By happy, I mean hard as a rock.”Īfter an extended stay in NY, the two get a little closer than friends, until her cosmetics company hires his adventure company for some team building.

“She makes all parts of me quite happy indeed. His friend’s sister, Mia, lives across country from the rest of her family, way out in California, but she visits New York often, and she and Patrick have shared a flirty friendship whenever she visits. He runs an adventure tour company, and his cat Zeus joins him often on his hikes. Patrick is such a good, upstanding guy (with a dirty streak).

“The reason I said ‘after you’ at the start of the trail is that I’m a gentleman, and I still believe that ladies come first.” I stop, reining in a smirk. In this one, it’s chapters from the cat, some which reveal personal conversations the cat was privy to. Blakely often finds clever ways to portray a bit of the female’s POV in her male POV stories. The character you didn’t meet before, however, kind of stole the show, and that’s Zeus, the hiking cat. We have met two of the main characters, Patrick & Mia, in previous books in the series, but it isn’t necessary to remember them. This is rare in a genre where you often find the woman in a subservient position. Lauren Blakey’s male POV characters are so perfect! My favorite thing about them (besides them all being hot, dirty and dominant in bed) is that they all feature men who respect women-they respect career women and take their jobs as seriously as their own. See the Series Reading Order for the Big Rock series and related books, and how they are related. I have loved every single one of these male POV stories and the dual POV ones that relate to it. I am so sad to see this top favorite “series” end (Lauren just admitted it’s a series before this release). Hard Wood (Big Rock 6) by Lauren Blakely Narrated by Sebastian York Male POV Romantic Comedy.

Hard Wood by Lauren Blakely