Review: Daddy By Design (Crescent Cove #16) by Taryn Quinn

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Enemies to Lovers meets Beauty and The Beast with a redemption arc and a Victorian ghost for some spice.

Beauty:
The night I accidentally attacked his truck in a case of mistaken identity started us off on a very wrong foot. Or maybe not, because for me and my Beast, fighting is foreplay.

The gothic Victorian house on the lake was made for me. From the turrets to the intricate gingham details, it’s an interior designer’s wet dream. I’d spend my lunch break coming up with wild ideas on what to do with it when I could afford it one day.

Then a sold sign appeared.

Some beastly artist named Nolan Devereaux bought it—and hired my firm, Designing Women, to help decorate it. He’s an infuriating know-it-all with his grumpy nature and complete lack of understanding of the perfection of what he has.

Now we’re fighting—and making up in very non-professional ways—over renovating his house. Though he’s footing the bill, his ideas go against the usual rules for homes of significance. And the standards of the matchmaking ghost determined to keep us together.

Beast:
When my sister, Macy, moved to small town Crescent Cove, I thought she’d lost her mind. Then she started building a life—one that didn’t include me. It didn’t bother me at first.

Until the accident.

Until the scars on the inside now were on the outside for all to see.

The minute I saw that Victorian house on the lake, I knew it was where I belonged.

But this loud and opinionated designer keeps trying to dictate my renovations. Except the more she pushes her way into my life, the more I wonder if she’s been the missing piece all along.

And so is the baby she’s carrying…

Author's Note: Inside the pages of this book, you’ll find the ultimate enemies to lovers redemption story with a Victorian ghost who will steal your heart. Daddy By Design is a standalone romantic comedy with a happily-ever-after ending and no cliffhanger.

MY REVIEW

Dahlia keyed the wrong truck and now the very irate owner of that truck has just bought her dream home on the lake. But if she can convince him to let her company decorate that house, she can consider the whole thing a positive rather than a negative. She underestimated their insane chemistry and that all their bickering is some sort of aphrodisiac to them both though. All their fighting has lead to some explosive encounters, messing with Dahlia's mind because Nolan is the very definition of emotionally unavailable, and it might take a meddling ghost to set them straight.

Nolan moved to this tiny town where his sister lives, to get away from his past. He's recovering from a career ending accident and all the scars he now has, both inside and out, when a sassy, irritating woman barrels her way into his life (and heart if he's not careful). Somehow she's convinced him to let her design his house, and they've fallen prey to their explosive chemistry. All their bickering is like catnip and they can't keep from falling into each other's arms. But it's not going to be anything other than an arrangement with benefits because Nolan isn't the man for her and he knows it, even if their resident ghost seems to disagree.

I've been loving all the couples of Crescent Cove and Kensington Square and am always so happy each time someone has a baby and falls in love. The spooky addition of a ghost just made me fall in love with these two worlds even more, and is so fitting for the gothic house they fall in love with and in. Nolan is probably the most brooding to come down the turnpike, and I wanted to give him a big hug as he slowly let out his sad story. Thank God his sassy ray of sunshine came along with her water loving cat, and made his world and his heart right again. This Beauty and the Beast retelling is one of my favorite stories in both Crescent Cove and the Kensington Square series, and it has me all impatient for Jensen and Lyric's story, which I hope is coming soon.