Review: Mr. Mayfair

Mr. Mayfair by Louise Bay
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Stella London is as low as a girl could be. She moved to London, giving up her burgeoning interior design practice in Manchester and taking a job in a recruitment agency, to be with her long-term boyfriend Matt when a job opportunity arose. Now he's left her and the flat they bought together, even worse she's just found out that he's not only dating her BFF Karen but they are getting married, less than two months after Stella and Matt broke up - heck, she was expecting them to get back together! Losing her BFF on top of that is just the cherry on a sh!tty cake.

Beck Wilde is a self-made millionaire property developer. He has bought all but one of a row of buildings in prestigious Mayfair which he intends to develop into luxury apartments, unfortunately the one building he hasn't acquired is the one he really wants, it was owned by his a-hole biological father and Beck wants to right the wrongs that were done to his mother. In order to acquire this property and commence development he needs to get close to the current owner, but so far all his tricks have failed. Then he discovers that the owner has blocked out a week to attend his goddaughter's wedding in Scotland - somehow he needs to get an invitation to that wedding. When he discovers that Stella is the only single woman under 60 attending the wedding who hasn't RSVP'd with the name of her plus-one he knows he has to do everything in his power to persuade her to take him to the wedding.

Beck is your typical self-made millionaire, at least in novels, he's got a chip on his shoulder, a grudge against his biological father, determined to get what he wants, and never had a real relationship with a woman because he's married to his business. He's gorgeous, fit, and practically a non-drinker.

With Louise Bay you know what you are going to get, and this is no exception. My only gripe would be that the sex was neither here nor there, a bit too domineering for my taste but also not very sexy (which is a long-winded way of saying I didn't get hot under the collar and there was too much of it). Nevertheless, it was a fun read and I chose to read this rather than the 12 ARCs sitting on my Kindle or the five books I bought. Oh, and it is currently free on Amazon Kindle.

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