Review Tour: House of Payne: Styx by Stacy Gail

Title - House of Payne: Styx

Author: Stacy Gail

Genre: Contemporary Romance, New Adult Romance, Urban Romance, Alpha Male Romance, Sassy Heroine Romance

Release Date: September 19, 2019

Sydney used to make plans. All her life she’d trained to be a ballerina, but that “plan” had turned out to be nothing more than a pipe dream. Reality now consisted of hunting down petty thieves and refusing to make any more pie-in-the-sky plans for her life. That’s why she’s never approached the sexiest man she’s ever laid eyes on. Never again would she be crushed by pointless dreams.

Fate, however, has plans for her.

Styx Hardwick isn’t big on plans. As a tattooist at House Of Payne, he’s the black sheep in a family full of pragmatic cops. Now that his twin brother’s getting hitched, all eyes turn to him, the last of the single Hardwick siblings. Getting through his twin’s wedding is gonna be hell.

Or so he thinks.

When a pocket-sized goddess crashes into him with terror in her eyes, Styx’s world turns upside-down. Even scared out of her mind, Sydney is still the hottest thing to have ever graced his life. He offers her a deal—pretend to be his girlfriend until the wedding, while he does his damnedest to protect her from the danger closing in.

As a plan, it’s almost foolproof.

Almost.

97,000 words

***This standalone contemporary romance contains mild violence, a dash of instalove, and multiple sex scenes in lots of fun and possibly gravity-defying positions. No cheating, no love triangles, no cliffhangers. HEA guaranteed. Due to adult language and sexual content, this book is not intended for people under the age of eighteen***

MY REVIEW

When Sydney runs into a stranger's building looking for help, she is absolutely shocked to find that stranger is the same tattooed god she's been drooling over at the grocery store where she's a secret shopper. Styx can't believe his eyes when a "fun size" woman crashes into his life looking for some help to protect her from someone intent on running her down.

A little bit (a lot) of insta-love, a fake relationship turned real, a family of cops, a family of tattoo artists, some action, and lots of passion all combine together to make for an insanely readable story of an alpha brought to his knees by the sweetest fun sized woman ever.

I am in love with this installment of House of Payne. I've read one other story in this series, Ice, but I gotta say that Styx has got it beat, hands down. Styx and Sydney are the cutest couple I've read in a long time. Their insta-love was quick to be sure, but also felt natural and gave me lots of moments of swooning and falling in love with these two. Can't wait for more House of Payne!

A competitive figure skater from the age of eight, Stacy Gail began writing stories in between events to pass the time. By fourteen, she told her parents she was either going to be a figure skating coach who was also a published romance author, or a romance author who was also a figure skating pro. Now, with a day job of playing on the ice with her students, and writing everything from steampunk to cyberpunk, contemporary to paranormal at night, both dreams have come true.

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