You don’t know me, but you do know me. I’m your neighborhood
hot mess single mom, doing my best to keep my head above water while running my
little slice of heaven and keeping my youngest from shoving marbles up his
nose, which is exactly what he’s doing the first time Levi Wilson, pop star
god, world’s sexiest man, and my all-time number one celebrity obsession, walks
into my bookstore.
Related: I’m writing this from beyond the grave, because I’ve died of
mortification and am now residing in an alternate universe.
I have to be.
Because Levi Wilson came back.
And we had a moment.
Like, a moment moment. The kind that makes me remember that adult pleasure
isn’t all about hoping the lock holds in the bathroom so your kids don’t
interrupt on the rare occasion you feel like taking an extra-long mommy-time
shower.
So when he proposes a no-strings fling?
Count. Me. In.
Thrill of a lifetime, right?
Surely, nothing will go wrong…
The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob is a rockin’ fun, sexy romantic comedy
featuring a celebrity panty-melter who doesn’t know what he’s been missing, a
sassy single mom hanging on by a string, three adorable children who would
never burst in on a woman when she’s on a toilet (ha!), and shameless
ovary-busting moments between a guy who never thought he’d be a dad and a
family who thought they got along just fine without him. It stands alone and
comes complete with a happily-ever-after (though you’d never go wrong to read
the other Bro Code series books first).
Johnaka's Review
“laughing out loud, 5 stars”
“laughing out loud, 5 stars”
The Hotmess and the Heartthrob has all of Grant’s usual humor. I laughed out loud on multiple occasions. If I need a good rom-com Grant is my go-to. In The Hotmess and The Heartthrob you see previous Grant characters and meet some new ones. And I was here for it.
Levi is the self-proclaimed bachelor. He never planned on settling down, that is, until he met Ingrid. When they met, things went a little haywire to say the least. But he couldn’t stay away. Levi may be a heartthrob, but he has some hotmess tendencies himself. Ingrid makes him want a life he never thought he would have. Is he willing to give up life on the road and settle down?
Ingrid has always had a thing for Levi, but she never thought it would go past his music. When her daughter gives him a concussion, she can’t help but be mortified. That doesn’t stop him from coming around, though. Ingrid is used to doing it all on her own, but he makes her want to have a partner who will take some of the weight off her shoulders. The chemistry between them is hot, but is that enough?
Do yourself a favor and one-click The Hotmess and the Heartthrob.
Plot-5/5 Characters-5/5 Heat-5/5 Writing style-5/5 Overall-5/5
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EXCERPT
One day. I would like to go one single day without someone in my orbit making a
poor life decision.
“Stop squirming,” I order my four-year-old son, who should be at preschool, but
who’s been banished for the week because of lice.
Yep.
Lice.
Heaven forbid we have one issue at a time.
Adding to my list of issues? Being that mom who can’t get her shit together
while Levi Flipping Wilson is watching. And not only watching, but actively
engaging in trying to help. “Hey, bud, I bet I can hold still longer than you
can. Wanna see?”
I know my agenda on any given day will include interruption for something my
children do that I never would’ve expected in a million years, but that’s a lot
easier to deal with when I don’t have an audience.
Especially an audience made up of one famous man whose songs get me through the
day—and night—when I don’t have enough free focus to read or listen to an
audiobook, and who keeps stealing glances at me like he’s trying to figure out
what kind of rabid creature I am. Normally, customers aren’t allowed back in
the stockroom with me, which is where I dragged Hudson when I realized what
he’d done to his nose, but leaving Levi out there with the customers who’d
figured out who he was seemed like a bad idea.
Especially when his date skewered me with a look that clearly said get him out
of here or I’ll burn this place down.
It’s a bookstore.
Highly flammable.
Not taking chances.
Especially if there was a reason they were looking at maternity and early
childhood development books. His date doesn’t look pregnant, but god knows
that’s when pregnancy is hardest.
Hudson finally stills, and I manage to smear a little more Vaseline gently
around his nostril. “How did you get a marble in your nose?”
“I pushed hard.” He beams. “I gots stars in there too.”
I squeeze my eyes shut and count to two, because I know if I get as high as
three, he’ll find a way to suck the marbles deeper into his sinus cavities, and
I don’t know how a doctor will get that out without having to cut his nose
open, and oh my god, he’s four and he’s about to be disfigured for life because
I thought he’d actually sit still and listen to Yasmin reading books for
neighborhood storytime while I re-stocked a few shelves.
“How many stars?” I inquire through clenched teeth.
“Four. Or maybe seven. Or maybe one. I forgets.”
“You are so lucky you’re cute.”
“Do you have a vacuum?” Levi asks.
I twist my head to gape at him.
He shoots a help? look at his date, then shrugs at me. “If he won’t blow it
out, maybe you can suck it out. Like with one of those sucky tools the dentist
uses.”
“That’s…possibly not a terrible idea.”
“Happens on occasion.” He grins, which makes my heart basically stop because
he’s stupidly gorgeous.
I could stare at him all day, but I have a preschooler with marbles up his nose
to attend to.
“Mama,” Hudson says, “look.”
He scrunches his nose, which makes his nostrils swell, closes his mouth, and
blows, and one shoots out and lands on Levi’s shoe.
My son has just snotted my favorite musician’s Italian leather loafers.
“I win! I holded still!” He breaks into his preschool dance routine, but the
poor kid got his moves from me, which means to a casual observer, he probably
looks like he’s having a seizure while choking on a piece of gum and tripping
over barbed wire.
Levi Wilson, however, is not fazed. He squats down to Hudson’s level.
“Rematch.”
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AUTHOR BIO
Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that
will make tears run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping,
she's being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife
trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society,
all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip
cookies.
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