Ace and Lana have a past, but she has not idea who he is when she meets him. The first time is during a drunken dare at a bar, the second is when she meets the new owner of her company! Ace keeps his secret for has long as he can, but secrets have a way of unraveling. Will she still care when she find out he is the boy from her past that broke her heart? I love their romance, the twists and turns the obstacles that they need to overcome. Great story!! I received this ARC from Bad Boy Updates.

Ace has always known that he would come back and make Lana his when he had made something of himself but will she want him.
The chemistry between them is off the charts but he is her new boss.
Can they get their HEA when not everyone is happy they are together.
Loved the ending.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book.

I’ve tried one other book by this author. I can’t recall specifics but I know when I read it I decided that it was too angsty in a way that wasn’t fun to read and this wasn’t the author for me.

However, this book pops up and I’m too intrigued to just ignore it. I’m a sucker for a stalker book and this has heavy stalking elements in it. If only it weren’t such a train wreck.

This book isn’t terrible but it’s really not good either. The story is very clunky. You’ve got a lot of puzzle pieces here but they don’t fit together properly because they don’t make sense.

H knew the h when they were younger. He last saw her when he was 18 and she was 13. He went on to become a self made *billionaire* but supposedly never forgot h, except when he did? For her part, h somehow has absolutely zero inkling of Hs true identity even though it’s only been 10 years.

He has an investigator looking for her for and apparently thoroughly investigated and under surveillance for TWO YEARS. Why does it take all these effort to find and watch someone for two years that was absolutely and clearly NEVER hiding? *shrugs* No explanation given.

So he buys the company company she works for, stalks her (except when he’s not?), buys her a new car before meeting her in person and is house hunting when they haven’t even gone on a date? He’s supposedly been hung up on her for nearly 10 years but he stops along the way to marry a woman every single person he knows absolutely hates (except his best friend whom she cheats with?)

Then this woman whom he has put on a pedestal and longed for (except when he was fucking all the OW and getting married, of course) is finally in his sights so he goes about trying to win her over in *the* most antagonistic way possible. Right. You see how none of that makes sense? I couldn’t rate this higher if I wanted too. It’s just a hot mess of contradictions.

The author had an idea for this stalkery story but absolutely no idea how to believably execute. She should have thought a lot harder about how to make her ideas actually cohesive or should have dropped the stalking and childhood history. This would have made SO much more sense if he’d just been a CEO who fell for h the instant they met.