Desire By Design by Paula Altenburg – a Review
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About the book:
He stole her job, and now she’s stealing his heart.Eve Doucette finally almost has it all. She’s free from her mistake of an ex-husband and just landed her dream job: project manager for a new City Hall and drafter of the final design. That is, until a handsome architect sweeps into town to commandeer her blueprints.Famous architect Matt Brison is unsatisfied with his mundane life in Toronto. So when the mayor of Halifax asks him to spearhead his City Hall project, Matt jumps at the opportunity. There’s just one problem: the feisty and beautiful project lead, Eve, who isn’t exactly thrilled about her new “coworker” hijacking her design.
But when the sparks begin to fly, they both find themselves falling for the colleague they shouldn’t want. And before they know it, their already shaky foundation might come crumbling down…
Review:
Desire by Design by Paula Altenburg begins with Eve having to handle a group of construction workers on the jobsite who are catcalling a pretty woman walking by. To prove that kind of behavior is not acceptable, nor appealing, she sees a man walking towards the jobsite and does a catcall herself, hoping that the workers see the error in their ways. One problem: the guy she catcalls strolls into her office a short time later and just happens to be a world renowned architect who has been called in to revise the plans for the new city hall project she is overseeing. Talk about awkward…………….
Eve is immediately defensive with the newcomer, Matt, and proceeds to ask who hired him for this particular project. His reply:
“Bob Anderson approached me.”
“That would explain it”, she said. “The mayor is a moron.”
“Maybe so. But that moron is my uncle.”
Yep, awkward!! LOL!!! And, so begins their working relationship. Eve has worked hard to be accepted a field that is usually dominated by men, and thanks to Mayor Anderson, she feels that she more than has her work cut out for her with this guy with the GQ good looks and easy going nature.
Through a series of events, Eve and Matt end up spending a lot of their personal time together as well, and begin to grow closer. Matt also realizes early on that Eve is scared of something, or someone, and becomes determined to try and keep her safe. But Eve is determined to keep men at bay. Her first marriage ended in disaster, albeit, short-lived, and she is in no hurry to go down that road again. Oh, but what a road they travel.
Altenburg has written a wonderful story of building trust, establishing boundaries and finding love in the most unlikely of circumstances. I love the way she built their relationship and didn’t rush them. She let them have fun and laugh and I also love the fact that she wrote the story at Eve’s pace. She was so unsure of herself and men in general and it was nice to see an author take her time with the heroine’s issues. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to more by Paula Altenburg.
Reviewed by Vickie
Copy provided by Publisher
