**I received this book as an ARC in return for my honest review**

What a great read! It was a fast paced, stranger to lovers romance, and made me laugh several times. Noelle’s reasoning for her choices were understandable from the get-go, and fun to read how it affected her choices and her struggles to accept her feelings towards Malcolm. I wished we got more of an understanding early on why Malcolm saw himself as such a bad man, a villain, but I’m glad we did get the explanation in the end, and the last third of the book was so good that I stayed up way past my bedtime to finish the story! This was my first read by Annika Martin, and I’m definitely going to be reading the other books in this series soon!