VICTORIA FALLS by B.J. Hill is AVAILABLE NOW
Blurb:
After a decade in a suffocating marriage, I finally walked away.
Want to make me the villain? Fine. Here’s the truth: when you hate yourself, you’ll hate everyone who crosses your path.
I can’t love Chase enough for the both of us—and I’m done trying.
Now it’s a new city, new job, new start.
What I didn’t plan for? My new manslut coworker.
Leo is everywhere. My office. The copy room. Even the women’s bathroom (no, I don’t care if yours is closed—get out).
He’s everything I swore to avoid. Working together only makes the tension worse. He hides his pain behind hookups and humor; I’m still picking up the pieces of my past.
We weren’t looking for each other, but the more time we spend together, the more the walls start to crack.
I don’t need a man to fix me. But do I want this one to love me? Maybe.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
BJ Hill is a new-to-me author, and I am so glad I got the chance to read Victoria Falls. The blurb drew me in, and the story itself was phenomenal. It was so much more than I was expecting from a workplace romance with a playboy hero.
After leaving her abusive husband, Tori starts her life over again, moving in with a friend and taking a job as an assistant to several math professors at a college. She and Leo, one of the professors, get off on the wrong foot, mostly because while Tori is trying to deal with the trauma of leaving an abusive ex, Leo turned into a manwhore after being dumped by his wife, and holds it against Tori that she left her husband.
It’s a super slow burn between these two (and lots of math puns, which were genius) as they keep bumping into each other everywhere they go. The way they exchange barbs was foreplay all on its own; the witty banter between these characters was top-notch. But the core of this story is a messy journey of finding yourself again, and that wasn’t just true for Tori, but for Leo as well. While Tori’s hurt and pain were more apparent, Leo hid his underneath sarcasm. And once you got past his prickly personality, he was such a gem. The building of Leo and Tori’s relationship is told against the breakdown of her marriage with Chase, and in each other, Leo and Tori found exactly what they needed and what neither of them ever expected, and it helped them both heal and find a way to forge a path forward.
I will definitely put this one on my re-read list! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet B.J. Hill:
B.J. Hill wants to live in a world where it doesn’t matter if you’re a square peg or a round hole; where ’round’ is a perfectly-acceptable goal for getting ‘in shape’; and where unfiltered and messy life is not only welcomed, but celebrated.
Her books—edgy and heartfelt narratives—explore the depths of human connection, the bittersweet taste of life, the redemptive power of love, and the belief that true strength is often found in vulnerability. They are important to her because they offer a space where passion meets purpose, where characters break and mend, and where readers can find solace in the shared experience of resilience and hope.
Adding to her repertoire, B.J. is also the innovative founder and CEO of JibblyBitz, a company that embraces the vibrancy and authenticity of storytelling. Through JibblyBitz, she aims to extend that connection, crafting a community where stories uplift, challenge, and transform.
She is the sunshine to her grumpy-ish college sweetheart, mom to the three coolest offspring in the world, and devoted subject to her feline royal majesties, Belle and Lucy. When she’s not writing stories about her imaginary friends, you can find her reading, using her outside voice at inopportune moments, or being generally awkward (I mean, awesome. Totally awesome).
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