This is the first time I’m reading a romance novella by Ivy Layne and I found her writing style to be both engaging and easy to get into. The story centers around Josephine Miller, a computer science grad student at Georgia Tech and self-proclaimed geek and Holden Winters, a charismatic alpha male billionaire with a tragic family history. The story opens with Josephine enduring a dull blind date with Stuart, her advisor’s nephew. She’s eager to end the evening until Stuart mentions he has a VIP invitation to Mana, the exclusive club she’s been dying to visit. Since it’s nearly impossible to get into this club Josephine decides to continue the date long enough to get in. While Stuart rambles on about his dissertation on campaign finance, Josephine’s attention wanders and lands on a handsome stranger sitting on the couch nearby – Holden. With a confident smirk, he invites her to join him. Intrigued by his boldness, Josephine doesn’t hesitate when he asks her to...
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