Love Hard is the third, and final, book in the Colorado Club Billionaires series where we finally get Jack’s story.
About Love Hard
Jack is the last bachelor standing among his college friends. He is an only child and heir to the Alden Family. With that comes the burden of running the Alden Family business and carrying on the Alden Family name. He is expected to marry an appropriate wife and have at least one son with her.
Iris was born in to a loving family in Star Falls. She has an older brother, Bray and her father. She lost her mother years ago, before she graduated high school. She dropped out of high school to help run the family business. When they lost her mother, they also lost the brains behind the farm and Iris took on that role.
While attending the New York Ballet, Jack sees a woman he is completely obsessed with. He goes to great lengths to spend time with her. They spend one night together talking and walking through Central Park. A night he will never forget.
Iris allows herself one weekend a year to go to New York City and attend opening night of the Ballet. As a young girl and woman, she dreamed of being a prima ballerina. But all of those dreams went up in flames when her mother was killed. So when a mysterious man sits next to her at the ballet, she thinks nothing of it. Until he asks her to walk with him. It becomes a night she will always remember.
The next day Jack and Iris are supposed to meet for brunch, but when she receives a call from her father, she has to rush home to Colorado. Since they only exchanged first names, she has no way to contact Jack to let him know what has happened. In this case, what happens in New York should stay in New York.
Back in Colorado, Iris has had to pick up work that Bray did, due to his broken leg. She is not prepared to run in to the one person she never expected to see while making a delivery to the diner in Star Falls.
Jack is stunned when he sees Iris at the diner in Star Falls. He thinks he is imagining her. But she is real. And right in front of him. How is this possible?
Over the next few weeks, Jack helps with Iris’s family farm, doing manual labor, but also coming up with ideas to expand the business and improve margins. He and Iris spend nights together at the Club enjoying each other’s company. But are they fooling themselves that life could be this simple and uncomplicated?
When Jack is called back to New York due to a family emergency, Iris believes this is the beginning of the end. He kept telling her they would find a way to make it work, but her life is in Colorado and his life is in New York. How can this possibly work?
Impressions
Jack is in love with Iris and she is in love with him. But they are polar opposites as far as the world is concerned. She does not fit in to his world as well as he can fit in to hers.
Listening to Jack’s mother tell Iris about her history, and the secrets she has kept for his entire life, makes you appreciate where she is coming from when she tells him that New York society will be cruel to Iris. Yes it is 30 years later, but high society is hypercritical of who belongs and who does not. Do I agree with her tactics? No. Do I understand where she is coming from? Yes.
Iris gave up her dreams years ago to help her family when they needed her. So when her father admits to things he has never said before, it is profoundly significant. He was hurt that she never said anything about receiving her high school diploma. But he knows more than he lets on about.
I am really hoping we see more of Jack and Iris, as well as the other members of the Colorado Club Billionaires and the New York Billionaires. I would love to see them years down the road, raising children and conquering the world.
Availability
Love Hard is currently available available to read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited and for purchase in all formats on Amazon.
Series Listing
- Love Fast (Colorado Club Billionaires Book 1)
- Love Deep (Colorado Club Billionaires Book 2)
- Love Hard (Colorado Club Billionaires Book 3)
About Louise Bay
International, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author, Louise Bay writes contemporary romance novels that make you laugh – the kind she likes to read.
Ruined by the bonk-busters of the eighties, Louise was inspired by Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins, but wants to be Emily Henry when she grows up.
Louise loves the rain, RHOBH, London, days when she doesn’t have to wear make-up, hanging out with her kid, elephants and champagne (not necessarily in that order).
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