4 Stars from me.

Robert Davenport, newly minted Man-of-the-Year, is getting ready to leave the job he loves as mayor of New York. The next step is to run for Governor, but he has some stiff competition in the form of George Brennan, the current incumbent, who leads a perfect life on the surface. Except maybe for his scandalous daughter, Addie, who has disappeared from everybody’s radar since her wild younger years. Addie has restyled herself as Adeline Blake, and is enjoying her new-found obscurity as a successful event planner.

Robert is fairly certain that Governor Blake is hiding some serious character flaws and he needs to expose them in order to bring the man down in the next election. Robert’s campaign manager encourages him to hire Adeline to plan his last party as mayor. And to try to entice her father’s secrets from her.

Things don’t go according to plan, as you would expect, when Robert meets Adeline for the first time. There is an undeniable attraction between them.

Between Addie’s secrets and the potential to ruin her father, and Robert’s initial motives for hiring her, this book could have had a lot more sensation, miscommunications, and scandals. But Robert and Addie both handle the situations thrown at them like the very mature and responsible adults that they are. The don’t jump to conclusions and instead talk to each other. It was quite refreshing. I suppose it could be considered a bit bland for that, but I enjoyed it the way it is.

The writing is excellent and compelling, and I was really rooting for Robert and Addie. A very lovely read.

I received an advanced copy of the book from Netgalley to review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Was I hooked by this book? Yes!

Genre: Contemporary Romance