Despite their tumultuous relationship and the “kinky light” nature of their sexy times, there was a whole lot of heart and emotion in One Hot December and I loved every single minute of it! ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Hard as steel…and hotter still!
Never mess with a woman who carries a blowtorch in her backpack. Welder and artist Veronica “Flash” Redding’s playful sense of evil sometimes gets the better of her. Like when her insanely handsome, wealthy, suited-up boss gave her the most sensuously wicked night of her life…then dumped her. Yep, revenge is a dish best served hot.
Only Ian Asher isn’t quite letting Flash get away quite so easily. He’s not ready to forget the intensity between them. The searing heat when they touch. And the deliciously demanding control Ian wields in the bedroom. Now he has only the holidays to convince Flash that they belong together…and that even the most exquisite, broken things can be welded back together.
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Tiffany Reisz’s Men at Work series has been fantastic, I have loved every single book in this three 
book series and I want more! Do you hear me Harlequin? I hope so because these books are fresh, crisp, funny, and sexy and they are impossible to put down. I loved One Hot December because it was a spin on the old classic good girl meets bad boy only in this one it was bad girl meets good boy and she brings out all kinds of bad in him and it was wickedly delicious.
I love strong heroines and Veronica “Flash” Redding defines that word. She’s hard working, smart, talented, she speaks her mind, she puts up with men who don’t think she should be working in a “man’s world” but she is also a woman with a soft inside so when after a night with the man of her dreams who also happened to be her boss she gets the “dumped” speech she is a bit devastated. Six months later she’s gotten over it somewhat, but leaving behind the job will help because she won’t have to see Ian Asher every day and hopefully she can move on.
Running his father’s construction company is something that Ian Asher loves, he’s good at it, he worked his way up through the ranks and he feels he has a good relationship with all of his employees except one and he knows that is on him. He never meant for it to happen, but a night of drinks and the intoxicating woman welder, Flash, led to more and then on the advice of his father’s legal counsel he had to break it off with her immediately. For six long months he’s had to watch her and wish things were different and when she gives him her two week notice he’s upset their company is losing the best welder around, but on the other hand she won’t be working for him anymore, but getting back in her good graces might be a bit difficult.
I loved every little thing about this couple and their relationship and it was exciting to watch them put the pieces back together and built back the trust even though it took some time because once burned, twice shy. They were so different in their upbringing and backgrounds, but when they were together there was just this mutual admiration for one another that went beyond the somewhat kinky sex they enjoyed together. She appreciated the way he ran the company and made every employee feel important, she liked that he got her needs, and she loved that when she was in the room he always focused on her. He was in awe of her talent as an artist as well as her talent as a welder, he loved her unconventional look and her smart mouth, but most of all he appreciated that with her he could be himself. Seriously, guys on paper these two look so mismatched, but when they are together it is so obvious they are meant for one another.
Things that really set this book apart for me; the way Ian opened up about his mother to her and the way Veronica took it to heart and understood how important it was for him to honor her memory, Veronica’s friendship with her elderly neighbor Mrs. Scheinberg who not only gave her sound advice, but inspired her to be herself no matter what, and Ian’s father, Dean, for understanding that Veronica made his son happy despite the fact she was very different than the women people would expect him to choose and wanting his son to have the all encompassing love he had with Ian’s mom.
Despite their tumultuous relationship and the “kinky light” nature of their sexy times, there was a whole lot of heart and emotion in One Hot December and even though I really, really wanted a Catholic/Jewish wedding epilogue with Mrs. Scheinberg as the best man; it was a perfect romance and one of my top holiday reads of 2016.
Looking forward to reading this…thanks for the review Slick