Readers will be too put off by Dax’s obnoxious aggression to find anything romantic in this disappointing novel. The tragedy is as cheap and forced as the comedy, and the romance is a kid-centered enemies-to-lovers scenario that brings nothing memorable to the table. Meanwhile, Kailyn’s boss bribes her to lure Dax to their firm. Dax is named Emme’s guardian, but his shady aunt sues for custody, which keeps Kailyn in the picture as Emme’s conservator.

His parents are active in the process-until they’re killed in a crash. Eight years later, Dax, a former child star turned entertainment lawyer, hires Kailyn, a trust lawyer, to secure his young sister Emme’s financial future. After their initial connection, Kailyn and Dax part on bad terms. The first encounter between Kailyn Flowers and Daxton Hughes is far from cute it’s as forced and foolish as Dax’s best friend, Felix, whose dialogue includes such immortal lines as “Teenage girls are like rabid, angry puppies.” This thread of misogyny runs through the book, punctuated by nonconsensual touching in professional and public spaces and similar boundary-ignoring behavior (“I keep pushing, though, because she’s obviously flustered,” Dax narrates without a hint of self-awareness). 31.Naming a book after a cliché of the genre is a brave move that doesn’t pay off for Hunting (the Pucked series).

But will they be able to forgive the mistakes of the past, or will one betrayal lead to another? The more time Kailyn spends with Dax and his sister, the more she starts to feel like a family, and the more she realizes the chemistry they had all those years ago is as fresh as ever. But when her boss gets wind of Kailyn’s new celebrity client, there’s even more at stake than Dax’s custody issues: if she gets Dax to work at their firm, she’ll be promoted to partner. Despite her anger, Kailyn can’t help feeling sorry for the devastated man who just became sole guardian to his thirteen-year-old sister. Now, eight years later, Dax is in her office asking for legal advice. Of course, she never saw his betrayal coming either… Mortified to discover the Daxton Hughes was also a student in her class, her embarrassment over their meet-cute quickly turned into a friendship she never expected.

On her first day of law school, Kailyn ran – quite literally – into the actor she crushed on as a teenager, ending with him sprawled on top of her.

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