His Temporary Assistant (HAPPY ACRES 1/ Kensington Square) byTaryn Quinn-review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 25, 2021
To whom it may concern: I quit.
Preston Michael Shaw.
PMS, as I like to call him.
I don’t need his job. I don’t need his fancy designer suits or his arrogance or his claims that I put a hex on him, because of course a strong, empowered woman needs to put a spell on a man.
As if I want him.
Pfft. He should be so lucky.
I definitely don’t need his irritating demands for caramel-coconut coffee or his fixation on being on time.
Spoiler—I’m not, ever.
I certainly don’t appreciate how his touch singes my skin. Literally.
I need to stop obsessing about him. It’s just hormones.
One roll in the silk sheets and I’ll be over him.
But we can’t sleep together until my best friend—his real assistant—comes back from vacation.
Damn his admirable morals and my flaming panties.
And now I’ve been cursed, because I can’t resist the hottest, most annoying man I’ve ever known…
Author’s note: His Temporary Assistant is a standalone office romantic comedy set in our small town Kensington Square, which is near Crescent Cove. It has a happily-ever-after ending and no cliffhanger.
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REVIEW:HIS TEMPORARY ASSISTANT is the first instalment in Taryn Quinn’s contemporary, adult KENSINGTON SQUARE erotic, romance series set in the authors’ Crescent Cove world. This is podcaster. artist and Tarot reader Ryan Moon, and divorce attorney Preston Michael Shaw’s story line.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Preston and Ryan) HIS TEMPORARY ASSISTANT follows the building romance and relationship between podcaster, artist and Tarot reader Ryan Moon, and divorce attorney Preston Michael Shaw. Preston Shaw’s assistant April was taking a week of unscheduled vacation and hired her best friend Ryan to take her place but to Preston’s shock, Ryan Moon, was a feisty, otherworldly, woman with no legal experience but a woman who stirred something deep within our story line hero. Five days together would quickly turn into something more but their rapidly building relationship would have Ryan faltering with what the Tarot cards had to say, and the possibility that she was falling in love with a man who was only a temporary stop in her life. What ensues is the quick building romance and relationship between Preston and Ryan, and the potential fall- out as Preston struggles with both his personal and professional future, and Ryan battles between head and heart as it pertains to our story line hero.
Preston Shaw likes order in his life but the surprise announcement of his assistant’s vacation pushed Preston Shaw over the proverbial edge. From the outset his first encounter with Ryan was acrimonious at best but something about Ryan drew our hero like a moth to a flame. Ryan Moon never expected to fall for her best friend’s boss, knowing he had always been a consummate professional with April but Ryan was never one to tow the line, and in this, our heroine began to push all of Preston’s proverbial buttons.
The relationship between Ryan and Preston begins as a temporary position for our story line heroine but her dependency upon the Tarot cards meant Ryan struggled with the continuing results. Believing Preston to be her future, Ryan is willing to step out of her comfort zone pulling Preston along for the ride. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic, language and text.
We are introduced to Ryan’s best friend and Preston’s PA April; her mother Rainbow Moon; Preston’s brother Dexter, their parents; and veterinarian Grant Thorne.
HIS TEMPORARY ASSISTANT is story of revelations, acceptance, relationships and love; a story of family, denial, and changes. The premise is engaging and captivating ; the characters are fun and flirty; the romance is seductive and hot.
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reviewed by Sandy
