Title: Hooker Heels
Author: Ryan Ringbloom
Genre: New Adult
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Blurb
Kenna Winston knows two things. Men and money. That's her game. But when she's offered a business contract, the game changes. Kenna has to decide if she is ready to up the ante or if the proposal being offered is crossing the line, even for her. And what happens if her heart gets involved?
Oh, that's right... she doesn't have one.
Zackary Knight has always had things handed to him. That's not the life he wants. Can't anyone see that he is more than just a dollar sign? What about the beautiful woman who just showed up on his doorstep? Is she someone he can finally open his heart up to?
Because his heart... it's a big one.
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Expectations are as follows:
Spend a minimum of two hours with client daily, not to exceed four hours.
Not too bad. I expected it to be longer. Those were part-time hours.
No money or gifts valued over $100.00 are to be accepted from the client.
That sucked.
All payments will be made through a personal account set up in the employee’s name.
Direct deposit. Perfect.
Sexual advances are to be met with believable enthusiasm.
Believable enthusiasm. Like faking it? No problem there.
Discretion is mandatory.
No shit. For him and me both.
Employee is to cease any romantic encounters with anyone other than the client until the contract ends.
No other men for now. Fine with me. I could use a break.
The contract expires after six months.
I finished reading. “What happens after the six months are up?”
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3 Stars
I was first introduced to Ryan Ringbloom in Fake Boobs, a wonderfully realistic story with the tell tale signs of low self esteem. Hooker Heels fall along those same lines, with some more interesting themes, simply told in a different way. What I love about RB's stories, are the way her female characters are portrayed as anti-heroines. Along with the important themes within the stories. Ryan Ringbloom always creates these flawed female characters that go after the impossible and still come out on top. Despite the road traveled and the many obstacles faced. They persevere and fight. Even if the fight is wrong and unethical and seemingly unforgivable.
Hooker Heels is an unconventional anti-heroine story told in dual POV's. We're given insight into each character's past and how it has molded them into the present.
Zackary Knight the heir to the Knight empire has always had things handed to him on a silver platter. His father's success and riches has marred Zackary's outlook towards money, while opening his eyes to devastating hunger all around him. A man whose ambitions goes beyond the deceit and corruption of a dollar. A son whose pride and joy is to help those in need. Using his riches and his experience to enrich the lives of others.
Kenna Winston is looking for her next paycheque. Growing up independent and surviving on her own skills. Kenna started off early, by trading sex for money. Lacking parental support, constant bitterness from her family, and the lack of proper and respectable role models. Kenna has traded all her self esteem and confidence, in order to get ahead and live a life of luxury. It's the only life she knows. Working at a strip joint, until she was fired, Kenna lands a new position within the Knight employment.
Signing a contract, Kenna must seduce and divert Zack's attention away from the development of Mr. Knight's newest business venture. Her mission is to keep Zackary happy and sated, so that he doesn't feel the need to contest his father's grandeur plans for the new venture. A venture, that seems to opulent for Zakary tastes.
Along the way Kenna starts to fall for Zakary. He isn't what she expected. He's dull and boring, yet he exudes confidence and knowledge. As they get to know each other, Kenna finds herself enjoying Zackary's company and helping out at the soup kitchen. Ingraining herself into his life, meeting his little friends and being taught to cook. To be self sufficient, and confident with what little she had. Learning that it's the small things that matter in life. No one has ever believed in Kenna and shown her to love herself and never, feel ashamed to be the person she wants to be.
When Mr. Knight realises that Kenna will become problematic, as she and Zakary's relationship is taken to the next level, he fires Kenna, and soon, she again is grappling with what to do. But what she fears the most, is leaving Zack, and the pain he will feel at her betrayal.
Hooker Heels was a light and enjoyable read, a bit slow at the beginning. Zackary is strange and not your usual male protagonist in a story, while Kenna, is definitely not lovable at all. Extremely self-centred and conceited. But somehow, it all seemed to work. Opposites do attract. Or sometimes, I guess, we see the insecurities in others, the we believe we can fix.
*ARC provided by GIVE ME BOOKS on behalf of the author for an honest review* Thanks!
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