Tangled

 

TANGLED

by Emma Chase

 

Award: Goodreads Choice Winner 2013

 

Date Read: March 28, 2024

 

Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York’s most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and indulgent family. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed?

 

He’ll tell you he has the flu.

 

But we all know that’s not really true.

 

Katherine Brooks is brilliant, beautiful and ambitious. She refuses to let anything – or anyone – derail her path to success. When Kate is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating.

 

Then, just when Drew is on the cusp of having everything he wants, his overblown confidence threatens to ruin it all. Will he be able to untangle his feelings of lust and tenderness, frustration and fulfillment? Will he rise to the most important challenge of his life?

 

Can Drew Evans win at love?

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