Book Description:
Once upon a time Max Cirillo and Sloane Madison were close friends and business partners. But when their business relationship imploded, so did the friendship.
Now, four years later, Max is a rich CEO. Sloane’s a not-so-rich etiquette expert who returns to Maine to serve as her niece’s temporary guardian and help the girl search for her birth father. Sloane and her niece move into a darling garage apartment but Sloane’s joy in their accommodations soon turns to horror when she realizes their apartment belongs to Max. Thanks to an unbreakable lease, she’s stuck living right next door to him.
Max pulled strings to bring Sloane into his orbit because he needs closure on what went wrong between them. Quickly, though, his scheming comes back to bite him. The world might view him as a cold-hearted rake, but this one woman has dangerous power over his emotions.
They’ll have no choice but to confront their history—and the undeniable spark between them—while living side by side on uneasy street.
Discover witty humor, rich emotion, banter, and charm within the pages of this sweet enemies-to-lovers romance!
Narelle’s Thoughts:
I enjoyed reading Uneasy Street, the third book in Becky Wade’s Sons of Scandal series set in coastal Maine. Max is a self-made multimillionaire who’s successful despite the circumstances of his birth. He’s the illegitimate son of Felix, a wealthy and famous retired NFL quarterback who cheated on his second wife with Max’s mother, their live-in housekeeper, who raised Max on Felix’s sprawling Maine estate until the scandal broke. Max has a difficult and complicated relationship with his father.
Sloane left Maine four years ago and moved to California when her close friendship and business relationship with Max soured. They co-founded the tech company that made Max wealthy. Sloane’s share in the company was bought out for modest sum prior to the business becoming a massive success. She’s now an etiquette expert and trainer who runs her own business.
Sloane returns to Maine to care for her niece, Ivy, while Ivy’s adopted parents are working overseas. They rent an apartment above the garage on a well-known estate. Sloane is shocked to discover that Max is their landlord who lives in the mansion beside their apartment. Max wants closure from Sloane on what went wrong four years ago. Sloane has her own issues with Max and how he removed her from the company she’d co-founded.
Their enemies to love romance is delightful, sweet, and complicated by the emotional baggage they’re carrying from their broken relationship and dysfunctional family of origins. I love how issues relating to trust, redemption and forgiveness are explored in the story. Ivy is on a mission to find her birth father, and I love how the plot twists in her search play out. The heirloom jewellery mystery is an intriguing part of the story. Felix’s ex-wives have unfinished business that’s tied up in a satisfying subplot and series conclusion.
I recommend Uneasy Street to contemporary romance readers who like enemies to love romances with depth that include second chances, forced proximity, intriguing mysteries, family drama, and relevant faith threads in the story.
