Kari's Book Reviews and Revelations

Title: By a Thread

Author: Lucy Score

Genre: A Grumpy Boss Romantic Comedy

Release Date: April 23, 2020

Dominic was staring at me like he couldn’t decide whether to chop me into pieces or pull my hair and French kiss me.

Dominic

I got her fired. Okay, so I’d had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that the first day at her new job… in my office… after being hired by my mother.

So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine’s offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue.

But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation son of a… fill in the blank, but I am not my father.

She’s working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn’t feel like sharing with me. And I’m going to fix it all. Don’t accuse me of caring. She’s nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel back all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.

Ally

Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.

Author’s Note: A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart beneath her boss’s sexy vests.

💜Review💜

Ally has recently moved back home and would do anything for the father she loves and that includes working multiple jobs just so he can have the best life he can. She doesn’t back down from anyone and that includes an arrogant jerk who makes sure she is fired.

Dominic loves his mother dearly so when she needs help with the family magazine he gives up his career to be there for her. He comes across as arrogant and condescending but there is so much more to the man than first appears. The last thing he needs is to find out that the new employee his mother hired be the same woman he had fired.

Ally’s feisty and fiery personality is exactly what Dominic needs in his life as he is dealing with his own demons. The interactions between them are humorous, the chemistry hot but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t pack an emotional punch. This is one story you don’t want to miss.

Lucy Score is a Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author. Small town contemporary rom-coms are her lady jam and she enjoys delivering the feels with a huge side of happily ever after.

Her books have been translated into several languages, making readers around the world snort laugh, swoon, and sob. Lucy lives in Pennsylvania with the devastatingly handsome Mr. Lucy and their horrible cat.

In her spare time she enjoys sleeping, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and reading all the romance novels in the universe.