| Luca Asher is my brother’s ex-best friend, the best contractor in our small town of Lovers, a walking dream when he doesn’t have a shirt on—heck, with it on, too, and he was the first boy I ever loved. He just doesn’t know that last part. On the rare occasions I converse with him, I get a comeback for everything. Our banter is my favorite thing. He’s so clever and quick and, again, sexier than any man I’ve ever met. But none of that changes the fact that he betrayed my brother. My family. Me. And none of those facts would matter except for my one little problem. I had this plan to save my family’s marina, which backfired. Now, my parents have given me a deadline to prove to them it’s still worth saving. If I don’t make it, they’ll sell everything, and I’ll lose my dream to keep the place. They gave me one rule: do not hire that Asher boy. At this point, I have only one option left to make this happen. Hire Luca and beg him not to tell a single soul about it. My heart forgave him years ago, but my head knows better than to trust the enemy. And yet, in a matter of weeks, he starts to remind me of the old us, and I find myself falling for him all over again. The idea of me and Luca is … tempting. Tempting Me is a small-town, steamy, enemies to lovers romance with his ex-best friend’s sister, lots of banter, and a secret agreement.  Enemies to Lovers Brothers Ex-Best Friend Small-town Spice Slow burn Banter Secretly Working Together 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒆 . . GET IT HERE ——> https://geni.us/AmazonTM |
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I loved this secret relationship between Shay and her brother’s former best friend, Luca. The tension between them was off the charts as they went from enemies to working together in secret to lovers. They were just so perfectly matched, and her snarky comebacks and eye rolls practically became foreplay between them.
Shay is out of options when it comes to saving The Marina, her family’s business. Her father literally forbade her from hiring Luca’s construction company to do the job, but with no other contractors around to do the work, she hires him to do the renovations under the secret cover of night. There was a falling out between Luca and her brother, Leo, back in high school, so he is Public Enemy No. 1 as far as her family is concerned. But fixing up the restaurant and its rental cabins isn’t the only thing that happens between them at night. Little by little, they begin to form a friendship. Shay has long had a crush on Luca, and it’s not long before he’s crushing right back on her.
But how can Luca and Shay make a relationship work when her family doesn’t know about it? Is it just a summer fling while her parents and brother are out of town? When The Obstacle comes that leads to The Breakup, my heart hurt for Luca and how he always felt relegated to being the secret boyfriend.
Tempting Me is a standalone in The Asher Family series, but the timeline overlaps with Miles and Quinn’s story (Loving You), so it was great to see some of those scenes and plot points from Luca’s POV. This book had so much sweetness, not only between Luca and Shay, but the friend groups, too. In the previous books, we got to see the girls hanging out at their book club, and now we see the birth of boys’ night with Luca, his brothers, and the other guys in town.
I really enjoyed this story, and was so happy to see Luca and Shay get their HEA! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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