Katy Wade has spent the last few years of her life looking after the Gilchrists. Guess you could say she was their guardian angel, whether she realized it or not. The family patriarch, Justine Gilchrist, has reached a time in her life when she wants to step down from the Gilchrist family empire that she had built many years before. However, she doesn’t believe that anybody in her immediate family has the where-with-all to take over the reins and run the company as it should be. Her only hope is in convincing her estranged grandson, Luke Gilchrist, to take over the company.

However, Luke isn’t willing to become the new CEO. He has no use for his Gilchrist grandmother, never mind the rest of his family. He says no to the thought unless Katy is willing to become his assistant and when she agrees, he decides that he’ll bail them out of their poorly managed situation. Of course, it isn’t just Katy that he wants, he also wants their number one restaurant as part of the deal. The family is appalled.

Now, that’s just a small part of this story but hopefully it’s enough to get you intrigued enough to try this book.

I loved this story. Luke Gilchrist is as alpha as you can get. Of course, he’s drop dead gorgeous too, which helps the plot along. Katy is everything you would expect in a guardian angel; feisty in the best sense of the word, a loyal arbitrator in the lives of all the Gilchrists, who really do rely on her to bail them all out of their messes. The great thing is, that all personal feeling aside, no matter what, she truly believes in Luke and in his ability to get his relatives out of their little messes.

What I also really loved in this book was Luke’s dog, Zeke and his habit of carrying his dog dish with him everywhere he went. That, and the fact that he loved to steal Katy’s original pesto sauces that she created. Zeke made a wonderful character throughout the book and when there’s an animal involved in a book, I tend to love the story even more.

Jayne Ann writes some really good intrigue in this book; an embezzler, a sheister, and a blackmailer are all involved in this story so you won’t be bored with the story at all. I think this is one of Jayne Ann’s finest stories and I’m not sorry I gave it another read. In fact, I’m sorry I didn’t re-read it long before now.

Luke's grandmother Justine is very frightened and asks Katy, her personal assistant, if she could go and meet Luke and ask him to save the business, as Justine believe nobody else can save the family business

So Katy sets off to meet Luke. He is a tough, sarcastic, dry-humoured man whom I found instantly likable. He tells Katy that he will not help the family firm and that he has no obligation to. Of course, he turns up at the firm and takes complete control of it. He and Katy are both attracted to each other and their relationship is a funny, but passionate one.

I read this book for the first time about a year ago. I absolutely loved it! I read it again last weekend and I laughed all over again. This book is typical JAK. She injects a very dry humour into the book which I found riveting. The characters are realistic and the book is a laugh a minute.

Well done Jayne!