Olivia is a professor who has just gotten a successful two year review and so she's searching for a house that speaks to her. She finds one that practically yells at her, but while its bones seem okay, it definitely needs some work. A lot of work.

She hires the same company, a family company, that did her inspection, and it's Joss who winds up doing most of the work on the house (with a bit of help from her brother Ben). They clashed while Joss was doing the inspection and so neither knows exactly what to expect, since Olivia also wants to be there for some of the work on the house and do some things herself.

But, it is a romance novel, and so they slowly but surely work things out, although not in the most straightforward way they could. (If it had been straightforward the book would have been boring.)

I liked most of the characters, Ben and Olivia's two friends were very cool. Olivia and Joss were very unique and jumped from the page at me. The only small problem I had with the narrative was what I thought of as the 'beat up on Olivia' sort of feeling I sometimes got. On occasion it felt like 'hey, Olivia's horrible in every way let's make her apologize for everything from global warming to the extinction of the dinosaurs'. It wasn't in every scene or every chapter, but here and there I sort of had to move the book away and grumble how some of the fights in it were a two way street being treated a little like a one way one.

I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )