Audiobook, Audible
Author: Kayley Loring
Narrators: Mackenzie Cartwright and Shane East
Stella Starkey has lived her whole live in Port Gladstone, where she manages the family-owned gym and teaches yoga. She is pretty much content living there.
She doesn’t do flings with out-of-towners, so when pretty boy British movie star Evan Hunter waltzes into her gym to train for his new movie being shot in the town she goes “hmmm’ but she has no interest in the man whatsoever. Right?
Pretty boy Evan is more a Henry Cavill/Hugh Grant hybrid than the Jason Momoa lumberjack types that appeal to Stella, but he is going to dial his charm up to 11 if it means catching Stella’s eye…and her heart.
I absolutely loved loved loved this book! Evan is a movie star but a very level-headed one and he’s so in need of something “real “in life and you can’t get more real than no-nonsense Stella. I love their banter and how besotted he is with her. I wanted to knock her over the head with a frying pan and say “he loves you, girl!!!!” a few times, but well, it’s a romance novel and we need a little conflict. I also loved how the “conflict” was not someone else thrown in or something bad one does to the other. They just needed to recalibrate things and finally get their HEA. Loved it!
Added bonus: how can you not fall in love with a guy whose inner monologues are in Hugh Grant’s voice???
And I want to change my ringtone to HELLO DARLING.
Narration: Mackenzie Cartwright is a goddess and can’t do no wrong and (even though I think he has narrated EVERY.SINGLE. BRITISH.CHARACTER in romance – well, Jacob Morgan does it too – ) Shane East is always a joy to listen to. His voice is like warm honey and British accents are swoony.
