Title: Angels in the City
Author: Garrett Leigh
Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited
Length: 243 Pages
Category: Holiday Romance
At a Glance: Every single thing about this story is just beautiful, and I couldn’t put it down.
Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: A fake relationship with a stranger. An office romance with doughnuts and white knights. An addictive arrangement—friends with benefits—fast turns to love.
Jonah Gray is rich, successful, and the most eligible bachelor in the city, according to his mother, at least. But the truth is, despite her efforts to pair him off, he’s fine on his own. All he needs is a date to the Christmas ball.
Sacha Ivanov is a lone wolf, content in the cycle of long days, late nights, and anonymous hook ups, but when a chance encounter in a broken-down lift brings a gorgeous copper-haired CEO into his life, everything begins to change.
As Christmas fast approaches, a favour for a stranger blooms into something more. He doesn’t do second dates or relationships. But for kind-hearted Jonah, his angel in the city, he might just change his mind.
Review: Two men, one stalled elevator, and a dreaded Christmas party are the ingredients author Garrett Leigh mixes together in a big bowl of sexual chemistry that makes her latest release, Angels in the City, a sweet, spicy, and glorious holiday romance.
The fake boyfriends scheme Jonah Gray and Sasha Ivanov cooked up in the twenty minutes they were stuck in the elevator together was only meant to be a lark to help Jonah endure the lavish party he’s obligated to attend so as not to disappoint his parents. The immediate physical attraction between them may have oiled the gears to ease the plan, and was not a terribly shocking development—they are both gorgeous, after all—but the mental, and eventually the emotional, connection gobsmacks them more than a bit. Neither Jonah nor Sasha has a steady track record of long-term relationships, and in fact, Sasha seems allergic to the mere idea of them. He’s more the one-and-done sort, but there’s just something about Jonah that draws Sasha in and confounds him, simultaneously. He soon learns what that something is, and with little effort since he sees evidence of Jonah’s kindness in their shared office space five days a week. The real effort comes in Sasha trying to resist Jonah’s prodigious charms. No spoilers . . . he fails.
Their connection doesn’t come without it’s challenges, however. They each struggle to even put a name to what it is they’re doing, most of all the surly but utterly charming Sasha, who’d never allow sex to lend the weight of a definition to that connection. But as feelings become more complicated, the holiday season bears down on them, and Jonah’s mother takes a keen interest in her son’s lovely new “boyfriend,” it propels them forward to a critical moment of truth—whether they’re up for fighting to save what’s building between them, whether they can give it a name, or if they should cut their losses now and walk away.
Every single thing about this story is just beautiful, and I couldn’t put it down. Jonah and Sasha are imminently clever, warm, and engaging, and Leigh captures their attraction in every glance and then telegraphs it so clearly in the words they speak to each other, and in every scene they share together.
Christmastime is for falling in love, and I fell hard for Angels in the City.
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