JUST LIKE THAT by Lena Hendrix is NOW LIVE!
Tropes:
Accidental single dad
Guardians/ instant family
Enemies to lovers
Forbidden romance (sibling’s ex)
Forced Proximity
Age gap (7 years)
grumpy/sunshine
rakish villain with a heart of gold
Billionaire
Blurb:
He’s my sister’s ex, a stubborn jerk, and completely off-limits.
Getting a man to give up custody of a son he didn’t know existed should have been easy. Trouble is, nothing with JP King is ever easy.
Suave, grumpy billionaires aren’t supposed to have strong hands or filthy mouths, and I never expected our snippy banter to be so much fun.
JP regards me as something he scraped off the bottom of his dress shoe, but when this reluctant single dad looks at my nephew, there’s a softness there he struggles to keep hidden.
He may be gruff and uptight, but something simmers beneath his controlled, polished exterior. Sure, I’m wild and reckless, but when we’re forced together as guardians, everything changes.
His cold and calculated exterior melts into hushed conversations and lingering stares. The more we fight, the harder we fall.
I’m scatterbrained, unconventional, and everything he’s been missing. The closer we get, the less we understand why we were ever at odds.
. . . until just like that our lives are turned upside down.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I love a redemption story and JP King’s delivered on all fronts! He’s been the prickly, stuck-up, no-fun brother we’ve gotten bits and pieces of through this series. Then Hazel Adams and her adorable nephew Teddy burst into his life like a hurricane, and her chaos and unpredictability ended up being exactly what JP needed in his life.
Much like Hazel, hers and JP’s story is messy and chaotic. When she arrives in Outtatowner insisting that her nephew is JP’s son, he has zero recollection of having been with her late sister. JP wants nothing to do with Hazel and Teddy, but don’t we all love seeing an adorable kid chip away at the icy heart of a billionaire? And watching said billionaire fall equally hard for the last woman he ever expected to develop feelings for?
JP is such a complex character, more so than I imagined he’d be. Though he is not the eldest of the King siblings, he was groomed by Russell to run the business, putting him in a place of leadership in his family that he never really asked for. As it turns out, the guy has hangups and insecurities just like the rest of them, and underneath that icy exterior is just a scared kid who lost his mom when he was a little boy. Seeing him bond with Teddy through similar losses was one of my favorite parts of this story. So, so good.
This book was *chef’s kiss* — from start to finish, and the twists and turns along the way, it was perfect. Stephen Dexter and Samantha Brentmoor were engaging and entertaining. I was completely smitten by the way they voiced JP and his Hex from the get-go.
I’ve really loved the through-line in the Sullivans and Kings series as these two rival families have become one big, blended brood. There are some awesome moments in Just Like That between the two families, and that made me all warm and fuzzy. As sad as I’ll be to see this series conclude with MJ’s story, I loved that teaser with her and the big, hot rugby player!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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