerfold pissed…
“Hello?” he questions harshly. “I said, who the hell are you?”
As hard as it is, given his clothes-less state, I force myself to take a good,
scrutinizing look at the rest of his face. I’m here for a reason, and with nothing more
than a ramshackle convenience store owner named Earl’s vague instructions to go on, I
can only hope that the here I’m at is the here I’ve spent days in a plane, car, and kayak
looking for. In addition to a remarkably carved line on the inside of each hipbone, the
angry man standing boldly above me has a strong jaw covered by a beard, a little scar
above his right eye, miles of muscular, tanned skin, and messy, light-brown hair. I have
to look a little closer to confirm my conclusion through the rolling waves of distrust and
hatred coming off him, but when I focus hard enough, the star-quality glimmer in his
eyes is undeniable.
For the love of pancakes at a Sunday morning breakfast, it’s really him.
Luca Weaver, Hollywood’s former baddest boy—the man I’ve nearly killed myself
to find—is right in front of me, and he is naked.
At my non-answer, his jaw turns to stone. “I asked you a question. Either answer
it or get fucking moving.” I jolt at the rumble of his voice, but my feet do nothing to take
me in any direction. I am rooted to the spot, utterly awed over the fact that I’ve actually
managed something as impossible as finding Luca Weaver and all of my normal
functions are rendered useless. He scowls, unimpressed with all the hard work I’ve put
in—work that he obviously doesn’t know about. “You have five seconds before I come
back out here with my shotgun.”
“Uh…” I fumble, trying like hell to grasp the English language once again. I may
be distracted, but on some level, I understand the importance of getting my shit together
enough to at least prevent a shotgun from joining our little meet-and-greet.
But my brain is bus-y. And slow.
Because Luca Weaver looks damn good without any clothes.
Eight years older since the last time he graced the covers of Hollywood gossip
magazines, Luca is a man to whom time has been seriously kind. Either his genetics
are just that good, or there’s some kind of sexy voodoo in the Alaskan water.
I mean…his penis is right in front of me, and I can’t find a single thing wrong with
it. It’s straight and veiny and perfectly pink.
“What’s the matter with you? You have a death wish or something?” he spits at
the statue formerly known as my body. “This is private property.”
His words are serious and firm, and it seems that maybe I do have a dream that’s
reminiscent of the movie Fargo—fingers crossed there are no wood chippers nearby.
Because for as much as I try, I can’t stop looking at my new phallic friend, even to form
a few simple words.
But, come on. Luca Weaver’s freaking dick is right there!
It’s not hard, but still, it’s…big—so big it’s not even a dick.
It’s a Richard. Sir Richard.
King Richard, really.
Shit, I’m in the presence of penis royalty, and I suddenly have the urge to curtsy.
He is a lumberjack fantasy come to life. Instantly, my brain starts thinking about
pine-scented flannel and chopping wood and giving a blow job… Wait…what?
Stop being a moron and speak words!
“Uh…so…you’re…naked.” Oh god, those aren’t the right words!
He glances down, mutters something to himself, snags a towel from a few feet
away, and wraps it around his waist. “I didn’t invite you here,” he says, his voice gritty
with irritation—and maybe, a little with disuse. Which would make sense. It’s taken me
an entire season of Running Wild with Bear Grylls to get here. I can’t imagine he’s
having book clubs and dinner parties and gabbing with his pals on the regular.
Towel adjusted and glorious goods hidden from view, he studies me with frigid
blue eyes and a glare worthy of a scorned woman. I shiver.
“I’m only going to ask you one more time. What in the hell are you doing here?”
I fiddle with the edges of my shirt as I finally find my vocal cords. “I’m Billie…Billie
Harris.”
And I am in way over my head.
About Max Monroe
A duo of romance authors team up under the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling pseudonym Max Monroe to bring you sexy, laugh-out-loud reads.
Max Monroe is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of more than ten contemporary romance titles. Favorite writing partners and long time friends, Max and Monroe strive to live and write all the fun, sexy swoon so often missing from their Facebook newsfeed. Sarcastic by nature, their two writing souls feel like they’ve found their other half. This is their most favorite adventure thus far.
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