Hawk Tanner is not a man of many words—especially if you’re a silly girl getting a silly tattoo in his shop. The owner of Bird’s Eye Tattoo Studio doesn’t want you to tip him with your phone number or flirty glances. He’s tired of all the wrong women wanting him for all the wrong reasons.
Drew Ashby has no time—for anything. As a recently-divorced single mother, her focus is on finding a job, caring for her daughter, and rebuilding some semblance of a life after hers was wrecked.
When Drew lands a job at Bird’s Eye, sparks don’t immediately fly. She can’t deny the fact that her boss is a delicious specimen of a man. His tattoo-covered skin might even drive her wild, but his brooding presence and set jaw make him hard to read.
That is, until he drops the bad boy persona and starts making moves on her—kind and caring gestures she doesn’t expect.
Things turn hot, and just when Drew thinks everything is finally going right, life does what it does best: It throws her a curveball from her past.
Bird’s Eye might not be the family Drew envisioned for herself, but ideals can change in a heartbeat. There’s no doubt Hawk is the man she wants, but can he step up and be the man she needs?
Review by Twinsie Angie
I purchased this audiobook.
I don’t even know how I found this book, but I did, and I grabbed the audio. I enjoyed the voices and thought they did a great job of representing the characters in the story.
I fell in love with Hawk immediately. I mean a grumpy, tatted, single guy with a hot-mess ex who also loves his dogs… yes, please. When Drew walks into the shop, he does not love the straight-laced MOM as his front desk receptionist, but his bestie Will needs help.
Drew is a pretty broken single mom with some emotional baggage from her ex. He is a POS, totally, but she needs this job and the closeness to her apartment. Drew handles just about anything that the grumpy owner throws her way.
As Hawk learned more about Drew and she about him, you can see the chemistry start to build. When Drew’s daughter falls fr Hawk, I was so happy. Of course, there is drama because Drew freaks out and Hawk has major miscommunication issues.
I immediately downloaded book 2 because seeing confident Will as a hot mess over her crush, I needed to see how they fell for each other.
Kat Savage’s unique brand of storytelling combines some of her own truths with a little bit of fiction to connect to people in a very real way. She writes about ugly things authentically and shamelessly.
