Going Down on One Knee A Sexy, Laugh Out Loud Romance! (Mile High Matched, Book 1)

Christina Hovland — 2018

Number-crunching Velma Johnson's perfectly planned life is right on course. That's a lie. Sure, she's got the lucrative job. She's got the posh apartment. But her sister nabbed Velma's Mr. Right. There has to be a man out there for Velma. Hopefully one who's hunky, wears pressed suits, and has a diversified financial portfolio. He'll be exactly like, well... her sister's new fiancé. Badass biker Brek Montomery blazes a trail across the country, managing Dimefront, one of the biggest rock bands of his generation. With the band on hiatus, Brek rolls into Denver to pay a quick visit to his family and friends. But when Brek's sister suddenly gets put on bed rest, she convinces Brek to take over her wedding planning business for the duration of her pregnancy. Staying in Denver and dealing with bridezillas was not what Brek had in mind when he passed through town, but there is one particular maid-of-honor who might make his stay worthwhile. Velma finds herself strangely attracted to the man planning her sister's wedding. Problem is, he ticks none of the boxes on her well-crafted list. Brek is rough around the edges, he cusses, and doesn't even have a 401(k). But trying something crazy might get her out of the rut of her dating life--so long as she lays down boundaries up front and sticks to her plan...

Reviews

b.andherbooks@bandherbooks

Oct 9, 2021

Velma Johnson has a five-year plan, complete with a multi-tab spreadsheet, and she has all of her boxes ticked except for "the one." Every date she has never adds up to her perfect man, her best friend and co-worker who now also happens to be her sister's fiancee. Unlike his best friend Dean, Brek Montgomery is a free-spirited wanderer who is only back in Denver for his best man duties. Oh, and to run his now bed-rest bound sister's wedding planning business. Brek is delighted when he finds out the cute, uptight Velma is the maid of honor, and he's extremely happy when he finds out she'll let him rent out her spare-bedroom while he plans her sister and Dean's wedding. While Velma is shocked by her attraction to Brek, her opposite in basically ever way from his long hair, his tattoos, his cursing, and his complete lack of disability insurance (!!), she finds he may just be her perfect love match, spreadsheet be damned. A delightfully fun rom-com, complete with a really hot motorcycle sex scene (I guess it can be done), I fell in love with Brek, a cinnamon roll in the streets, alpha in the sheets hero who is just blown out of the park with his feelings for Velma. I loved how he pushed her but didn't try to change her, and just overall really fell for this story. This is also the second book I've read that had a motorcycle-riding, "bad-boy" moonlighting as a wedding planner, and I definitely enjoyed this one more. It was funner, more light-hearted, and just overall more believable in that the hero wasn't pretending that wedding planning was his actual job (Brek is a band manager). That said, there were a few too many sub-plot points that weighed down the story for me to give it a perfect five star review, but I'll definitely be reading more in this series! I'm hoping Brek's buddy the sexy florist get's his story next!