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Beatrice Baker may be a struggling artist, but she believes all hardships have silver linings ... until she follows her boyfriend to New Orleans and finds him with another woman. Instead of turning those lemons into lemonade, she drinks lemon drop martinis and keys the wrong man's car. Now she works for Huxley Marlow of the Marvelous Marlow Boys, getting shoved in boxes as an on-stage magician's assistant. A cool job for some, but Bea's been coerced into the role to cover her debt. She also maybe fantasizes about her boss's adept hands and what else they can do. She absolutely will not fall for him, or kiss him senseless. Until she does. The scarred, enigmatic Huxley has unwittingly become her muse, unlocking her artistic dry spell, but his vague nightly activities are highly suspect. The last time Beatrice trusted a man, her bank account got drained and she almost got arrested. Surely this can't end that badly ... right?
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3 primary booksShowmen is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Kelly Siskind.
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The best word to describe this book is cute. Did it have all your typical romance troupes? Yes. Were some parts of the storyline predictable and others completely unrealistic? Yes. Did I still enjoy it? Yes. It was a cute, fluffy romance with a smattering of sexual tension and angsty build up. What I appreciated about the book was that it wasn't until.... I want to say 83% in or so that sex was had. From my experience, it's pretty typical for romance books to have sexy times pretty much at the beginning, middle, and end of the book, multiple times. So it was nice to have a book where, yes, clearly you knew it was going to happen, but, to put it bluntly, smut didn't drive the plot.
This was my first book by Kelly Siskind, and I simply loved the quirky characters! I am looking forward to reading more books in this series (book 2 is already on my TBR).