Date of release: April 26th 2016
Series: The Knickerbocker Club #1
Pages: 325
Genre: Historical romance
Genre: Historical romance
New York City’s Gilded Age shimmers with unimaginable wealth and glittering power. The men of the Knickerbocker Club know this more than anyone else. But for one millionaire, the business of love is not what he expected…
Born in the slums of Five Points, Emmett Cavanaugh climbed his way to the top of a booming steel empire and now holds court in an opulent Fifth Avenue mansion. His rise in stations, however, has done little to elevate his taste in women. He loathes the city’s “high society” types, but a rebellious and beautiful blue-blood just might change all that.
Elizabeth Sloane’s mind is filled with more than the latest parlor room gossip. Lizzie can play the Stock Exchange as deftly as New York’s most accomplished brokers—but she needs a man to put her skills to use. Emmett reluctantly agrees when the stunning socialite asks him to back her trades and split the profits. But love and business make strange bedfellows, and as their fragile partnership begins to crack, they’ll discover a passion more frenzied than the trading room floor…
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From all the bad reviews I've read about this book, I thought it would be a really terrible read. But it's definitely not! I don't understand why it's so bad rated on the internet because I loved this book.
It may be a historical romance but you don't really have a feeling you're reading a story, set so many years ago. It's written in a modern way, it's an easy read, funny, romantic and the sexy isn't missing, either!
Elizabeth is a very brave and strong woman, especially for a woman living at that time and at that place. She goes after what she wants, completely bravely. She wants to have her own business, even though women at that time weren't really supposed to work because that was considered a man's job - if even that.
She was afraid she wouldn't find a husband that would understand her and support her wishes. She has a brother who's completely against the idea of her having to work and he doesn't believe that. She realises she doesn't want to have a husband like that.
Emmett is a self-made wealthy man, known for dating beautiful actresses. He wasn't born into wealth, but he made himself a very wealthy man. When Elizabeth comes to him for help, he doesn't expect there'd be so many fireworks flying between them.
Elizabeth is completely smitten with him, as well. He can be a bastard, sure, and he has his own conditions that later lead them both to marriage that neither of them wanted nor expected to have.
But they can't deny their attraction to each other and when Elizabeth sees Emmett is the man who's going to support her and even help her and Emmett learns that he can trust Elizabeth completely, their love for each other blossoms like a cherry tree.
This book is a mix of want and need. It has two stubborn characters that have to fight their attraction for each other until their asses finally get kicked and they understand their feelings.
This book is not a traditional historical romance. It's not something you'd expect. The plot is different, interesting, the characters are bold and there's so much chemistry between them it just makes you want to keep reading to know more.
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