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By a Thread | Review

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By a Thread | Review
By a Thread Published by That's What She Said Publishing by Lucy Score
on April 23, 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Humor, New Adult, Romance, Women's Fiction, Chick-Lit
Pages: 582
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Format: eBook
Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads
Also by this author: Things We Never Got Over, The Worst Best Man, Undercover Love, Pretend You're Mine, Maggie Moves On
Find the Book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

Rating:5 Stars


Dominic was staring at me like he couldn’t decide whether to chop me into pieces or pull my hair and French kiss me.

DominicI got her fired. Okay, so I’d had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job… in my office… after being hired by my mother.
So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine’s offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue.
But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father.
She’s working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn’t feel like sharing with me. And I’m going to fix it all. Don’t accuse me of caring. She’s nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.
AllyHa. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.
Author’s Note: A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart just beneath her boss’s sexy vests.

This may be one of my most favorite Lucy Score novels ever. The Lucy Score book that I hold all other Lucy Score books up to. It had everything.

Dominic was just a grade-A asshole. Did that endear me to him? Yeah, it probably did. Because deep down, he was a complete asshole. That’s the beauty of it.

But Ally doesn’t know this at first. All she knows is that this rich, handsome jerk gets her fired from her job. And she hates him. And then she ends up working for him.

It doesn’t take long for the chemistry between Ally and Dominic to just–ignite. It’s clear from the beginning that while they may not like each other, there’s a whole lot more there. And little by little both of them become more wrapped up in each other and more vulnerable.

I think I love this story so much because it has two, seemingly, strong characters whose weakness is–each other. And that’s the beauty of it.

 

 

About Lucy Score

Lucy is a Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Kindle Store bestseller of romantic comedies and contemporary romance. She grew up in rural Pennsylvania with a lot of time on her hands and a big imagination. She was the oldest of three in a book-obsessed household. Dinners were often spent in silence while family members had their noses buried in books. A passion for writing took hold at five when she taught her brother to write his name on the bathroom door.

She started writing (on paper) in the second grade, first about pilgrims on the Mayflower and over the years graduated to essays, articles, blogs, and finally books. "Pretend You're Mine" was her runaway hit and she's been writing full-time ever since.

Non-romance-writing jobs have included event planner, bartender, newspaper lackey, and yoga instructor.

Lucy and Mr. Lucy, enjoy spending time with their 1.7 million nieces and nephews and laying on beaches with umbrella drinks.

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