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Review: Hidden Hearts (Blackwood Hearts #1) by Ani Thomas


Hidden Hearts (Blackwood Hearts #1) by Ani Thomas is NOW LIVE!

Amazon: https://a.co/d/07ZZQde6

Tropes inside:

💙Small Town
🥃Black Cat x Golden Retriever
💙Millionaire MMC
🥃Competitors turned Partners
💙Forced Proximity
🥃One Bed
💙He Falls First
🥃Dual POV


Blurb
There are worse things in life than being the CEO of the largest and oldest whiskey distillery in South Carolina and the self-proclaimed patriarch of my family. I can’t complain, even if my personal life has taken what seems to be a permanent backseat over the last two years.

I have my mom and brothers to look out for, a business to run, and a legacy to uphold. With the responsibility I shoulder, I don’t have the capacity for much else in my life.

Enter Lila Avondale, my new—and extremely reluctant—business partner. She’s gorgeous, witty, obstinate, and everything I never knew I wanted.

Something about Lila’s frosty charisma has me completely captivated, but she doesn’t trust my family or me as far as she can throw us.

I’m making it my mission to knock down her well-constructed walls and get to know the real her, the one she keeps hidden away. But a series of unfortunate mishaps and an unsuspecting grudge could wreck any chance I have at making that happen.

Will I break through and form a connection that could change everything for us both, or will she always keep her heart hidden from me?

MY REVIEW

Corbin's the CEO of his family's prestigious distillery when a local competitor comes to him with a surprise, welcome offer. With that offer comes the competitor's daughter, the very woman who was ice cold to him the night before. Working with Lila is beginning to show a different side to her, and he's determined to prove to her that he and his family are not who she prejudged them to be. Will he ever be able to get her to open her heart to him?

Lila's starting to realize she and her family had some serious misconceptions about Corbin and his family and business. She's got walls up sky high now that her father has sold their company to Corbin's. She has to work with the man she can't stand - that's not going to end well...until it does, and she's warming up to his golden retriever energy. If she can completely open up, she and Corbin could have something beautiful.

Golden retriever x prickly black cat has never been so sweet and delicious. Corbin may be the friendliest, sweetest of a golden retriever guy, but his mouth is positively sinful! He and Lila are perfect for each other, the way they start off as rivals, enemies, what have you, but in true fashion, he gently proves to her she can trust him with every part of her - her heart, her soul, and her body. I adored this couple and am seriously excited for the rest of the Blackwood guys to fall in love now.

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