Addicted 2 Romance: Guilty Pleasure By jessica Prince

What do you do when the most intense passion you’ve ever felt is with a person you hate?
Sit back, hold on, and enjoy Clay and Lark’s bumpy ride.

The only thing worse than living in a town where everyone hates you is having to work for the man who broke your heart.

Redemption, Tennessee held nothing but painful memories that Lark Ashton had no desire to rehash. After the only man she’s ever loved crushed her soul and spirit, and all her friends turned their backs on her, she swore to herself she’d never go back. But when her aunt calls, asking a favor she can’t possibly refuse, Lark finds herself public enemy number one . . . again

Clay Morrison has spent seven years trying to convince himself he’s no longer in love with Lark Ashton. But when the woman he thinks betrayed him and his family returns, she brings with her a whole slew of feelings he’s worked hard to ignore. Now he can’t get the bane of his existence out of his head.

She’s in desperate need of a job. He can’t resist the chance to have her at his mercy.

And they’re both about to discover what happens when the most intense passion they’ve ever felt is with a person they hate.

**The Redemption series is a series of interconnected, standalone, small town romances.**

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At Lumpy’s little yip of excitement, I looked down and covered my mouth with a finger. “Shh!” I whispered. “Do you want us to get caught?”

I could have sworn he understood me, because he turned and looked at the kitchen’s doorway, raising his ears slightly like he was listening closely to make sure no one was coming.

“Good boy,” I crooned quietly when he looked back up at me with those big, round chocolaty eyes. “You keep quiet and I’ll give you all the treats.” Just to show him I was a woman of my word, I pulled another piece of thinly sliced chicken from the deli bag I’d found in one of the fridge’s drawers. That was the fifth slice I’d given sweet Lumpy since I spotted Clay’s name written on one side of the bag in black permanent marker.

As far as I was concerned, he totally deserved it. “Is that good chicken?” I cooed, smiling wide when Lumpy’s tail began swishing back and forth across the floor like a hyper little bunny. “Yeah. I bet it is. I bet your daddy spent a pretty penny, getting that from the butcher instead of the sandwich meat section like a regular person.” I pulled out another slice and tossed it up so Lumpy could chomp it midair. Next I was going to teach him how to balance a treat on his nose before catching it.

“Serves him right for making me clean out the stupid fridge.”

I’d been with Morrison Construction for three days, and as I suspected, Clay was going out of his way to make my job miserable. There hadn’t been another blowup like the insanely tense scene in Callum’s empty office, however that didn’t mean he was taking it easy on me. Because he absolutely wasn’t.

But I wasn’t going to let him see how much he was getting to me. The more I swallowed down my snide comments or bit my cheek until it bled to keep from calling him every vile curse in the history of the human word, the angrier he seemed to get. For some reason, it felt like he wanted me to fight back. So I wouldn’t give him that luxury. It was childish, pushing his buttons like that, but I was giving myself that little rebellion.

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Born and raised around Houston Texas, Jessica spent most of her life complaining about the heat, humidity, and all around pain in the ass weather. It was only as an adult that she quickly realized the cost of living in Houston made up for not being able to breathe when she stepped outside. That’s why God created central air, after all.

Jessica is the mother of a perfect little boy–she refuses to accept that he inherited her attitude and sarcastic nature no matter what her husband says.

In addition to being a wife and mom, she’s also a wino, a coffee addict, and an avid lover of all types of books–romances still being her all time favs. Her husband likes to claim that reading is her obsession but she just says it’s a passion…there’s a difference. Not that she’d expect a boy to understand.

Jessica has been writing since she was a little girl, but thankfully grew out of drawing her own pictures for her stories before ever publishing her first book. Because an artist she is not.

If you have read this series it is about a small town of Redemption each book is about a different couple and each book easily stands alone. This is Clay Morrison's story. We met him before as he is the contractor in town and has helped renovate other main characters homes in this series.

A brand new character is introduced to this series when she comes back to town, Lark and honestly I adored her. I cannot imagine how it would feel to be the most hated member in a small town and to face the stares and animosity down but she does and she is one tough cookie.

Lark came to Redemption as an orphan who her aunt Sissy takes in, she meets Clay, and they both fall into love and she became beloved to him, his family and the entire town for the next 4 years. But something major happens that makes the entire town believe she betrayed Clay and his entire family and everyone ends up hating her so she leaves down.

She comes back for one reason only and that is because her aunt, Sissy needs her since she is ill. But she also needs a job and no one will give her one until Clay offers her a job as his office manager and thats when this book gets so good.

If you love second chance love stories, friends to lovers, romance in the work place, and enemies falling in love then you will absolutely adore this book. It was a wonderful story with a great cast of characters. But be warned it is an addicting story. I could not put it down until the last moment.

As to the betrayal. I am not spoiling what that is. But honestly I felt they blamed the wrong person in this scenario. I understood how the Morrison family would feel but how the whole town treated her well I am not sure I could have forgiven them. Lark is a very special person that she could move beyond that and live in that town.