Title: DIRTY RICH CINDERELLA STORY
Series: Dirty Rich #2
Author: Lisa Renee Jones
Publish Date: 05.23.2018
Publisher: Julie Patra Publishing
Category /Genre: Contemporary Romance
Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing: book received as an
unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: Lisa Renee Jones (as an ARC gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Dirty Rich Cinderella Story
Date completed: 05.27.2018
Description from the publisher:
Seduced for a night. Taken forever.
With only nine months left at
Stanford, and despite being top of her law school class, Lori Havens takes
leave to care for her sick mother. That means she juggles three jobs, the best
of which is researcher for novelist, and syndicated columnist of "Cat Does
Crime," Cat Summer.
One evening after finishing up her
work at Cat's apartment building, Lori has an encounter with a sexy stranger,
and does something out of character. She goes home with him. The night is
perfect, he's perfect, wealthy, powerful and from out of town. Morning comes,
and despite their connection, Lori leaves before he finds out she's far from
the equal he believes her to be. She's not a charity case and she's not after
his money. She will make her own. In other words, she leaves before her prince
charming finds out she's no princess.
Flash forward months in the future,
Lori’s mother is healing, and Cat's husband, Reese, has merged his firm with
another and Lori lands an internship there, with school credit and scholarship
money. Everything is falling into place. That is until fate reveals a wicked
twist of events and Lori walks into a conference room to find her new boss,
Cole Brooks, one of the partners, is her one-night prince charming. One
sizzling shared look across a boardroom, and it’s clear: this man is not done
with her. It’s not long before Lori is informed that she’s his new research
assistant on a high profile case which will require long nights and travel,
starting immediately.
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DIRTY RICH CINDERELLA STORY is the
second book in the Dirty, Rich series.
They each stand on their own.
Just because this stands on its own,
doesn’t mean we have left DIRTY RICH ONE NIGHT STAND behind. Lori works for Cat and Cole has been friends
with Reese since college. So – Yeah! – a
bit more of Cat and Reese! I love the small bits showing that their love
has continued as strongly as ever. Their
story didn’t end at “and they lived happily ever after.” It continues in the love of their careers,
friends, and their relationship.
I freaking love Lori and Cole.
Lori is stubborn, stubborn, stubborn.
She is so determined to make her own way in the world that she almost
didn’t recognize that love is a good thing.
Like many, she has been mentally twisted up by something one of her
parents did. She’s a woman who wants to
control her own destiny, but she’s allowing the past hurt to control her more
than she realizes.
Cole is alpha, a workaholic, and committed
to never being committed,. All of that
changes, and none of that changes when he meets Lori. He is good at reading people and he knows she’s
different. He’s still alpha. He’s still committed to his job. But the HEA of being committed to one person
can only happen when he shares control with Lori.
I love that they are both able to compartmentalize
work hours and personal time. It’s not
an easy skill, but for some of us it is inherent. I love that they are able to argue –
correction, debate – without it becoming a personal sting. Instead they listen to each other and find
the truth whether it is her side, his, or somewhere in the middle.
I absolutely loved this story. I could not put it down (and missed a few
hours of sleep for it!). So worth
it! Because they are lawyers, there were
several cases discussed as they prepared for trials and I enjoyed that. There is also plenty of sexy time. Then there is the proposal. It had me laughing and tearing up at the same
time. I could totally see that scene
playing out in movie format!
As wonderful as the first two
stories in this series have been, I hope there will be more!
Note: while I was given this book as a gifted ARC,
my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Dirty
Rich Series:
2.
Dirty Rich Cinderella Story
Also from Lisa Renee Jones:
Careless Whispers Series:
1.
Denial
2.
Demand
3.
Surrender
Dirty
Money Series:
1.
Hard Rules
2.
Damage Control
3.
Bad Deeds
4.
End Game
Inside
Out Series:
2.
Being Me
3.
Revealing Us
a.
His Secrets
b.
Rebecca’s Lost Journals
d.
My Hunger
4.5
My Control
6.
All of Me
Lilah Love series:
1.
Murder Notes
2.
Murder Girl
Poison
Kisses serial:
The Secret
Life of Amy Bensen Series:
3.
Forsaken
4.
Unbroken
Tall,
Dark, & Deadly Series:
0.5 Secrets Exposed
1.
Hot Secrets
2.
Dangerous Secrets
2.5 One Dangerous Night
3.
Beneath the Secrets
Walker
Security Series:
1.
Deep Under
2.
Pulled Under
White
Lies Series:
1.
Provocative
2.
Shameless
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