THE BILLIONAIRES WAKE-UP-CALL GIRL by ANNIKA MARTIN

“It’s beautiful to trust. It’s beautiful to open your heart.”

Annika Martin, thank you for the giggles, thank you for the swoons! And thank you for bringing us a steamy, entertaining and fabulous feel-good enemies to lovers’ romantic comedy that left us smiling and falling in love with a funny and engaging heroine, and a smart, sexy and cantankerous hero.

We’ve only ever experienced the darker, grittier side to Annika Martin, and wondered how we’d fair with the light-hearted romance The Billionaires Wake-Up-Call Girl, and well, we’re happy to report Annika Martin is as talented with the wit as she is with the grit! We adored this book!

‘In chemistry, just the smallest adjustment—the addition of one atom—can be the difference between inertness and an explosion. We have that something. We really are combustible.’

Lizzie Cooper is 27, had a very successful bakery, until her ex-boyfriend Mason hot-footed it leaving in Lizzie in a pile of debt, owing money to some very seedy and dangerous loan sharks. Lizzie has a short time to pay up, and in desperation, takes a job as an assistant to the bitchy Social Media Manager at Vossameer, a very successful company run by the tyrannical Theo Drummond. Not only does Lizzie has to contend with her Manager Sasha’s constantly stealing her ideas, and her sniping, but she has to work in the regimented Vossameer where fun is a swear word and her creativity is stifled by Theo’s unwillingness to have a human side projected in the company’s social media. But, it’s worth putting up with the bland tight ship environment because Lizzie is six days off earning a big signing bonus that will go a long way to paying off some of her inherited debts.

Theo Drummond is the swoony, sexy, intelligent and successful chemist and CEO responsible for inventing a lifesaving product that stems the blood flow. He’s an uptight control freak, a workaholic, on the cusp of discovering another lifesaving invention and he doesn’t need any distraction.

Theo can always find a solution to everything. Nothing is unsolvable. Except for the exquisite Lizzie who turns out to also be the sassy wakeup call girl hired to wake him up at 4.30am every morning with hilarious outcomes. Theo is used to people hanging on his every word, being agreeable and quaking in his presence. But not Lizzie. She sasses him, talks back to him when no one else would dare. Lizzie confounds him. What is it about this woman that makes the impenetrable prickly Theo crumble?

‘With or without glasses, he’s the most dramatically, effusively, wildly handsome man I’ve ever seen. His hotness has its own force. It has its own gravity.’

This book was so much fun! Theo was divine! Seriously…this gorgeous geek who seemed so prim and proper had the naughtiest mouth you could imagine. Theo was ridiculously hot! The banter was spot on, the snark hilarious, and Lizzie’s friend Mia added, even more, laugh out loud moments.

‘This nameless, faceless woman who was so easy to talk to on the phone is ten times the miracle in person.’

From molecules, beakers, and formula to dirty talk, spanking and hot sex, Theo Drummond certainly had our hearts racing, and despite his awkwardness, he certainly brought the swoon!

‘He’s such an arrogant asshole, and I so want him.’

Annika Martin delighted us at every turn with this story. Please don’t be put off by the title because this isn’t a sex fest. It’s a sweet, charming, funny, snarky and yes, very sexy rom-com that’ll leave you smiling! This ticked a lot of boxes and suited our mood perfectly!

 ‘It’s insane the thoughts I have about her. I’m a chemist, not a caveman.’