Yay! Another Ava Sinclair and another Hard 'n Dirty book all in the same place. Be still my pounding heart. I'm so happy. Of course, I'm always happy when I get to read a new Ava Sinclair book.

Iris Tremaine is a rich young woman. Her father, Roger Tremaine, is an oil man in Texas. He's also bombastic, racist, misogynistic, and just plain evil. He has called her in because he wants her to be the pretty new face of his oil company which is reeling under fines and accusations of malfeasance and negligence. But she's pretty, so daddy dearest thinks that she'll be able to snow the lying press with her dazzling smile. But, Iris is miserable. She doesn't want to be there, she's worked really hard to stay away from her father's business, and she knows he didn't want her anyway.

Cal Beaumont came over to Texas from Louisiana after his mother died and his ex told him that she wanted someone better, who was going to make something of himself. He's been working as a roustabout on a Tremaine oil field since. When he sees Iris, he knows that she's got a perfect body, but he figures that she is a spoiled rotten princess. But when he gets his first taste of her, he realizes that she may be a princess, but she's perfect.

I felt really sorry for Iris for so many reasons. I mean, first of all, her dad. Yuck. I mean, yuck. And she gets stuck in between several rocks and several hard places and they all have her father's name plastered all over. He cuts her off at the knees before she even got the chance to try and do anything, and every time she tried to do something, he stopped her. Cal is a good man. He is steady and pretty calm, which was pretty awesome. They'll be so great together. ( )

4.1 stars

Great addition to this series. Very fast paced and Insta-love. However it had a great message and unlike the others in the series it had the type of epilogue that I liked to see.

The epilogue came after previews of the other books in the series so make sure you flip to the end. ( )