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Review: Manhattan Kiss (Manhattan Billionaires #1) by Louise Bay


Manhattan Kiss by Louise Bay is NOW LIVE!

Amazon: https://mybook.to/a52BEM0

Tropes inside:

🩷 Billionaire hero
💙 Single dad
🩷 Found family
💙 He falls harder
🩷 Off-limits tension


Blurb
Thirty-six, and somehow I'd become the supporting character in everyone else's love story.
I never left my village in England except for university. Never took the risk. Then one phone call from New York and one piece of news I couldn't outrun sent me across an ocean for a three-month trial at Hotel on Ninth Street. And my one shot at finally starring in my own life.
I lasted exactly six minutes before a gorgeous, glowering stranger slammed into me, drenched my shirt in coffee, and stalked off without so much as sorry.
Of course Deacon Black is the hotel's most important guest.
Of course he's there every week.
And of course he's a fiercely protective single dad whose entire life is built around never letting anything — or anyone — shake his daughter's world.
I'm leaving in three months. He doesn't do temporary. Falling for him is the worst possible use of my brand-new fresh start. So why does it feel like walking away is the biggest risk of all?

A standalone, spicy, single dad, billionaire romance.

MY REVIEW


Aurora has finally taken a step out of her comfort zone of the small village in England where she lives. Now she's spending the summer at trial run at a hotel in New York. It's where she meets one of the hotel's important guests, single dad, billionaire Deacon Black, who stays there while his ex moves into their home for the duration of her time with their daughter. Aurora knows she shouldn't get involved with him, but she simply can't resist. Now she's in it, and isn't sure she'll be able to leave Deacon and his daughter when her trial run is over.


Deacon devotes his time to being the best father to his daughter Willow. He moves out of his home during the days his ex moves in, all so Willow doesn't feel as if she's being shuttled back and forth, so that she has a stable place to call home. He loves Willow, and no one else. Then Aurora happens, and now he's starting to open up his heart to more than just his daughter. But will Aurora be able to get him to see they can have it all?


Wow, I so was not expecting the level of emotion Aurora and Deacon would bring. They both have pain in their pasts, and it's shaped them and their hearts in different, but equally heartbreaking ways. I love how Deacon was instantly fascinated and thrown off balance from their first meeting, and how Aurora's steady warmth helped him heal. And the found family aspect brings even more depth and heart - Aurora's new bosses and the fast friendship she develops with them are female friendship goals. I always love Louise's heartfelt love stories with layered, loveable characters, and I think Aurora and Deacon (and Willow too!) just might be her most heartwarming yet.

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