


Our first look at the couple is so filled with emotion and sexual tension, you'll be hooked. Except she didn't do it this year and he finds out she is in town where she hasn't stepped foot in ten years. We learn that on Livvy's birthday she texts him her coordinates, he travels to her, and they have sex for that one night a year. We are started off with Nicholas' point of view and what a deep emotional start it was. In terms of pure pleasure and relief, he imagined the feeling he got when he received a text from Livvy was similar to what an addict felt when they got a hit of whatever drug they craved. Thus, begins the cold war between the families and the fracturing of Livvy and Nicholas' romance. Then the hero's father does some suspiciously underhanded dealings to buy heroine's family half of the grocery chain. When the heroine's father and the hero's mother are killed in a car accident together, painful questions are raised. Our couple's grandfathers started a grocery store that has been built up over the years to develop into a chain. We have two families brought together by hard work and determinism, only to be broken apart two generations later by hurt, innuendo, secrets, and pain. Nicholas wants something too, more than one night a year.įirst in the new Forbidden Hearts series, Hate to Want You lends itself to the easy comparison to Romeo and Juliet.

Ten years later and Livvy is back home to take care of her mother and maybe get back some of what was lost to her. However, their world gets shattered when tragedy strikes and they find themselves ripped apart. Growing up as the pseduo prince and princess of their families, it was almost inevitable that Nicholas and Livvy would end up together. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Although the passion between them might have once run hot and deep, not even love can overcome the scandal that divided their families.īeing together might be against all the rules. Livvy didn't come home for Nicholas, but fate seems determined to remind her of his presence-and their past. so why can't he forget how right she feels in his bed? He doesn't have time for distractions and Livvy's sudden reappearance in town is a major distraction. The forbidden hours let them forget the tragedy that haunted their pasts-and the last names that made them enemies. Every year, Livvy Kane and Nicholas Chandler would share one perfect night of illicit pleasure. Alisha Rai, one of contemporary romance's brightest stars, makes her Avon Books debut with the first novel in the sexy Forbidden Hearts series!
