About Drawn Through You:
What if the brooding billionaire wore pencil skirts and Louboutins? What if the impressionable intern was a small-town furniture maker with boyish charm?
Cole Jacobson always thought he would take after his father and pursue his dreams. But when the family business falters and he’s forced to accept his uncle’s help, Cole is summoned to the big city for a job he never wanted.
Priorities become obscured when Cole finds himself working for Shaun Wright, the strong, intimidating, and ruthlessly attractive business partner at his uncle’s contracting firm. Forced to either sacrifice his hard-won integrity or leave behind the one thing that brings him true happiness, Cole must make a decision that could cost him both. A decision only complicated by the sexy, inscrutable woman he can’t stop thinking about. A woman who just might be as intrigued as he is to cross professional boundaries.
A provocative, trope-twisting romance, Sarina Rhoads’s Drawn Through You finally puts the heroine on the other side of the desk.
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They stepped onto the elevator, just the two of them, but she pressed twelve instead of six. Were they back at square one, where she retreated to her office in the sky instead of dealing with her feelings head on? Too bad for her, Cole thought to himself. There was too much at stake for him. More than she could even fathom. He needed to make a decision about his uncle’s ultimatum, and the clock was running out. The fate of his father’s business still hung in the balance, dependent upon his next move. Shaun’d basically said she was done with Olivia, and the way she had stared at him when she didn’t think he’d notice had set his body ablaze. Frustrated, rejected, and somewhat inebriated, Cole slammed his fist against the emergency stop button and the car jerked to a halt.
“What the–?” Shaun exclaimed as the scream of the buzzer bounced around the four walls. Cole stepped toward her while she inched back. “Are you drunk?”
He attempted to shake off the beer fog slowly swallowing his brain whole. “Maybe.” He would let Shaun make up his mind. If she turned him down right here, right now, then he’d be free and clear. He’d report back to Robert that she wasn’t interested and that he’d need to employ another stud-for-hire. But what if she didn’t? Cole thought as he ceased his forward progression.
Not an inch of space remained between them. He searched her eyes, ears honed in on her rapid breathing, which he could hear even over the thundering of his own pulse and the buzzing of the elevator. “In the stairwell, you saw me, didn’t you? You saw me before I dropped my file, and you liked it.” He didn’t know where the sudden surge of courage had come from. The beer? The shitty position his uncle had cornered him into? Shaun continued to stare in silence. “So is it just women for you now, Shaun? Is that why you can’t address the idea of going out with me?”
“I… We…” She flattened her palms against his chest, but didn’t push him away. A sign to keep going? He half wondered if she could feel the thump of his heart against his ribcage or the spike in his body temperature. She was so beautiful this close. He’d failed to notice the light dusting of freckles across the bridge of her nose or the tiny scar above her left eyebrow until now. The scent of her perfume acted as a hallucinogen when mixed with the glorious vision before him. He leaned down, mouth almost brushing over hers.
“Shaun,” he breathed.
With a second jerk, the elevator started moving again. Cole glanced down, finding Shaun’s finger on the emergency button. Her action was answer enough. He backed away to the opposite side of the car and poked at the button for six.
When the car stopped, he glanced over his shoulder at her. She hadn’t moved. Didn’t that make him feel even more like an asshole.
“Don’t worry, Ms. Wright. It’s just business between you and me from now on. I promise.” He stepped out, leaving Shaun to continue her ascent to the twelfth floor alone. He was tired of looking like a world-class idiot, hard up on his boss and her mind-scrambling skirts. He’d really thought something had passed between them at lunch, but no. Maybe the pressure from his uncle was starting to fuck with his brain.
“Mr. Jacobson.”
Cole stopped and turned around. Shaun stood just outside of the elevator, one arm stretched out to keep the doors from closing. Her expression gave nothing away, but he could see her swallow, as if she were preparing herself for something. She cleared her throat and proceeded in a voice that lacked the confidence he’d come to associate with her.
“I’m not sure that will be enough.” Without another word, she stepped back into the elevator and disappeared.
About Sarina Rhoads:
Maintaining a suburban orbit of NYC all her life, Sarina Rhoads ran the gamut of odd jobs in pursuit of a one true passion. Once exposed to a world of creative storytelling through online writing groups, she fell completely in love. Now she finds pleasure in penning both contemporary and paranormal romance, possessing notebooks chock full of ideas only waiting to be released.
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ALPHA BOOK CLUB REVIEW
Title: Drawn Through You
Series Name: -
Author: Sarina Rhoads
Genre: Romance
Overall Stars: 4 STARS
Alpha Woman
Family Business
What do you do when the alpha wears skirts and new employee happens to be the partner’s
nephew?
What if the brooding billionaire wore pencil skirts and Louboutins? What if the impressionable
intern was a small-town furniture maker with boyish charm?
Cole Jacobson always thought he would take after his father and pursue his dreams. But when
the family business falters and he’s forced to accept his uncle’s help, Cole is summoned to the
big city for a job he never wanted.
Priorities become obscured when Cole finds himself working for Shaun Wright, the strong,
intimidating, and ruthlessly attractive business partner at his uncle’s contracting firm. Forced to
either sacrifice his hard-won integrity or leave behind the one thing that brings him true
happiness, Cole must make a decision that could cost him both. A decision only complicated by
the sexy, inscrutable woman he can’t stop thinking about. A woman who just might be as
intrigued as he is to cross professional boundaries.
A provocative, trope-twisting romance, Sarina Rhoads’s Drawn Through You finally puts the
heroine on the other side of the desk. (Amazon blurb)
It is incredibly difficult to review a novel that has such a potential to be a great novel – especially
when the storyline is one that inverses the roles we are used to seeing, that is where men are
alphas and women the submissives. Here, we get to meet a woman, out of a dungeon, out of a
scene or playroom who is an alpha in and out of the bedroom and a man who naturally follows
this woman and her instructions. What is disconcerting is the fact that there are contradictory
elements: Shaun is willing to submit to Cole, which no true Alpha would be willing to do unless it
is for a scene, Cole is unable to dominate to Shaun, no matter his desires for control over her
are and no matter how hard Cole tries, he constantly questions his decisions. Again, this novel
absolutely has the potential to be great, but at times it felt rushed, others missing elements that
were needed for these characters (for their descriptions, their personalities, etc.) and at times it
felt as though we were missing something: had we missing a part of a conversation between
Shaun and Cole or a piece of the novel? However, that being said, it does not mean that the
novel itself is bad; it simply means that I hadn’t instantly fallen in love with it, only that I enjoyed
the distraction. I’m a first time reader of Sarina Rhoads, and maybe not knowing her style of
writing had an impact on how I enjoyed the novel; honestly I couldn’t know, but I can say that it
was an interesting read that does benefit at least to recommend.
.
**Received a copy in exchange for an honest review. Read and reviewed by Kathleen for Alpha
Book Club**
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