This is the first time I am reading anything by Michele Arris. Catch Me is the contemporary interracial love story about the sexy yet stubborn Tabitha Seils and the sexy yet stubborn Dominic Balaska. Tabitha is a custom pastry chef and part owner with her friends Evie and Kennedi of a Washington D.C. boutique bakery (Chase Confections) reopening in a new location. Tabitha likes things her way and constantly bumps heads with Dominic who is overseeing the project of the new location. Dominic is also Trenton’s brother who is engaged to Kennedi. So, everyone wants Tabitha and Dominic to get along because they have to work together.
Now, these two are thrown together for a week on a promo opportunity to market the bakery out on the West Coast (Las Vegas) at Shaw’s signature restaurant, Pearl Fine Dining. Dominic is Shaw Enterprise’s COO and would arrange for meetings to get Tabitha interviewed and to drum up business. While there, tension eases between the two of them and they become more than just friends. However, Tabitha has a lot going on with trying to adopt a baby and figuring out how to make the payments and so does Dominic who must get married by thirty-one to get his $20 million trust inheritance. They both agree it would be a win-win situation if they got married and he would pay her $100,000 for doing so then they would get an annulment.
Overall, it was a quick and fun read. Although I felt the story dragged a bit at times and there was a lack of communication about some situations, I enjoyed seeing Tabitha and Dominic play this cat and mouse game with their feelings for each other. Neither one of them wanting to confess how they truly felt until others around them made it clear for them. I also enjoyed the dialogue, sex scenes, and bakery descriptions which were realistic and well done. It was a good read!
Some of my favorite lines:
For some
strange reason, Dominic simply liked looking at Tabitha. In fact, he couldn’t
take his eyes off her at dinner. There was something hidden behind that icy
exterior that provoked his curiosity. On that, he ignored his brother. “There
wasn’t much about the dude to figure out. Anyway, Tabitha was trying to do a
duck and dodge when I ran into her. Again, can’t blame her. The dude didn’t
strike me as her type.”
“Self-absorbed
pretty boys with an ego chip on their shoulder aren’t her type. I guess that
leaves you out,” Trenton said on a laugh. “It’s what Tabitha said about you the
other day.”
Dominic scowled. “Ego chip! She said that?”
“Apparently,
he’s okay with the pretty-boy part,” Vincent remarked around a chuckle.
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