Loverboy by Sarina Bowen Series: The Company #1
Published by Tuxbury Publishing LLC on December 1, 2020
Pages: 320
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Joe Arden, Emma Wilder, Vanessa Edwin
Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Romantic Suspense
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Secrets, desires, and exquisite pie. It’s all in a day’s work at The Company.
Growing up, I was the rough guy from the wrong neighborhood who couldn’t catch a break. Posy was the pampered girl I tried to impress. But I managed to steal only a single kiss before I had to skip town.Now I’m back, and the tables are turned. Posy runs a struggling pie shop. I’m the VP of a secretive billion dollar security company.
Not that I can tell her.
There’s a murderer on the loose in New York, and he seems to spend a lot of time at Posy’s shop. I can’t let on that I’m here to bring him down before he can harm a hair on her pretty head.Going undercover as Posy’s new barista wasn’t my idea. I don’t even drink coffee. But now I have to call her “boss,” and do everything the curvy perfectionist asks of me. I’d forgotten how much we infuriate each other, and that she somehow fills me with both irritation and desire in the same breath.
There’s nobody more skilled at stealth ops than me. I can bring this killer down. Right after I take a cold shower. And just as soon I figure out how to make a skinny peppermint latte with milk poured in the shape of a kitten...
Note: This is Gunnar's book (Max's right-hand man)
Loverboy is exactly the light diversion I needed. The co-owner of a cybersecurity agency goes undercover as a barista in a plucky heroine’s pie shop. Pie. Lattes. Mystery. Romance. Sold!
The romance between Gunnar and Posy is very sweet and while I wouldn’t have minded more spice, it was very much in keeping with the tone of the book. There’s a somewhat intriguing mystery with a little suspense, but it’s nothing overly complex and I never felt like anyone was in real danger. However, I enjoyed the covert ops and spy gadgets that have become a big part of The Company series.
It seems like Bowen is weaving one (currently dangling) thread of mystery throughout the books in the series, and I’m curious to see how all the pieces fit together. Hopefully, we’ll get a book about Scout soon because I cannot wait to learn more about this cool lady and hopefully explore some of the sexual tension between her and The Company’s head honcho, Max.
I had the opportunity to listen to an advance listener copy of the audiobook narrated by Joe Arden and Vanessa Edwin, and I enjoyed it very much. Joe Arden never disappoints me and I loved the giddiness that Vanessa Edwin infuses into the character of Posy.
Recommended for fans of:
Lattes
Pie
Second chance romance
Spy games
** I received an early listener copy of the audiobook to voluntarily review. **
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About Sarina Bowen
Sarina Bowen is the award-winning author of more than thirty contemporary novels. She has hit the USA Today bestseller’s list nineteen times and counting. Formerly a derivatives trader on Wall Street, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University.
Sarina is a New Englander whose Vermont ancestors cut timber and farmed the north country since the 1760s. Sarina is grateful for the invention of indoor plumbing and wi-fi during the intervening 250 years. She lives with her family on a few wooded acres in New Hampshire.
Sarina’s books are published in over a dozen languages on five continents.
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