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Little Secrets: Secretly Pregnant by Andrea Laurence
4.0
I have joined Manali Dey, a friend on Bookstagram, for the #MillsandBoonReadathon for which we are reading 18 books, coz it's '18! This is Book 8.
I have read and loved [a:Andrea Laurence|5398672|Andrea Laurence|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1407976116p2/5398672.jpg]'s [b:The CEO's Unexpected Child|27238055|The CEO's Unexpected Child (Millionaires of Manhattan, #4)|Andrea Laurence|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1454398137l/27238055._SY75_.jpg|47285717] before this. This is my second read by her. This is Book Four of Little Secrets Series. Neither had I read the previous book's series serially nor this one's. Yeeesh!
Twenty-seven-year-old Emma Dempsey finds herself at a Mardi Gras party in Tribeca, a party of her best friend Harper's employer, Jonah Flynn. Recently broken up with her boyfriend, who termed her boring, she's bored at the party as well. When Batman starts to accost her, she has to accept the help of Mr Venetian Mask to drive away from the creep. She decides to give in to her impulse and does body shots of tequila with the stranger. Hot hot hot, hot prologue!
The book starts three months later, in Jonah Flynn's office. He runs his privately owned gaming company, FlynnSoft. He has two brothers, one of whom took off with three million dollars of company money. FlynnSoft is on the verge of a new deal, and with an auditor coming in... This is so a story of here and now.
A night of unforgettable sex, with an unknown partner, the only means of identification their matching tattoos. As soon as Emma the forensic auditor lays eyes on Jonah the gamer's tattoo, she's beyond flustered. You see, he still doesn't know who she is, coz her tattoo is, well, ahem... at a discreet place. And she's out of her mind, thinking of her pregnancy. She couldn't find her secret hero with the help of her best friend and hasn't divulged her news to even her parents, coz they expect her to be prim and proper after what happened to her older sister.
Intent on seducing Emma to keep her eyes away from his brothers' doings, Jonah finds himself getting frustrated since she has a no-nonsense attitude. And then start the office shenanigans.
I loved how the author set up Jonah's office, so modern and millennial. I wish I could work in such an office! Jonah and Emma's jibes and snipes were funny, their camaraderie adorable. Both of them hailed from wealthy families but worked on their own steam. Instead of the usual anger and recriminations that usually follows, their acceptance of each other's situation was a breath of fresh air.
Except for her parents', George and Pauline Dempsey, names; nothing was made evident as to why she was so afraid of/for them.
The ending was so cute, a perfect ending to a quintessential office romance. It was funny as well. It could have been better with an epilogue, though.
After combing through Andrea Laurence's books, I found out the following:
The deceased sister of Emma, Cynthia Dempsey, is actually alive in her own amnesiac story, [b:What Lies Beneath|13261505|What Lies Beneath (Millionaires of Manhattan #1)|Andrea Laurence|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344391577l/13261505._SY75_.jpg|18463025], Book 1 of Millionaires of Manhattan.
Also, the situation described with Noah Flynn and Reagan Hardy, his ........ I'm wondering whether they have a book or will have a book. And what about Elijah Flynn, the middle or the youngest Flynn brother, is he anywhere in the picture?
And her friends seem to have a life of their own too...Lucy, Violet, and especially Harper.
My review of:
His Unexpected Heir (Book One)
Claiming His Pregnant Bride (Book Two)
P.S. The cover is what drew me to this book in the first place. It is so adorable.
I have read and loved [a:Andrea Laurence|5398672|Andrea Laurence|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1407976116p2/5398672.jpg]'s [b:The CEO's Unexpected Child|27238055|The CEO's Unexpected Child (Millionaires of Manhattan, #4)|Andrea Laurence|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1454398137l/27238055._SY75_.jpg|47285717] before this. This is my second read by her. This is Book Four of Little Secrets Series. Neither had I read the previous book's series serially nor this one's. Yeeesh!
Twenty-seven-year-old Emma Dempsey finds herself at a Mardi Gras party in Tribeca, a party of her best friend Harper's employer, Jonah Flynn. Recently broken up with her boyfriend, who termed her boring, she's bored at the party as well. When Batman starts to accost her, she has to accept the help of Mr Venetian Mask to drive away from the creep. She decides to give in to her impulse and does body shots of tequila with the stranger. Hot hot hot, hot prologue!
The book starts three months later, in Jonah Flynn's office. He runs his privately owned gaming company, FlynnSoft. He has two brothers, one of whom took off with three million dollars of company money. FlynnSoft is on the verge of a new deal, and with an auditor coming in... This is so a story of here and now.
A night of unforgettable sex, with an unknown partner, the only means of identification their matching tattoos. As soon as Emma the forensic auditor lays eyes on Jonah the gamer's tattoo, she's beyond flustered. You see, he still doesn't know who she is, coz her tattoo is, well, ahem... at a discreet place. And she's out of her mind, thinking of her pregnancy. She couldn't find her secret hero with the help of her best friend and hasn't divulged her news to even her parents, coz they expect her to be prim and proper after what happened to her older sister.
Intent on seducing Emma to keep her eyes away from his brothers' doings, Jonah finds himself getting frustrated since she has a no-nonsense attitude. And then start the office shenanigans.
I loved how the author set up Jonah's office, so modern and millennial. I wish I could work in such an office! Jonah and Emma's jibes and snipes were funny, their camaraderie adorable. Both of them hailed from wealthy families but worked on their own steam. Instead of the usual anger and recriminations that usually follows, their acceptance of each other's situation was a breath of fresh air.
Except for her parents', George and Pauline Dempsey, names; nothing was made evident as to why she was so afraid of/for them.
The ending was so cute, a perfect ending to a quintessential office romance. It was funny as well. It could have been better with an epilogue, though.
After combing through Andrea Laurence's books, I found out the following:
The deceased sister of Emma, Cynthia Dempsey, is actually alive in her own amnesiac story, [b:What Lies Beneath|13261505|What Lies Beneath (Millionaires of Manhattan #1)|Andrea Laurence|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344391577l/13261505._SY75_.jpg|18463025], Book 1 of Millionaires of Manhattan.
Also, the situation described with Noah Flynn and Reagan Hardy, his ........ I'm wondering whether they have a book or will have a book. And what about Elijah Flynn, the middle or the youngest Flynn brother, is he anywhere in the picture?
And her friends seem to have a life of their own too...Lucy, Violet, and especially Harper.
My review of:
His Unexpected Heir (Book One)
Claiming His Pregnant Bride (Book Two)
P.S. The cover is what drew me to this book in the first place. It is so adorable.