A forbidden affair leads to so much more in this sweet and satisfying contemporary romance from Kelly Jamieson. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
Cash Hale has been in love with his best friend’s wife forever. Now Callie and Beau are divorced, but she’s still way off-limits. Dating her would betray his friendship with Beau. And Cash is nothing if not loyal.
Callie Sutherland is starting over. The end of her marriage was just one more way she failed to live up to her wealthy family’s expectations, so from now on she’s not even going to try. It’s time to live her life the way she wants. And she wants Cash.
Cash and Beau aren’t just friends, they’re business partners, and the drop in the price of oil has hurt their business. They need to win the bid for Sutherland Industries’ next big project—but it may get messy since Callie’s family owns the business. Not only would Cash risk his friendship with Beau to be with her, he’d be risking the company they worked so hard to create.
But this new Callie isn’t taking no for an answer.
He’s so screwed…
When I first read this book it was somewhat shorter so I was thrilled to find it expanded and re-released. Being a lifelong Texan, I found Screwed to be overly clichéd, however I loved the story and the characters so I put the whole overblown Texan bit aside and focused on the couple and their relationship. A forbidden affair leads to so much more in this sweet and satisfying contemporary romance from Kelly Jamieson.
After finding her husband cheating with his secretary, Callie files for divorce and spends a year abroad expanding her horizons in more ways than one. Back home in Houston, Callie is dealing with her disapproving parents who preferred her to stay married and look the other way, working on finding what she wants to do with her life, and reconnecting with friends including Cash, he ex-husband’s best friend and business partner.
I admired Callie for standing her ground with her ignorant parents and doing what made her happy even when they put pressure on her to reconcile with her ex-husband whom they adored. I loved how Cash felt protective of Callie and worked to be her friend even when he wanted more with her and had for many years. Their relationship developed over time and despite the limits they put on it so as to not draw attention to Callie and to preserve Cash and Beau’s friendship, it was easy to see that both Callie and Cash were feeling way more than they wanted to admit.
A hero with a heart of gold and willing to give up everything for love and a heroine who is determined to find her happiness despite people in her life always bringing her down, made Screwed an enticing love story.
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